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Originally Posted by Extreme Coder  @Moniker42: Homosexuality is virtually nonexistant in the Middle East, except for very very few areas which are known to have such people. |
huh ?
it's not because you can't see them that they're not there
i must admit i haven't been in the middle-east to check that myself but there are probably as much homosexuals there as everywhere else (10%). the reason you can't see it is that they risk their life if it gets out that they're gay.
from
LGBT rights in Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"No protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity exist. Egyptian human rights organizations are fearful of defending such an unpopular class of people as sexual minorities[12]. Egyptian politicians either call for the execution of homosexuals or their relocation into prisons and mental institutions until they are reformed. Efforts in the late 1990s to register a gay rights organization designed to stop the spread of AIDS-HIV never received support.
Until 2001, the Egyptian government refused to recognize the existence of homosexuality,[13] and now does so only to brush off criticism from human rights organizations and foreign politicians."