• Electric@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ok but this gay British dude (who needs HIV meds on top!) willingly moved to a country where he is automatically made a criminal for his sexuality. How lucrative must this job have been to take such a huge risk?

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      5 months ago

      There’s a lot of gay men who don’t even consider that these laws will apply to them. It doesn’t help that a lot of people will say “oh those laws only apply to locals, they won’t enforce them on international people”.

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        5 months ago

        That somehow feels worse to me. Can of yikes if they really think that way.

    • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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      5 months ago

      I think a lot of lgbtq dont realize just progressive first world countries are, and how dangerous third world countries are.

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        5 months ago

        He’d be fine in a lot of third world countries. He really just had to go to one of the worst in terms of LGBTQ acceptance.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      A lot of newspapers do that in headlines. They don’t necessarily mean scare quotes.

      Not defending it or implying he’s lying. Just that many newspapers — especially in England — do that a lot and it doesn’t necessarily carry connotations. It often means they have a direct quote. He probably was tortured and they more using it for emphasis rather than doubt.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Because Christopher Hitchens supported the Iraq war 11 years ago and human beings are incapable of holding more than one idea in their head at a time

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    5 months ago

    I’m sorry, but what do people who move to the Middle East expect? I wasn’t allowed to wear my Saint Christopher Medal in Kuwait, a country where being Christian is legal. Do people really think they won’t enforce these laws?

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    5 months ago

    And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, “Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds?(80)Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.”(81)

    https://legacy.quran.com/7/80-82