BBC: "Gay Palestinian Ahmad Abu Marhia beheaded in West Bank"

[DrLeftover]

Palestinian police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 25-year-old man after his body was found decapitated in the occupied West Bank.
LGBTQ groups in Israel, where Ahmad Abu Marhia was seeking asylum, say he had received threats because he was gay.
Video of the murder scene in Hebron has spread widely on social media raising speculation about the motive, but police say nothing is confirmed.
It is unclear for now how Mr Abu Marhia ended up in the city.
LGBTQ groups say he had spent two years in Israel waiting on an asylum claim to flee abroad after receiving death threats from within his community.
Israeli media quote friends of the victim as saying he was kidnapped to the West Bank.

Gay Palestinian Ahmad Abu Marhia beheaded in West Bank

Police arrest a suspect after Ahmad Abu Marhia is murdered in his home city Hebron.

www.bbc.com

Remember, the Palestinian areas operate under their own form of Sharia.

 

[Nebulous]

Glad they arrested the suspect! RIP to the victim. Its crazy gay people are still targets of violence in 2022.

 

[Webster]

Glad they arrested the suspect! RIP to the victim. Its crazy gay people are still targets of violence in 2022.

Yeah, but odds are the suspect will never be convicted; as bad as LGBTQ individuals are treated at times here in the West, its nothing compared to what happens to some in the Arab/Muslim world....

"Clean the Streets of Faggots"

Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian queer feminist, raised a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo. Rania Amdouni, a Tunisian queer activist, protested deteriorating economic conditions and police brutality in Tunis. Mohamad al-Bokari, a Yemeni blogger in Saudi Arabia, declared he supported equal rights for...

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LGBTQ communities face threats in Middle East – DW – 07/16/2022

Iraq wants to criminalize homosexuality, Saudi Arabia has targeted rainbow flags, and Egypt insists on a gender binary. Activists say new threats to LGBTQ communities are based on wrong ideas about tradition.

www.dw.com

Everything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries

The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attitudes of family and society are a bigger problem than fear of being persecuted

www.theguardian.com

 

[Nebulous]

Yeah, but odds are the suspect will never be convicted; as bad as LGBTQ individuals are treated at times here in the West, its nothing compared to what happens to some in the Arab/Muslim world....

"Clean the Streets of Faggots"

Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian queer feminist, raised a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo. Rania Amdouni, a Tunisian queer activist, protested deteriorating economic conditions and police brutality in Tunis. Mohamad al-Bokari, a Yemeni blogger in Saudi Arabia, declared he supported equal rights for...

www.hrw.org

LGBTQ communities face threats in Middle East – DW – 07/16/2022

Iraq wants to criminalize homosexuality, Saudi Arabia has targeted rainbow flags, and Egypt insists on a gender binary. Activists say new threats to LGBTQ communities are based on wrong ideas about tradition.

www.dw.com

Everything you need to know about being gay in Muslim countries

The official fiction, Brian Whitaker explains, is that gay people don’t exist in the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attitudes of family and society are a bigger problem than fear of being persecuted

www.theguardian.com

Very sad!

 

[DrLeftover]

And in America they take to the streets when somebody refuses to bake them a wedding cake.

It's all a matter of perspective isn't it?

 

[Webster]

And in America they take to the streets when somebody refuses to bake them a wedding cake.

Well, if you're offering a service or product in the public sphere, either provide it or don't.
Big difference between that and what's going on in the Middle East above....perspective, you know.

 

[DrLeftover]

Well, if you're offering a service or product in the public sphere, either provide it or don't.
Big difference between that and what's going on in the Middle East above....perspective, you know.

I thought a privately owned and operated business could reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

 

[Nebulous]

I thought a privately owned and operated business could reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

They do have the right to do that.

Do the people who were refused service not have the right to voice their opinion on the matter?

 

[Webster]

I thought a privately owned and operated business could reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

Not if it violates the public accommodation rules laid forth in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, weakened as they were in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.

 

[DrLeftover]

They do have the right to do that.

Do the people who were refused service not have the right to voice their opinion on the matter?

Of course.

 

[MrDawn]

Glad they arrested the suspect! RIP to the victim. Its crazy gay people are still targets of violence in 2022.

I'm not surprised. Being gay can be a death sentence in the middle east. You're safe as long as you keep it to yourself and you don't tell a religious fanatic.

 

[Nebulous]

I'm not surprised. Being gay can be a death sentence in the middle east. You're safe as long as you keep it to yourself and you don't tell a religious fanatic.

Just being american can be a death sentence in the middle east. They don't like us very much over there.

 

[MrDawn]

Just being american can be a death sentence in the middle east. They don't like us very much over there.

True. A lot of countries abhor Americans. One of the many reasons I've turned down opportunities to go overseas on vacation. I've heard 1 horror story too many.

 

[Nebulous]

One of the many reasons I've turned down opportunities to go overseas on vacation.

Who vacations in the middle east?

 

[Webster]

Who vacations in the middle east?

Depends on the region; Israel, Egypt and the Gulf States (Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, etc) are quite nice and cosmopolitan. The rest, not so much...

 

[Nebulous]

Depends on the region; Israel, Egypt and the Gulf States (Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, etc) are quite nice and cosmopolitan. The rest, not so much...

Have you been to any of those places?

 

[Webster]

Have you been to any of those places?

I haven't personally but I've had a few friends who have traveled and from what they've said those are the best places to visit if you're an American.

 

[passenger]

Have you been to any of those places?

I have not, but my daughter spent a couple of years in Qatar and was treated well. She was under, I think, government contract as a teacher. Her accommodations were quite huge and luxurious in one of those new skyscrapers.

She absolutely did not like the climate.

Sent a picture of 'Camelot' Instead of a parking lot. Rich guys parking their caravans while they shopped.

Spoiler: Camelot

 

[Vaeve]

Not too surprised, I saw news a few years back about gays being publicly executed in Indonesia. Not just a single person like in this case, they had like a wave of 'em lined up on the streets.

 

[Nebulous]

I have not, but my daughter spent a couple of years in Qatar and was treated well. She was under, I think, government contract as a teacher. Her accommodations were quite huge and luxurious in one of those new skyscrapers.

She absolutely did not like the climate.

Sent a picture of 'Camelot' Instead of a parking lot. Rich guys parking their caravans while they shopped.

Spoiler: Camelot

Who cares about the climate, you can just stay in your luxury apartment in the sky all day (when you're not working)

Not too surprised, I saw news a few years back about gays being publicly executed in Indonesia. Not just a single person like in this case, they had like a wave of 'em lined up on the streets.

How sad