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Culture Watch May 27, 2004 True Evil (2) As to the Islamic mullahs' remarks about gays, quoted in the post immediately below, Andrew Sullivan comments in his 5/26 blog: What staggers me is how silent the gay establishment is about these obscenities. If a religious right figure had said them, there would be hell to pay. But the multi-culti left still has a stranglehold on official gay discourse and won't condemn Islamist bigotry. Why not? These mullahs are fanning the flames of anti-gay violence with literally incendiary rhetoric. Burn gays? Yep, that's what the cleric said. Staggering, indeed. But that's exactly the mindset of "our" movement's leaders.
Stephen H. Miller 5/27/2004 12:02:00 PM / Permalink May 25, 2004 True Evil. From JohannHari.com, here's an interesting look at gays and Islam (brought to our attention by Walter Olson). An excerpt: Dr Muzammil Siddiqi, director of the Islamic Society of North America, says "homosexuality is a moral disease, a sin, a corruption... No person is born homosexual, just as nobody is born a thief, a liar or a murderer. People acquire these evil habits due to a lack of proper guidance and education." But some gay people like Ali have begun to contest this reading of Islam. There have been a small number of groups for gay Muslims over the past 20 years, and their history is not encouraging. A San Francisco-based group called the Lavender Crescent Society sent five members to Iran in 1979 after the Islamic revolution there to spur an Iranian gay movement. They were taken straight from the airport to a remote spot and shot dead. | |
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