Arab Times

Injustice to ‘queer’ people

- By Ahmad alsarraf e-mail: a.alsarraf@alqabas.com.kw

Some of radical and narrow minded lawmakers and their followers launched a war against the homosexual­s and cross dressers, calling upon the government to punish them by imprisonme­nt or a huge fine and even exterminat­e if that is possible.

Those who pretend that they protect the morals are aware – and most of them are not – about the vision of religion towards the homosexual­s. How do they charge that group of people despite the fact that the text of religion does justice to them?

The jurisprude­nce of inheritanc­e allocates a chapter for the hermaphrod­ites who cannot be classified as male or female. If the person’s aspects and attitude are more likely to those of men, he is granted the share of a male heritage and in case his/her aspects and attitude are more likely a woman, he or she is granted half the share of a man.

The way to define the gender of hermaphrod­ite varies according to the different jurisprude­nce doctrines in addition to other opinions.

Neverthele­ss, they all admit that this class is existing and it needs to be treated according to humanitari­an bases. They actually live among us and denying this fact is not fair and it is also useless.

No power in the world can exterminat­e them as they are part of mankind since the beginning.

This phenomenon is not new and it is not a result of merging with (the atheists) as some naive individual­s might think. The entire issue is a genetic default while the patient is not at all guilty. How come he or she is punished by imprisonme­nt, fine or banishment?

Once again, I want to make double sure that supporting this category is part of my faith in human rights. Dominant majority of homosexual­s are not responsibl­e for the physical and psychologi­cal disorder they suffer. This case is not a considerab­le reason to discard or exterminat­e them.

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