Showing posts with label West Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Africa. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2008

A bit busy lately

But still had some time to browse through the week's news, choosing the worst of them all in Cameroon, another nation which has sentenced three guys to six years of hard labor just for being gay. That's fair justice and treatment, absolute equal rights. One wonders if heterosexuals would be given equal sentences in a gay-leaded country. And speaking of country leaders, from inside Spain it doesn't seem that next March 9th election will only depend on gay marriage, as Deutsche Welle puts it. No, even though the Roman Catholic hierarchy is actively fighting everything they deem as sin, some days ago the Popular Party leader, Mr. Rajoy, said that his party position on gay marriage is to let it be as is. It's of course not clear whether them, the right side of the political spectrum, would amend the gay marriage law if they could obtain Congress majority enough to govern alone.

On the northeastern side of Europe, Topix says that Lithuania is facing the Council of Europe censure over their position on homosexual rights. There must be something in advantage when your country belongs to the European Union, the Bill of Rights is common for all countries (except for Poland, but it'll change too). However, on Eastern Europe, "Metropolitan Kirill, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, has made a strong statement condemning societal acceptance of homosexuality and reaffirming the task of the Church to proclaim the truth". Of course, it's a religious thing, what else can they say?

Well, I guess it's been all for today. I promise I'll try to keep updating for the weekend, but forgive me if I'm sending scarce posts till after Carnival... A man also needs a bit of free time for himself. Cheers.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Jammeh: Lesbianism no good for The Gambia

Gays Without Borders, which is becoming one of our favorite blogs, depicts about the latest nonsense played around the world, this time by president Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia, that same guy who earlier in February this year sought the Medicine Nobel Award by stating that AIDS could be easily healed with only herbal tea plus a couple of bananas (story in the Daily Mail). Along with Eid al Fitr celebrations, Jammeh called for Islamic solidarity (The Gambia may not belong to the Arab League, but it's a majority muslim country) and also proved himself as hallucinated as Mr. Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje from Uganda.

President Jammeh stated that "What Allah says in the Qur'an is very clear, which is man can marry woman, but not woman to a woman or man to man. Lesbianism will not be accepted in The Gambia, so their idea of democracy is unacceptable, unislamic and ungodly", and that type of democracy will never enter The Gambia as long as he lives. Yahya went on to compare past Catholic and West behaviors to present terrorism, and pointed out that "hanging and electrifying someone to death, is not a way of killing a person, according to the Sharia law."

Hum, one wonders what merciful sort of death penalty Jammeh is saving for homosexuals in The Gambia.