January 02, 2006

Gay mag's race hatred filtered down to Islamophobia

Look at this from the Guardian. Apparently the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) magazine is under fire from "other gay rights groups" for saying that
Islam is growing "like a canker" in the UK through "unrestrained and irresponsible breeding".

The magazine also published an article endorsing the rightwing populist Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, and described immigrants as "ill educated and culturally estranged Third Worlders".
I had to look up "canker". It's not a nice thing to say. But it gets worse.
Galha's executive committee said the magazine's editor and deputy editor had been forced to resign over the comments, published in the autumn issue, and the magazine had been relaunched under a new editorial team. "We've done everything we can to rectify the situation," said the secretary of Galha, George Broadhead.

The group has renounced the comments about immigrants and immigration, which Mr Broadhead admitted could be "regarded as potentially racist". However, he said he stood by the remarks about Muslims and Islam.

Mr Broadhead wrote in the magazine: "What is wrong with being fearful of Islam? (There is a lot to fear) ... What does a moderate Muslim do, other than excuse the real nutters by adhering to this barmy doctrine?"

He described his article as "slightly over the top in wording maybe but basically we're saying Islam is homophobic".
Actually from their website they also say that Christianity and Orthodox Judaism are homophobic. But most of their ire is reserved for Islam and there is no analysis of homophobia in Judaism.

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