Opinion
World silent over Arab intolerance of gays
Shoula Romano Horing
Published: 20.02.14, 09:17
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1. Israel has no 'honor killings' gay bashing, or tribal feuds
Bad Ased Jew ,   United States   (02.20.14)
no wonder all the Muslims, Christians flee to Israel. No Arab 'society' allows personal freedoms as does Israel. Jews = Justice. MORE JEWS ARE COMING, PLEASE KEEP BUILDING !!!!
2. To the author:
Israeli 2   (02.20.14)
And you are proud of Israel because of this tolerance, SRH? Don't be. Israel will be defeated on the long run if this persists. No, not by military forces, but by spiritual forces from within. It is bad Karma going against the Torah matrix.
3. What about HIV Aids deaths in these Islamic countries?
Daveethr ,   Kono Israel   (02.20.14)
Ok this opinion peace is pro gay of course leave out the facts that AIDS is a major pandemic in Africa and may depopulate the black continent However it seems if I am not mistaken the Islamic countries that most repress Homosexuality have the lowest rates o HIV AIDS. Do I support such draconian laws in Israel, of course not But I do not consider it normal or healthy to legislate that homosexuality is equal to normal sexuality and do NOT accept Homosexual marriage and adoption. The word Gay is a stolen word that should not be used in this context
4. UK has imported all the problems described in article
Eurabia   (02.20.14)
5. The bigger problem
Anonymous   (02.20.14)
is Israel's tolerance of gays and human animal citizens in Israel.
6. Haha... eu gays and lesbians value
daniel ,   TA - IL   (02.20.14)
the muslims' right to hate higher than their own lifestyle given their orginizations support for freedom to hate. and the lack of action on expressions of hatred committed for 99% by muslim immigrants. same for all leftwing groups... except jews, jews are really evil according to these medeavil idiots - read socialist NGOs spreading jewhating bloodlibels
7. palis gay
Marcelo ,   Berlin / TLV   (02.20.14)
pali gays should have openly told the truth to the BDS and all that BS condemning Israel but they prefer to shut up. I propose the palis, follow your leader Arafat, and enjoy your sexual orientation in Ramallah...
8. That´s a blatant lie!!
Dilbert ,   in the office   (02.20.14)
Rights groups continuously also challenge Arab and Muslim countries for their oppression of women and gays. What are you talking about? Trying to play the whiny "the whole world is against us and the Arabs can do what they want" card again? Get your facts straight!
9. #2.... another person who doesn't get it.
Ilan ,   Ramat Gan   (02.20.14)
Muslim society discriminates against those who are not Muslim proper! they beat, and kill. The Israeli society does not discriminate against any member of its own society. and yet, the world ignores that, and instead judges one society on how they treat another society that has sworn to its destruction. (physically or economically) no one is asking you whether you approve or not of the lgbt lifestyle, just like no one asked me. Each person that is legally entitled to be in Israel has the freedom to choose for themselves, unlike in Muslim countries. That's the point in all this!
10. Yada yada
Daniel   (02.20.14)
As usual when Horing is writing, you know the facts will be all wrong. It's a sad truth that all religious people are intolerant of gay rights, that certainly include Arabs. Nothing new. It includes religious Jews as well. Then, the constant chip Horing has on her should regarding Europe is just sad. Nothing new there either.
11. Shameful
Joe   (02.20.14)
that secular Jews tolerate immorality and filth and the only thing they don't tolerate are haredi and religious Jews.
12. Very Nice Article
Moshico ,   Jerusalem   (02.20.14)
But the world will still boycott Israel and cry for the Palestinians. If only the world would realise that these people are inhumane. Israel is a home for any type of Jew who wants to live here.
13. The Jewish Tanakh
unnamed ,   Sion   (02.20.14)
Real Jews know what's Jewish, which would be righteous, true, humane, honorable and respectable, like real Christians and Muslims. The intolerance is of the majority of normal peoples feelings to what's viewed as inhuman, vile, and destructible.
14. #8 no you are the one lying
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (02.20.14)
No rights group ever challenge Arab and Muslim countries for any reason. They all practice blatant apartheid and the world is silent. There are no reports from any so-called rights groups that tell anything remotely the truth. We have the best human rights records of ANY country in the world and yes the world is against us. When the critics' countries match us they might have something to say until then SFTU
15. #8... that's fresh! coming from someone with an Alias
Ilan ,   Ramat Gan   (02.20.14)
and a fake location. This article was about YOU! thousands of Km. away pretending like you actually know whats going on in our own backyard because you read it somewhere.
16. Free Mandela !
(02.20.14)
17. # 8 What you need to understand
Daniel   (02.20.14)
Dilbert, I understand that you'd like Horing to get her facts straight. However, then she could never write any of her columns. Every time she writes, the whole writing depends on her making up "facts" that have nothing to do with reality.
18. What a lie!!!
Non Jewish Immigrant ,   Italy/Israel   (02.20.14)
I read a lot of newspapers from Europe and the US and they always shout about the gay communities in the Arab world! Lately, there were a lot of talks about the Sochi games (which I boycott as well as Russian products) for trying to shut us up. I read a lot of talks from the US and EU about Uganda too. Stop being so puritain and such liers!
19. If you wanna talk statistics read facts first!
Daveethr ,   Tel Aviv   (02.20.14)
All these states mainly don't allow any sexual relations without marriage. So lower stats on HIV is mainly coming from that and not because of gay sex. People from LGBT community in these countries live horrible lives. They are denied their own identity and nature. They are harassed by society. So please before you write this nonsense think again.
20. Hypocrisy abound
Matt Sasson ,   NYC   (02.20.14)
Well written. Calling out the gross imbalance of criticism towards Israel while the majority of critics remain silent about Arab intolerance is not whining.
21. To. no. 8 nonsense
Phillip ,   Ogden, UT USA   (02.20.14)
Although the horrible human rights situation in Arab and Muslim countries are mentioned by human rights groups, it receives almost no publicity in the liberal media or by Israel bashing leftists in general. To these people the beheadings and stoning in these barbaric societies are given a free pass in the name of cultural relativism. . It is Israel that is constantly scrutinized and paid attention to. It is almost not an exaggeration to say that on a hypothetical day that 10 women are stoned to death in a Muslim country the emphasis would be on a Palestinian child receiving a hangnail caused by an Israeli
22. #8; where is NY Times? LA TImes?
Zipi ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (02.20.14)
Why the human rights groups still doing business with Arab and Muslim states ? Where is the BDS against those countries? . Where are the boycotts against those who kill gays? where are the humane rights council and committee report on the issue?. where is the stories in the NY times about what is going in the west Bank and Gaza. why the NY times only talk about Israel? Where is the coverage in the LA Times or Washington {Post or Boston Globe? Or Haaretz?
23. #2; It is about the hypocricy of the world
Ari ,   NEw Orleansd. LA   (02.20.14)
The article does talk about approving or disapproving the rights of Gays . She talked how the world is hypocritical and anti Semite because they scapegoat only the Jewish state for human rights violations while in Arab and Muslim countries they commit the real violations and no one say a word. Not the media or the academia? what about the LGBT who are members of those organizations . They are silent but vocal and condemning Israel. . IT IS ALL A LIE and really about BASHING THE JEWS AGAIN>
24. At least muslim/arabs have athe right idea
Jason ,   tel Aviv   (02.20.14)
At least the arabs don't tolerate gays and lesbos right on bro.
25. the alliance between leftists and Islam
(02.21.14)
is based on their shared loathing of the traditional white Christian American nation and capitalism. Leftists ( i.e. US liberals) only promote the rights of the gay ''community'' and other ''communities'' because it helps to break up and destroy the traditional American nation. Islam also will help to destroy the traditional American nation so the fact that Muslims are anti-gay is neither here nor there.
26. daveeth
Walt K ,   Sherbrooke, Canada   (02.21.14)
We human have a brain for thinking... Safe sex is the best way to avoid to have AIDS. It s about time to have an adult conversation in our societies... Isn't it ?
27. no surprise here
radical fairies ,   Toronto   (02.20.14)
what do you expect coming from a world that is upside down. ?
28. Gays in Arab World
Harold ,   USA   (02.21.14)
Arab countries describe gays as abnormal and therefore have no human rights and even cannot witness in courts.
29. Pro palestinian lgbt activists
Raphael ,   Netanya   (02.21.14)
Turn a blind eye to the facts. Of course, only grass root arab homosexuals are persecuted, as foreign posh gays, mainly diplomats, reporters, writers, artists and other opinion leaders are pampered.
30. me thinks that Palestinians wish all Israelis are gay
Cynic #2   (02.21.14)
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