US Ally, Saudi Arabia Will Start Exterminating People for Being Gay, Blames Gayness on Facebook

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabian prosecutors would like to impose the death penalty for homosexuality — because, apparently, Facebook and other social media are turning people gay.

According to Okaz, a daily newspaper located in Jeddah, dozens of men have been prosecuted for cross-dressing, sodomy, and various other “crimes.” One doctor was arrested for the act of raising an LGBT pride flag over his house, though he claimed he was unaware of its meaning and his children thought the flag was “pretty.”

Such behavior, even acts between consenting adults of the same sex, is considered by Saudi Arabia to be legally similar to pedophilia or rape.

In a phone interview, a gay Saudi man told the Washington Blade that the extreme sentences being proposed by prosecutors in Jeddah would apply to cases anywhere in Saudi Arabia. He also said the proposal has sparked fear in the country’s LGBT community for obvious reasons.

“We continue to gather more information,” Chanan Weissman, spokesperson for the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, told the Blade. He also added the U.S. is “aware of these reports, but cannot verify their accuracy.”

Saudi authorities are convinced the rise in homosexual behaviors has corresponded to the spike in internet usage, and particularly, social media like Twitter and Facebook. Those who come out online risk being targeted by agents of the notorious Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — sometimes referred to as Saudi Arabia’s “religious police.”

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-pushes-start-executing-people-bein-gay-blames-gayness-facebook/

US Ally, Saudi Arabia Will Start Exterminating People for Being Gay, Blames Gayness on Facebook

US Ally, Saudi Arabia Will Start Exterminating People for Being Gay, Blames Gayness on Facebook

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