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British Imperialism Didn’t Cause Palestinian Homophobia (www.queermajority.com)
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Imposing Western identity politics onto the Middle East is a formula for moral insanity.

Islamic homophobia is an issue that goes beyond terrorist groups like Hamas. While the Quran’s language regarding homosexual and bisexual behavior is somewhat ambiguous, the hadith, the canonical sayings and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, contain many straightforward prohibitions. In practice, this results in the persecution of LGBT people in both official and extrajudicial ways throughout the Muslim world. LGBT Palestinians face extreme ostracism, sometimes fleeing as refugees or even being kidnapped and beheaded. The authorities also ban the activities of LGBT rights groups. And it isn’t just LGBT Palestinians being oppressed by Hamas in Gaza. Institutional sexism is also part and parcel of Sharia Law. Human rights researchers rank the Palestinian territories among the worst places in the world to be a woman. For Western activists ostensibly concerned about the oppression of marginalized groups to effectively support the continued rule of Hamas over Gaza (to the point that they would even deny Israel the right to self-defense against the terrorist organization) is hypocritical in the extreme.

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[-] anonymous111@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The British Empire gets blamed for a lot of things but at some point, it has to be on the population of a country to move things forward.

Sure, Empires introduce laws but if the successor governments keep them in for nearly 100 years...

Guess who also legalized homosexuality... Britain.

Very basic and low quality argument.

Fun fact, Britain also invented concentration camps. So there use by the Nazis is also the British Empire's fault?

Good post op (not sarcasm)

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