LGBT News Sultan of Brunei Rules Death by Stoning For Gay People

I guess even royal people can be savages....

 

You're just figuring this out?

 

Disgusting. I hope people are able to leave that evil place. In a place like that, the people in power can and likely do make up charges against anyone who they don't like or who oppose them. It's nothing more than ruling by fear, not justice.

 

This law only applies to Muslims. No doubt they wouldn't want to alienate the rich Western expats who're here for the oil; if it weren't for them, they definitely wouldn't be one of the world's richest countries. It's all terrible.

 

Son of a bitch!

 

I should have known better than to read the comments. Where is the throw-up-because-I-am-disgusted-with-humanity smiley?

 

Religion strikes again.

 

Hardly. Give me some credit. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Do you sometimes feel that the civilised world is shrinking rather than expanding...

Let's hope in the future, some countries catch up with the century we live in.

Happy days

 

Heathen bastard.

Karma's gonna be a bitch when he comes back gay.

 

:l Not good, some would even say bad....

Welp, that really sucks... Stoning though? Dafuq, didn't know public stoning executions were still relevant, the sultan is a smf and barbarian for sure. UN to the rescue?

 

I read somewhere that in the countries that still practice stoning, the men are buried up to their waist, while the women are buried up to their shoulders, making it more difficult to get out of the hole.

 

I once lived in Brunei so here is my 2c on this.

The sultan for starts is paranoid after an attempted coup in the 80s, as a result he has been trying to advertise a more strong islamist image to get support for the conservative faction that is very strong over there.

However the coup was abaited by the UK, as a result of that he pays the UK millions to train the Brunei military and to keep a battalion there, as a result he is under a lot of British influence.

Brunei hasn't executed someone since the 1950s, I can't see that changing. Compared to the neighbours of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia Brunei is fairly tame. Death sentences even for drug trafficking and murder are always commuted to prison terms.

Deeply homophobic he is (well publicly) I can't see him stoning anyone anytime soon, its not like Iran.

Anyway the police don't really enforce most of the laws there, Brunei is meant to be a teetotal country, however go into any cafe and ask for the special tea and you get something interesting...