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Shocking videos show Nigerian mobs beating gay men amid wave of anti-LGBTQ+ violence

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Shocking videos show Nigerian mobs beating gay men amid wave of anti-LGBTQ+ violence

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there is nothing shocking about violent homophobia in Africa, unfortunately. it is a very common mindset on that continent. truly, the world is largely hostile to queer folks. they want us silenced and repressed or dead.
It's incredibly effortlessly easy to understand that being gay is fine.
Thanks America for exporting your hate!
- The incident occurred in Kano state, one of 14 majority-Muslim states in northern Nigeria subject to Sharia law.
  In northern states governed by Sharia law, homosexuality is punishable by death.
  Damn I thought those Americans were exporting evangelical Christianity, not Sharia law. TIL.
- You can thank the European overlords pushing christianity everywhere during the colonial ages for shit like this.
  Not that the islam is much better in other regions, but nigeria is christian afaik
  
  Nigeria has both a large Christian and a large Muslim population. This is an abrahamitic problem, not just a European one.
  
  You can go way down the rabbit hole here, you can blame Christian European colonial powers, but you can blame the pre-christian Roman empire for opening that door for Christianity to spread into Europe in the first place, you can blame Jews for being the religion that Christianity spun off of, you can blame various other religions and cultures that eventually morphed into Judaism
  You can do that all the way back to the first organism that evolved that had a hint of sapience if you really want to
  But that would be ridiculous.
  That's all in the past, and while it's important to understand how we ended up here, we can't do a damn thing to change any of that.
  However here and now, we have groups like family watch international actively fanning the flames and funding this crap.
  They're not the only ones, they're not all American, but you have your head in the fucking sand if you think America isn't the biggest piece of this puzzle.
  
  How is this the fault of Europeans? Not saying colonialism didn't cause an endless list of problems, but the same European countries are in the global minority of having legalized same-sex marriage nowadays lol. None of this is meant to diminish the persecution of homosexuals that happened in the European past. It very much existed, but there's plenty of evidence of it existing outside of Europe as well.
  It's not at all about the religion.
- Everything is the fault of the west!
  
  pretty much is caused by american evangelical groups inside AFRICA, they even helped write some of the anti-lgbtq+ legislation in some african countries.
- Who is paying you to say this bullshit?

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