http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3329603Oh my.
The behind-the-8-ball primitive deviated from the party line, criticizing an African nation:
Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:28 AM
Original message
(Gambian) President plans to kill off every single homosexual
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he will “cut off the head†of any homosexual caught in his country.
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Jammeh also ordered any hotel or motel housing homosexuals to close down, adding that owners of such facilities would also be in trouble.
He said the Gambia was a country of believers, indicating that no sinful and immoral act as homosexual would be tolerated in the country.
He warned all homosexuals in the country to leave, noting that a legislation “stricter than those in Iran †concerning the vice would be introduced soon.
http://en.afrik.com/article13630.html
Also see: http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/21/looming-gay-pogrom-in-gambia/
For those waiting for the primitives insisting that George Bush's America is just as bad or worse, it's at this bonfire, but later on.
newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:32 AM
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1. Stricter than those in Iran?
But there aren't any homosexuals in Iran. Ahmadinnerjacket said so!
MADem (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:41 AM
Response to Reply #1
8. They should send all those Gambians to Iran--then THEY wouldn't be gay anymore!!
Old Crusoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:33 AM
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2. I must be more old-fashioned than I thought. I would have figured murder was illegal.
question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 03:19 AM
Response to Reply #2
16. Don't you know? It is OK when sanctioned by a government entity as they do in Texas and Florida and other states.
seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:33 AM
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3. That darn religion of peace just keeps on giving.
newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:36 AM
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6. Nice right wing phraseology there
"religion of peace"?? Isn't that right off a Daniel "Crack" Pipes script??
Obviously persecution of gays is ****ed up, but let's not go to the Freeper terminology of blanket hatred against Muslims. Which is just as ****ed up as blanket hatred against gays, for that matter.
rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:49 AM
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9. It has ceased to be a right wing meme
The defense of Islam has been it's a religion of peace.
Yet...in the last three years we've seen
1. The Pakistani Parliament protest the Dutch Movie using "Islam is a religion of peace" and then threaten to kill the producer.
2. Rushdie still lives under heavy security to be protected from Islamists.
3. Iran (and other Islamic countries) still continue to execute homosexuals.
4. The highest ranking Islamic clerics in Indonesia want the laws changed to classify an minority Islamic off-shoot to be classified as apostates. This would deprive the group of any legitimacy as a religion.
5. There are areas of Thailand where it is unsafe to travel because the Islamic separatist groups want the country to abandon Buddhism and institute Sharia law. They have killed over 100 people this year alone.
6. The woman who was raped in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to at least 50 lashes. If the King had not caved under pressure from the INternational Community, this punishment would have been carried out.
7. Let's not forget the Danish cartoons of Mohammad
8. The genocide occurring in Darfur.
If you travel around Europe and Asia, you are hearing the same distain for Islam among centrists and leftists.
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 03:17 AM
Response to Reply #9
15. no, it's still a right wing meme. because people who tar a whole religion for the actions of some practitioners or political regime are spreading right-wing memes, whether they acknowledge it or not.
your list is crap, no offense intended.
rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 03:30 AM
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17. My apologies for saying it's not a right wing meme because it should have read "Not just a right wing meme. It's now being used by leftists and centrists throughout Europe and eastern Asia."
As to the you thinking the list is crap...too bad.
It is not crap, just fact.
on edit: I'm not offended. We just disagree
Withywindle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 02:57 AM
Response to Reply #3
12. Which "religion of peace" would that be?
Christianity's no improvement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3014188.stm
The swindling primitive's using the same trick the nocturnally foul one uses here, equating two things as equal in evil, when in fact one is very bad and the other is only mildly disagreeable.
The story the swindling primitive uses is about Nigerian Anglicans opposing gay priests; nowhere is it mentioned that Nigerian Anglicans are calling for the execution or murder of gays.
And a primitive notices it the same time franksolich does:
seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 03:06 AM
Response to Reply #12
13. Funny, nowhere in that article did they talk about KILLING the gays.
I guess you can't make the distinction.
Withywindle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 03:12 AM
Response to Reply #13
14. It's a distinction without a difference.
I have no respect for religions of discrimination, because "peace" without justice is nothing but a weak truce on the back of someone's (hopefully temporary and brief) status as lesser.
Now, the swindling primitive HAS to be the nocturnally foul one's mole on Skins's island.
The pattern of the argument is eerily similar, as if emanating from the same cerebral mass.
Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-23-08 12:35 AM
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4. "country of believers" Believers in what? Hate? Ignorance? Bigotry? Murder? Fear?
Oh my.
