Gay Muslim LGBT Advocate speaks out on Senegal anti-gay brutal incident

Dec. 30, 2012 - PRLog -- A Gay Muslim activist has spoken out after a gay publication ran a news piece concerning a couple assaulted by Senegalese parents after being "caught in the act".

The piece by Dan Littauer of Gay Star News  alleges that the media there is using the incident to further anti gay public sentiment there.

(  See:  "Gay couple brutally assaulted by parents in Senegal" : by Dan Littauer;  Gay Star News

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-couple-brutally-assaulted-parents-senegal301212  )

Speaking with Gay Star News, Omar Kuddus, an openly gay Muslim LGBT rights advocate, based in the UK, said:

"Such incidents highlight the difficulties LGBT Senegalese face in society.

‘The recent case of Tamsir Jupiter Ndiaye who refused legal aid demonstrates how families and communities are influenced by the media and imams who misconstrue Islamic traditions as being against homosexuality.

‘However what is disturbing even more in the reported incident is that parents who accept that their son is gay resort to physical violence, partly due to such anti-gay views.’

‘It is further compounded precisely by such hateful language as in the report above that are designed to stir up hatred and keep the public and religious leaders firmly opposed to decriminalization of homosexuality.

‘These kind of reports regrettably indicate that Senegal has no intention of decriminalizing same-sex acts or stop persecuting its LGBT citizens, let alone [accepting] homosexuality."