Posted on 08/19/2019 10:57:32 AM PDT by SJackson
Middle East
The ban came after LGBTQ group Al-Qaws was planing to hold a gathering for its members in Nablus.
The Palestinian Authority banned members of the Palestinian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community from carrying out any activities in the West Bank.
The ban came after the grassroots group Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society (Arabic for “the bow”), which engages and supports Palestinians who identify as LGBTQ, was planning to hold a gathering for its members in Nablus at the end of the month. The group operates both in the West Bank and among Arab-Israelis.
Earlier this month, Al-Qaws held an event in Nablus about sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society. The PA police, however, learned about the event only days after it was held.
Al-Qaws is a civil society organization established in 2001 with the goal of “fighting for vibrant Palestinian cultural and social change, building LGBTQ communities and promoting new ideas about the role of gender and sexual diversity in political activism, civil society institutions, media, and everyday life.”
The group has offices only in east Jerusalem and Haifa.
Explaining the decision to ban the LGBTQ group from operating in PA-controlled areas, Luay Zreikat, spokesperson for the PA Police, said that such activities are “harmful to the higher values and ideals of Palestinian society.”
Zreikat said that the group’s activities were completely “unrelated to religions and Palestinian traditions and customs, especially in the city of Nablus.”
He accused unnamed “dubious parties” of working to “create discord and harm civic peace in Palestinian society.”
The PA police will chase those behind the LGBTQ group and see to it that they are brought to trial once they are arrested, Zreikat warned. He further appealed to Palestinians to report to the police about any person connected to the group.
In response, Al-Qaws condemned the police threat as “incitement,” and vowed to continue its work despite the serious challenges.
“The Palestinian police announcement about our activities is very unfortunate,” the group said. “It’s very strange that they are accusing us of being a suspicious entity working to take apart Palestinian society. Al-Qaws is a Palestinian organization that has been operating since 2001, and is carrying out educational and professional programs on sexual and gender diversity. We totally reject the attempt to create an atmosphere of prosecution and intimidation, as well threats of arrest.”
A member of Al-Qaws said that since the police announcement, he and his friends have received hundreds of threats and hate messages from Palestinians, especially through Facebook. “The attack on us is unprecedented,” he told The Jerusalem Post. “They are calling us traitors and corrupt people and many are calling for our execution. We are afraid for our lives.”
What, no daisy-chain sodomy or pre-school twerking contests?
I wish we could do it in this PA (Pennsylvania).
sheep and goats better
They ought to get up about a million of them and go to the West Bank and protest. I’m sure the PA will see things their way.
Oh my. The snowflakes will be melting.
Two legs good, four legs better.
Wonder what the “Squad” will have to say about this????
It’s not like they are following the instructions and example of their prophet and throwing them off tall buildings..../s
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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As liberals would tell you, all cultures are equal, so this shouldn't be an issue.
Until the end of the title, I thought it meant Pennsylvania. :(
Pennsylvania steppin’ u......... Oh. Never mind. Guess the glbtqprstxyz activists need to hop a flight over to start some protests. Just watch out for D-9s.
This may be the real reason our Jew hating, communist congresswoman didn’t go to see grandma.
The feminists and freaks think they want this type government here.
Way to go, Pennsylvania!! And all this time I thought it was a liberal kook state who would elect a RINO like Arlen Specter to the Senate.
ha!
Octopii better pray the Muslims don’t discover them!
Me too! Cold day in hell that I applaud tge PA
This is also a vulnerability of the "Jihad Squad" in Congress and the US in general given its anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian stance.
I don’t wish we could do that where I live.
They are rapidly losing support even among teens and 20 somethings.
If one kind of group is banned then our groups will be banned too.
Now having them in schools and in the churches is an abomination.
They want to have a public meeting and if nuts wanna go, that’s their business.
If I had to choose between the degenerate, reality denying leftists and the Muslims, I might just opt for the Muslims.
The Christians have completely caved to the left. There’s absolutely zero resistance from them, if anything they’re starting to embrace their policies.
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