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com/servlet/Page/document/common/c hewy/nav-all_sections_frame Dozens arrested at mass Emirates gay wedding By JIM KRANE Saturday, November 26, 2005 Posted at 12:54 PM EST Associated Press Dubai More than two dozen gay Arab men arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding could face government-ordered hormone treat ments, five years in jail and a lashing, authorities said Saturday. The Interior Ministry said police raided a hotel chalet earlier this mont h and arrested 22 men from the Emirates as they celebrated the wedding c eremony, one of a string of recent group arrests of homosexuals here. The men are likely to be tried under Muslim law on charges related to adu ltery and prostitution, said Interior Ministry spokesman Issam Azouri. Outward homosexual behaviour is banned in the United Arab Emirates, and t he gay group wedding has alarmed leaders of this once-isolated Muslim co untry as it grapples with a sweeping influx of Western residents and cul ture.
click here ad1 The Arabian peninsula, nevertheless, has a long tradition of openly homos exual wedding singers and dancers. Lately people have been talking about (homosexuality), but it has been h ere for a long time, said Nadia Buhannad, a Dubai psychologist. Police acting on a tip raided the hotel in Ghantout, a desert region on t he Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway, and found a dozen men dressed as female brid es and a dozen others in male Arab dress, apparently preparing for a cer emony that would join them as husbands and wives, Mr Azouri said. It was a real party with balloons and champagne, he said. The 26 men arrested include those from the Emirates as well as an Indian disc jockey and three men from neighbouring Arab states. One of the arre sted was to perform the wedding ceremony. Mr Azouri said some of the gr oup told police they worked as prostitutes. Last year, police made mass arrests at an apparent gay wedding in the con servative emirate of Sharjah and at the Khor Fakkan beach resort in Fuja irah emirate, a police official said on condition of anonymity because h e was not authorized to speak to the press. Two dozen men arrested in Sharjah were given symbolic lashings meant to humiliate, not inflict pain and then released from jail, said promine nt Emirati lawyer Abdul Hamid al-Kumaiti. There are so many others like these guys, Mr al-Kumaiti said. The pol ice and rulers need to do more than just lash them and let them go. Mr Azouri described the arrests in Ghantout as a delicate matter made public for the first time more than a week after the event because t he country's tribal leadership wants to demonstrate it will not tolerate open homosexuality. On Friday, as newspapers reported the arrests, the minister of justice an d Islamic affairs, Mohammed bin Nukhaira Al Dhahiri, called on parents t o be vigilant for deviant behaviour in their children. acts in the UAE, Mr al-Dhahir i was quoted as saying in the Dubai-based Khaleej Times newspaper. The arrested men have been questioned by police and were undergoing psych ological evaluations Saturday. Mr Azouri said the Interior Ministry's d epartment of social support would try to direct the men away from homose xual behaviour using methods including male hormone treatments, if the men are found to be deficient. Because they've put society at risk they will be given the necessary tre atment, from male hormone injections to psychological therapies, he sai d It wasn't just a homosexual act. Foreigners arrested will be deported after serving any sentences imposed in court, he said. Mr Azouri said government psychologists were grappling to learn the caus es behind an apparent increase in homosexual behaviour in the Emirates. The booming economy has lured hundreds of thousands of Western residents and millions of tourists. Mr Azouri said authorities want to be seen t o be taking action at a time when complaints of gay behaviour were emerg ing from the country's schools and myriad shopping malls. Most cases of homosexual behaviour are taboo and violate Emirati laws bas ed on Islamic sharia. Mr Azouri suggested that other countries with law s based on religion, including Christianity and Judaism, would also ban gay behaviour and marriage. It's not about freedom of opinion, it's about respecting religion which forbids this type of behaviour, he said. Co mments are checked for content only, spelling and grammar errors are not corrected and comments that include vulgar language or libelous content are rejected. these men and women will have to fullfill the sexual aspects of their nature won't they? to do so they may have no choice but to satisify themselves with the opposite sex. so the societal rules that inhibits same sex mingling also drives them to break rules and take part in what their societies might deem as sinful behaviour.
Link to Comment 2 Ryan w from Ottawa, Canada writes: To dick Lenning If Homosexuallity is such a devaint thing in society and society trully looks down on homsexuals? then why do people still engage in homosexual acts if it means they are to be alienated from society? I beleive for the most part it is something they have no control over (homosexual by birth) and thus we should not judge them harshly... and even if i am wrong why do you think homosexuals are trying to have children. Obviously they know they cant have children but they are still human beings and are deservent of all the rights and privilages of every other human being. Anyways alot of things in history were viewed as abnormal at the time only to be slowly accepted. It was abnormal for women to wear pants in the early 1900's which slowly changed as sopciety progressed. The only reason why it slowly changed was because of arrogant people like you who contiue to hold onto morals and values that do not allow for this change to occur. There sexual preference is totally up to them and we as indivduals or the state has no right to judge a person based on sexual oreintation ...
Link to Comment 3 Paula Koval from Alexandria, VA, United States writes: Why is it that we cannot decide for ourselves whom we shall love, with whom we shall share our lives, and to whom we give ourselves? We are subject to death, feel loneliness, and have a need to be loved and appreciated as well as needing to love and appreciate someone. It all seems so simple to me:divert the attention of the people to a hate-driven issue and they will not notice the mess in Iraq, the scandalous behaviour of some of those who preach a gospel of non-inclusion, and the screwing of the First Nations in the US and Canada.
Wars are fought because of narrow-minded and self -involved views such as your own. Judging people is not your job, your place, or your privilige. You state that the whole point of sexual desire is to produce children. That may be, but you don't know close to enough about the purpose of human life, or biological processes to make any sort of claim. I can't believe there are still people like you in a supposedly "enlightened" world.
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