Category: Violence Against Gay Human Beings

World AIDS Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Calls for Stonings, Whippings, Caliphate

On December 1, 2009, as groups concerned about the AIDS disease sought public awareness and prevention, the anti-freedom, extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir held its own protests in Indonesia rejecting condoms and AIDS prevention measures and demanding the creation of an extremist caliphate .  AFP reports that “700 members from the Muslim Women of Hizbut Tahrir” were involved in the Indonesia protests.  As AIDS continues to grow in Indonesia, Hizb ut-Tahrir is promoting an anti-condom campaign as part of its efforts to promote religious extremism in Indonesia and globally.

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s goals including ending democracy and freedom, and the promotion of an extremist caliphate, including calling for the “death penalty” for those “traitors” who leave Islam.  U.S. President Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs Dalia Mogahed has joined Hizb ut-Tahrir in a public interview conducted by a supporter of the British Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.

World AIDS Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Demonstrates Against Homosexuals, Calls for Global Extremist Caliphate (AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
World AIDS Day: Hizb ut-Tahrir Demonstrates Against Homosexuals, Calls for Global Supremacist Caliphate (AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)

There have been repeated attempts to make homosexuality illegal in Indonesia, as prostitution and drug use are currently.  The Aceh province of Indonesia has made homosexuality a crime under Sharia law punished by public whipping and steep imprisonment, as well as stoning for other offenses against Sharia.

While AFP, MySinChew/AFP, and the Jakarta Globe have focused on Hizb ut-Tahrir’s (HT) rallies and comments regarding ending the use of condoms and enforcing Sharia law as a way to control AIDS risks, none of the mainstream media have noticed Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia’s web site report quoting Dr. Muhammad Usman and others at a Hizb ut-Tahrir event calling for “stoning to death” and “whip a hundred times” individuals as part of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s answers to the AIDS problems.  The  HT report also states condoms are ineffective because “whereas the pores of condoms was only able to hold the sperm, not the size of the HIV virus is much smaller.”

The Jakarta Globe reported that “Ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, members of the group Hizbut Tahrir took to the streets in several major cities, including Jakarta, Solo, Yogyakarta and Makassar in South Sulawesi. ‘We urge everybody to support the application of Shariah in an Islamic caliphate so that, God willing, all of us will be free from the threat of HIV/AIDS,’ Hizbut Tahrir spokeswoman Febrianti Abassuni said in a statement.”  Calling “homosexuals the agents of immorality,” Hizb ut-Tahrir called for an end to programs providing condoms in Indonesia.

BBC reports that “AIDS activists say promoting condom use is a huge challenge in Indonesia as there is strong resistance from religious and conservative groups.”  While AIDS in Indonesia grew predominantly from drug use, increasing growth is reportedly sexual based.  BBC reports that “[r]ecent data shows over 18,000 people have the disease – and that number has jumped from last year.”

While Hizb ut-Tahrir and other groups seek to prevent condom distribution and use, AIDS has spread dramatically throughout Indonesia.  AFP reports that “around 270,000 Indonesians are estimated to be infected with HIV, and AIDS has claimed about 8,700 lives in the Muslim-majority nation of 228 million people, according to the UNAIDS agency.”

Reports have shown significant growth in AIDS among heterosexuals.

In a separate report, BBC reports that in the United Kingdom, 60 percent of new AIDS cases are appearing among Muslims.  In the BBC report, “According to Dr Shima Tariq, who has studied the transmission of HIV, more than half of newly diagnosed patients caught HIV through heterosexual sex, and two-thirds of them are of black African origin or descent.  But most of this group are not Christian: six out of 10 are Muslim.”

Resources – Hizb ut-Tahrir AIDS Day Reports:

AFP: “Indonesian militants call for sharia law to stop HIV”

AFP/MySinchew.com: “Indonesian Islamists protest condom use for preventing AIDS”

Jakarta Globe: “Hard-Line Indonesian Muslims Seek Shariah End to HIV”

Bernama: “Indonesia Intensifies Efforts To Fight AIDS”

BBC: “Indonesia HIV-Aids ‘spreading through sex'”

A woman walks past by a sign advising people to wear Muslim attire at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh. A local lawmaker says a controverisial bill allowing Shariah-style stoning and caning has gone into effect in the province. (Photo: Heri Juanda, AP)
A woman walks past by a sign advising people to wear Muslim attire at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh. A local lawmaker says a controverisial bill allowing Shariah-style stoning and caning has gone into effect in the province. (Photo: Heri Juanda, AP)

Other Reports on Indonesia:

Indonesia: Sharia Bill Calling for Stoning, Now Officially Law in Aceh

Indonesia’s Aceh passes law on stoning to death — death for adulterers, steep prison for homosexuality

Indonesia: Students demand harsher sharia law implementation

Asia: Shariah Asia Spread Appeases Islamists, Risks Rights

Indonesia: Women Banned from Wearing Jeans and Pants — Sharia Police Plan Raids and Patrols

Indonesia: 1500 Sharia Police Harrass Men, Women in Aceh

Black Flag of Extremist Caliphate
Black Flag of Caliphate

Other Reports on Hizb ut-Tahrir:

Bangladesh: Anti-Freedom Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Threatens to Murder University Official

UK: Hizb ut-Tahrir Anti-Democracy Group Schools Receive Government Funding

National Post Describes Anti-Jewish Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Growth on College Campuses

White House Adviser Joins UK Interview with Anti-Democratic Hizb ut-Tahrir Group

Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Event Promoted with Beheaded Statue of Liberty

UK: Press Reports of “Furious Residents” over Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference

Canada: Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) Group to Meet in Govt-Managed Community Center

UK: Hizb ut-Tahrir Group Claims Thousands Attend London Conference, Plans August 2 Birmingham Conference

Chicago’s Moment of Freedom: Chicagoans Stand Up for Freedom Challenging Hizb ut-Tahrir

July 19 – Chicago: R.E.A.L. Pro-Freedom Protest to Challenge Hizb ut-Tahrir America Conference

Chicago: IPT News: “Pro-Terror Group to Meet in Chicago Suburb” – report on Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir promotion for Extremist Caliphate conference shows "beheaded" Statue of Liberty and "burning" NYC
Hizb ut-Tahrir promotion for Caliphate conference shows "beheaded" Statue of Liberty and "burning" NYC

UK: London University Islamic Society Hosts Hate Advocate Abu Usamah – who has praised Osama Bin Laden

— Blog: “Kill gays” preacher feted at City University — Abu Usamah
— “‘ The Vice Chancellor of City University London, Julius Weinberg, should resign. He is refusing to take any action after the Islamic Society hosted a fundamentalist preacher, Abu Usamah, who advocates the murder of gay people and of Muslims who give up their faith,’ said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.”
— “Abu Usamah was recorded on Channel Four’s television documentary, Undercover Mosque, as saying: ‘Do you practice homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man and throw him off the mountain.’ On Muslims who leave the faith he said: ‘If the Imam wants to crucify him, he should crucify him. The person is put up on the wood and he’s left there to bleed to death for three days.’ ”
— “Abu Usamah was also filmed deriding women as ‘deficient,’ inferior to men and intellectually ‘incomplete.’ ”
— “Another speaker given a platform at the same City University event on 4 November, Murthadah Khan, was also caught on the Undercover Mosque documentary calling Jews and Christians ‘enemies’ and “filthy.’ ”

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— The Blight of Moral Cowardice

— Radical cleric praises bin Laden – Abu Usamah

— UK Undercover Mosques – Channel 4 Documentary

— January 18, 2007: American-Born Imam Spews Message of Hate in England

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FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics

FBI Releases 2008 Hate Crime Statistics
Press Release — Hate Crime Statistics Web Site
— “An analysis of the 7,780 single-bias incidents revealed that 51.3 percent were motivated by a racial bias”
— Anti-Black Racial Hate 2,876, Anti-Jewish Hate 1,013, Anti-Homosexual 1,200, Anti-Hispanic 561
— Anti-Islam Incidents – 105
— Anti-Christian Incidents – 101

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Table 1

Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2008

Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims1 Known offenders2
Total 7,783 9,168 9,691 6,927
Single-Bias Incidents 7,780 9,160 9,683 6,921
Race: 3,992 4,704 4,934 3,723
Anti-White 716 812 829 811
Anti-Black 2,876 3,413 3,596 2,596
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native 54 59 63 61
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander 137 162 170 140
Anti-Multiple Races, Group 209 258 276 115
Religion: 1,519 1,606 1,732 632
Anti-Jewish 1,013 1,055 1,145 353
Anti-Catholic 75 75 89 35
Anti-Protestant 56 60 62 34
Anti-Islamic 105 123 130 85
Anti-Other Religion 191 212 222 90
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group 65 67 70 33
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 14 14 14 2
Sexual Orientation: 1,297 1,617 1,706 1,460
Anti-Male Homosexual 776 948 981 921
Anti-Female Homosexual 154 194 198 156
Anti-Homosexual 307 415 466 336
Anti-Heterosexual 33 33 34 25
Anti-Bisexual 27 27 27 22
Ethnicity/National Origin: 894 1,148 1,226 1,034
Anti-Hispanic 561 735 792 711
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin 333 413 434 323
Disability: 78 85 85 72
Anti-Physical 22 28 28 26
Anti-Mental 56 57 57 46
Multiple-Bias Incidents3 3 8 8 6
  • 1 The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
  • 2 The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender.
  • 3 In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.

UK: British National Party (BNP) Nick Griffin on BBC – Avoids Holocaust Denial Question, Defends KKK, Attacks Gays and Muslims

UK: ‘I am not a Nazi,’ National Party leader Nick Griffin says on BBC

— Angry scenes face Griffin at BBC

— Video

— Griffin appearance on front pages

— BNP leader ducks Shoah denial question
— “On leading British debate show, Nick Griffin says he doesn’t have ‘a conviction’ for Holocaust denial”

— Anti-fascist protesters storm BBC

— Controversy and chaos but BBC is delighted by BNP leader’s ‘humiliation’

— Nick Griffin caught in TV’s glare amid hail of criticism

— The BNP on Question Time: live-blog

— Arrests as anti-BNP protesters clash with police

— BNP’s Nick Griffin attacks Muslims and gays
—- “Following clashes between police and protesters ahead of his arrival, the BNP leader uses Question Time appearance to attack Muslims and homosexuals while defending the Ku Klux Klan.”

— Jeered, scorned and ridiculed – still BNP’s Nick Griffin milks his moment in spotlight on Question Time

U.N. General Assembly President from Libya Opposes Decriminalization of Gays “As A Muslim”

Inner City Press reports on opening of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly with a press conference by its new president, Ali Abdussalam Treki, a Libyan diplomat, who opposes decriminalization of homosexuality.

— Treki quoted as stating:
— “[T]hat matter is very sensitive, very touchy… As a Muslim, I am not in favor of it… it is not accepted by the majority of countries. My opinion is not in favor of this matter at all. I think it’s not really acceptable by our religion, our tradition.  It is not acceptable in the majority of the world. And there are some countries that allow that, thinking it is a kind of democracy… I think it is not”

Sydney Morning Herald report