Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay, Pc

The Nobel peace prize winner and president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has defended a law that criminalises homosexual acts, saying: "We like ourselves just the way we are." In a joint interview with Tony Blair, who was left looking visibly uncomfortable by her remarks, Sirleaf told the Guardian: "We've got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve."

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Education

"I asked if my race would pose a problem. There was dead silence on the other end of the line. With a faint stutter, the principal of the school replied, 'Frankly speaking, we would like our teachers to look professional. I mean, please don't get me wrong, but we would like a white teacher'."

Liberal, Racism, Narrative

Lou Jing sings Shanghai opera and speaks fluent Mandarin, but when she competed to be China's next reality TV pop star, it was not her voice that was criticised - it was her black skin.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative

Reports of racist attacks in Russia have become disturbingly regular in recent years.

Narrative, Gay, Tolerance

A state in western India banned Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld's new book about Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday after reviews saying it hints that the father of India's independence had a homosexual relationship.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative

The image of President Barack Obama as Colonel Sanders advertising a fried chicken restaurant would immediately be flagged as unacceptably racist, but that seems to be exactly what has popped up in Beijing. The Daily Mail reports that “Obama Fried Chicken,” complete with the President in suspenders and bow tie and the slogan, “We’re so cool, aren’t we?”

Hate, Violence, Narrative, Tolerance, Islam

Jewish groups say anti-Semitic attacks increased in several European countries following the Gaza war, notably the Netherlands and France. Across the narrow Oresund Strait, Jews in Copenhagen say they have also felt a rise in Muslim anti-Semitism but are less worried, said Yitzchok Loewenthal of the Jewish International Organization in the Danish capital.

Liberal, Narrative, Tolerance

Ahmadinejad: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals."

Liberal, Narrative, Tolerance, Communism

Fidel Castro has said that he is ultimately responsible for the persecution suffered by homosexuals in Cuba after the revolution of 1959.

Editorial, Government, Gay, Communism

Via Washington Examiner columnist Mark Hemingway comes news that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” (maricones) who served the interests of imperialism, has “taken blame” for his revolution’s “excesses” against gay Cubans, which once included sending sexual counterrevolutionaries to prison camps. After offering a string of lame excuses—he was too busy thwarting American plots to stop sending his citizens to prison for being gay—Castro stopped short of actually apologizing.

Liberal, Narrative, Tolerance

Racism and xenophobia have been reported in Sweden. According to the European network against racism, skin color, ethnic/religious background have significant impact on an individual's opportunities in the labor market, affecting mainly Roma, Blacks and Muslims. Some ethnic minorities, especially Jews, are also at larger risk to face threats and violence.

Liberal, Narrative, Gay, Tolerance

For one thing, persecution of gays appears to have persisted well past the “initial stages” of the Cuban revolution. There were reports of police crackdowns on gays in 2004 and 2001, and good travel information is sketchy, but it appears the police still regularly shut down gay clubs.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

SHROUDED in mystery and myth, the heroes of Mexico's Aztec past are honored in glorious monuments all over the country. But the living descendants of Moctezuma are not allowed to eat in some of Mexico City's best restaurants. Although all Mexicans are considered equal under the country's Constitution, Mexican society remains deeply divided on racial lines.

Liberal, Narrative, Tolerance

One of my more amusing memories is from the time when the Soviet Union still existed and I was teaching sociology in a major Australian university. On one memorable occasion, we had a representative of the Soviet Womens' organization visit us -- a stout and heavily made-up lady of mature years. When she was ushered into our conference room, she was greeted with something like adulation by the local Marxists. In question time after her talk, however, someone asked her how homosexuals were treated in the USSR. She replied: "We don't have any. That was before the revolution". -John J. Ray

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

Then in May, while making yet another speech about how America couldn't function without illegal immigrants from Mexico, Fox managed to insult African Americans in the process. He claimed that illegals do the work that "not even black people want to do," implying that African Americans make up the lowest rungs of society.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

Although denied officially and, personally by many Mexicans, racism in Mexico is so evident that most foreigners notice it right away... Racism is equally present in the world of business. Go to a gathering of business executives, and while you are starting to see some (but few) women, you do not see "dark" people. Read want ads, and often you will find the words " presentación impeccable" (impeccable looks), which is a coded phrase to mean white and good looking.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

The White House on Thursday objected to a postage stamp issued by the Mexican government, saying that “racial stereotypes are offensive no matter what their origin” and have no place in today’s world. The stamp depicts an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

First came reports that Little Black Sambo dolls and black mannequins with grotesquely large lips were on display in Tokyo department stores. Then Michio Watanabe, a senior strategist in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, publicly suggested that U.S. blacks were irresponsible...

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

Two-thirds of the nation thinks that there’s a lot or quite a lot of racism in Finland. Despite this, only two per cent of Finns see in themselves much racist sentiment, while 12 per cent admit to possessing quite a lot.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Tolerance

African immigrants may no longer draw stares in Poland’s bigger cities, but problems remain for the tiny community as it strives to make its voice heard and combat stereotypes in the largely white former Soviet bloc.

Saudi Labour Minister Ghazi Al Gosaibi has warned against growing racism among Saudis towards the millions of foreign workers in the kingdom, media reports said on Monday.

Liberal, Narrative, Tolerance, Islam

A report by the U.S. government's commission on religious freedom says public schools and madrassas - private religious schools - in Pakistan are fueling discrimination by casting Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities in a negative light. The report also documents how schools in the mostly-Muslim country are not teaching religious tolerance.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative

OKLAHOMA CITY — The nation's second-largest Indian tribe said on Tuesday that it would not be dictated to by the U.S. government over its move to banish 2,800 African Americans from its citizenship rolls. The dispute stems from the fact that some wealthy Cherokee owned black slaves who worked on their plantations in the South. By the 1830s, most of the tribe was forced to relocate to present-day Oklahoma, and many took their slaves with them. The so-called Freedmen are descendants of those slaves.

Racism

Black men are up to five times as likely to be unemployed as white men, according to government figures released today which suggest that ethnic minorities face widespread discrimination looking for jobs.

Liberal, Narrative

The French have grown more likely to believe that Jews hold too much power in business or world finance, as well as other "classical anti-Semitic notions," according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League that compares attitudes in 2009 and 2012. The poll, released Tuesday, found nearly half of the French people surveyed said they think it is "probably true" that Jews there are more loyal to Israel than France, an increase from years past. Asked if Jews "still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust," more than a third of the respondents agreed.

Liberal, Narrative

Even as French Jews are still in shock and mourning after the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse, fear stalks the community. As the BBC has noted, the beating of another student at a Jewish school by anti-Semitic assailants is only the most notable example.

Liberal, Narrative, Immigration

ATHENS, Greece — Human rights group Amnesty International has criticized Greece’s government for its decision to launch police sweeps to detain illegal immigrants. The London-based organization on Monday said police were using “discriminatory criteria” in street stops of people suspected of being illegal immigrants. The group says the sweeps and other police methods also deny many asylum-seekers a fair application process.

Liberal, Narrative, Tolerance

A newspaper in Mexico is detailing Sunday’s “burning of the Jews,” an annual tradition in Coita, a small town in the state of Chiapas. As part of the custom, locals spend the middle of their Holy Week making Jewish effigies — a reference to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus before his crucifixion. The fake Jews are then displayed for three days in different parts of the town, serving as an example of poor conduct. They’re ultimately paraded through the streets on Easter Sunday, with local children assigned to stand in front of them and collect money for flammable materials.

Liberal, Narrative

"Tveitt went into the Parliament building dressed in a thin summer jacket with the Star of David on the chest pocket. But after he had talked in the Parliament restaurant with Parliament members from the Progress, Conservative, and Labor parties, he was sought out by two security guards who asked him to come with them 'because they had received reactions' to Tveitt’s flag symbol... The two guards escorted him to the wardrobe. After he had hung up his jacket, they followed him back to his table. As Tveitt points out, "People walk around [in Parliament] with Palestinian scarves and other pro-Palestinian symbols without any reaction."

Liberal, Violence, Threats, Narrative, Oops, Gay

The criminal charge is applied toward people who are accused of taking part in homosexual acts in Gambia. In 2008, President Yahya Jammeh told gays and lesbians to leave the country or have their heads cut off. Gays and lesbians face threats of violence and discrimination across the continent. In western Africa, legislators in Liberia and Nigeria are also trying to pass laws that would increase the legal penalties for homosexuality in those countries.

Liberal, Narrative

But in the spring of 2004, a group of immigrants just under the age of 15—too young to be prosecuted by Swedish law—walked into the store yelling about “damn Jews.” The owner was hit in the face by one of the boys. Yasha, an 85-year-old customer…was struck in the back of his head…“I left Poland to get away from anti-Semitism,” he later told the police. “But at least there I never experienced any violence. That only happened to me here, in Sweden.”

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Communism

Until recently, Cuban society and government policies were deeply homophobic; in the revolution’s early days, gay men were sent to labor camps. Fidel Castro now publicly says he regrets that action.

Narrative, Tolerance

Civil rights campaigners say there are serious divisions between the conservative majority and the small liberal minority in the small Caucasus state. "Our society has created certain criteria of what a human should be like. It despises and does not accept those who diverge a little bit from these criteria," said Mamikon Hovsepian, head of campaign group PINK Armenia. He said that incidents of gay-bashing were common, but the victims are often too afraid to go to the police.

Liberal, Narrative

On Sunday, LGBT activists trying to demonstrate for the right to hold a gay Pride parade in Moscow were blocked by police, who detained dozens.

Liberal, Violence, Narrative, Protest, Sexism, Assault

CAIRO (AP) – A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Liberal, Hate, Violence, Narrative, Gay

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A 23-year-old black South African was killed last week in an apparent hate crime after getting into an argument about his sexuality, according to South African reports. Thapelo Makutle, who lived an openly gay and transgender life in Kuruman township in the Northern Cape province, was found Friday with his throat cut in the room where he lived, according to reports.

Liberal, Hate, Racism, Narrative

KIEV, Ukraine—Hate crimes are on the rise in Ukraine, a group of human rights organizations said Wednesday, amid calls to boycott European Championship matches because of the threat of racially motivated abuse. Ukraine, which is a co-host of Euro 2012 along with neighboring Poland, has been rocked by accusations of racism and a recent call by a former England soccer to not attend matches here because fans might return "in a coffin."

Liberal, Narrative, Oops

Ugandan police on Monday raided a gay rights workshop in Kampala and questioned activists attending the gathering, rights campaigners said. East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, the organisation behind the workshop, said that police interrupted the meeting and began questioning participants at the event, including activists from Canada, Kenya and Rwanda. The police forced their way into some of the activists' hotel rooms, the group said in a statement.

Liberal, Violence, Narrative, Oops, Gay, Islam

Shortly after his sermon about the importance of gratitude, Philips clarified his views on homosexuality in a one-on-one interview. In short, he only thinks homosexuals should be executed in Muslim countries and only after four people have witnessed the homosexual act. "The media tends to take my words out of context," Philips said. "If you go back and view the lectures in which I spoke about this, those lectures were basically in defence of the sharia - the Islamic law. "So, in explaining there that homosexuality, adultery, these are both punishable by execution where there is incontrovertible evidence, they have to have been witnessed by four trusted people in society. That is sufficient then to bring that punishment on them in a Muslim country where the sharia is applied," he explained.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian police have broken up attempts to hold two gay rights rallies in St. Petersburg, which this spring adopted a law against spreading “homosexual propaganda.” Three rally organizers were arrested Saturday at a park in Russia’s second city, and five others were detained at a later rally attempt near the landmark Smolny complex, Russian news agencies reported.

Hate, Narrative

The Lebanese judo team forced International Olympic Committee officials to erect a barrier between themselves and the Israeli judo squad, Friday afternoon in London, just hours before the Games’ opening ceremony, reports Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot.

Narrative, Tolerance

PARIS (AP) - Authorities say two pigs' heads were found hanging outside a mosque in southern France. The local mayor denounced what she described as "intimidation." Pigs are considered unclean by Muslims, who are forbidden from eating pork and are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. A statement from the office of Mayor Brigitte Bareges in Montauban said the heads were found attached to entrance pillars outside the Salam Mosque, with a large pool of blood on the ground below.

Narrative, Adult

Dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts in the Lebanese capital on Saturday to protest the use of anal "tests" on men suspected of homosexuality, which is a criminal offence in the Arab country. The rally followed a July 28 police raid on a gay venue in a working class district of Beirut when 36 men were taken into custody and forced to undergo the examinations, reportedly to determine their sexual orientation.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops

An explosive device detonated in front of a Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden, early Friday morning. There were no injuries reported. The blast blew out some windows and caused damage to the front door of the building. The explosion was heard several blocks away, according to Swedish media outlet Varlden Idag. Two suspects were arrested following the explosion, but initial reports did not reveal their identities or any possible motives.

Liberal, Hate, Violence, Racism, Threats, Narrative

A SHOCKING video showing passengers on a Melbourne bus abusing and threatening to stab a French woman who sang a song in her native tongue has re-ignited the debate about racism in Australia. The footage shows a middle-aged man yelling "speak English or die, motherf-----" at the French woman who is being jeered by other passengers. The man then says, "Everyone on the bus wants to kill ya! You're gonna have to get off eventually bitch. You worked that out yet?"

Liberal, Crime, Hate, Incitement, Violence, Racism, Narrative

BERLIN – The Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) announced on Tuesday the result of two new reports showing hate-based crimes across the EU. According to one FRA study, “on average, 18% of all Roma and 18% of all sub-Saharan African respondents in the survey indicated that they had experienced at least one racially motivated crime in the last 12 months.” EU countries, such as Austria and Hungary, have been rocked over the last week by outbreaks of political and Islamic-based anti-Semitic incidents. In Vienna, a group of radical Austrian Muslims called for “death to the Jews” during a protest against the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops

In Afghanistan, Iran, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan "atheists can face the death penalty on the grounds of their belief" although this was in violation of U.N. human rights accords, the IHEU said.

Liberal, Narrative, Gay

Lebanon has a reputation as the most liberal country in the conservative Middle East, but even a night on the town for gays can end in arrest and humiliating sexuality "tests"... In July 2012, 36 men arrested at a gay cinema in a working-class Beirut neighbourhood were subjected to the test, prompting protests. Human Rights Watch, calling the examinations "tests of shame", urged the justice ministry to end the practice.

Liberal, Narrative

A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators say, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country. The victim's battered and naked body was found in the courtyard of an apartment building in the southern city of Volgograd on Friday morning, said a spokeswoman for regional investigators.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay, Tolerance

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Lawmakers in Nigeria passed a bill Thursday banning gay marriage and outlawing anyone from forming organizations supporting gay rights, setting prison terms of up to 14 years for offenders. Nigeria's House of Representatives approved the bill in a voice vote, likely sending it immediately to President Goodluck Jonathan for him to potentially sign into law in Africa's most populous nation.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay, Tolerance

Homophobic attacks have reached dangerous levels in sub-Saharan Africa and must stop, Amnesty International has said in a report. Governments are increasingly criminalising "homosexual acts" by seeking to impose new laws and draconian penalties, it adds. This sends the "toxic message" that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are criminals, the report says. Some of the continent's leaders say homosexuality is un-African.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay

In Russia it is now illegal to even speak about homosexuality around minors, much less openly display gay pride... Violators face steep fines and jail time; foreigners face similar penalties plus deportation. So what will happen to openly gay athletes and fans, as well as any vocal supporters or protestors, when Russia hosts the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi? This week, comments by a lawmaker from St. Petersburg set off a firestorm online when he said that fans and athletes would not be immune from prosecution during the games

Liberal, Hate, Narrative, Oops, Gay

A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to 'detect' homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country – or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official. GCC member countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – already deem homosexual acts unlawful.

Liberal, Degeneracy, Narrative, Press, Gay, Law, Bias

NEW DELHI—India's Supreme Court Wednesday overturned a lower court's ruling that had decriminalized gay sex, a disappointing surprise setback for the gay-rights movement in this largely conservative country... Rights groups say the law—known as Section 377 for its place in a 150-year-old Indian penal code—had been used for decades to harass homosexuals... The colonial-era law at the heart of the decision Wednesday has existed since 1860. It prohibits people from engaging in "carnal acts against the order of nature," and was used against same-sex couples. India's retreat on the rules now in effect makes consensual sex between same-sex adults punishable by a fine and up to a 10-year prison term.

Liberal, Crime, Narrative, Oops, Gay, Law

Ugandan lawmakers Friday passed an anti-gay bill that calls for life imprisonment for certain homosexual acts, drawing criticism from rights campaigners who called it the worst such legislation in the world. When the bill was first introduced in 2009, it was widely condemned for including the death penalty, but that was removed from the revised version passed by parliament.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay, Tolerance, Islam

Nigerian authorities today began arresting gay men after legislation was quietly approved criminalising homosexuality and imposing prison terms up to 14 years for breaking the new law. Several gay couples were taken into custody in the country’s majority-Muslim north, and rights groups feared that others would be targeted across the West African country.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops

Veteran President Yoweri Museveni has announced he would sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life, despite warnings from key allies including the United States.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay

Mexico coach Miguel Herrera downplayed a homophobic chant that Mexican fans hurl at opposing goalkeepers during matches, arguing that it’s just a “folksy” part of the game, and is not being used in discriminatory fashion.

Hate, Violence, Narrative

A 38 year-old man was assaulted in Malmö, Sweden, on Sunday – for the sole crime of hanging an Israeli flag in his window. The assailants broke the man’s window first, prompting him to seek the perpetrators, police said. “After that the man went out onto the street to see what was going on. Then he was attacked and it was on the basis of the flag. That is the information we have at present,” police told the TT news agency Monday.

Hypocrisy, Hate, Demagoguery

ANTWERP, Belgium – A Belgian physician who refused to treat a Jewish woman with a fractured rib suggested she visit Gaza to get rid of the pain. The physician made the remark on Wednesday while manning a medical hotline in Flanders, Belgium’s Flemish region, whose capital, Antwerp, has a sizeable Orthodox Jewish population, the local Jewish monthly Joods Actueel reported Thursday.

Liberal, Hate, Violence, Narrative, Smears, Assault

A rabbi from the Swedish city of Malmo was attacked by men who hurled objects at him from a car and used anti-Semitic pejoratives. Rabbi Shneur Kesselman was assaulted on Saturday night along with a member of his congregation, the Sydsvenskan daily reported Sunday. The attack, which resulted in no physical injuries, came on the heels of vandalism against the southern city’s main synagogue on July 31, when unidentified individuals smashed three of the building’s windows by hurling objects at them.

Hate, Incitement, Violence, Threats, Narrative, Vandalism

In the space of just one week last month, according to Crif, the umbrella group for France's Jewish organisations, eight synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed by a 400-strong mob. A kosher supermarket and pharmacy were smashed and looted; the crowd's chants and banners included "Death to Jews" and "Slit Jews' throats".

Liberal, Hate, Violence, Threats, Narrative, Religion

As they approached the the city’s neighborhoods with higher Muslim populations, the threats only increased. Some 20 percent of the 300,000 residents of Sweden’s third-largest city are Muslim, according to statistics. “Then a whole gang came along to threaten the ‘Jewish’ reporter,” while occupants of neighboring homes shouted abuse at him...

  There are only about 600 Jews remaining; many have left for Stockholm and other cities because they can’t take the hatred. During the first six months of 2013, Malmo police reported 35 attacks on Jews – triple the previous year, according to an official who spoke with The Jerusalem Post.

Liberal, Hate, Narrative, Oops

Anti-Semitic incidents reached a record level in the UK last year, according to the Community Security Trust. A report by the trust, which provides security for Britain's Jewish community and monitors anti-Semitism, said the number of incidents had more than doubled to 1,168 in 2014. It is the highest figure since the trust began monitoring in 1984.

Liberal, Hate, Narrative, Tolerance

‘You Jew’ was the anti-Semitic scream which came from a passing car. My shaken wife tried to explain it away to my seven-year-old daughter as a very large sneeze. They were simply playing in a local park in Manchester a few weeks ago when the incident ripped through what should have been a peaceful and wholesome time for any mother and child.

  ‘Fight the Jewish scum’ and ‘Jew, Jew, Jew… Run’, were the more vicious threats hurled at me in the past few days, however, when I decided to secretly film and find out whether ‘Jew-hatred’ really is alive and kicking on British streets. The answer to that question is a resounding and heart-sinking yes.

Liberal, Hate, Narrative

As reported by the Austrian daily Der Standard, some fifty Bosnian soccer fans broke into a chant of “Kill, kill the Jews!” during a pro-Palestinian rally in Vienna’s central Saint Stephan’s Square last week. The incident appears to have occurred on Tuesday, when the Bosnian national team was in town for a match against the Austrian team.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay

Kenyan leaders are warning President Obama not to bring his “gay agenda” with him when he visits his father’s homeland at the end of this month to open the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit... Irungu Kangata, a lawmaker in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance (TNA) party, said, “We are telling Mr. Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home.” Kangata, according to The Standard of Nairobi, said Kenyans would protest against Obama over the gay agenda issue while he visited their country.

Liberal, Hate, Threats, Narrative, Oops, Gay

A Turkish Islamist group has pinned posters to walls and posts in the capital Ankara threatening gays with death, adding to concerns over growing intolerance against homosexuals in the country, an AFP correspondent said Tuesday. The appearance of the posters in Ankara comes just over a week after Turkish police prevented Istanbul's annual gay pride march - a successful tradition in the last years - from going ahead and used water cannon against activists who showed defiance.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Oops

In the end of July, a number of Ukrainian newspapers broke the story of 23-year-old Asi, a refugee from the African state of Sierra Leone who came to Ukraine just six months ago. At the bus station at the town of Uzhgorod, which is in West Ukraine, the young woman and her 8-month-old son were trying to board the bus but were violently thrown off by the furious passengers who didn’t want to travel in her company because she “was not like them.”

  The violent attack was filmed by the angry crowd that was shouting “Tie her to the fence together with the kid!” The bus driver called police, who upon arrival … hand-cuffed and took away the unfortunate victim of racial abuse who was hysterically screaming in English, facing the hostile crowd of Ukrainian “Europeans” who couldn’t understand her pleas.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops

A British diplomat is calling for the closure of camps in Ghana where thousands of women are imprisoned after being accused of witchcraft. Hundreds of women are living in poor conditions in the five camps in the north of the country after being accused of dabbling in the occult by superstitious neighbours and even their own families.

Liberal, Crime, Racism, Narrative, Oops

Migrants from West Africa are being openly traded in "public slave markets" across Libya... Survivors have told the International Organization for Migration (IOM) how there are slave markets and private prisons all over Libya.

  Mohammed Abdiker, IOM's head of operation and emergencies, told The Guardian: "The situation is dire. The more IOM engages inside Libya, the more we learn that it is a vale of tears for all too many migrants."

  One survivor from Senegal spoke of how he was brought by smugglers across Niger in a bus to the southern Libyan city of Sabha, where he was due to risk a boat trip to Europe. When the middleman did not get his fee, the survivor was put up for sale along with other passengers.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Gay

Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have launched an anti-gay campaign that has led to authorities rounding up dozens of men suspected of being homosexual, according to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and human rights activists. The newspaper’s report, by an author regarded as a leading authority on Chechnya, claimed that more than 100 people had been detained and three men killed in the roundup.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Smears, Gay

They’ve been begged by star players to stop it, fined repeatedly, and threatened with dramatic sanctions that could hurt their national team’s chances in the World Cup.

  But Mexican soccer fans have been loath to give up their favorite game-day chant, a homophobic slur that has been condemned by gay rights groups, government officials and international soccer authorities.

Liberal, Hate, Violence, Threats, Narrative, Oops

One in three British Jews have considered leaving the country because they no longer feel safe here.

  And almost four in 10 say they hide their faith for fear of antisemitic attacks, a poll found. The survey by YouGov shows that only 59 per cent of Britain’s 270,000 Jewish people feel welcome in the UK.

Liberal, Narrative, Gay

Six Egyptian men arrested for “promoting sexual deviancy” and “debauchery” on social media will be subjected to anal examinations ahead of their Oct. 1 trial, Amnesty International said on Saturday.

  Their arrest is part of a wider crackdown against homosexuality that started last week when a group of people were seen raising a rainbow flag at a concert, a rare public show of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the conservative Muslim country.

Liberal, Narrative, Oops, Justice, Gay, Law

In response to questions today in Tehran from a reporter for the mass circulation German paper Bild, the Islamic Republic of Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated his country's lethal homophobic law and its opposition to the Jewish state and the US...

  Regarding Iran's execution of gays, Zarif said that: "Our society has moral principles, and according to these principles we live. These are moral principles regarding the behavior of people in general. And that's because the law is upheld and you abide by laws."

Degeneracy, Healthcare, Communism, Theft

The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are still alive, an international tribunal sitting in London has concluded.

  Some of the more than 1.5 million detainees in Chinese prison camps are being killed for their organs to serve a booming transplant trade that is worth some $1 billion a year, concluded the China Tribunal, an independent body tasked with investigating organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in the authoritarian state.

Narrative, Gay

A UN report released Wednesday on widespread human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran contains shocking findings that the theocratic state imposed electric torture on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children.

  The UN Special Rapporteur for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, wrote that he is “concerned at reports that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children were subjected to electric shocks and the administration of hormones and strong psychoactive medications..."

Liberal, Narrative, Gay, Tolerance

Homosexuality may be considered “a psychological disorder” in the eyes of Chinese law.

  Citing controversial academic literature, a court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu ruled that a textbook defining queerness as a disorder is not “factual error,” but a divergent “academic view,” the South China Morning Post reported. The ruling, from the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court, upholds a lower court’s ruling.

Liberal, Racism, Narrative, Oops, Sexism

A new study conducted by a group of university professors found that most Americans actually report experiencing very little discrimination.

The study, led by Professor Brian Boutwell, consisted of reviewing response data from a survey of more than 14,000 Americans, finding that the vast majority claim to have “never” or “rarely” been a victim of discrimination. The results, relatively consistent across racial lines, found that only 25 percent of Americans responded “yes” to ever experiencing discrimination.

Liberal, Narrative, Gay, Islam, Murder

The Islamist terror militia Taliban have drawn up a “kill list” to hunt down known homosexuals in Afghanistan, an NGO working inside the country says. “We now know for sure the Taliban has a ‘kill list’ circulating, identifying LBTQI+ persons,” the head of the Canada-based gay rights NGO, Rainbow Railroad, told the French public broadcaster France24.

  As the Taliban imposes Islamic law in Afghanistan, vulnerable groups such as women, gays, and religious minorities are in the crosshairs of its Sharia enforcers. “In many cases, the Taliban are actively searching for these individuals: their time is running out,” the NGO said in a statement issued this week.