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"Pro-Gay Equals Anti-Sharia" Pamela Geller, Yahoo
Gays in the U.S. Are Largely on the Wrong Side.
It’s Time to Correct That
Mashregh News, a government-controlled paper in Iran, recently claimed
that Israel "spreads homosexuality" around the world in its quest for
world domination.
The article, said Chris Karnak on the gay website GGG,
"reads like an article from the Nazi agitation paper Der Stürmer."
Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, an expert on Iran's treatment of minorities of
all kinds, said that the piece was "against gays, against the West and
anti-Semitic," and that it "legitimizes the execution of gays in Iran;
they made a text not only to ridicule the West but to provide a reason
why Iran executes gays."
Yet gays in the U.S. in large numbers oppose Israel, and resist
attempts to stop the global jihad and Islamic supremacism that Iran so
energetically promotes. Where is the counter-voice to the anti-Israel
agitation in the gay community? What I find so amusing about the gay
community's opposition to Israel is Israeli society's absolute embrace
of the gay community.
They had gays in the military
before it was even contemplated in the U.S. My colorist, who is not
Jewish, goes to Israel every year for their Gay Pride Parade, so
fabulous is that event. LGBT rights in Israel are the most progressive
in the Middle East and Asia. Out Magazine named Tel Aviv the gay
capital of the Middle East. Yet gays in the U.S. largely line up with
the left against Israel. They're on the wrong side. The lethal side,
fatal for gays. Literally.
The article in Mashregh News was not singular. It was indicative of the sorry treatment of gays all over the Islamic world.
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reported last June that the Indonesian city of Tasikmalaya in West Java
is seeking to criminalize homosexuality, in accordance with Islamic
law, sharia. Last January, three Muslims in London were arrested on hate
crime charges for handing out leaflets calling for the execution of
gays; one explained:
"My intention was to do my duty as a Muslim, to inform people of
Allah's word and to give the message on what Allah says about
homosexuality."
Gays excoriate Christians for disapproving of
homosexuality, but Christianity doesn't call for the execution of gays;
Islam does. The holy book of Islam, the Qur'an, mandates
execution for lesbians, but not for gay men (where's Irshad Manji on
that?): "If any of your women commit a lewd act, call four witnesses
from among you, then, if they testify to their guilt, keep the women at
home until death comes to them or until Allah gives them another way
out. If two men commit a lewd act, punish them both; if they repent and
mend their ways, leave them alone - Allah is ready to accept repentance
from those who do evil out of ignorance and soon afterwards repent:
these are the ones Allah will forgive" (4:15-16).
However, the
Hadith, the traditions of Muhammad that are normative for Islamic law,
says that Muhammad's companions toppled a wall on gays; in our own age,
the Taliban has imitated that punishment. Iran's Constitution mandates death for gays, and the Iranian Islamic regime has regularly carried out public hangings of gay men.
Where homosexual activity is legal in Muslim countries, some Muslims
take the sharia into their own hands. Early in September, the Turkish Hürriyet Daily News
reported: "A gay teenager was allegedly killed last month by his father
and uncle in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır in a murder that
the boy's rich and powerful tribal family subsequently sought to cover
up, according to local members of the LGBT community."
Sedef
Cakmak, a Lambda member, said: "I feel helpless: we are trying to raise
awareness of gay rights in this country, but the more visible we become,
the more we open ourselves up to this sort of attack."
The gay
community in the U.S. should be in the avant garde that is fighting for
the oppressed members of their community in the Islamic world. There is
no minority in the U.S. that is as passionate, as fierce, and as
effective as the LGBT community. What they have achieved, in
relationship to their numbers, is spectacular and unrivaled. Why would
they not apply their same premise of opposition to oppression and
discrimination to societies that are abhorrent and monstrous in their
treatment of gays? There is no group that I would rather have
shoulder-to-shoulder with me, hands down, than this effective,
uncompromising movement. And what could be more crucial, and as
clear-cut an issue, as life and death?
Gay activist Michael Lucas should have had an army behind him when he opposed Queers Against Israeli Apartheid,
standing up, out of righteous indignation, against that event at the
LGBT Center in New York. He was a hero for the cause, and yet he was met
with scorn and derision by the Islamic-leftist machine, that attempts
to destroy any and all voices that dare to stand for freedom, individual
rights, and justice for all.
Now, many gays in America may say,
"It's not our problem. Those are tribal, savage societies." Apart from
the inhumanity of that position, they are wrong because the treatment of
gays in Islamic lands has a lot to do with what is happening in
America. We see sharia encroaching in our workplaces, our schools, and
our public institutions. Does the gay community really think it is going
to be exempt because it opposes Israel?
Jonathan Tobin put it well in Commentary:
"The notion that those who view gay rights as the most important issue
here in the West would, at the same time, support gay-bashing
Palestinian Islamists in their campaign to eradicate gay friendly Israel
is a caricature of the psychosis of the left."
The gay
community should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with my group, the
American Freedom Defense Initiative (which is dedicated to defending the
principle of equality of rights for all) against Islamic supremacism,
sharia and the systematic slaughter of gays in Muslim countries. I urge
members of the gay community to start protesting the sharia and get into
the fight for freedom. Readers will weigh in in the comments section
with experiences of their own of the Muslim persecution of gays, but
that is not enough, not nearly enough. It's anecdoctal. We need a
movement -- a real movement -- in the gay community to vocally and
meaningfully oppose the most extreme and brutal ideology on the face of
the earth.
Stop fighting the last war. Stonewall has been won. Sharia is this century's Stonewall.
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