Moslem Clerics Charged In Gay Beatings

[Ian David]

Moslem Clerics Charged In Gay Beatings

Moslem Clerics Charged In Gay Beatings
by Mark Levy 365Gay.com Cape Town, South Africa Bureau

Posted: May 13, 2005 8:00 pm ET

(Zanzibar, Tanzania) Four Islamic clerics have been charged with beating a gay couple on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar.

News reports from the island, off the east coast of Africa, say that the clerics became enraged after hearing that the men planned to marry.

The news accounts do not say how the couple intended to marry. Homosexuality is illegal in Zanzibar and same-sex marriage is not permitted under Islamic law.

Police say that when the Zanzibar Imams' Propagation Association learned the wedding was about to take place the four clerics when to the location and kidnapped the couple.

More:
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/05/051305zanzibar.htm

[peacetalksforall]

1. What is it about religious people? n/t

[damntexdem]

2. Hey, can't let the Christian fanatics have all the fun!

Imams can outdo Phelps any day!

[LondonAmerican]

3. There have been a series of gay bashings

by muslims in, of all places, Amsterdam as well.

The religious right in many european countries is now dominated by muslims - certainly that's the case in the UK, NL, Belgium, Germany, Denmark.

[Ian David]

4. The little-noticed alliance between gay marriage opponents and terrorists

Queer allies
By Evan Gahr
The little-noticed alliance between gay marriage opponents and alleged terrorist sympathizers
http://www.jewishworldreview.com

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JewishWorldReview.com has discovered that prominent religious conservatives — Jews, Catholics and Evangelical Christians — are allied with a radical Islamic group to stop gay marriage. Pushing a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to heterosexuals, they work with the Islamic Society of North America. What is ISNA? According to terrorism expert Steve Emerson, ISNA:

* has held fundraisers for terrorists (e.g., after Hamas leader Musa Marzuk was arrested, it raised money for his defense, claiming he was innocent and not connected to terrorism)
* has condemned US seizure of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad assets in the United States after 9/11
* has consistently sponsored speakers at their conferences that defend Islamic terrorists. Recently, a leader denied in an interview with an NBC affiliate that ISNA took any Saudi money but that was a brazen lie as evidenced by a recording of an ISNA conference in which it was revealed that money came from Saudi Arabia.

"ISNA," says Emerson, "is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation."

What better way for ISNA to maintain its "false veneer of moderation" than by working side by side with prominent religious figures that also bring the prestige of their institutional associations? How can critics plausibly depict the organization as extremist if it boasts the company of so many prominent Jews and Christians? Even Martin Luther King couldn't boast a working alliance with this many different members of the religious community.

Who are these religious conservatives? The Jews include a vice-president of the highly regarded Rabbinical Council of America, who is also known as "Lieberman's rabbi" because the Connecticut senator and presidential candidate attends his synagogue; one of Reform Judaism's most highly visible rabbis known for his frequent TV appearances as the Jewish half of the two man "God Squad,"; an Orthodox rabbi who is one of the heads of the most highly regarded kosher supervision agency in America; a former aide to President Ronald Reagan and official in the subsequent Bush administration; and an Orthodox rabbi who wants to unite Christians and Jews.


More:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/marriage_terrorists.php3

[LondonAmerican]

5. comes as little surprise

thanks for the post!