Giving an Islamic newspaper example as everybody agree with that is just beyond stupidity. I suggest you to get socialise, find a boyfriend, have a date instead of spending your time on google pages by searching any kind of negativity about Turkey... And leave our views and lifestyle to us Turks which none of your business.
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Wanna learn my view on this? I am not a homophobic, I have gay friends, cool guys, what they are doing on the bed is their privacy, their life, their choice and no one should be killed for this. But if they start doing this in the public, it damages our values and I would stand against it. This is the same everywhere in the world, not about Islamic or Christian view.
Humans have rules for some reason , shitting on the streets is wrong, right? There are WCs for this. They should respect common values and people start to respect their choices. This is how it works.
What's the defination of being westerner in your dictionary ?
Did you seriously try to equate homosexuality (which is a natural phenomenon) with people "shitting in the street"?
well in most western cultures its seen as kinda pervert to marry cousens. Even the slightest form of this incest is bound with heavy stigma. In pakistan its totally normal. Many in the west bring this up as something incetious and call it degeneration. Another thing totally normal in pakistan is to marry a girl that is still a child. Something totally alien in the west.
Exactly! And speaking of which, would the Pakistan members who commented in this thread like it if an American/Western newspaper decides to refer to Pakistani victims of US drone strikes as "inbreds", "pedophiles", or "perverts"?
Of course they wouldn't like it. In fact, they'd consider it to be very hateful and demeaning, and rightly so.
I really don't understand why some members around here, particularly the Pakistani members, are trying to defend the bigoted behavior of this Turkish newspaper. I could only think of 2 reasons:
1. They're probably trying to suck up to the Turks, which is a big mistake, in my opinion, because this kind of institutionalized Turkish bigotry is not only harmful towards local homosexuals but is also harmful towards the many Pakistani migrants who are currently living in (or passing through) Turkey.
2. They're most likely homophobic themselves and, thereby, couldn't care less about hateful messages being spouted against the LGBT community. This is equally bad because I hope the members around here realize that their silence towards bigotry, particularly outside this forum, actually gives bigoted people in their communities all the more reason to target them as well.
Whichever way you look at it, there's really no excuse for this level of bigotry, nor is there any excuse for being apologetic towards it -- and all it does is make the Muslim-majority countries look bad in the eyes of the rest of the world, including in the eyes of emerging powers in the Far East, such as China.
Again, I must reemphasize that this isn't about the Orlando terrorist attack. This is about the level of bigotry that takes place in this part of the world (i.e. the Middle East) and how it goes largely unchallenged. Notice how none of the Turks have condemned this hateful newspaper so far. Opposing homosexuality is one thing, but making excuses for bigotry is another thing altogether.
