Gays 'Threaten Society' Islamic Leader Says

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/030105islam.htm

One of the world's leading Islamic scholars has angered gay rights advocates in Asia and Europe after declaring that granting gay rights is a threat to society and should not be tolerated.

Anis Ahmad, vice-chancellor of Pakistan's Riphah International University calls homosexuality an aberration, the English language Chinese newspaper The Standard reports.

Ahmad was in Hong Kong as a guest of the Islamic Union.



it's nice to see that the US doesn't have a monopoly on homophobic fundies

[Zenlitened]

1. Sounds a lot like the "ideology of evil" line from the Vatican. - n/t

[RoeBear]

2. maybe it's an area the Repubs

can build on. Start a little coalition or something.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

3. it's nice to see that the US doesn't have a monopoly on homophobic fundies

Indeed it is!

Furthermore, conservatives I've spoken to flat-out refuse to acknowledge the similarities between xtian fundamentalists and the 9/11 hijackers: They both follow(ed) what they believe(d) to be their gods' instructions. :puke:

"Religious fundamentalism: A threat abroad, a threat at home."
--from my car's back window :scared:

[Warpy]

4. Aw, he's just afraid some big gay guy

is going to treat him the way he treats women.

Dig deeply into homophobia, you always find sexism hiding just under the latency.

[arwalden]

5. Is Islam A Bigoted Religion? Or Do Islamic Fundies Make It So?

[Langley85]

6. a threat to society?

How are we a threat to society? People like him are the ones who attack us, not the other way around.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

7. Indeed

I've said it before: I have never heard of homosexuals engaging in widespread torture and killing of people to try and make them convert to homosexuality; I have heard of religious entities torturing and killing people to try and make them convert to xtianity tho.

But we're a threat.

Riiiiight.

(edited b/c I forgot to use the correct brackets on HTML code)

[xchrom]

8. a fundy by any other word would still be an

ignorant fuck -- and therefore a danger to the world.