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posted by on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the religion-of-piece dept.

Milo Yiannopoulos brings us this disturbing tidbit:

A gay man from Chechnya, Russia has spoken out, providing some troubling details related to the the majority-Muslim province's effort to eliminate the LGBTQ community entirely.

According to Metro.co.uk's Charles White, many gay men living in Chechnya fear the government will "eliminate" them by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The government is reportedly hoarding[sic] the gay men into "concentration camps" where some may have been killed.

According to Breitbart, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) spoke with several gay victims of oppression who have managed to escape Chechnya. What they've revealed is that not only are gay men in the region afraid of persecution from authority.

They're also scared of "honor killings" by family members looking to punish them for shaming their family name. This fear follows the individuals even after they've left Chechnya, where the bulk of the atrocities appears to be occurring.

"If any of my relatives realize I'm gay, they won't hesitate a minute before killing me," said one 28-year-old victim according to the outlet. "And if they don't do it, they will get killed themselves for failing to uphold the family honor."

[Ed. note: See also this fascinating background article on the apparent cause of this recent pogrom in Chechnya. Hat tip to n1 for providing this link.]

I know it's not our usual fare but some things just need brought out in the open; see what Iran is up to.


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:14AM (11 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:14AM (#499935) Homepage Journal

    Sweety, there is nothing even approaching conservative about me. It just looks that way to you because you're blinded by your side's insistence on a two party narrative.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:21AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:21AM (#499938)

    What does a semantic argument about the definition of "conservative" have to do with the fact that you and your fellow travelers DGAF about gay rights?
    Absolutely Nothing.

    Why is that your response to an accusation of politicizing people's deaths for your own political goals?
    Deflection.

    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:33AM (8 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:33AM (#499942) Homepage Journal

      I didn't politicize this. You did. I just shared a story on a terrible thing that was happening.

      And you don't have a clue what you're talking about when you say I don't give a fuck about gay rights. Gays are human and I'm a strong proponent of human rights. You misunderstand this because you think Protected Classes should have special rights above and beyond mine and I do not.

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      • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:55AM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:55AM (#499951)

        > I didn't politicize this. You did. I just shared a story on a terrible thing that was happening.

        Your mendacity isn't fooling anyone.

        >And you don't have a clue what you're talking about when you say I don't give a fuck about gay rights.

        Yet you never mention gay rights in any context other than muslims.

        No stories from you about Jamaica's horrendous treatment of gays. Where one of the two dominant political party's official theme song was a catchy-as-hell song about burning gay men alive. [splcenter.org] Where gay people are regularly murdered without investigation. [antillean.org]

        No stories from you about Russia's anti-gay laws or the recent trend of declaring russian cities "gay-free" [lgbtqnation.com] and then forbidding the entry of gay people.

        No stories from you about the aforementioned american promoted hate-mongering laws in Uganda.

        Your silence speaks louder than your words.

        But you did see fit to insert an unrelated story about iran into this one about chechnya.
        What do these two countries have in common?

        • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:21PM (5 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:21PM (#499963) Homepage Journal

          Yet you never mention gay rights in any context other than muslims.

          Yes, in fact I do. I just don't cheerlead for them because I, unlike you, treat them as equal to anyone else; i.e. I don't give two shits about them unless there's something noteworthy going on.

          Blah blah, you're horrible. *lots of links*

          I don't go looking for injustice around the world, so I hadn't heard of any of these stories. I'm absolutely sure it's out there but dealing with the stuff on my doorstep is generally sufficient for the day. See above about not being a cheerleader.

          But you did see fit to insert an unrelated story about iran into this one about chechnya.
          What do these two countries have in common?

          One of your Protected Classes attempting genocide on another and your entire movement saying fuck-all about it. It deserved covered and you couldn't get past the cognitive dissonance that Muslims killing Gays was causing you long enough to publish a story about an atrocity.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:29PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:29PM (#499966)

            Yes, in fact I do.

            Sure you do...
            We've all seen you do it!
            Right?
            Right...?

            Protected Classes

            JFC would you quit with the whinging already?
            All you are doing is proving that it really is all about politics for you.

            • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:46PM (1 child)

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:46PM (#499973) Homepage Journal

              Sure you do...

              You just said that attached to a story I submitted about their right to life. How stupid can you possibly be?

              JFC would you quit with the whinging already?
              All you are doing is proving that it really is all about politics for you.

              Again, you are the one who politicized this. To me it was nothing but a story about something atrocious that should not be happening.

              You've lost this argument. Time to Move On.

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              My rights don't end where your fear begins.
              • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:03PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:03PM (#499986)

                You just said that attached to a story I submitted about their right to life. How stupid can you possibly be?

                Not stupid enough to think that example of you using gay rights muslim bash as proof that you care about gay rights in any other context.

                In fact, I am confident that you have literally never submitted a story about human rights of any kind that wasn't actually a twisted defense of bashing minorities.

                To me it was nothing but a story about something atrocious that should not be happening.

                Just because you keep denying the obvious doesn't make it any less obvious.
                We aren't that stupid either.

                You've lost this argument. Time to Move On.

                You lost the argument the minute you submitted the story.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:42PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:42PM (#500100)

              JFC would you quit with the whinging already?

              Can you feel my cock sliding into your rancidhole?

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:14PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:14PM (#500034)

            Yes, in fact I do. I just don't cheerlead for them because I, unlike you, treat them as equal to anyone else; i.e. I don't give two shits about them unless there's something noteworthy going on.

            Which is why you staunchly condemn yapopolis's harassment of a trans student in front of a riled-up crowd - naming her while displaying a picture and accusing her of 'forcing his way into women's locker rooms' [teenvogue.com] - the standard trope for inciting violence against trans people.

            Oh, you don't condemn that?

            Yeah, you really care about the rights of LGBTQ people.

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:28PM (#500093)

        I didn't politicize this.

        Yeah, that "religion-of-piece dept" in the original submission was not at all a political statement.

        You aren't half as clever of a liar as you think you are.

  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:25PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:25PM (#500251) Journal

    Yes there is. You're one of those very xenophobic, vaguely racist people who identify as "libertarian", as if you don't pick up all the worst elements(except the strictly theological ones) of conservative ideology and rub them all over your body, moaning in ecstacy as you imagine yourself as some kind of third-way rebel who doesn't fall in line every single goddamn election cycle.