Post by Teddy Bear on Apr 8, 2014 17:16:45 GMT
Seeing the headline 'Egypt jails four men for gay acts' as the lead article in the BBC Mid-East section, I knew immediately there was going to be something to post here. Particularly as the BBC had ignored just a week ago, the murder of 4 Christians by Muslim Brotherhood supporters. But as the BBC shows consistently with their insidious evil agenda, the murder of Christians by Muslim fanatics is nothing compared to the imprisonment of gays for 8 years by a society that doesn't accept this behaviour.
Read the article first and then we'll see some other things missing.
It's gotten so that whenever any 'Human Rights' organisation is quoted in a BBC article it's almost surely for what we would consider the benefit of the really bad guys. Sure enough, no mention in the article to see just how 'severe' this punishment is related to various neighbours.
Another related article on the BBC website is Where is it illegal to be gay?
Where we are told, The legal status of people in same-sex relationships depends very much on where they live. At one end of the spectrum there are those countries that punish homosexuality with the death penalty - Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen - as well as in parts of Nigeria and Somalia.
So shouldn't that be mentioned in the article to show how far more lenient is Egypt compared to various neighbours?
THere is also an interactive map on the webpage where one can see by the various colours just which countries also imprison homosexuals.
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and quite a few more.
Lest anybody think that this story about gays makes the BBC favour those countries that are truly liberal, one only has to read how anti-Israel they are, which is the only country in the whole of that area where homosexuality is not only legal, but gays can also enter into a civil partnership, to know it's not the case.
Read the article first and then we'll see some other things missing.
Egypt jails four men for gay acts
A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts.
The men were accused of attending or arranging "deviant" sex parties, and dressing in women's clothes and wearing make-up.
Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals.
The verdict has been condemned by human rights campaigners.
One of the men was jailed for three years with hard labour by the court in Cairo.
US-based Human Rights First group said it was "alarmed and disappointed" at the verdicts.
"Egypt is a bellwether state in the Arab region; what happens in Egypt sets a trend for developments throughout the Arab world," it said in a statement.
The group said that since the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 there has been a rise in the number of arrests of people based on their sexual orientation.
The latest case echoes that of the mass trial in 2001 of 52 men accused of homosexual acts and other offences under Egyptian law.
Twenty-three of the men were sentenced to up to five years in jail with hard labour, drawing international condemnation.
A leading Egyptian human rights group said the severe sentences the men received on Monday were part of an ongoing crackdown on personal freedoms.
The convictions come a day after another court in the capital upheld three-year prison terms imposed on three prominent activists convicted of organising an unauthorised protest.
A court in Egypt has sentenced four men to up to eight years in prison for committing homosexual acts.
The men were accused of attending or arranging "deviant" sex parties, and dressing in women's clothes and wearing make-up.
Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals.
The verdict has been condemned by human rights campaigners.
One of the men was jailed for three years with hard labour by the court in Cairo.
US-based Human Rights First group said it was "alarmed and disappointed" at the verdicts.
"Egypt is a bellwether state in the Arab region; what happens in Egypt sets a trend for developments throughout the Arab world," it said in a statement.
The group said that since the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 there has been a rise in the number of arrests of people based on their sexual orientation.
The latest case echoes that of the mass trial in 2001 of 52 men accused of homosexual acts and other offences under Egyptian law.
Twenty-three of the men were sentenced to up to five years in jail with hard labour, drawing international condemnation.
A leading Egyptian human rights group said the severe sentences the men received on Monday were part of an ongoing crackdown on personal freedoms.
The convictions come a day after another court in the capital upheld three-year prison terms imposed on three prominent activists convicted of organising an unauthorised protest.
It's gotten so that whenever any 'Human Rights' organisation is quoted in a BBC article it's almost surely for what we would consider the benefit of the really bad guys. Sure enough, no mention in the article to see just how 'severe' this punishment is related to various neighbours.
Another related article on the BBC website is Where is it illegal to be gay?
Where we are told, The legal status of people in same-sex relationships depends very much on where they live. At one end of the spectrum there are those countries that punish homosexuality with the death penalty - Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen - as well as in parts of Nigeria and Somalia.
So shouldn't that be mentioned in the article to show how far more lenient is Egypt compared to various neighbours?
THere is also an interactive map on the webpage where one can see by the various colours just which countries also imprison homosexuals.
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and quite a few more.
Lest anybody think that this story about gays makes the BBC favour those countries that are truly liberal, one only has to read how anti-Israel they are, which is the only country in the whole of that area where homosexuality is not only legal, but gays can also enter into a civil partnership, to know it's not the case.