WASHINGTON – It’s really no surprise that Johnny bin
Walker’s alleged gay Pakistani lover now denies their
tryst reported in Time. Pakistan is the last place a
homosexual would want to be outed.
Sodomy carries the death penalty there, according to
Amnesty International.
Earlier this month, a Pakistani religious school
teacher who sodomized a student was so afraid another
student would tell police what he witnessed that he
cut out the 13-year-old boy’s tongue with a razor.
Pakistan isn’t the only Muslim state where homosexual
acts are punishable by death. It’s also Islamic law in
Sudan, Afghanistan, the Chechen Republic, Iran, Saudi
Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, says Amnesty
International.
Islam’s apologists on the left must have skipped over
that chapter in their human-rights guides.
Gay-rights lobbyists in San Francisco, New York and
Miami who think America is backward because it
doesn’t see the need for extra-constitutional favors
for homosexuals, and even barbaric because it allows
some states to still keep anti-sodomy laws on their
books, will take little comfort in knowing that
stoning and beheading sodomites might be the first
order of business if Muslims succeed in their secret
agenda of replacing the U.S. Constitution with the
Koran.
The Koran is far more severe in its condemnation of
homosexuality than the Bible.
The Muslims’ sacred book calls it an indescribable
“sin and crime,” and clerics interpret from Muhammad’s
account of Sodom that it should be punishable by
stoning, says Ph.D. historian Serge Trifkovic, author of
“The Sword of the Prophet: Islam History, Theology,
Impact on the World.”
Thus at least five men convicted a few years ago of
sodomy by Afghanistan’s shari’a courts were lined up
under tall stone walls and then buried under the
rubble as the walls were collapsed on top of them,
according to a 1998 Amnesty International report.
In January 1990, at least three homosexual men and two
lesbians were publicly beheaded in Iran, Amnesty
International says.
Trifkovic says Iran has executed as many as 4,000
homosexuals since 1979’s Islamic revolution.
Iran’s shari’a is clear on gay punishment.
The Islamic Penal Law Against Homosexuals, approved in
July 1991 and ratified in November of that year,
states in Article 110: “Punishment for sodomy is
killing; the shari’a judge decides on how to carry out
the killing.”
Lesbians are given more leniency – to a point.
Article 129: “Punishment for lesbianism is 100 lashes
for each party.”
But Article 131 adds, “If the act of lesbianism is
repeated three times and punishment is enforced each
time, the death sentence will be issued the fourth
time.”
Last year in Saudi Arabia, six homosexual men were
executed on charges of deviant sexual behavior. Some
were flogged beforehand.
In addition to the Koran, many hadiths condemn
liwat, or homosexual intercourse, Trifkovic
says.
“When a man mounts another man, the throne of God
shakes,” says one. “Kill the one that is doing it and
also kill the one that it is being done to.”
Homophiles who gush tolerance for Islam may argue that
these are merely the ancient practices of Third World
countries that have yet to catch up with modern
civilization. Certainly, they reason, Muslims in
America are more enlightened about homosexuality and
tolerant of homosexuals.
Don’t be so sure.
According to a Zogby International poll of American
Muslims taken in November and December of last year, a
whopping 71 percent oppose “allowing gays and lesbians
to marry legally.” And 68 percent support the death
penalty.
But don’t worry, Islam is a tolerant, nonviolent
religion.
