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[QUOTE]Originally posted by yql718: [QB] Could Islam really be this gay unfriendly though? According to some claims, there is plenty of homosexuality in the Arab countries, and various Muslim religious writings even promise young boys available in paradise. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_the_Middle_East) Are these claims false? Could not Islam be more gay friendly than claimed and these stories about persecution exaggerated? It is claimed for example that: According to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2004 [i]Whatever the legal strictures on sexual activity, the positive expression of male homeoerotic sentiment in literature was accepted, and assiduously cultivated, from the late eighth century until modern times. First in Arabic, but later also in Persian, Turkish and Urdu, love poetry by men about boys more than competed with that about women, it overwhelmed it. Anecdotal literature reinforces this impression of general societal acceptance of the public celebration of male-male love..[/i] Also the Iranian president argued that homosexuality does not exist in Iran. If true, this would make stories of persecution untenable. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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