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Nigeria: 76 people arrested for organising a "gay wedding (www.africanews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 100 points 11 months ago

Religion did this.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 49 points 11 months 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

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months 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.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Didn’t know US Christo fundies brought Islam to north Nigeria. Read the article. It happened in a place that has Sharia law.

[-] feminalpanda@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago

Also regular Nigerian law is homophobic.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago

Nigeria has been screwed over by unstable religious zealots inculcating their heads with pernicious misinformed bullcrap for decades. This is the primary example I use when explaining why I equate missionary work with slavery and abuse in every possible way. It's far more corrupt and perverse to brainwash ignorant people into sick and unjustifiable bigotry against other better human beings than it is to perform any other act of malicious intent possible. Nigeria has been lead into the deepest darkness of all - ignorance and hate and the pernicious filth of bigotry. And that's why they totally fail as a nation.

[-] 01011@monero.town 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] Gympie_Gympie_pie@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago

Religion: condemning love between adults and approving of marriage between adults and minors.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 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.world 29 points 11 months 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.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

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

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

So, is Nigeria just that fucked up, or is it a specific city/region/administration?

[-] timicin@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

it's everywhere american conservatives have a relationship and right now it's strongest in africa

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

Asshole conservatives export their bigoted assholery to what they see as the weakest, most impressionable people they can corrupt. It's why so many otherwise once good and proud Tongans, for example, now subscribe to the idiotic inhumanity that is Mormonism and all the horror that it has created and continues to create in the world, and all the misery it continues to spread. That's what they've done to Nigeria. Africa is no longer a proud continent - and no longer can we look at is as the "cradle" of any civilized nation.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Didn’t know Americans brought Islam to north Nigeria.

[-] money_loo@1337lemmy.com 1 points 11 months ago

You might just be forgetting a couple religions.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Bigots loooooove Apartheid

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Gombe State has Sharia Law

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 11 months ago

Little of column A, little of column B.

I'd suggest reading the article.

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