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Turn it around - the easygoing majority should (peacefully) picket the homes and offices of the fascists and terrorists.

Also check out whether the anti-gay activities started up after the first Megachurch opened in Jakarta in 2008 - first service it had it used to attack homosexuals. Did the islamic extremists pick this up from the Megachurches maybe?

It's all about ego. American's are Islamaphobic and a lot of the so called "good Christians" want to feel superior by oppressing the Muslims and the Muslims want to feel superior by oppressing the gays. I feel though, the Muslims aren't helping their cause by doing this, especially not by quoting a violent script.

@ bananaking: Personally,fundie Christians & Islamic militants are one & the same...just like the Nazis & the Imperial Japanese - racist,sexist,misogynistic...and when they couldn't get their way- violent. No one is better then the other...the only difference?
One is more crudely primitive, the other more 'sophisticated' bt just as vile...I leave you to guess which ones! ;-)

These religious freaks should all be made to read the book by the brilliant biologist and professor at Cambridge University Richard Dawkins, entitled 'The God Delusion' and in fact all his books, which detail how we as humans evolved, not by the hand of some super-being called 'god' that these crack-pot preachers and imans believe.
Why do people believe all this religious nonsense which propagates so much hatred and intollerance of others? The scriptures they base it on, whether it be the bible or the koran, are proven to be full of contradictions, written by men ignorant of today's scientific knowledge and understanding. Dawkins illustrates and demonstrates these contradictions thoroughly, completly demolishing their doctrines and believes.
But as long as people continue to be indoctrinated with this religious rubbish we are going to continue along this path of hatred and intollerance of others, either because of their sexuality, race or cultural background.

"In a statement, the Ulema Council said homosexuality was “against human rights because human rights were given by God basically for pairs of men and women to legally marry..."

Are they talking about "Human rights" or "Godly rights"?

#7 - Well-said!!!!

What's sinister, though: The 'crackpot' imams & preachers you've mentioned...we've got to understand their psyche...that beneath their seemingly irrational/intolerant facade, they're people hungry for POWER and CONTROL, which is being increasingly difficult in this modern day of science, rationality, healthy scepticism, & open debate.

Think: Why is birth control not permitted in religions like Catholism/ evengelical Christianity & Islam? Why are homosexuals hated?
If yr answer is POWER BY NUMBERS, bingo! You've got that absolutely right!!! The more babies born into their religion, the more they can be used as a tool for BRAINWASHING!!! Just like the Jesuits philosophy: Give me a boy of up to age seven & I'll show you the man... Homosexuals (obviously) can't produce children...so homosexual relationships are not seen as 'valuable' to them.
THAT and not morality is the real reason of their disdain for same-sex relationships; the so-called 'against God's will' is nothing more than an attempt to make their personal wishes more authoritative - well, at least to the more credulous & guillible.

So the bottom line is:

RELIGION'S HETERO OBSESSION LIES IN THEIR MOTIVE OF GETTING MORE COMMUNITY MEMBERS FOR THEIR SECTS TO ENSURE THEIR SURVIVAL FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

Those Islam also have to try to look into their own religion. Most gay that are moslem usually realize their orientation during Islamic School / Pesantren. Why? Because they put boy and girls separately. And it's quite a public knowledge that the imams like to use pretty boys for their 'needs'.

#11: Very true! It has nothing to do with so-called 'morality'- imo a word that's second most abused after 'rights'.

Maybe if all those so called religious leaders, get off their asses and did a hard days work, actually producing somthing that benefits the poor, they wont have the time to worry about silly shit. Get a life-
is what I say and worry about feeding the poor and getting jobs for the unemployed young people who cant get an education. God will worry about the rest, its not your F ing business.