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On behalf of our Jewish readers (as well as our Muslim and Christian ones) we wish to tell Daniel Levy, the Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, that we want nothing whatsoever to do with the club's promotion of homosexuality. 'Rainbow Laces' is well out of order.
Our Jewish scripture is unequivocal in its prohibition of homosexuality. Leviticus 20:13 says: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them". Daniel Levy - you have betrayed your Jewish heritage. Bill Nicholson will be turning in his grave. Our golden years were in the 1960's under Bill Nick. An era when society had decent values. Whatever next Mr Levy? Tottenham Trans Team? With Harry Kane wearing a dress and pink lipstick?'
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have... Leviticus 20:13 - English Standard version Leviticus 20:13 — The New International Version (NIV) Leviticus 20:13 — King James Version (KJV 1900) Leviticus 20:13 — New Living Translation (NLT) Leviticus 20:13 — The New King James Version (NKJV) Leviticus 20:13 — New Century Version (NCV) Leviticus 20:13 — American Standard Version (ASV 1901) Leviticus 20:13 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY) Leviticus 20:13 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW) Leviticus 20:13 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) Leviticus 20:13 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Leviticus 20:13 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB) Leviticus 20:13 — New International Reader’s Version (NIrV) Leviticus 20:13 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
Source: biblia.com
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Martin Samuel, the Jewish journalist at the Daily Mail, accepts that Muslim footballers do not have to tolerate the despised 'Rainbow Laces' homosexual 'rights' campaign as Islam/the Quran instructs the faithful that homosexuality is a perversion; a sickness punishable in the next life if not this one. Read Martin Samuel's article below. The Islamic position is exactly the same as in Judaism - the delightful words of admonishment in Leviticus serve humanity well. Moreover, these teachings mirror what Christianity teaches the followers of Christ. Hence the wisdom of the great Margaret Thatcher who as Prime Minister bestowed on the country a moralistic law forbidding the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities via an amended clause 28 of the Local Government Act 1988. Indeed, in the 1960's homosexuality was, rightly, a crime in the United Kingdom. The forces of perversion have now taken over infecting society with an appalling sickness. The Jews, Muslims and what remains of those observant Christians no doubt hope that God will destroy 'Stonewall' - the leading organisation promoting homosexual and transgender 'rights'. Homosexuals are despised in Jamaica and rightly so. Football fans in the U.K have traditionally hated homosexuals. Homosexuals will always be prosecuted to the full extent of the law in Islamic countries. Christian communities in African countries also find the practice of homosexuality a truly vile activity, where it will remain criminalised. Stonewall is Islamophobic and anti-Semitic and Christ-phobic. Football fans must fight back ... express your opposition to Rainbow Laces at every possible opportunity. May God send all at Stonewall to Hell on Judgment Day.
MARTIN SAMUEL - Chief Sports writer Why Gueye should not be forced to wear rainbow shirt This was always going to happen. Rainbow laces, rainbow numbers, rainbow campaigns. At what point was anyone in football, in sport really, going to stop and appreciate that not everybody in the world thinks like us. Oh, they should. We are certain they should. The armies of the West travel the world ensuring the rest of the planet thinks as we do and has our best interests at heart. The West has a proselytising vigour as fervent as any imam, particularly if money’s at stake. Yet the idea that everybody must buy into its gestures, its causes, its virtuous signalling of goodness — well, that was always going to be challenged somewhere along the line. Indeed, the surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner. That it has taken until now for a player to publicly refuse to co-operate with the consensus. It has been reported that Idrissa Gueye, formerly of Aston Villa and Everton, and now with Paris Saint-Germain, refused to wear a shirt for a match against Montpellier that had been embossed with a rainbow design. The team numbers were set out in rainbow colours in support of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Gueye is not necessarily for prejudice and intolerance, but he is a practising Muslim. On June 15, 2018, while still an Everton player, his Twitter account sent the following message: ‘Eid Mubarak to all the Muslims around the world. May Allah bless us and protect us.’ Gueye comes from Senegal, where 97.2 per cent of the population are Muslim. In a 2013 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey, 97 per cent of Senegalese residents believed homosexuality as a way of life was unacceptable. That had not changed from a previous survey conducted in 2007, and is unlikely to have changed much since. ‘Never, under my authority, will homosexuality be legalised in the Senegalese lands,’ said president Macky Sall in 2016. The punishment for homosexual acts is a prison sentence of up to five years and in 2021 a group of Senegalese lawmakers attempted to get that doubled, with five years becoming the minimum sentence, 10 the maximum. So that’s the background. Specifically, Gueye’s background, but until this week nothing was thought of it. Last year, when Gueye missed the corresponding fixture against Reims, his absence was put down to gastroenteritis and taken at face value. It wasn’t as if he stood on a soapbox and declaimed. He just didn’t want to wear the shirt, or the laces, or indulge whatever particular gesture football was employing that year to show it cared. And this is the strange thing with football. It is very keen on standing up for the rights of the individual, so long as they do not include the right to say no to whatever cause is being championed. No to wearing a poppy; no to taking the knee; no to a rainbow on your shirt. There is pressure for Gueye to face punishment in France, and he is believed to have been asked to explain his actions before the National Council of Ethics of the French Football Federation (FFF). Valerie Pecresse, president of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France and a former government minister, has called for Gueye to be punished for not showing solidarity with the LGBTQ community. As if that’s a thing, for a footballer. As if athletic ability immediately contracts you to think and behave in a certain way with regard to ethical issues. It does not matter whether we agree with Gueye. Certainly, I don’t. Yet Gueye has not overtly condemned homosexuality. He hasn’t spoken on the subject at all, since Mauricio Pochettino, his coach, revealed he had missed the game with Montpellier not through injury but for ‘personal reasons’. All he has done, apparently, is choose not to participate when given no say in the matter. And that’s now an offence? There does not appear to have been an alternative for Gueye against Montpellier, there appears to be no option in which he could just play the game but not wear the commemorative shirt. Certainly, if the leak of the FFF letter that followed his decision is correct, dissent for whatever reason is not permitted at all. Seeking his explanation, the FFF state: ‘There are two possibilities. Either these allegations are unfounded and we invite you to speak without delay to silence these rumours. For example, we invite you to accompany your message with a photograph wearing said shirt. Or the rumours are true and we invite you to realise the impact of your act, and the grave error committed.’ And what error would that be? Choosing the wrong religion, if faith is guiding Gueye’s choices, or merely adhering to it? And what a trite gesture: to wear a shirt just to sidestep controversy. The politeness in the FFF’s discourse is laughable. They are not inviting Gueye to do anything. They are telling him. This is what you must say; this is what you must wear. ‘By refusing to take part in this collective operation, you are effectively validating discriminatory behaviour, and rejection of the other,’ the letter continues. Is he? And does this apply to all followers of the Muslim faith; or are the FFF relaxed about those who keep their mouths shut and their beliefs private? What would happen if an increasing number of Muslim players took offence at this? Chose to interpret football’s directives as an attack on them, and their religion? What would happen if they took football’s orthodoxy on, made it a new frontier in the culture wars? For quite clearly, judging by the messages of support Gueye has received from other Senegalese players in the Premier League, there are any number of professionals who already feel pressured into involvement every year. Cheikhou Kouyate at Crystal Palace, Ismaila Sarr at Watford and Leicester’s Papa Mendy have all publicly defended him. Mendy’s message translated as ‘My heart is with you.’ Nothing there amounted to aggression, or spoke negatively of the gay community. In essence, the message was pro-choice. Kouyate’s involvement was more dubious because it described Gueye as ‘a real man’ with an obvious implication that others are not. But, yes, in the broadest sense, this remains a human rights issue. The right to make a statement, or not. The right to adopt a cause, or not. The right to respect, from both sides. ‘I support Idrissa Gana Gueye,’ wrote president Sall. ‘His religious convictions must be respected.’ And that’s the nub of it. Nobody who created or implicated the rainbow laces campaign — as admirably successful as it has been — gave a single thought to the fact that, for some players, from some countries, it represented a challenge. Not necessarily to them — as we can see the vast majority of Muslim players are happy to embrace what is basically a peaceful plea for tolerance, and this gentler interpretation of religious teaching is clearly preferable — but to their upbringing, community and culture. When the City Football Group wanted to open in New York, they encountered a problem. The association with Abu Dhabi was plain, as was the fact that the Emirate does not have the most enlightened view of LGBTQ issues. Another section deals specifically with football and homophobia. It states: ‘In 2008, the Justin Campaign was formed to tackle homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in football, and two years later the initiative Football versus Homophobia began. In supporting FvH, you are not only helping to make football a more inclusive and welcoming environment, you are also playing your part in making the society we live in a better place for everyone.’ When the CFG presented these documents they explained that these were not simply designed to keep New York happy, these were already in place in Manchester, and could simply be transferred. This was no act; it was who they were. A modern, tolerant, inclusive athletic enterprise. Except the CFG do not promote that side of their character heavily in Abu Dhabi because, generally, that society does not see tolerance of homosexuality as a virtue. Meaning, in all likelihood, Gueye would have felt pressured from both sides. From his football club in Paris who wish to be in step with Western society despite being owned by Qatar, and with his community back home in Senegal. And European football clubs want it both ways, too. They want the bounty of African talent, without the complication of African mores. They want to take what they regard as the best of the continent, without its complex accompanying baggage. Rugby is the same. Israel Folau was born in New South Wales to Tongan parents. Fundamentalist Christian principles hold sway in many Pacific Island communities. Folau’s was no different. He was brought up with the belief that homosexuals went to hell and, as a player, was still offensively vocal about it. Offensive to us, that is. To people from the same community, Folau’s views were not exceptional at all. So when he was threatened with expulsion from the sport after another unpleasant sermon, Billy Vunipola sent a public message of support. And there was outrage. Rugby wanted the benefits of those with a Pacific Island heritage — strength and speed, the perfect physical characteristics for modern rugby — it just didn’t want them thinking or feeling like Pacific Islanders, because that offends Western sensibilities. This is the new colonialism. Vunipola’s mother is a Methodist minister, yet Channel 4 dropped him and the RFU issued an official warning over his comment. Why the surprise? Why wouldn’t a player with Pacific Island blood and rooted in fundamentalist Christian values, not hold views consistent with his upbringing? No wonder the RFU were upset: why couldn’t Vunipola be built like one of them, but think like one of us? It’s so inconvenient. Gueye’s timing was equally poor, his boycott coming in the week that Jake Daniels, the Blackpool teenager, made a transformative statement by coming out as gay. Immediately, historic social media messages from his team-mate Marvin Ekpiteta — born in England, family from Nigeria — were unearthed. In one, Ekpiteta bemoaned the number of gay characters in Hollyoaks; in another he supported Nigeria’s reactionary outlawing of gay marriage. Ekpiteta, mortified, immediately apologised. Daniels just as swiftly concluded that opinions expressed at the age of 17 may not necessarily reflect the man Ekpiteta is now. The FA, of course, announced an investigation. It’s not as if they have anything better to do. So everybody is learning, everybody is evolving. People are different and, speaking personally, we should always be understanding and welcoming of our differences. Nobody should be made to feel outside, afraid or alone; inclusivity should be our aim. But, while you might tie your rainbow laces, you might wear a poppy or take the knee, everybody doesn’t have to. That is what seems to be lost in our quest for the rights of all individuals. As Stonewall didn’t quite say: some people are Muslim — get over it. MARTIN SAMUEL - Chief Sports writer
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We Jews are, on this occasion, at one with the Muslims when the Qatari ex-footballer Khalid Salman calls homosexuality "a disease in the mind". It is - and up to 1967 it was a criminal offence in the U.K for men to indulge in homosexual relations with another man. And rightly so. Homosexuals are promiscuous in their filthy practices and were the catalyst for the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's. The great Margaret Thatcher, our longest ever serving Prime Minister had the courage to make it illegal to promote homosexuality in schools via her introduction of Clause 28 in the Local Government Act 1988. The LGBTQ+ lobby (including the BBC, Stonewall and Human Rights Watch) are Islamophobic (and indeed, by analogy, anti-Semitic) when criticising the Qatari authorities for outlawing homosexuality and then continuing to foist their perverted views on mankind. All these gay 'rights' advocates are destined for hellfire in the next life to be cast down with the Sodomites. The likes of ex-football star Gary Lineker, a campaigner for homosexual rights as featured in a front-page Daily Mirror story just before the World Cup, should practice what they preach: and say, ask Harry Kane (with his 'One Love' badge) if he would like to be fucked up the arse. Gary Lineker and Harry Kane sucking each other off and indulging in anal sex. Just picture it! Remember Leviticus, Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot in the Old Testament. Death comes to us all, sooner or later.
BBC News - World Cup 2022: Qatar ambassador comments on homosexuality 'harmful and unacceptable'
LGBTQ+ rights activists protested against the Qatar World Cup outside Fifa's museum in Zurich on Tuesday
A Qatar World Cup ambassador calling homosexuality "damage in the mind" is "harmful and unacceptable", says Human Rights Watch. Former Qatar international Khalid Salman told German broadcaster ZDF that LGBTQ+ people attending the tournament should "accept our rules". Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar because it is considered immoral under Islamic Sharia law. Salman said: "[Homosexuality] is haram. You know what haram [forbidden] means?" When asked why it was haram, he added: "I am not a strict Muslim but why is it haram? Because it is damage in the mind." The interview, which is part of a documentary set to be broadcast on Tuesday, was then stopped by an accompanying official. Rasha Younes, LGBT rights senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: "Salman's suggestion that same-sex attraction is 'damage in the mind' is harmful and unacceptable. "The failure of the Qatari government to counter this false information has a significant impact on the lives of LGBT residents of Qatar, ranging from fuelling discrimination and violence against them to justifying subjecting them to state-sponsored conversion practices."
There is concern about how LGBTQ+ people are treated in Qatar, where same-sex relationships and the promotion of same-sex relationships are criminalised, with punishments ranging from fines to the death sentence. The host country's World Cup organisers have stated "everyone is welcome" to visit the country to watch the matches and claimed no-one will be discriminated against. However, Qatar 2022 chief executive Nasser al Khater has said the government would not change its laws on homosexuality, requesting visitors "respect our culture". The Gulf State, where the World Cup will take place from 20 November to 18 December, has also been criticised for its human rights record and treatment of migrant workers. Fifa recently wrote to competing nations asking them to "now focus on the football" instead of the competition's controversial build-up. The letter, which was signed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, was criticised by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and LGBTQ+ campaigners in England and Wales, while 10 European football associations - including those of England and Wales - said "human rights are universal and apply everywhere". However, Conmebol, the South American football confederation, says it is "time to leave controversies behind". LGBTQ+ campaign group All Out called on Fifa to "end the silence and hypocrisy" following Salman's comments. At a protest outside Fifa's museum in Zurich, a spokesperson from All Out said: "This comes days after All Out and others have presented testimony from LGBT+ Qataris of abduction, detention without trial, torture and conversion practices taking place in recent weeks. "But Fifa president Infantino is still saying that everyone will be welcome at the World Cup. "With just two weeks to go until the football starts, it is time for Fifa to stop looking away and take responsibility. "It is time for Fifa to end the silence and hypocrisy. It is finally time for human rights to be put ahead of greed. The world is watching." Human Rights Watch recently released a report saying that Qatari security forces are continuing to arrest citizens who are gay, lesbian, and transgender, sometimes forcing them to undergo conversion therapy. Qatar's government has said the report contains false allegations. LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall's director of communications and external affairs Robbie de Santos said human rights were being "disregarded and disrespected". Speaking to BBC World Service's Sport Today, he added: "It's surprising and disappointing the Qatar authorities have given assurances to the United Nations and other multilateral bodies about respecting human rights during the tournament and making commitments to social progress, and what we're seeing is those commitments are not being kept on with. "That's why it's so important that all of us are listening globally and following the tournament and knowing that football really is everyone's game, that we all speak." BBC Sport has contacted Fifa and the World Cup organising committee for comment. Original 8 November 2022 BBC SPORT article HERE (Link) |
