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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Dec 17, 2022, 05:54 PM Dec 2022

(LGBT Group) Arab Gulf countries crack down on homosexuality

Four countries in the Arab Gulf have intensified their campaigns against homosexuals, or what the states’ leaders refer to as “perverts,” in recent months in what they say is an effort to preserve customs, traditions, and religious and societal values.

Kuwait has announced the deportation of at least 3,000 massage parlor employees, most of them of Filipino nationality, who allegedly offer sexual services to male clients.

Sheikh Talal Khalid Al-Sabah, first deputy prime minister and interior minister, issued strict instructions regarding “the need to clean the country of homosexuals who imitate women” by launching wide campaigns in all governorates, “because of the spread of these “diseases” in Kuwaiti society, which is rejected by Kuwaitis.”

In Saudi Arabia, activists circulated video clips taken during seasonal parties in Riyadh of people accused of being homosexual, including those who are wearing earrings or making what are considered feminine gestures. At the end of each clip, the Interior Ministry announces the arrest of those who appeared in the video, stressing the government’s complete rejection of any of what it called “perversion.”

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(LGBT Group) Arab Gulf countries crack down on homosexuality (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 OP
Congrats, US Wingnuts! You are imitating strict Arab/Muslim societies really closely Hugh_Lebowski Dec 2022 #1
Religious extremists tend to be the same, differing only in cosmological details... NullTuples Dec 2022 #3
Gee, is the soccer thingy over already? NullTuples Dec 2022 #2
8,709 requesting help/asylum lambchopp59 Dec 2022 #4
 

Hugh_Lebowski

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1. Congrats, US Wingnuts! You are imitating strict Arab/Muslim societies really closely
Sat Dec 17, 2022, 06:24 PM
Dec 2022

You all must be proud!

lambchopp59

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4. 8,709 requesting help/asylum
Sat Dec 17, 2022, 08:10 PM
Dec 2022

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