Say, Queers for Palestine: Imagine if this event were held in Ramallah. What do you think would happen?
Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public event Wednesday in a northern Israeli city.
Many of the attendees said they were sad that the only place safe enough to hold a conference for gay Arab women was in a Jewish area of Haifa, which has a mixed Arab-Jewish population. Israel’s Jewish majority is generally tolerant of homosexuality.
I’m thinking the women would be arrested, harmed, or killed. Lucky for them, the event was in Israel.
You’re on the wrong side in this battle. Homosexuality is illegal in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and, well, just about every single Arab and Muslim country on the planet (except for Jordan). Gays are executed in some countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. In Israel, though some religious Jews are against homosexuality, gays are not persecuted, nor arrested, nor murdered—at least not by the state. Can you say the same about the Palestinian Territories?
I think not.
Driven deep underground for the most part, only 10 to 20 Arab lesbians attended the conference, organizers said. Most blended in with Israeli lesbians and heterosexual Arab female supporters without making their presence known.
“We’d like all women to come out of the closet that’s our role. We work for them,” said Samira, 31, a conference organizer who came with her Jewish Israeli girlfriend. Samira agreed to be identified only by her first name for fear of reprisals.
Outside the conference hall, 20 women protesters in headscarves and long, loose robes held up signs reading, “God, we ask you to guide these lesbians to the true path.”
Security was tight. Attendance was by invitation only, and reporters were not allowed to take photographs, use tape recorders or identify people.
Even in Israel, they have to hide from their Arab brothers and sisters.
Morcos said her car was vandalized repeatedly and she received threatening phone calls at her family home after her village in northern Israel found out she was a lesbian.
Wrong side, QUIT. You’re on the wrong side. Try looking at the Israelis, who do not murder homosexuals, who do not put them in prison for being homosexuals, and who do not discriminate against them for being homosexual.
But don’t let the facts get in the way of your Israel-hatred.
On a couple of occasions I have forwarded information like this to QUIT and asked for their reaction. As soon as I hear anything I’ll post it here…whenever they reply…any day now.
I’m sure they’re sincere and antisemitism has nothing to do with it, but cynics might suggest that for gays to support Arabs over Jews is lunatic.
I’m always amused by these “Gays for Palestine” type groups, for exactly the reasons you stated. We even had a gay MK a few years back, for heaven’s sake. I suppose these people’s Jew-hatred clouds their common sense.
It is truly amazing how deluded people can get.
Queers for Palestine, siding with a make-believe nation who whose members would have the queers dead and buried faster than you could grill a shawarma, over a nation among nations who accept them as they are.
You can’t make this shit up.
It’s curious that Muslim states and religious scholars should be so savage towards homosexuals when Muslim cultures have always been such hotbeds of homosexuality (if you’ll pardon the pun). The Pathans in Afghanistan, for example, are notoriously homosexual. One of their sayings is “A woman for business, a boy for pleasure, and a goat for choice.” One of their songs begins “There’s a boy across the river with a bottom like a peach, but alas I cannot swim.” Yet the Taliban came out of the mix of Pathan society and Wahhabism.