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Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay Pri... - 7/5/2011 10:20:19 AM

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Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay Pride’ Event Tuesday, July 05, 2011
By Patrick Goodenough Charge d’affaires Richard Hoagland greets guests at the U.S. Embassy’s LGBT “pride celebration” on June 26, 2011. (Photo: U.S. Embassy) (CNSNews.com) – Public protests by Pakistani Islamists happen frequently, but on Monday the target was a new one – the recent hosting by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad of its first-ever lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) “pride celebration.” In recent months, protests on Pakistani streets have covered issues including alleged “blasphemy” against Islam, the arrest of a CIA contractor who shot dead two Pakistanis, the Osama bin Laden raid, and the continuing controversy over drone-launched missile strikes along the Afghan-Pakistan border. The June 26 event at the U.S. Embassy provided a new theme for Islamists looking for a reason to chant anti-U.S. slogans, threaten jihad, and burn American flags on the Fourth of July. On that day, Richard Hoagland, the number two diplomat at the mission, co-hosted a meeting with Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies, an organization that represents gays and lesbians at the State Department, USAID and other agencies.
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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 10:21:56 AM

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Good for them, keeps them from killing our troops.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 10:26:02 AM

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Why was this done at an embassy? That's not the proper venue.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 11:55:58 AM

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Maybe there wasn't anywhere else in Islamabad they could safely stage a GLBT event? Putting it on in a mosque might have been amusing, but only until the stonings started...

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 1:29:25 PM

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here we go again,

let them protest man, a brother can not protest on his own street now?

I mean why in name of hell you want to do such an event in embassy & not invite me over,

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 2:00:44 PM

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It was a stupid thing to do. There is no reason why an embassy should be getting involved in local issues that way, that's not the function of an embassy.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 2:11:54 PM

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Who needs any more proof that this administration is ran by incompetents

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 2:16:50 PM

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When you start agreeing with everything the administration does, then and only then would we have proof of their incompetence.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 2:31:50 PM

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You're assuming the administration even knew about it before it happened. Facts not in evidence.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 3:43:21 PM

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Embassy staff have a great degree of autonomy, true enough.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 3:48:06 PM

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quote:

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here we go again,

let them protest man, a brother can not protest on his own street now?

I mean why in name of hell you want to do such an event in embassy & not invite me over,

I completely agree...let them protest. Who cares? There are Christian groups that protest Pride in American cities. Sure they're not threatening crusades (is that the Christian version of Jihad? No clue.) but aside from inciting people to violence there's absolutely nothing wrong with protesting, even if it's something we consider unpopular.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 3:52:39 PM

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quote:

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I completely agree...let them protest. Who cares? There are Christian groups that protest Pride in American cities. Sure they're not threatening crusades (is that the Christian version of Jihad? No clue.) but aside from inciting people to violence there's absolutely nothing wrong with protesting, even if it's something we consider unpopular.

where is that actually that you agreeing on NOT INVITING me?

anyway.... cheers

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 4:28:30 PM

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It was a stupid thing to do. There is no reason why an embassy should be getting involved in local issues that way, that's not the function of an embassy.

I agree, but there is much truth in the saying; when in Rome do as the Romans do, or at least stand neutral, as anything other could be seen as confrontational. Further to that, an embassy is a place of work, what right do workers have to upset the policy and celebrate something than has sod all to do with embassy duties and likely to piss off the host country.

But as administrations change via the polls, do the civil servants change with them ?

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 4:48:56 PM

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The administration is responsible for embassy appointments and staff

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You're assuming the administration even knew about it before it happened. Facts not in evidence.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 5:54:14 PM

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Grounds of US embassy are not really local soil.

Pakis should live and let live.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 6:27:50 PM

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I totally disagree with that whole frigging concept, no matter where a foreign embassy is, the embassy staff should be mindful of the country that they are in, as the embassy before it was built was the foreign country and if embassy staff are not considerate of the host country, the land could very well become the host county's once more.

Remember embassy staff overseas are the day to day public representatives of a nation who cannot speak as they can, so they at least should be the whitest of white in terms of their public position. Or else wouldn't it be a sincere shame if a bunch of inconsiderate dumb fucks screw up diplomatic ties between two countries and mar the public image of the home country to the people in the street.

As to the LGBT cause, certain countries are perhaps not ready for acceptance yet, so it does no good to rub delicate issues in their faces, as that might very well put back any progress that has been made, and could even cause witch hunts were there was none before.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 6:45:15 PM

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Yeah god forbid the official US policy is that it's okay to be gay. What will the world think???

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 6:50:17 PM

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Wasn't this the same crowd that harbored the fugitive, Osama Bnn Laudin?

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 7:00:52 PM

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You know...one thing I want to add...we didn't get attacked on 9/11 because of our way of life.

They don't hate us because homosexuality is legal. They don't hate us because we let women work and choose when to have children. They don't hate us because alcohol is legal in our country.

I mean sure, they disapprove of all that, and would change it...but that's not why they hate America. They hate America because they see us as meddling with their own countries, they see us as selfish, dishonest, manipulative, cutthroat, and meddling.

Of course conservative Muslims would still rail on about the west and its sins and excesses if we stopped doing that, but I don't think that young men would be willing to die to fight the fact that gay bars (omg double sin!) are legal in the US. So this idea that...oh no homosexuality will set off the terrorists...it's bullshit.

The terrorists don't give a fuck about somewhere like, Liechtenstein...where there are just as many gays and just as many bars and just as many uncovered women. Because Liechtenstein stays the fuck out of their business and doesn't try to dictate the way the entire world should be run.

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RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay... - 7/5/2011 7:25:25 PM

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Why the absolute silence on what is clearly the most important and urgent issue here? Lots of irrelevant tosh about the venue, the protests etc but a glaring silence on the critical all-consuming central issue.

Where's the gossip on what the party goers wore? No account of a party is complete without a fashion analysis.

What is the world coming to, I ask you?

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