{"id":8410,"date":"2017-09-24T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2017-09-24T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T03:31:51","slug":"europes-gays-are-moving-to-the-right-alarmed-by-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/europes-gays-are-moving-to-the-right-alarmed-by-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Gays Are Moving to the Right, Alarmed by Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathmandu (Pahichan) September 24 &#8211; For decades, in both America and Europe, the gay establishment \u2013 gay magazines, gay rights organizations, and self-designated gay leaders \u2013 have been dictating politics to the gay multitudes. Those politics have been consistently left-wing and Democratic. Not all gays have played follow-the-leader, but most have, so that in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections Hillary Clinton won a far larger percentage of the gay vote than Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:\u00a0\u00a0Bruce Bawer<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"pages\">\n<div id=\"pagebuilder-page-0\" class=\"pagebuilder-page\">\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Even though Hillary had opposed same-sex marriage until 2013, had taken millions of dollars from governments that execute homosexuals, and was married to the man who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, the gay mafia had managed to depict her as gay-friendly while depicting Donald Trump, a longtime gay marriage supporter, as an enemy of gay rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Even more perverse than the official gay take on Trump vs. Clinton is the official gay party line on Islam. To get a good picture of this party line, all you need to do is glance through the archives of\u00a0<em>The Advocate,\u00a0<\/em>a gay news magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u201cIslam is not intrinsically homophobic,\u201d wrote Trudy Ring in a 2013\u00a0<em>Advocate\u00a0<\/em>report about Muslim \u201cactivists and scholars\u201d who, she claimed, were making progress in their effort to make Islam \u201cmore welcoming to LGBT people.\u201d In a 2014\u00a0piece, Stevie St. John promoted a Muslim lesbian\u2019s claim that the Koran \u201cprescribes no punishment for being gay or transgender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">True, but wildly deceptive: in fact, the Koran contains explicit condemnations of homosexual conduct, while the punishments for such conduct are\u00a0spelled out in Islamic law. Then there\u2019s the 2017\u00a0<em>Advocate\u00a0<\/em>article\u00a0in which one Samra Habib happily noted that after the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre, many news media eschewed anti-Islamic \u201cfinger-pointing\u201d and instead \u201coffered many queer Muslims a platform to share how they too were in mourning and how they often felt doubly ostracized\u201d \u2013 victimized, in other words, by both \u201cIslamophobia and homophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Any whitewash of Islam is reprehensible. But when gays whitewash Islam in a publication read by other gays, it\u2019s downright dangerous. No ideology on Earth is more anti-gay. In ten Muslim countries, gay sex is punishable by death. To pretend that there\u2019s any way of reconciling homosexuality and Islam, or any chance of transforming Islam into a gay-friendly faith, is to encourage a menacing fantasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">So it\u2019s promising to observe that as Islam plants its roots ever more deeply in the soil of Western Europe, more and more European gays are wising up, breaking ranks with the fools and liars in their midst who preach that the \u201cgay community\u201d and the\u00a0<em>ummah\u00a0<\/em>are natural allies, and casting their ballots for politicians whom they\u2019d previously scorned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\n<p>In April, for example, Thomas Adamson of the Associated Press\u00a0reported\u00a0that although gay rights groups in France had not wavered in their fierce opposition to Marine Le Pen\u2019s Front National (FN), the party now enjoyed a higher level of support among gay voters than among straights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"pagebuilder-page-1\" class=\"pagebuilder-page\">\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Adamson quoted gay artist and Paris resident Kelvin Hopper: \u201cFaced with the current threats, particularly from radical Islam, gays have realized they\u2019ll be the first victims of these barbarians, and only Marine is proposing radical solutions.\u201d The historically anti-gay FN, noted Adamson, now had \u201cmore top aides who are publicly known to be gay than any other French political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid787075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTyKWtm4_4c\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">On September 14, CNN\u2019s website ran a\u00a0story\u00a0about gays in Germany who are supporting the Alternativ f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD). A middle-aged Bremen couple interviewed for the piece had been violently gay-bashed by \u201ctwo locally known Muslim extremists\u201d who \u201cwere never arrested and later fled to Syria.\u201d After failing to receive justice from local prosecutors and the mayor\u2019s office, the couple had cast their lot in with AfD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t like everything they say,\u201d admitted one of the two gay men, a longtime leftist and former Green Party voter, \u201cbut this is too dangerous for gay people to live openly here, if we get attacked like that. We need a party that\u2019s talking openly about this.\u201d Like FN, AfD opposes same-sex marriage \u2013 but also has gay people in its leadership, and is supported by a higher percentage of gays than of straights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">That many gays are embracing parties like FN and AfD is a source of bafflement and outrage for politicians, journalists, academics, and gay activists who are used to the idea of gays as docile field hands on the leftist plantation. Their response to this new development is to smear the right-wing parties as cynical exploiters of the gay electorate, and to find some condescending way of interpreting gay support for these parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">For example, German social psychologist Beate Kupper told CNN that gays are joining AfD because it makes them feel better, as members of an \u201cout\u201d group, to demonize members of another \u201cout\u201d group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">In March, J. Lester Feder of BuzzFeed\u00a0interviewed\u00a0a \u201cgroup of queer and immigrant activists\u201d in Amsterdam who angrily dismissed politician Geert Wilders\u2019s expressions of concern about Muslim gay-hatred as \u201cracism dressed up in liberal drag.\u201d Wilders, Feder warned, wasn\u2019t alone: Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte was also now saying that immigrants who \u201charass gays\u201d should leave the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Gay former MP Tofik Dibi, whose parents came from Morocco, admitted to Feder that \u201canti-LGBT attitudes are a real problem in some immigrant communities\u201d (euphemism, anyone?), but insisted that politicians who raise this issue don\u2019t care about gays: they\u2019re using it \u201cas a weapon\u201d against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Note that rhetorical sleight of hand. In reality, gays aren\u2019t bashing Muslims in Europe; Muslims are bashing gays. But Dibi turns that reality on its head, transforming perpetrators into victims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\n<p>Then there are the out-and-out lies served up by the likes of Tanja Ineke \u2013 head of the Netherlands\u2019 leading gay-rights organization, no less \u2013 who told Feder that \u201cimmigrants don\u2019t pose a special threat to LGBT people.\u201d Tell that to the countless Dutch gays who, fearful of being beaten by Muslim gangs in a city that was once the safest place on Earth for them, have fled Amsterdam for provincial towns or moved abroad. Because of the city\u2019s demographic revolution, Amsterdam\u2019s gay scene is a shadow of what it was twenty or even ten years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"pagebuilder-page-2\" class=\"pagebuilder-page\">\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">To his credit, Feder at least included in his article a memorable quotation from the late, great Pim Fortuyn, the gay sociologist-turned-politician whose stern warnings of the dangers of Islamization led to his assassination fifteen years ago. \u201cI have no desire,\u201d said Fortuyn, \u201cto have to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Alas, unless Wilders and other politicians who dare to criticize Islam gain power very soon, the closing down in Western Europe not just of gay rights but of all kinds of rights will proceed apace, and emancipation of any kind will increasingly look like a pipe dream.<\/p>\n<p>Copy :\u00a0http:\/\/www.savemysweden.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) September 24 &#8211; For decades, in both America and Europe, the gay establishment \u2013 gay magazines, gay rights organizations, and self-designated gay leaders \u2013 have been dictating politics to the gay multitudes. Those politics have been consistently left-wing and Democratic. Not all gays have played follow-the-leader, but most have, so that in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections Hillary Clinton won a far larger percentage of the gay vote than Donald Trump.<br \/>\nVia:\u00a0\u00a0Bruce Bawer<\/p>\n<p>Even though Hillary had opposed same-sex marriage until 2013, had taken millions of dollars from governments that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,490,11],"tags":[677,1047,538,446,971,588],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-gay","tag-homosexuality","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}