The country will imprison or publicly flog 60 other suspected homosexuals.
This is very unfortunate.
But surely this is because Arabs are inherently savage and backwards, and has nothing to do with all the wars and bombs that created the worse humanitarian crisis of the century. (sarcasm)
That’s some serious triple summersault mental gymnastics to defend the Houthis. Might as well go back and start with the cooling of the earth 4 billion years ago if you really want to know the culprit.
The Wahabbi interpretation of Sharia law in Saudi Arabia maintains that acts of homosexuality should be disciplined in the same way as adultery - with death by stoning. Homosexuality or nonconformant gender expression can also be punished by corporal punishment, flogging, imprisonment or forced ‘conversion’ therapy.
This isn’t unusual in the Middle East. There’s a number of reasons for this (mostly based on colonialism and imperialism by more powerful players), but this is unfortunately the status quo.
Are you saying there was no stoning of gay people before the Brits arrived? What the hell does “colonialism” have to do with Sharia law that was implement over 600 years ago? I swear “colonialism” is the new popular word of the day on my bingo card.
Oh suddenly we hear about this what a coincidence. I’m incredibly queer and I do not think genocide is ever justified nor is retaliation to economically hindering genocide.
Did you know if you genocide a population, the queer people in that population die horrifically too?
Essentially, fuck all you commenters, don’t fucking use our identity to justify your evil when the reality is that you feel bad for going on gay bashing runs in the 90s. You weren’t a good person then and you aren’t a good person now that you diverted your hatred.
Every queer i know online and offline stands with Palestine. No more fucking death. No more videos of kids being executed to end up on my feed.
Edit: did I fucking say I supported the Houthis blindly? The US had all this time to bomb the Houthis (which would also be fucking awful) but when economical functions with Israel are interrupted suddenly it’s justifiable to just make a bunch of fucking casualties. The anger at the US for bombing Yemen is bipartisan within yemen. How about entities in positions of power just stop fucking bombing people for being morally imperfect? Oh but no of course if they aren’t white then their value is less( you think unconsciously). You are absorbed by propaganda and ideology and any assumptions that you think equally should seriously be reconsidered. You would do diplomacy with a an antsy cop with a gun, why don’t you do diplomacy with someone who isn’t white, oh it’s because propaganda has dehumanised them. Fucking idiots thinking they need to advocate death like it’s a fucking chess game, your as bad as tankies.
The Houthis have NOTHING TO DO WITH PALESTINE. What are you guys on? They are randomly disrupting trade routes in the red sea for political clout and nothing more. Just because they claim it’s to help their Palestinian allies does not give them any agency. That would be like Spain randomly attacking fleets in the Mediterranean to support Ukraine.
Well there you have it… there’s no way it will be possible to bomb them (the Houthi’s) back to the stone Age.
I forget, aren’t we supposed to be cheering for the Houthis? I thought that was the new cool thing to be doing.
Support them fighting for Palestinian cause: Yes
Support them persecuring LGBT: No
Excuse me but “Supporting Palestinian cause”!? They are attacking random trade ships in order to grow political clout and nothing more. Thats like saying because Russia is attacking Ukraine Italy gets to go attack random trade vessels in the Mediterranean. You guys are unable to think beyond headlines.
