26 gays get 5-year jail terms for capital party

[BOHICA06]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2006/February/theuae_February320.xml§ion=theuae

ABU DHABI — The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance has sentenced 26 gays to five years’ imprisonment.


They were arrested in a hotel in the capital recently dressed in women's clothes and make-up in preparation for a gay wedding.


Freedom for some .... but not for all

[Deja Q]

1. That's their country; their rules. We're not into nation-building...

especially when we can't even take care of our own nation.

:shrug:

[Dirty Hippie]

2. I don't think the original poster was suggesting

that we should bomb them or anything but maybe a little outrage is in order.

I mean, prison because you are gay?

Don't you find that outrageous?

On Edit: Typo

[PDJane]

3. Depends on your point of view.

I've met some down there who think that would be a fitting punishment.......and I've met a man from Bavaria who think that gays should be killed.

I think there's a lot of work to do to override the religious brainwashing.

[demosincebirth]

4. When in Rome...

[triakis36]

5. Wrong is wrong

There are such things as cultural differences, but this clearly falls in the line of human rights violations. Just because its a different country doesn't mean we don't have the jurisdiction to speak out against it.

[PDJane]

6. That's not what I was getting at.

We should speak out about the human rights abuse, but right now there are too many in the United States who don't see it as a human rights abuse for credibility.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. exactly

i am tired of hearing about cultural differences ... they only tend to pop up when speaking about women and gays...

bigotry is a universal problem