News: Medical test to 'detect' homosexuals in GCC member countries

Kendi

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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.

This controversial stance is being toughened, according to Yousouf Mindkar, the director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry.

He told Kuwait newspaper Al Rai: ‘Health centres conduct the routine medical check to assess the health of the expatriates when they come into the GCC countries. However, we will take stricter measures that will help us detect gays who will be then barred from entering Kuwait or any of the GCC member states.’

Richard Lane, from gay rights campaign group Stonewall, said: ‘These proposals are not only futile but contrary to international human rights law. Many Gulf states have gone to great lengths to market themselves as open for international business. Their leaders should think long and hard about putting forward measures to restrict freedom of movement and further prohibit the best talent from doing business in the region simply because of their sexual orientation.'

Those taking part in homosexual acts in Kuwait, if they’re under 21, can receive a jail sentence of up to 10 years.

Earlier this month Oman newspaper The Week was suspended over an article that was deemed to be sympathetic to homosexuals, according to the BBC.

It’s illegal to be gay in 78 countries, with lesbianism banned in 49. Five countries mete out the death penalty to gay people – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Mauritania.

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stronger23

i hope they succeeded, i was NEVER planning to go there anyway

brIt-()nstar

Oh god, Middle Eastern ATRLers better be careful y'all

Or just ****ing run to Israel NOW.

seanoh

This is so sad

FuckTheMorning

Bright

Wow what's their prob tbh ?

Mike91

There is no medically possible way of determining if someone is gay so it's not just something gay people should fear, but straight people as well since if they even think you're gay at this point, they'll punish you.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Rogue

As much as I try to understand, I just can't.

!Blue!

Good luck with succeding then

abrahamjmr

This is absolutely ridiculous plus there is no medically possible way to determinate if someone is gay or not. We are already in 2013 and I can't believe there are still a lot of countries that banned homosexuality. As stronger23 said, thank God I am not planning to go there.

Whorehaus of Gaga

This is completely ridiculous and degrading.

RomanNavy

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Originally posted by abrahamjmr

This is absolutely ridiculous plus there is no medically possible way to determinate if someone is gay or not. We are already in 2013 and I can't believe there are still a lot of countries that banned homosexuality. As stronger23 said, thank God I am not planning to go there.

There actually is.
The brains of a homosexual look exactly like the brain of a straight woman and is different from a straight man.

However it's ****ing sad.
And these regimes are being supported by the United States of America so don't think anything is gonna change soon since America supports gay hate
Disgusting

HausOfCarlos

OMFG I LIVE IN DUBAI SOMEONE HELP

mylicious

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Originally posted by RomanNavy

There actually is.
The brains of a homosexual look exactly like the brain of a straight woman and is different from a straight man.

WOW, THAT IS CRAP LMAO!

Samuel

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Originally posted by RomanNavy

There actually is.
The brains of a homosexual look exactly like the brain of a straight woman and is different from a straight man.

However it's ****ing sad.
And these regimes are being supported by the United States of America so don't think anything is gonna change soon since America supports gay hate
Disgusting

No, studies have just shown that gay men's brains in general share certain similarities with straight women's brains but it's not the case for every single gay man or even been scientifically proven.

Anyway, I don't know how they'd exactly do this but even so the idea alone is disgusting

RomanNavy

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Originally posted by HausOfCarlos

OMFG I LIVE IN DUBAI SOMEONE HELP

Sis you betta hide those Britney/ Gaga albums

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Originally posted by mylicious

WOW, THAT IS CRAP LMAO!

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Scientists at the Karolinska Institute studied brain scans of 90 gay and straight men and women, and found that the size of the two symmetrical halves of the brains of gay men more closely resembled those of straight women than they did straight men.

http://content.time.com/time/health/...815538,00.html

BadKidBrodie

Or even easier - They could track down every person that bought Work Bitch on iTunes.

HausOfCarlos

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Originally posted by RomanNavy

Sis you betta hide those Britney/ Gaga albums

http://content.time.com/time/health/...815538,00.html

putting them in the back of my car, moving out of the country now tbh

Bright

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Originally posted by BadKidBrodie

Or even easier - They could track down every person that bought Work Bitch on iTunes.

Bright

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Originally posted by HausOfCarlos

putting them in the back of my car, moving out of the country now tbh

Could you btw ?