No dancing and no gays if Hamas gets its way

[kweerwolf]

A VISION of an Islamic society that bans mixed dancing and sternly disapproves of homosexuality has been given by Mahmoud Zahar, the most senior leader of Hamas in Gaza.

After controversies when a Hamas-led council halted a dance festival and Islamist gunmen stopped a rap band performing in Gaza, Dr Zahar defended the enforcement of a strict interpretation of Islam.

“A man holds a woman by the hand and dances with her in front of everyone. Does that serve the national interest?” Dr Zahar said on the Arabic website Elaph. “If so, why have the phenomena of corruption and prostitution become pervasive in recent years?”

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Dr Zahar condemned homosexual marriage, saying: “Are these the laws for which the Palestinian street is waiting? For us to give rights to homosexuals and to lesbians, a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick?”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1814968,00.html

Ah, the kind of society the fun-D'uh-Mental-ists of the American Taliban can only dream of ... for now, at least.

[davidinalameda]

1. why is it that this "democracy" in the Middle East

is giving us nothing but theocracies

[GrpCaptMandrake]

2. If the American Religion Industry

ever sat down with the Islamokillers, we'd be truly screwed, for they would see that they believe in the same things.

These Religion Industrialists don't believe in anything approaching the message of Christ. They're strictly Old Testament blood-letters.

Lookit: no booze, no gambling, no dancing, no open sexuality, no closet sexuality. Whose creed is that? Hamas' or Jerry Falwell's?

Answer: BOTH!

[Traveling_Home]

3. Emma

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution"

-Emma Goldman

[davidinalameda]

4. great quote

and welcome to DU

:hi: