OH SNAP — The single-person representation of Pakistan at the Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, which kicked off this weekend, comes in the form of badminton player Ahmed Azeem, who lives in Scotland and has dual Scottish-Pakistani citizenship. [via]
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Tallskin
Let us hope that the poor lad isn’t “Honour killed” by his appalled family when he returns home.
concernedcitizen
I guess he won’t have that dual citizenship for long. According to Ahmabadinejad (probably incorrect spelling) they don’t have gays in Pakistan that’s a western “problem” that guy and that country is delusional.
daftpunkydavid
@concernedcitizen: dude he’s pakistani citizenship, not iranian… do you know ahmadinejad comes from?
Tallskin
@concernedcitizen – LOL you must be american!
Pakistan and Iran are two different countries.
Although it’s true that Scotland, is of course, just off the coast of Africa, which is a small island south of Australia.
concernedcitizen
@Tallskin: oops O_0
Rick Brannon
Will they have events for trannies?
L.
@Tallskin: Someone must nuke them both out so we can stop with all this confusion.
angus
There is no Scottish citizenship. If you are Scottish you hold a British passport. So he would have dual British Pakistani citizenship.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Which of those countries he is from really doesn’t make much matter, the laws are all pretty much the same. You are Gay the government and “religious leaders” will torture and or kill you……………….
From International Lesbian and Gay Association
Section 377 Penal Code criminalizes “carnal knowledge of any man against the order of nature”, with a penalty of 2 years up to life imprisonment and a possible corporal punishment of a 100 lashes. (PB)
Islamic law was re-introduced in 1990. “Pakistani civil law punishes those who have gay sex with two years to life in prison, while Islamic law, which also can be enforced legally, calls for up to 100 lashes or death by stoning.” (RW/886)
[While it seems unlikely that Section 377 would apply to lesbians, it seems likely that Islamic law would]
“The World Organization Against Torture (WOAT) is targeting Pakistan over the recent whipping of two males allegedly caught having sex in a public lavatory. Mohammad Zaman,a mosque worker, and Fahimullah, a student, were lashed publicly May 17 in Bara Bazar in Pakistan’s western Khyber Agency, an area administered by local Afridi tribespeople.
Zaman received 75 blows and Fahimullah 32. They allegedly confessed to Maulana Abdul Hadi, head of Tanzeem Ittehad-e-Ulema-e-Qabail (TIUQ), the local Islamic ruling party, and to Afridi elders that they committed sodomy.
Eric
@Rick Brannon: ALL persons participating in Gay Games events compete against members of the gender with which they currently present/identify as.
DMX
so what if he is pakistani
Bill Perdue
@Tallskin: That would be awful, Tallskin, and should be condemned. It’s about as bad as this: “Ahmed Hassan, a “gentle and kind young man”, was only 17 when his life was prematurely ended, in what was, according to the Muslim community of Dewsbury, “a racially motivated attack.”
Witnesses say that about four or five white youths, arrived on the train from Huddersfield and verbally abused the boys, after which one produced a knife and plunged it into Ahmed’s back.”
http://www.amirsfans.co.uk/forum/topic/7025-muslim-youth-murdered-in-racist-attack/
Or this: “A police investigation has been launched following apparent racist attacks on Muslim students in London in which three people were stabbed.
In the worst incident, last Thursday evening, a mob of 30 white and black youths is said to have surrounded Asian students near City University in central London and attacked them with metal poles, bricks and sticks while shouting racist abuse.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/09/racist-attacks-students-city-university
Correct me if you think I’m wrong but deaths because of racism, religion and homophobia seem to me to be identically evil.
Tallskin
Bill,
Honour killings and forced marriages are horrible and have been going on a long time, and we here in the UK have woken up to the fact that gay muslims are victims too. Hence my comments. There was that poor turkish gay man who was murdered by his family in turkey a year or so back.
Don’t you think this is bad?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8446458.stm
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?q=node/4200
Suni, a 20-year-old London student “They told me I’m going to be forced into marriage and they’re looking for a girl and I’ll be married in two to three months and I won’t be able to come back to London,”When he refused, he was imprisoned in his family’s ancestral home in a remote village of Pakistan and subjected to regular beatings and abuse as he had brought “shame” on the strict Muslim family.
And Bill, anyone can pluck news bad news about any issue they want from the internet. You’ve chosen racist attacks by white natives on muslims. And I’ve chosen to pick today’s news about two groups of muslims who’ve committed heinous crimes in the UK – see below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-10849352
Four muslim men have been jailed for life for murdering a couple when they set fire to the wrong house in what was intended to be a so-called honour killing.
Abdullah and Aysha Mohammed were killed when petrol was poured through the letter box of their house in Blackburn and set alight last October.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-10844915
A 14-year-old was forced into prostitution and sexually abused by a series of men after going missing from her home in Greater Manchester…NINE men convicted at Manchester Crown Court in connection with the abuse were all muslims.
And, since you’re going back in time, I will too! Just a quick Google search reveals this:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7856.html/
Gay people in Holland have been shocked by a public attack on a gay man in Amsterdam. Model Mike Du Pree was taking part in a fashion show to promote tolerance towards gay people when a gang of ten Muslim youths dragged him from the catwalk and beat him.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/9296327/its_gays_v_muslims_as_the_rainbow_alliance_falls_apart_/
There were 47 anti-gay attacks in Tower Hamlets last year; Muslims in swinging London are among the most anti-gay in Europe.
Tallskin
Bill, i did answer you but I’ve been blocked yet again but this fucking queerty comments policy!
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Bill Perdue
@Tallskin: Sorry, TALLSKIN, it happens a lot and it drives out people who can actually think, no matter their politics, leaving the field to jason, andreww, ‘b’ and the enema.
Between the thumbs up/down bull and the flagging, which is like providing a public brake cord on a passenger train full of teenyboppers, things are getting very bad here.
People are fleeing to other sites in very large numbers.
Jeffree
The autoflagged “mooderation” has gotten really bad. Once the post is flagged, it takes about 11 days for the post to appear — if ever. No one is minding the boards here.
Bill Perdue
It’s not all ‘auto’flagged. Much of it is ‘political’flagged. That has to be stopped.
Bill Perdue
@Tallskin: Christists, islamists and religious judaists are the enemy. And so are the racists who infest both our countries.
(If you want to use multiple citations try multiple posting. If I go beyond two citatins I get shot down by the anti-spam police.)