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Igel

(36,377 posts)
1. They had a democracy.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 06:03 PM
Sep 2024

Not perfect, but functional.

Some seem to cut the coupsters slack because they bear the label "resistance."

Even if Wiki could say,

On 22 July 2023, secretary-general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, declared a cultural war on the LGBT community in Lebanon, stating that homosexuality is exported to the Lebanese society from the United States and Europe, and called for capital punishment to be imposed on individuals found guilty of sodomy.[27] He called this cultural war a "Christian-Islamic war for all the Lebanese", and called for the rejection of the word homosexuals, describing them as "abnormal" and "deviant." He said that "[Homosexuality] must be confronted [...] by all means and by seeking the help of specialists for treatment."[28] This declaration of war was seen by Widad Jarbouh, a researcher and journalist at the Samir Kassir Foundation, as "politicians escaping from their responsibilities for the state of collapse that the country is witnessing at many levels, by targeting marginalized groups, including members of the LGBT community," referring to the ongoing severe Lebanese economic crisis.[29]


Israel did that community a favor.

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