Hide and Let Live Not Enough
Back in August of 2006 Germany not only gave a 27-year-old lesbian asylum because she would face persecution if she was sent back to Iran, its ruling set a binding precedent for similar cases. But today in Britain a gay Iranian teenager and a 40-year-old Iranian lesbian are leading the cause for an immediate moratorium on deportations of gays and lesbians seeking asylum because they are afraid they will be persecuted or even executed if they return to Iran. The following is from the Islamic Punishment Act, which carries provisions for homosexual acts:
Art. 110: The prescribed punishment for homosexual relations in case of intercourse is execution and the mode of the execution is at the discretion of the religious judge.
Art. 111: Homosexual intercourse leads to execution provided that both the active and passive party are of age, sane and consenting.
Art. 112: Where a person of age commits homosexual intercourse with an adolescent, the active party shall be executed and the passive party, if he has not been reluctant, shall receive a flogging of up to 74 lashes.
Art. 113: Where an adolescent commits homosexual intercourse with another adolescent, they shall receive a flogging of up to 74 strokes of the whip unless one of them has been reluctant.
Articles 114 to 126 establish how to prove homosexual intercourse.
Articles 127 to 134 relate to lesbian sexual relations. Punishment for sexual intercourse among lesbians is 100 lashes. If the offense is then repeated three times the punishment is execution.
The Home Office has said that, provided Iranians are discreet about their homosexuality, they will not be persecuted. But Omar Kuddus of Gay Asylum UK demanded that Britain follow the example of the Netherlands and Germany in imposing a moratorium on all deportations involving gay and lesbian Iranians. He asked: “How many more young Iranians have to die before the British Government takes action?”
Would you trust the reasoning of a society that places a death penalty on crimes it’s willing to ignore if the perpetrator is discreet? Would you want to bet your child’s life on their ability to be discrete? Would you trust that the religiously zealous around you wouldn’t need to know what you were up to in your private life, especially if they thought you were odd or just disliked you?
We have to get past this just-don’t-flaunt-it-and-you’ll-be-okay reasoning which has often been foisted on women and now GLBT people. Most often it is pushed on them to their detriment. It is obviously out of date and (especially in the situation in Iran) dangerous. We must let people have the property of their own identity before we can truly call our society humanist.
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This is nothing! The Koran orders Muslims to cut the heads off of any non-Muslim. At least they are not secretive about their intent. And we meet with them?
Halacha l’Moshe miSinai is a “JEWISH” Law (Torah) beleived to be given from God at Mount Sinai.
Law 79. Courts and their Punishments - (Sanhedrin veha-Oneshin ha-Mesurin Lahem)
The courts administer four death penalties: stoning, burning, “beheading”, and strangling. The first three are explicitly specified in the Torah for various sins, and the punishment for murder too is beheading. It is a tradition received from Moses that whenever the Torah does not specify the manner of execution strangling is
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Above is what ZIONIST Jews do daily to Muslim Palestinians. They do this is open and Secret and You and I pay for it with our tax dollars. Islamic Law is what it is, and some of it is not good. But check out below how the Israeli Government treats “INNOCENT (not codemned by any religous code) Civilians”:
Simeon ben Yohai’s call to slaughter the “best of the Gentiles”, is the Talmudic text that authorizes Israel’s policy of killing innocent Arabs, including children.
A government manual for modern Israeli soldiers includes a summary of Ben Yohai’s teaching:
“In war when our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the Halakah to kill even good civilians, that is civilians who are ostensibly good.” Chaplain of the Israeli army, Central Region Command.
Now if it’s Iranian Law to execute Homosexuals (an act they believe is not innocent, and to be punished by death now), then people should leave the country and never go back. Nor should countries deport people to their deaths.
But Israel has a “SECRET” (to those living in the Matrix) Policy of Killing those that are NOT condemn by any code, religous law or tradition; people considered as innocent. This policy and others should be written about, WHICH ARE BASED ON THEIR RELIGION. But Most people are afraid of ZIONIST; not I!
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I’m pretty sure there is a lot of killing going on in the world. The point I was hoping to make is that we can’t assume that if people just try hard enough to blend in, they will be safe from persecution, especially when it is a government persecuting a group of people and the threat to the person is execution.
The concept that people can “pass” or “cover” enough to fit in and be adopted by the main stream has been around for ages and has never worked. There is no woman who has made it in a man’s world without trading in her femininity, or being lacking that been judged to feminine to really succeed. I’ll say “no woman” so maybe someone can correct me. I don’t think people of color have been very success at trying to cover either.
The LGBT community has had a very big fight on this issue with the militaries Don’t ask Don’t tell policy and in all the other ways LGBT people are asked to hide themselves.
None of this is as bad as the threat of death but I think being denied the ability to live an authentic life is very destructive.