Hamas, the militant and political group in the Palestinian Territories have said that they win the Palestinian Authority Parliamentary election, they would ban men and women dancing together and will strip gay men and women of the few rights they have in the territory that they have at present.
Dr Mahmoud Zahar (pictured), the groups leader in Gaza, in an article on an Arabic website condemned the rights that gays have in Israel and made it clear that he thinks that gays are perverts. "Are these the laws for which the Palestinian street is waiting? For us to give rights to homosexuals and to lesbians, a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick?" He asked on the Elaph website.
Similarly, he said that if his group won the parliamentary elections he would seek to turn the secular authority, which has Christian, Atheist and Jewish citizens in addition to Muslims, into an Islamic Republic.
That was in 2005.
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As soon as they arrived in Trafalgar Square to join the demonstration, the gay protesters were surrounded by an angry, screaming mob of Islamic fundamentalists, Anglican clergymen, members of the Socialist Workers Party, the Stop the War Coalition, and officials from the protest organisers, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). They variously attacked the gay activists as “racists”, “Zionists”, “CIA and MI5 agents”, “supporters of the Sharon government” and “dividing the Free Palestine movement”. [11]
Officials from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign tried to persuade the gay protesters to stand at the back, and when the protesters refused, tried to block their placards with their own. It was a shameful display of intolerance on the part of people who claimed to espouse tolerance.
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A group of United Nations member states including Israel have called for the UN's first gay rights declaration, an initiative which has met with fierce resistance by an Arab-backed opposition. The draft declaration was presented Thursday at the UN General Assembly. It calls for decriminalization of homosexuality.Arab states are opposed. In Muslim states, homosexuality is a crime and is usually punishable by death, consistent with Islamic law.
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So, for days now, DK has been riven with tit for tat diaries, one for Israel, and then one for Palestine (Hamas fanbois) . I think both sides need to take a chill pill, but I'll tell you this. I'd rather have Israel around than a dozen Palestines full of bigoted, gay-murdering religious cretins.
As long as Islam maintains its hatred of all things Other, I have no sympathy for it. Why should I? So, maybe you'll call me a, "gay zionist". Ok. Fine with me. Let Islam get off its high horse and start treating people better, then I'll listen to what they have to say.
Israel, Arab states at odds over first UN gay rights declaration - Syrian representative read out a statement drafted by the opposition, arguing that the declaration would result in more sex crimes against children.
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