“Discreet.”
Gay Syrian refugee Jojo Jako Yakub has been released from a youth center in Scotland, but will likely be sent back to his homeland, where he says he faces violent persecution. Scottish immigration officials ruled this weekend that homos such as Yakub can simply alter their ways of lives, “Homosexuals have to modify their behaviour and lifestyle accordingly. We find no evidence that in Syria [Yakob] would conduct himself other than discreetly to avoid repercussions.” [Pink News UK]
Wow, that’s disgusting. Shame on Scotland!
Europe’s perceived enlightened homo views are more than “moderated” by these sorts of attitudes and decisions. The mind reels.
Meanwhile, “Ian McKellen met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [who is himself a Scot] this weekend to discuss fighting anti-gay bullying….”
McKellen tried to take Mehdi Kazemi, another gay Arab refugee, as his date for the U.K. Stonewall Equality dinner in april to publicize the plight of gay Arabs seeking asylum, so let’s hope he brought up Yakub’s dire circumstances with Brown.
ON the 25th of June 2008 British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, said:
‘In the 21st century, no one should ever feel under threat of verbal or physical violence just because of their sexual orientation.’
She echoed the sentiments of the United Nations High Commissioner Louise Arbour made in November 2007 who said in her statement; “Just as it would be unthinkable to exclude some from protection on the bases of race, religion or social status, so too must we reject any attempt to do the same on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.â€
Ms Smith and the Home office should realise that to have any meaning these words MUST reflect and apply to everyone, not only those born in the free west.
How many times does this government have to be shamed by the word to act responsibly and do the right thing and accept that being who we are and how we are is a part of our natural selves and why should descression come into our normal daily lives.
She and her office don’t expect heterosexuals to behave other than how they are so why should gay asylum seekers be any different. The ruling by the Asylum Immigration Tribunal, sitting in Glasgow, stated: “Syria criminalises and represses homosexuality. Homosexuals have to modify their behaviour and lifestyle accordinglyâ€
Is that not enough or does the world have to be make itself heard every time the home office uses the same ‘old line of discretion.
If NO ONE should ever feel under treat of violence,
Britain and herself must take the stand as other European nations have done that homosexuals fleeing persecution, torture and execution should be grated asylum, Carte Blanche, and not have to prove their personal “threat of verbal or physical violence just because of their sexual orientation