1. Posted on Thursday 8 January 2009 - 11:20

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   KingsleyKobo

   

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   Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

   Nine gay men have been sentenced to eight years imprisonment each on Wednesday in a Senegalese court. The nine youths, less than 30 years, were apprehended early December, 2008, at Mbao - a suburb of Dakar. They were consequently arraigned on charges of indecent conduct and unnatural acts.

   

   Alerted by an anonymous source, the police busted a private house where a dinner-party was being held by these young men who also belong to homosexual and HIV-AIDS enlightenment associations.
   
   According to the police source, they were caught in the act together with pornographic items – videos and photographs.
   
   But what sparked anger and frustration was the heavy sentence of eight years pronounced by the presiding judge. The maximum sentence for such a crime in Senegal is five years, but the judge explained that the accused were also involved in criminal activities.
   
   Issa Diop, one of the men’s four defence lawyers believes “this is the first time Senegal legal system has handed down such harsh sentence against gays.” He vowed to appeal.
   
   The nine men were also fined 500,000 franc cfa (760 euro) each.
   
   Senegal is a predominantly Muslim country, and gay men and women are abhorred and marginalised.
   
   The head of a Senegalese gay rights organisation, speaking on a condition of anonymity, told AFP that the situation was getting worse for gay people in the country and that many are currently fleeing to neighbouring countries.
   
   The president of RADDHO, a Senegalese human rights movement, Khady N’Diaye, also deplored the court’s action, “This severe sentence is coming to complicate the more the situation of gay people in this country.”

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1. Posted on Saturday 10 January 2009 01:56

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   bhukabijumiro

   

   
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   Let us take a closer look at the gay, lesbian and same-sex challenge. To most Africans, this challenge is a diabolic, dirty taboo and perversion.
   
   Homosexuality is a negative indulgence unacceptable to most mainstream religions at the core of their beginnings. This is why the Roman Catholic Pope vehemently opposes it and so does all Islamic sheikhs that are pious and righteous. The same is true in Hinduism, Judaism and Buddhism.
   
   In human cuture, since time immemorial, any two people indulging in homosexuality were extremely careful least they were caught and either banished from society or sentended to immediate death by drowing.
   
   It is for this reason that homosexuality was always a hidden, awful and evil practice that remains shameful to peoples of the world who still uphold true cultural, human morals and spiritual disciplines.
   
   As cultures and traditions have been infiltrated by the mixture of growing modern world traditions from different races and religious backgrounds, this evil and tabooistic practice has increasingly become accepted first in Canada, Europe, and America hiding it as a civil liberty of a minority group. Linking it to freedoms of other minority groups gave it impetus; giving its adherents some form of a buffer to demand for recognition.
   
   Professionals who were themselves medical doctors started developing theories based on prejudiced research findings that stated that there were people who are born with that propensity for homosexuality; men who wanted to be female and females who wanted to be males.
   
   In that way, those so called individuals sexually perverted at birth, attracted sympathy from un-informed peoples both men and women who took the words and reports of perverted doctors and especially pyschologists- who were themselves homosexuals. They justified their personal weaknesses and sold them to the weak-and loose-minded individuals around the world, but especially in Europe, Canada and USA.
   
   However, the fact is it is that an abnormal propensity for homosexuality is no different than the propensity that causes many normal humans to indulge in other kinds of sins and crimes. Most individuals who indulge in propensities to sin or who feel leaning towards the abnormal are usually possessed by evil entities and evil spirits. Such evil spirits in past lives belonged to individuals who were themselves practising perverted sexual or criminal behavior.
   
   There is nothing natural about any perverted human behavior other than the fact these individuals are either possessed by some evil or negative entities such as vampires, warewolves, jinns, incubs and succubus, nnamajogoti, bivamangaya and many different entities as well as evil spirits that abound both in the etheric and astral planes.
   
   These dangerous entities attack and possess the soul-minds of individuals while the bodies sleep in the material world and the individual is wandering in the etheric and astral realms without protection.
   
   In accordance with the law of like attracts like, these evil entities will most likely be attracted to individuals who have the propensity towards a particular negative habit. One who leans towards thieving will be possessed by an evil spirit of a dead person that was a thief. One that has a propensity for gay or lesbianism will be possessed by a gay or lesbian evil spirit of a dead person that was gay or lesbian. Likewise, one with a propensity to eat human flesh will attract an evil spirit of a bygne cannibal.
   
   The individual who feels a propensity towards dracula or feeding on human blood will no doubt attract a vampire or warewofl and will soon be possessed by it. At night such a possessed individual turns into a vampire and goes to suck human blood while they sleep or sometimes attacking wake humans for their blood!
   
   To encourage, condone or enacl laws that support negative human practices such as homosexuality is a spiritual felony and should stop before the earth undergoes catastrophic destruction by the forces of Nature and Creation to wipe off the face of the planet, minds that have become profane; now that is the verdict of a person, one that is a religiously and spiritually minded leader when you recall Sodom and Gommorrah of the history of the Holy Bible and the Hoyly Koran.
   
   Persons who ask why many African societies don't like gay and lesbians just do not know or understand the cultures and traditions of African peoples. This does not mean that in the past, there have never been persons that were homosexual in Africa. On the contrary, they were always present but only in the same way there have always been thieves, pickpockets, adulterers, witchdoctors, and robbers but you do not enact laws legalizing their misdeeds as the world is doing today, legalizing homosexuality as a part of the civili societies. This is wrong and to many African minds, it is a legalization of the devil's work.
   
   In addition, some degenerated leaders such as Chiefs and Kings used the practice as a means of belittling or ridiculing fellow men who were found to be cowards and unworthy as men. It was a kind of humiliation. To hear and know of a homosexual in most African communities was and still is taboo. To my knowledge and research, lesbianism does not appear to have been known in African women as a practice, before.
   
   Today, western countries are directly importing these abnormal practices into Africa by forcing African governments to allow homosexuals in exchange for financial aid. Africa's poverty is the magnet in part that now imports western evil practices into this vast land mass. Many African young boys are seduced into homosexuality by European, Canadian and American men and these boys succumb in part, to the enticements because they are poor.
   
   In addition, many European, Canadian and American tourists have been bringing the practice to unassuming African poor young men in the cities enticing them with money, jobs and helping them obtain Visas to Europe, Canada or America.
   
   In view of what is happening in Senegal, Uganda and other African countries where homosexuality is an illegal practice, one would encourage all African countries, leaders and peoples to desist from such abnormal practices for they are the cause of many unexplainable outcomes such as diseases, births of abnormal children or children with abnormal limb combinations, calamities, autism, mental abnormalities, epidemics and many natural disasters. At least that is the belief of many African Wise Ancestors, according to my research.

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2. Posted on Monday 12 January 2009 01:51

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   Livardo

   

   
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   bhukabijumiro: there's so much hate, homophobia, ignorance and irrational fear emanating from your post that it is scary.
   
   You say:
   
   "Today, western countries are directly importing these abnormal practices into Africa "
   
   BULLSH....*
   
   Homosexuality is currently running at around 5% of earth's population. It is and it will be present in all societies, notwithstanding silly and stupid biblical or other superstitions.
   
   All your other stupid and ignorant fear mongering re: the illnesses are laughable and would be ridiculed by anyone with a thinking brain.
   
   Senegal and other countries with similar laws are full of fearful and ignorant people, and the sooner they deal with their hate, the better people they will become. Think and embrace tolerance, my "friend".

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