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Lgbt community can face descrimination or violence but not killing . The weird part is many countries has anti lgbt laws inherited from thr colonial era. Choose your word carefully.
Hate crime and lynching that leads to murders of the LGBT community is not at all something rare in the muslim world.
It's true that many laws came from colonial era under christian missionaries, but muslims oppose the removal of those laws with religious outrage.
This is also true of many non-muslim countries. If you have credible figures that demonstrate a higher murder rate of lgbtqi+ folks in muslim countries vs non-muslim countries then please provide at least some evidence, or withdraw your claim, because right now it seems to be based on nothing but anti-muslim vibes.
As do many modern day north american anglicans, basptists, church of christ, pentacostals, presbyterians, nazarenes, and evangelicals. Catholic / christian missionaries are also directly responsible for converting entire populations to be homophobic bigots across Africa and other former colonies.
And how many millions of Africans died over the past ~45 years due to the church opposing the promotion of condom use during the HIV/AIDS crisis?
I despise homophobia in all its forms, but it simply isn't true that the muslim religion is somehow worse than all the others.
You want facts? Name a single Muslim country that has legalized homosexuality. Name a single Muslim country that has legalized gay marriage.
I can name many non-muslim countries have.
If you want a thorough and detailed breakdown of how poorly Muslim countries perform in this regard, fire up Equaldex and search for any Muslim country there.
It is evident that in places such as West Europe and North America (not referring to America under Trump, it's ruined now), generally, queer people have felt safe enough to come out, live their lives and remain in relationships w the people they love. This is not true of Muslim countries. You cannot be a openly gay man in Muslim countries, unless you're of the elite class. This is self-evident.
It's not "vibes", I'm speaking from lived experience having lived in these countries as a gay person. Have you?
And yet I can name many christian states that have far better laws and protections for queer people than Muslim countries have ever had.
I never denied Christianity is also a plague, but in many regions, today, Christian states has progressed significantly whereas Muslim states have absolutely not in this regard. It's disingenuous to present this as a "both sides" issue when one is clearly worse.
Having said that, to be clear, I denounce both Islam and Christianity.
And so, all we're left with, is that this "group's" (Islam's) crimes are talked about as if it should be dealt with, while all the broadly "Christian" crimes are...what?
Regrettable, but understandable given the sheer number of Christians and Christian clergy - something from the past - something that only kinda happened, well it really happens-ed but look at all the good we do - something we're taking seriously these days and working on, nothing like those people
Right. Islam, oh no!
AKA:
Yikes! What if folks had as many churches, but brown people inside 😧
Getting killed for holding an lgbtq flag is definitely rare in most arab and muslims countries. You are tryig to move the goal post by now adding unintential killing and hateful non letal actions.
You are simply spreading Islamphobia with your generalization.
Holding a LGBT flag implies one is gay. Once one is known to be gay, they're in real risk of being lynched to death or getting thrown in jail.
The issue isn't just holding a flag, it's any signal that communicates one is gay clearly.
You are framing it as "unintentional killing" but this is blatantly false and dishonest. People come out to kill gay men in places like Pakistan and other Muslim countries. Homosexuality is punishable by death in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and this is similarly seen in many other places where Islam is law.
Islam is a deeply homophobic religion and that is fact.
You are defending Islam against it's homophobia and are grossly downplaying how it kills gay men, directly and indirectly.
Nobody denies that some muslims are homophobic, or that many muslim-majority states have homophobic laws and practices. They do.
The problem with your argument, though, is that many christian- and buddhist-majority countries also have similar homophobic laws and practices.
In fact, there are more christian-majority countries with homophobic laws than any other religion. Roughly illustrated above, yellow is christian-majority, orange is muslim-majority and green is buddhist majority.
By implying the problem is with islam in particular, rather than religion in general, you are behaving like an islamaphobe.
Christianity, yes, buddhism, nowhere near as much. There's literally just 2-3 dots of Buddhism even in your own graphic, it's misleading to even mention it.
Islam and Christianity are the primary religions responsible for homophobia.
Furthermore, it is not merely "many", all Muslim countries have homophobic laws and practices. If you say this is not the case, I would like you to show me a single country that has Islam as its state religion and has legalized homosexuality. There are none. Also, not a single one of these countries, have legalized gay marriage.
There are many countries where the primary religion is Christianity but homosexuality is legal and even gay marriage is legal.
Let's not pretend it's the same.
Though I will say I have no fondness for Christianity, either. I do have a problem with abrahamic religion in general (buddhism is too minor in comparison for me to be concerned about).
I have a bigger problem with Islam because
If I am to be labelled an islamophobe for that, then sure, I would just consider the other person a homophobe.
You was talking about murdering any gay person . I told you most muslim countries have descriminitory laws like jail or refusing to hire etc. Sausi arabia , afghanistan or Iran are not most of the arab and islamic countries. Yet you still insist about your lie. Tou are generalizing muslims which is islamophobic, shame on you.
This is a map with the type of law around lgbt discrimination. Most mention imprisonment which is bad but not murder.
https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/
From the torah would you say the same about jews or you know you can get away with islamophobia but not antisemetism
Oh yeah jail, not murder— such a good thing.
You are clearly not a queer person and are just focused on defending Islam, because any queer person would know that not being able to live your life without fear winds up equating to death anyway. What do you think happens when gay men cant exist in public the way straight people can, and can't have relations with the people they love without fearing persecution from the state and being jailed?
Discrimination leads to death and gay men have the highest rates of suicide due to said discrimination.
Go over on equaldex and search any Muslim country there to see how abysmal it performs. Though I doubt you care about queer people's lives, you're likely just on a mission to show Islam in a good light.
Furthermore, extrajudiciary killings are a thing that occur in many Muslim countries even if it is not a state law. By not protecting queer people against hate crime and discrimination these states indirectly allow for mob justice and for people to get away with lynching gay men, even if it is not done by the state itself, directly.
The lack of protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Muslim countries is easily verifiable. And it is this lack of protection that leads to us being killed.
I am fully aware. This is a problem of all abrahamic religions. Islam, Christianity, Judaism— none of them are queer affirming. I don't shy away from criticizing any religion.
This is not an Islam-exclusive issue, though it is most persistent in Muslim countries today as there are many christian nations that have progressed and removed these backwards laws, whereas there are no Muslim countries that have legalized homosexuality or gay marriage.
Shame on you for your blatant homophobia and downplaying how muslims treat gay men.