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To: joseph krinsky who wrote (240598)	3/21/2002 12:03:20 PM
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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY: Kill the perverts! Translated From The Arabic By Shira Gutgold (March 20) Amid the public stir caused by periodic waves of arrests of gay men in Egypt, journalists and clerics make their stand in the Egyptian press, February 7-18: * Mohammed Abd Al-Mun'im Murad, in the government daily Al-Akhbar: I do not know why this perversion [homosexuality] has spread so conspicuously, either here in Egypt or globally. Regrettably, this distressing phenomenon is accompanied by campaigns defending the perverts' right to do as they wish with their bodies. A man must remain a man, and a woman must remain a woman. Each gender is entitled by Islamic religious law to protect the sex Allah made him or her. Crimes of sexual perversion are the worst a man can commit in the eyes of conservative Egyptians... Moreover, the quality of manliness is connected in peoples' consciousness with honor, morality and loyalty. The causes of the spread of this perversion in our country must be investigated. * Wagih Abu-Zikra in Al-Akhbar: I followed with nausea and repulsion the news of the perverts' arrest in the Al-Bouhayra district, and how the pathological report determined their guilt. To what moral debasement has this group sunk? What kind of people are they, with no religion, moral values or honor? And yet there are people in the West who defend them - even hold a march in Paris in their honor, claiming human rights. What human? What rights?! I don't care what they say in the West. Where are human rights in all things regarding what is going on in Palestine?! Why aren't there demonstrations for the rights of the Palestinian child?! Where are human rights in the Guantanamo detention camps?! * Sheikh Muhammed Abd-Al-Magid Zaydan, of the Egyptian Ministry for Religious Endowment, in the opposition Liberal Party's weekly Al-Haqiqa: Western criticism notwithstanding, imprisonment is not a severe enough punishment to deter these perverts. Islamic law states they should be thrown from a high place. The clerics agreed that anyone who commits this abomination must be thrown off a mountaintop. Others maintain that the wall of a house should be knocked down on him. * Dr. Sayyid Subhi, lecturer in psychiatry at Al-Azhar University, in the opposition weekly Al-Usb'u: It is natural for a male to desire a female. Allah cursed the men who make themselves into women, and the women who make themselves into men, because the honor of man, whom Allah created, is violated when a pervert attempts to carry out the idiocy of his perversion... These perverts are characterized by aggressiveness and destructiveness. We must pay attention to this risk. There are missionizing attempts by the media and the Internet aimed at promoting these perverted acts. Efforts must be increased to caution our children against this accursed disease, and to raise them on religious and moral values. * Dr. Ali Al-Sibki, lecturer on Islamic culture at Cairo University, in Al-Usb'u: There is a dispute regarding how they should be killed: One opinion is that the penalty for fornication should be applied to homosexuals, as [the act involves] penetration of a bodily orifice prohibited by religious law. Another opinion is that the perpetrator of the deed, and the one to whom it is done, should be killed; a third opinion is that the homosexual should be burned. A fourth opinion is that he should be thrown from the highest wall, because of the loathsome nature of the deed. jpost.com