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Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 05:24 AM Mar 2019

Brunei laws punishing LGBT people with whipping, stoning 'to be implemented next week'

Brunei laws punishing LGBT people with whipping, stoning 'to be implemented next week'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-26/lgbt-muslims-brunei-face-whipping,-stoning-under-new-laws/10938592

Brunei is set to introduce new laws next week that could see LGBT people whipped or stoned to death for same-sex relations, according to human rights groups that have urged the country to abandon the plan.

Homosexuality is already illegal and punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment in the tiny sultanate, but the changes would see Brunei become the first Asian country to make homosexuality punishable by death.

Brunei became the first East Asian country to introduce Islamic criminal law in 2014 when it announced the first of three stages of legal changes that included fines or jail for offences such as pregnancy outside marriage or failing to pray on Friday.

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Brunei is a former British protectorate nestled between two Malaysian states on Borneo island. The population of 400,000 — 67 per cent of whom are Muslim and therefore subject to the Sharia law — is ruled by a sultan.

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Not all religion, but always religion.
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Brunei laws punishing LGBT people with whipping, stoning 'to be implemented next week' (Original Post) Odoreida Mar 2019 OP
Brutes. lambchopp59 Mar 2019 #1
More on the same subject Odoreida Apr 2019 #2

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
1. Brutes.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 08:32 AM
Mar 2019

Doesn't this morsel of agony just put the cherry on the bigotry sundae.
I certainly hope the right-wing brutality gripping a baker's dozen of countries around the world right now, for the sake of humanity, the environment and all around decency reveals itself for what it is:
Stupid, self righteous bigotry from whatever religious or "moral" wellspring it erupts.

 

Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
2. More on the same subject
Wed Apr 3, 2019, 08:15 AM
Apr 2019
Brunei implements stoning to death under new anti-LGBT laws (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47769964

... "You wake up and realise that your neighbours, your family or even that nice old lady that sells prawn fritters by the side of the road doesn't think you're human, or is okay with stoning," one Bruneian gay man, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC. ...
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