Anarchists in syria
(midwest.social)
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Flippanarchy
Had me in the first half ngl
Is this legit? Flying a pride flag would get you killed in most Muslim countries.
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Kurdistan#LGBTQ_people_in_the_Kurdish_militas_fighting_against_the_Islamic_State
Slight correction
An SDF spokesperson denied that the group is an official member of the coalition
Though I am nevertheless impressed.
This is mostly a myth based on Saudi Arabia and Wahhabist extremists. Most Muslim countries have explicit protections for specific letters in LGBTQ, and then its down to local (usually hyperlocal) culture for the rest. Generally speaking (because 'Muslim Countries' covers 1/3rd of countries on the planet) as long as you conform to some traditional gender role, even if it wasn't what was assigned at birth, you're going to be okay. Yes that means living more as a woman than a man if you happen to be a gay man that likes to receive, which is fucked up, but it's not death.
It's really when you try to break the binary you tend to get in trouble, again as a generality. Some embrace a third gender simply because they're more traditionalist than Muslim, and some like saudi arabia do ban pretty much all non-heteronormative expression.
This is not a myth. I live in a Muslim country (always have), and I am a gay man. There may be regions where it's not the case ofc but communicating that one is gay in Muslim countries doesn't typically end well.
Some countries have protections for transgender people, but none have protections for gay or lesbian populations (please mention any that do if you disagree).
"Living as a woman" if you like men is fucked up and is the same as death ime; gender dysphoria and being denied the experience of embodying the gender you view yourself as is something that's linked w completed suicide; it's the same reasoning why GAC is life-saving intervention and why trans people being denied GAC spikes suicidality and attempted/completed attempts amongst transgender populations. Just because some of them are more trans affirming, doesn't make these countries any less of a death pit for the rest of us who aren't trans.
Generally speaking (because 'Muslim Countries' covers 1/3rd of countries on the planet) as long as you conform to some traditional gender role, even if it wasn't what was assigned at birth, you're going to be okay.
Are you sure? Where did you get this from?
LGBTQ laws in Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan pre CIA-installation of the taliban, anywhere in the 'muslim' world that Christian extremists didn't settle, sorry, that 'missionaries' didn't do 'outreach' in. Even Syria had a period of acceptance in the 1980s before, you know, the thing happened.
Islam teaches to love all your brothers and sisters, even when they 'sin,' as long as that sin is self-indulgent instead of harmful to others it's generally fine. Any country accurately implementing Shariah generally has leniency if not acceptance towards LGBTQ people... as long as they live in traditional gender roles. In Iran, for instance, it is illegal to be gay, as in its illegal to live as a man and sleep with men. But if you're 'trans' and live as a woman, you're golden. You will literally have state protection. You just need to play the game as presented and you're fine.
Now again this isn't ideal and people should be accepted outside the narrow gender roles ingrained in Shariah, but compared to any area with a Christian majority where Christians have taken over the government, it's pretty advanced.
The Jewish faith is inherently pro-LGBTQ, Christians would be if they followed the bible even slightly, and Muslims brought back the pro-LGBTQ that Christians abandoned during the puritan era.
Shariah law calls for the stoning to death of gay men.
"But you would need to do it in public to reach the 4 witnesses requirement" is NOT good enough, because these reasons fuel stigma that leads to lynching and hate crime. If the whole "Lut" thing and the aforementioned precedent in the Hadith didn't exist, there wouldn't be this state-sanctioned execution/imprisonment of gay and lesbian people ("but you can just be trans" is frankly bullshit and is downplaying the severity of the issue). Without the religious baggage of Islam there wouldn't be social stigma on anywhere near the scale and that would drastically improve life expectancy for queer people.
You say "as long as that sin is self-indulgent" but this isn't how homosexuality is treated historically. It's viewed as a plague that would spread through the masses if allowed and they assert the need to step down on it (as is evident given by the fact that there are exactly 0 countries that legalized homosexuality and have hate crime protections).
It's not just "not ideal", it's downright barbaric and disgusting.
West Europe, Scandinavia and Canada may like a word with you. Hell, even the US was "okay" w.r.t. queer rights before trump.
Judaism and Christianity both share the passage of Gemorrah and Seldom, none of the Abrahamic faiths are inherently queer affirming, only fringe minority subsections of those communities are.
*Some of the anarchists; there were many more, and supposably this pic caused quite some issues locally...
I vaguely remember those issues too, but not exactly what it was. Just that they stopped using those flags.
So your comment is that this picture does not contain every anarchist in Syria?
I interpret it as that they used to be more...
