The country will imprison or publicly flog 60 other suspected homosexuals.
It’s the Houthis in Yemen, not “Yemen”.
Grazia Careccia, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, called the planned executions “gruesome public spectacles” designed to spread fear among LGBTQ+ people and the Yemeni population at large.
Yet when Biden bombs the Houthis, it’s “violation of international law” because the Houthis are the “de facto government of Yemen”. Or at least that was the consensus on Lemmy a couple months back.
Like, I don’t really care. Fuck the Houthis and fuck Israel. But it’s interesting how the Lemmy hivemind picks and chooses who is “the legitimate Yemeni government” based on their personal values.
What. Er, I have no idea what the Lemmy “hivemind” thinks on this (and was more or less taking a summer break from Kbin when the US started bombing the Middle East again).
IMO there’s more than one consensus in news Lemmy depending if you’re on .ml or .world and what time of day it is.I was just pointing out that 1) it’s the Houthis, and 2) they seem to be trying to tighten their grip on the population.
These seem like relevant points given the civil war.
For the record I think the situation in Yemen is a travesty and, being super old, I have spent the past 20 years angrily watching as the US drone-bombed Yemeni civilians and ignored warnings that this radicalises people. Biden bombing now is the US military industrial economy business as usual.
I like anyone who is trying to stop a genocide.
@sub_ubi “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?
I like the act of trying to stop a genocide. That doesn’t make me like other actions by whoever is performing the act.
This might be the most disturbing news I’ve read this week. Crucifixion is brutal. People are monsters.
Imagine stoning people to death for victimless “crimes” and thinking you’re the good guys.
The effects of religion. Moral is tied to obsolete ideals and logic is nowhere to be found.
imagine a world more complicated than a good guys/bad guys dichotomy
There are very few good guys, but about people crucifying people it’s usually safe to say that they are bad.
There are very few good guys, but about people crucifying people it’s usually safe to say that they are bad.
Well there you have it… there’s no way it will be possible to bomb them (the Houthi’s) back to the stone Age.
I forget, aren’t we supposed to be cheering for the Houthis? I thought that was the new cool thing to be doing.
Support them fighting for Palestinian cause: Yes
Support them persecuring LGBT: No
A particularly group being right on one issue and wrong on another seems too hard for certain people to grasp.
Excuse me but “Supporting Palestinian cause”!? They are attacking random trade ships in order to grow political clout and nothing more. Thats like saying because Russia is attacking Ukraine Italy gets to go attack random trade vessels in the Mediterranean. You guys are unable to think beyond headlines.
I guess I’ve never been able to figure out which group of Iranian-backed terrorists are the good guys.
When you support the Houthis you support the stoning of homosexuals.
No.
And if you say it again it’ll still be wrong.
When you support the Houthis you support the stoning of homosexuals.
Oh wow, this really woke me up! I actually don’t support the stoning of homosexuals, I’m not a fucking barbarian.
What I support is the bombing of homosexuals so that’s why I support Joe Biden. For bombing Yemeni homosexuals to death, along with Yemeni women and children and Yemeni everyone else. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to the truth.
Source?
How does a small group doing a thing constitute it being the “new cool thing to be doing?”
Also, presumably they’re more concerned about a growing conflagration in the Middle East rather than Houthis in particular dying…
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Critical support. They are useful allies even if they do some fucked up things
*Houthis in Yemen
This is like saying “The communist party in china” or “the rebels in the British colonies”. Like, at this point it’s a fairly decided who is in charge of Yemen, and it’s just a matter of waiting for the rest of the world to recognize the facts on the ground.
And the opposing factions, supported by ksa, uae, usa would behave differently? I’m sure cutting off nearly all humanitarian aid under the last administration convinced them we’re more evolved.
I’m just pointing out that whoever posted this decided intentionally to leave the Houthi part out of the headline.
New phone who dis?
Oh suddenly we hear about this what a coincidence. I’m incredibly queer and I do not think genocide is ever justified nor is retaliation to economically hindering genocide.
Did you know if you genocide a population, the queer people in that population die horrifically too?
Essentially, fuck all you commenters, don’t fucking use our identity to justify your evil when the reality is that you feel bad for going on gay bashing runs in the 90s. You weren’t a good person then and you aren’t a good person now that you diverted your hatred.
Every queer i know online and offline stands with Palestine. No more fucking death. No more videos of kids being executed to end up on my feed.
Hey, as one of those people who used slurs in the past, I’m sorry. I wasn’t a good person, I followed the crowd. I’m trying hard to be a better person. You don’t have to accept me or my apology. I just want to put it out there. Sorry you and your community was hurt by people like me.
It sounds to me like you’re a good person. The people they’re talking about are the ones who may have stopped hating, say, gay people – but who have redirected their bigotry toward other marginalized groups like trans people or Palestinians.
In my opinion, there’s effectively no such thing as a good or bad person – it’s the words and actions that count. No matter what you’ve done in the past, that’s over now.
This is big of you. Props on growing as a person and admitting fault. We should always welcome new allies in the fight for equality.
This! One of the most disgusting trends I’ve seen are people misappropriating queer symbology to try to queerwash their genocide of Palestinians. They don’t care about us anymore than they care about the children they’re murdering.
You really think the Houthis care about Palestine??? Because they told you that’s why they are attacking random trade vessels in the red sea?
It looks like our identity is only useful to them for warmongering. God forbid we get healthcare, workplace protections, anything. Instead all we see are our names used to inspire wars we want no part in against countries where our governments literally fund their reactionary parties.
It’s a self-fulfilling cycle, they use us as the symbols and the reason for their destruction and then the orphans left behind mistake their enemy as queer people around the planet and then the West uses us as their casus belli again until they’ve killed every last one. They will never give them a chance to progress socially because the goal is total genocide.
Fuck every warhawk in this comment section using us as their excuse for POINTLESS FUCKING WARS.
seconding as a trans person. everyone i know supports palestine to the hilt. you cannot change the situation on the ground for lgbt people in yemen or palestine with war and bombs.
The Houthis have NOTHING TO DO WITH PALESTINE. What are you guys on? They are randomly disrupting trade routes in the red sea for political clout and nothing more. Just because they claim it’s to help their Palestinian allies does not give them any agency. That would be like Spain randomly attacking fleets in the Mediterranean to support Ukraine.
Barbarians.
If you want to know why I’m an atheist.
What kind of entity has 3 different sects of people who all believe this is what it wants?
Religion is a cancer.
You can treat cancer, religion is a parasite that needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.
They shouldn’t give the GOP any more ideas
The GOP surely inspired some part of this.
The Wahabbi interpretation of Sharia law in Saudi Arabia maintains that acts of homosexuality should be disciplined in the same way as adultery - with death by stoning. Homosexuality or nonconformant gender expression can also be punished by corporal punishment, flogging, imprisonment or forced ‘conversion’ therapy.
This isn’t unusual in the Middle East. There’s a number of reasons for this (mostly based on colonialism and imperialism by more powerful players), but this is unfortunately the status quo.
Are you saying there was no stoning of gay people before the Brits arrived? What the hell does “colonialism” have to do with Sharia law that was implement over 600 years ago? I swear “colonialism” is the new popular word of the day on my bingo card.
Are there any reputable journalistic sources that are reporting on it as well?
All the sources that I can find are Jerusalem Post, Amnesty International, QNews, and the like.
It’s weird that AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc. are all silent when this is pretty big news if true.
If your take-away is “this is why it was justified to genocide them” instead of “this is what happens when you genocide them” you’re a monster.
Your comment makes no sense, how is them stoning gays justifying (or being caused by) a genocide? The Ukrainians arent turning around and stoning their gay population because Russia is invading, its a really nonsensical thing to say.
Have people already forgot the “war” in Yemen?
There’s no casual link here. They’re just assholes, all of them.
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This is very unfortunate.
But surely this is because Arabs are inherently savage and backwards, and has nothing to do with all the wars and bombs that created the worse humanitarian crisis of the century. (sarcasm)
the worse humanitarian crisis of the century
Comparing tragedies doesn’t really make sense but you should look up the Tigray Way before making that claim
Here’s a source for the claim if you’re interested. Google will reveal mods.
That’s some serious triple summersault mental gymnastics to defend the Houthis. Might as well go back and start with the cooling of the earth 4 billion years ago if you really want to know the culprit.
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Great now let’s marginalize another community, next will be blind or deaf? And tie it to another nations Americans aren’t supposed to support.
Wow, sounds like a Christian utopia.
greg abbott and ron desantis taking notes
