Category Archives: Homophobia

Save the Life of LGBT Activist Kiana Firouz

Press Release **** Iranian lesbian activist Kiana Firouz is currently seeking asylum in the United Kingdom after a controversy over the upcoming release of Cul de Sac. The film, which stars Firouz and includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, is based heavily on Firouz’s life and struggles as a lesbian in Iran. Directors Ramin Goudarzi-Nejad and Mahshad Torkan posted [...]
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Sad, Paranoid and Delusional

This is a re-post by of an article by Raziq first posted in August 2009 **** Fear mongering seems to have become a past time for some Muslims: the fear that the whole world is against Muslims and there are numerous forces out there wanting to undermine and destroy Islam. One of the chief instigators [...]
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“Values of Moderation and Tolerance”

This is a cross-post of an article by habibi from Harry’s Place **** You have seen Abdul Karim “Spot The Fag” Hattin in action in this post. Alas he is not unusual. Let’s take a look at what some of the other preachers who have been welcomed in recent years at the East London Mosque [...]
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The video someone doesn’t want you to see

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Sorry to interrupt, but…

This is a cross-post by Brett from Harry’s Place **** For good reason of course, there has been a lot of focus on the Islamist radicalisation and entryism around the East London Mosque (as exposed in Monday’s Dispatches on Channel4), so it is unsurprising that no one has yet made a fuss of the fact that obnoxious [...]
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Muslim extremist hosted by Kings College London

This is a press release from Outrage **** Jews, gays and kaffirs are “filth” says fanatical cleric Universities fail to block “gateways” to fundamentalism and terrorism London – 24 February 2010 In defiance of its own equal opportunities policy, King’s College London (KCL) is hosting the Muslim fundamentalist fanatic, Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick, this Thursday, 25 February, at [...]
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Make the Pope Pay

The Pope’s abysmal comments urging Catholic bishops in the UK to fight the Equality Bill with “missionary zeal” have been met with a wave of revulsion and rightly so. For the Pope, homosexuality “violates natural law”, which is why it is only natural British citizens should not have to foot the bill (£20 million) for his proposed [...]
Also posted in Human Rights, Secularism | 5 Comments

Peter Tatchell stands down as Green candidate

The human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has announced he will stand down as a parliamentary candidate for the Green party in Oxford East. He explains: I was selected as the Green Party candidate for Oxford East in April 2007. A month later, I was badly beaten around the head by neo-Nazis during an attempted Gay Pride [...]
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Save Nemat Safavi

From IRQR: Nemat Safavi, 21 years old, has been sentenced to death by the juvenile court in Ardebil, a city northwest Iran. Queers in Iran are put to death and persecution by their government, simply for being who they are.  Now more than ever we need your help. According to the Human Rights Activist Group in Iran, Nemat [...]
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Inayat Bunglawala: Gay Rights Are An “Islamic Goal”

Here at the Spittoon we have tended to give Inayat Bunglawala a bit of a hard time. But we also give credit where credit is due. In that spirit, he certainly deserves credit that, on the back of a panel discussion about religious freedom and sexuality in Dublin (in which he participated with Peter Tatchell), [...]
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