President of Gambia: gays are "doomed"

[shenmue]

Story here

The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, said in a speech on Saturday that LGBT people are an "evil empire" who are "doomed."

From the article:

In a speech on Saturday he said: “Let me make it very clear that if they think that they can be homosexuals and want to impose homosexuality on the globe, they are doomed.

“All empires before collapsed not at the time they were weakest, but at the peak of their might and when they equated themselves with the Almighty Allah. So this evil empire of homosexuals will also go down the dirty drain and garbage of hell."

[DetlefK]

1. What number has "Gay Empire" in the gay agenda? Is it the end... or the beginning?

[dembotoz]

2. assume he is supposedly a christian-am i supposed to now take responsiblity and apologize for this

clown

[Bluenorthwest]

7. He is supposedly a Muslim, as his rhetoric clearly indicates.

The people of Gambia would not be out of line to apologize for this horrific denigration.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. It would be unusual for a Christian to refer to "Almighty Allah"... N.T.

[benz380]

3. Up to 14 years in prison under Gambia law.

(snip)
The president of Gambia has threatened to kill any citizen of his country who cites persecution of LGBT people in seeking asylum abroad.

(snip)
As it is, Gambian law criminalizes sexual contract between people of the same gender, with a punishment of up to 14 years in prison.


http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/05/16/gambian-president-gay-asylum-seekers-i-will-kill-them

[Bluenorthwest]

4. And those who have been so empathetic with the 'offended' Paris shooters will not have a word to

say about this latest denigration of LGBT people at the hands of powerful religious bigots.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Did you miss the red herring above?

Apparently the real topic is not the gays, but the Muslims.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. We have an empire? Who knew!

This is more malodorous as the red herring above. Way too many are trying to attack, kill, or destroy GLBT people the world over.

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. that guy is a piece of work

In January 2007, Jammeh claimed he could cure HIV/AIDS and asthma with natural herbs.[23][24] His claimed treatment program includes instructing patients to cease taking their anti-retroviral drugs.[25][26] His claims have been criticized for promoting unscientific treatment that could have dangerous results, due to the belief that those discharged from his program cannot infect others.[23][24] In December 2011, he restated during an interview that the alleged cure for HIV/AIDS was "going very well".[27]

Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the country representative of the United Nations Development Programme in the Gambia, was told to leave the country after she expressed doubts about the claims and said the remedy might encourage risky behaviour.[28] In August 2007, Jammeh claimed to have developed a single dose herbal infusion that could treat high blood pressure.[29] Jammeh has also claimed to develop a treatment for infertility in women as part of what is called the President's Alternative Treatment Program (PATP).[30][31][32]

Historical claims[edit]

According to the Daily Observer newspaper, Jammeh claimed on 26 July 2010, that the Gambia had played an important role in the aviation industry, specifically, "that the first Atlantic flight and the first flight from Eastern Europe landed in the Gambia."[33] At the same time Jammeh also stated that "this country is one of the oldest and biggest countries in Africa that was reduced to a small snake by the British government who sold all our lands to the French."[33]

On February 18, 2014, Jammeh called homosexuals "vermins" by saying that "We will fight these vermins called homosexuals or gays the same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively,".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh#Homosexuality

[NaturalHigh]

12. Yeah, I remember this nut now.

[Jamastiene]

9. I don't have an empire.

Did I miss a memo? Where is my empire? Dammit, supposedly I can control the weather too, but I didn't get that superpower either. Oh well. At least I got my toaster.

Why do these people think we are so incredibly powerful? We have to put up with shit that they say and do and none of it is good. It ranges from annoying to life threatening. We have no power and on top of that, we have to put up with homophobic assholes who make shit up about us. Trust me. If I could control the weather, there would be no more tornadoes or hurricanes.

And if I had an empire, assholes like that would get the tables turned on them in such a way that they would drop that holier than thou attitude fast like. They had better be glad I don't have that kind of power. I'm not as altruistic as so many in the gay community. He and people like him would pay dearly for their holier than thou attitude and the wretched shit they make up about gay people.

My grandmother always said ignorance should be educated or eradicated if the education did not stick. I think she may have been right. The older I get, the less I want to put up with bullshit from people like the asshole mentioned in the OP and the more I want to see payback.

I might just get to see it in eternity. According to Eddie Zimmerman, ex-principal/preacher from Temple Christian School in Hamlet, NC back in the early 80s, "If you don't have a father, you don't belong to God. You are the literal spawn of Satan." I was born out of wedlock and do not even know who my father is. That means Satan is my daddy. So, in eternity, Hell, if you will, Home Sweet Home, I just might have one iota of the power assholes like that claim we gay people have. When I get to Hell, I will either look this guy up or wait for him. Either way, I know Daddy won't be happy with the way that asshole talked about his little girl.

[shenmue]

10. Good Lord!

I sorry.

[KamaAina]

11. What does Gambia export?

So I can boycott it?

[shenmue]

14. Cashews

Link here

And some other stuff.