First he had a cure for AIDS: Now Gambia’s president has also found a cure for homosexuality
Ah well, news stories like this shouldn’t really surprise anyone any more, these days. Anyway, you remember how last year the president of Gambia proudly announced he had discovered a cure for AIDS? Well, now it seems he has found a cure for homosexuality:
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he will “cut off the head” of any homosexual caught in his country. He said that Gambia was a country of believers, indicating that no sinful and immoral act as homosexuality would be tolerated in the country. He warned all homosexuals in the country to leave, noting that a legislation “stricter than those in Iran ” concerning the vice would be introduced soon.
Nice guy.
Gambia is officially a secular country, be it with a population which is for 90% (Sunni) Muslim and for the rest mostly Christian. In most secular but Christian countries it is not very often that you will hear a president announce that he will cut off the head of all the homosexuals he can lay his hands on. Which just goes to show that, to paraphrase Orwell, all secular countries are equal but some more so than others - or something.
Having said that, I’m sure that there are plenty Christian fundamentalists, in the States and elsewhere, who (secretly) envy all these Muslim regimes who can do what they want in the name of their Gods, without some bloody Constitution insisting that the rights of the infidel should be protected.
I’ve always believed that the only thing that prevented the Falwells of this world from behaving like Iran’s ayatollahs was the fact that they were bound by the US constitution. ‘Cause I suspect they would love to be able to call fatwas on their adversaries, hang homosexuals and force women to wear burqas.
Oh, how these Christian fundamentalists must curse the Founding Fathers in the secret torture chambers of their hearts…
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