A Houthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said Tuesday, as human rights groups decried a rise in...
A Houthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said Tuesday, as human rights groups decried a rise in abuses by the Iran-backed rebels.
The sentences were handed down in Ibb, a province controlled by the Houthis whose attacks on Red Sea shipping since November have prompted retaliatory strikes by the United States and Britain.
Three others were jailed on similar charges, according to the judicial source, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Another 35 people have been detained by Houthis in Ibb province on homosexuality charges, the source said.
Fucking horrific. This is 2024, and we're still doing this shit? I have two - count 'em, two - LGBTQ+ kids, and I'm so goddamn glad we don't live in a murderous shit-hole like that.
Religion is a catalyst for conservatism. I despise it. But because there are so many non-conservative religious people who are not interested in oppressing or killing others, I now focus on conservatism as the problem.
If we had a real true place to actually like, banish the ones who really couldn't be taught to not be you know, like sadistic killers or some crazy CRAZY stuff I would totally agree with you. In a time where, say a benevolent AI could run an entire planet of habitual offenders of other's rights and those people who (after repeated attempts at rehabilitation/therapy/education with all the correct and most up-to-date science about (whichever field in question)) can't function in society without hurting other people can go BE. away from me then yes
I'd like to hope for a world where every affliction could be unlearned, or perhaps there is an environment where that kind of behavior can be tolerated (metamorphosis of prime intellect style)
But until then, on a finite planet, with individual beings... I'm not sure
EDIT: SHIT
Forgot where the heck I was and which post this was on. I got a little blazed and kept forgetting I was commenting this until I'd open my phone up.
NOT CONDONING THE FUCKING EXECUTION OF SOMEONE BASED ON WHAT HOLE THEY WANNA PLAY WITH
The problem people have with the death penalty isn't that they disagree a serial child rapist should be executed. It's that people get falsely sentenced. It happens, it always has happened, it always will happen.
It won't be solved for that kid. But by denying the Houthis a country and denying their offensive capabilities, we ensure that they occupy an increasingly smaller and more isolated patch of desert and mountains that nobody cares about, and prevent them from expanding their rule over more people, whom it will oppress. It's a conservative, religious fundamentalist, populist movement, that openly endorses terrorism and rule by assassination and violence. It's extremely popular with the locals, those that haven't been executed as infidels.
He's defending the Houthi wholesale and interviewed a pretty boy one giving him softball questions asking what fucking video games he plays. Sorry but what the fuck are you talking about?
Islam in particular and religion in general caused this and will continue to cause things like this until skydaddy is now longer worshipped. There are no good beliefs in the supernatural, sure some are less deadly, but there are no good ones.
The sick thing is I am betting they will win in the end. They are willing to kill and we aren't.
Weird how the human rights record of Yemen is suddenly an important news topic right when the West is ramping up for military conflict with them. It must have just started, because otherwise this would be a cynical ploy to drum up support for war.
This is from a Lebanese outlet. It's full of pretty exclusively middle east news, and publically makes clear its agenda. The article was submitted by a frequent poster of a wide variety of World News from all over, commonly human rights violations. This guy particularly upped his posting game after explicitly saying he should post more after another prominent poster decided to take a break.
You are right, but you are oversimplifying too. Pointing out human rights violations by enemy states has always been part of political propaganda, sure. However, this must not distract us from the seriousness of these human rights violations themselves.
To do what exactly? Are we going to then do the same thing to Saudi Arabia, where we actually have some moral entanglements and some ability to influence?
There's nothing someone in the West is supposed to do upon learning this fact. There's no aid to withdraw or vacations to cancel to try to influence them to be less horrible. The only leverage is war.
The houthi rebels are very anti queer so I assume the Yemeni and Saudi forces they're fighting against must be very pro queer. i will not be looking into this further or wondering why the geopolitical enemies of the US always face more media scrutiny.
Lmao, Jamal Kashoggi, a Washington Post reporter, gets chopped up inside the Saudi Arabian embassy by Saudi hitmen and the US is like "Oh no! Anyway..."
"Weird how when something is in the news, say for attacking civilian shipping in the most used sea lane in the world, it gets more scrutiny! I am going to attribute this to Imperialist Scheming(tm)"
Good. Homosexuality is incompatible with Islamic culture. I am personally an atheist, but I believe Iran's redemption is in kicking all Western influence out. I basically hate all Westerners, their culture, and their entire being. btw I am aware it doesn't say Iran and says Yemen but Iran is probably going to execute these vermin soon.
Apostasy is not a Western concept moron. But the LGBTQ+ culture is specific to West. I admit that 'homosexuality' is a global concept, semantically speaking at least, and these people who fucked each other in the ass never considered themselves to be 'gay'. The correct word is 'Queer Culture' I believe, the homosexuality native to West. That is what I don't want in Iran. I want Iran to develop its own homosexual culture. And I don't agree with Islamic Republic's apery, they are on the wrong side of morality even by Islamic philosophy and law standards, let alone, Western philosophy.