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Jordanian Gay Muslim Outs Himself to Muslim Scholars at Conference
OHANNESBURG, December 3, 2007 (PlusNews) -
Suhail AbualSameed looked calm, yet he was shaking inside. He was seated before a row of ulama, distinguished Islamic scholars, from Afghanistan to Yemen at the International Consultation on Islam and HIV/AIDS, organised by the charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)...
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Gay Jordanian Now ‘Gloriously Free’ in Canada
The Globe & Mail,
May 20, 2004
444 Front St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2S9 Canada
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By Marina Jimenez
When the family of Al-Hussein, son of a wealthy Jordanian politician, found out he was gay, they threw him down the stairs.
While he was recovering in hospital from a broken leg and smashed jaw, his younger brother shot him in the ankle.
A bureaucrat in the Jordanian government, his brother was never prosecuted for this act of public violence because it was considered a “family matter.”
Mr. Hussein knew that under Islamic law, he had got off lightly: He could be stoned to death for committing...
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Sexual activity :
Same-sex male :
Legal - Age 16
same-sex female :
Legal - Age 16
Has no sodomy laws, the age of
sexual consent is 16 for all. Punishes sexual intercourse with
persons under the age of 16 (male or female) with forced
labour for three to five years, while the punishment for sex
with a male or female under the age of 13
can receive no less than five years imprisonment.***
***This information taken from the website Gay Rights Info