Nigeria: 76 people arrested for organising a "gay wedding | Africanews
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More than 70 young people were arrested on Saturday by security forces on charges of organising a gay wedding in north-east Nigeria, where such unions are criminalised and violence against the LGBT+ community is widespread.
    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      534·
      1 year ago

      “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ―Steven Weinberg

      • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
        538·
        1 year ago

        So then according to Steven only religion can make evil people do good, inverse law. Thoughts?

        • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          341·
          1 year ago

          “Inverse Law”? You do realize there’s no such thing, right?

          If a man can eat a hamburger, does the “inverse law” mean a hamburger can eat a man?

          Lemmy is wild sometimes…

          • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
            15·
            1 year ago

            Okay so you don’t think religion can make evil things good, you coulda just said that.

            Was just trying to spark some conversation around the context of the statement, which itself seems silly to me on the surface.

            Cause I dunno, I’m an atheist, but I wonder if there’s ever any edge cases of religion helping people, or if you’d all rather just shit over it like we always do.

            • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I mean, religion likely was successful because in early agrarian societies having arbitrary reasons to bury the dead and burn the leftovers of butchered animals had hygiene benefits, so it brought some benefits to humanity in a given time and place.

              But maybe not the best idea to cling to obsolete ideas past the point they are beneficial, particularly when other piggybacking ideas are actively harmful.

    • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      58·
      1 year ago

      Worse: religion on the other side of the world did this. It was US Evangelicals who spent decades and tons of money to make this happen.

    • 01011@monero.townEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      They fail as a nation because it was pieced together by British crooks for the benefit of theft, which required ethnic/political instability for it to work. The most popular religion in the south of the country was also introduced by Brits (alongside other European capitalists) for the benefit of the European capitalists. Nigeria is a completely artificial nation, nothing about it makes sense or was done for the benefit of its inhabitants.

    • Ragdoll X@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Straight up. A while back Nazi incel Nick Fuentes defended child marriage and grooming, and most people in the replies agreed with him.

      The relationship between pedophilia and religiosity/conservatism is as clear as day. Pedocon is as much of a theory as the theory of gravity.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    1 year ago

    I see a lot of comments that seem not to have read this relevant part of the article:

    Gombe State, where the arrests took place on Saturday, is also one of the northern states with a Muslim majority where Islamic Sharia law is applied alongside the federal and state judicial systems.

    Under Sharia law, homosexual relations are punishable by death. However, this sentence has never been applied in northern Nigeria. The NSCDC spokesman refused to say whether the suspects arrested on Saturday would be charged under Sharia law or ordinary law.

      • seejur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Islam is also Abrahamic.

        Edit: the op comment is edited, so it might have used another word. Sorry if that’s the case

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
          45·
          1 year ago

          Yeah dude didn’t like being completely wrong, so he edited out Evangelical with Abrahamic to be just kind of wrong in detail if not spirit.

          Calling Islam the tool of oppressors is a bit… Suspect, given the guy clearly wanted an anti-colonialist talking point, but it’s not like any given Abrahamic religion isn’t practically tailor made for oppressive governments in general.

      • 01011@monero.townEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think you know the region. The Sahel is primarily Muslim, the coastal regions were infiltrated by European Bible thumpers in the 19th century. These missionaries pushed their religious delusions onto the populace while capitalists (cut deals that they often reneged on) to rob the environment dry.

  • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    Does it bother anyone else that the camera isn’t centered between the yellow and green or is it just me?