Gays in Egypt
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Most Muslim/Arab and African countries have anti gay laws.
Many/most of the former USSR countries are anti gay.
China is also not gay friendly, even though they partially legalized homosexuality.
The surprising thing {not really} is that the EU says that in order to join, you have to have basic human rights laws in place, that protect everyone. Yet they still allow countries to join that violate one of their most basic rules. Actually, it's their first rule of membership.
That is good to know. Thanks.
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Yah well I live in Egypt part of the time, so I know how the prosecution is like here. They are also very anti-bi when it comes to that matter, they see it as something very immoral and wrong. The problem with islam is that it takes fanticism to a new level, as where gays in christianity are not accepted, with islam they are being erradicated, so to speak.
The best option in egypt, if your gay, is to just hide it. That realy is the only thing people can do, otherwise they would find themselves in a multitude of insults, beatings and a lot of pain. I have come to realise lately though that the younger generation is a bit more open-minded then the older generation, so we might see a change in the gay opinions in egypt, even so, thats a pretty long way off :P. This mentality against gays seems to be reflected only in the lower class though, people who are living middle to high class don't have this problem
But generaly the rule of thumb is that if your not an egyptian, its alright for you to be gay. I wouldn't have a problem telling people I'm bi in Egypt, since Im half-Greek anyway, plus I know a lot of people who are half-British or half-American who have no problems whatsoever. Its just a very stupid subject tbh because they don't realy have any evidence or real reasons as to WHY they hate gays, they just keep refering back to the koran, and tbh I don't trust a book that doesn't have any facts.
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And now: on the list of COUNTRIES WITH NO SODOMY LAWS (HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY IS
LEGAL) there IS NOT even one Arab/Muslim country (exept Turkey and B&H that are in Europe, or at least-partly in Europe)… Facts say by themselfs... -
And now: on the list of COUNTRIES WITH NO SODOMY LAWS (HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY IS
LEGAL) there IS NOT even one Arab/Muslim country (exept Turkey and B&H that are in Europe, or at least-partly in Europe)… Facts say by themselfs...But am i wrong in thinking Kazakhstan,Azerbaijan,Kyrgyzstan and Georgia are muslim to the greater extent and Eritrea has two state religions 1 being sunni muslim so no i dont see that the facts do speak for themselfs i just think we should stop being so anti muslim my self and my partner visit Egypt regularly and have NEVER had any problems at all.
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Well - I don't think any of us here is anti-muslim. Me personally - I love muslim culture. We are just saying that islam is definnitely good religion concerning gay topic. U say - the same about catholicism and ortodox - right - I agree - but at least in Greece and in Poland and in most of the other cristian countries there is no any law that tells me what should I do in my bed (and with whom should I do it). We all know that in muslim countries being gay is much more difficult then in Europe or the States. My friends from Egypt and Gulf are offen affrain even to put pictures of themselves into the gay profile, in order not to be recognised there in their anti-gay countries…. Doesn't seem nice for me...
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no actually
Jordan is a muslim country and it is on the list
i live in jordan but i never knew thatwill i dont think it matters at all …coz its how u are treated by other arabs/muslims in the country u live so am not planning to come out any time soon
until i move to canada
after i finish college -
hey i'm from egypt , and after i read the main message of that forum , i ask him , where you hear that story ? indeed , no laws against Gays now in Egypt , it's impossible to find a gay man jailed for gay sex ! here in Egypt ( for more information about that point see www.wikipeida.org & and search for gays laws around the world ) anyway , that's not mean we have gay rights , but we are the must fighting Islamic/Arabic country for that point . but we still the first Arabic ( second Islamic after Turkey ) that we haven't a laws against gays , but we still not that free , still many gays here want to move to gay rights countries
THANKS -
The article details were in the opening post.
Advocate, The, May 24, 2005 by Mike Hudson
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Homophobic countries can and will use any kind of law available to get their way.
A lot of them do have laws on immorality which they use on gays.
I think also in Egypt such laws are used for gays.Also, I'm told that some states within the US still have sodomy laws.
Laws applicable on sodomy / assfucking between straight people as well as gays.
They are almost never used but still in existence and come in handy for police now and then! -
thank you mgr….
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thats a great list
its also quite a frightening list
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