Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Homosexuality Happens

A Saudi man is seeking asylum in America, because he is gay. He's a diplomat, and says the Saudi government recently found out and revoked his papers so that he will have to return to Saudi Arabia. He has a good case. Like mainstream Christianity, Islam does not look well upon homosexuality. And Saudi Arabia is the homeland of Islam, the country that contains the two holiest Islamic cities, and it has an extremely "fundamental" version of Islam in place (often referred to as Wahhabism). If I was a gay Saudi man, I would terrified of returning home.

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