The hypocritical protection of the “Gay pride” that stops in the Middle East
The Kuwait government announced that it has summoned a high-ranking US diplomat for the positions expressed by the US embassy in Kuwait who tweeted its support for gay pride month.
On the occasion of the beginning of the month of LGBTQ + pride, in which a movement supported by every single organ of Western society marches to celebrate and protect its 'rights', the US embassy in Kuwait did not hesitate to signal its virtue, let's say so.
The tweet stated that Joe Biden is a "human rights champion" of LGBTQ + people and that "all human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, regardless of who they are or who they love."
"All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love." @POTUS is a champion for the human rights of #LGBTQI persons. # Pride2022 #YouAreIncluded pic.twitter.com/gdPPBDlHZH
– US Embassy Kuwait (@ USEmbassyQ8) June 2, 2022
This appears to have angered authorities in Kuwait, where gay sex between men is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
"The Kuwait Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had summoned Jim Holtsnider, interim charge d'affaires at the US embassy, regarding the" posting by the embassy on its social media accounts of references and tweets to support of homosexuality "and reminded him of" the obligation not to publish such tweets "and to" respect the laws and regulations in force "in the State", reports Axios.
Other Twitter users have once again noticed the irony of transnational corporations giving their full support to Gay Pride Month, except in Middle Eastern countries, where Twitter biographies have not been changed to the rainbow flag.
Because the West is hypocritical: it defends rights, but only where this is easy and without risk. Where, on the other hand, there is some danger, then nothing is done. Ours is a hypocritical society that does not even believe in what it claims to believe. Otherwise we would see all these "Human Rights Defenders" parading in Riyadh …
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