Which is pretty un-democratic and quite totalitarian and generally not liked in the West. There is no excuse -- not culture, not tradition -- for this kind of hate and inhumanity. Alcohol is already banned in Brunei, as are showy Christmas celebrations, and there are fines and jail sentences for having children out of wedlock and failing to pray on a Friday. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah instituted the code in to bolster the influence of Islam in the oil-rich monarchy of aroundpeople, two-thirds of whom are Muslim. Islam has no place in a free country.
This is a direct, top-down creation, it is something the sultan has pushed extremely hard for over decades.
The match between Team U. How coincidental and symbolic that the Palestinian gay controversy erupted on the very day that tens of thousands of Israelis were celebrating gay pride in Israel. The announcement that sharia law is to be rolled out from next week, specifically targeting the gay community, was met with horror by human rights groups.
Ishtiwi had given Israeli forces the coordinates for an Aug.
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