RN Feature: In Limbo - Gay Palestinians
Series: RN Focus on Torn Lives - Stories from the Holy Land
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:16:11
Throughout the Moslem world, homosexuality is a taboo, punishable in several countries by death. In the Palestinian occupied territories, women or men who have sex with people of the same sex face imprisonment and torture. They are also rejected by their families and the rest of society. Several hundred Palestinian gays and lesbians have fled to Israel. Because they’re Palestinian, they’re illegal and they cannot obtain asylum in Israel. No other country wants to accept them either.
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Throughout the Moslem world, homosexuality is a taboo, punishable in several countries by death. In the Palestinian occupied territories, women or men who have sex with people of the same sex face imprisonment and torture. They are also rejected by their families and the rest of society. Several hundred Palestinian gays and lesbians have fled to Israel. Because they’re Palestinian, they’re illegal and they cannot obtain asylum in Israel. No other country wants to accept them either. For more information, contact joan@SchardtMEDIA.org
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Throughout the Moslem world, homosexuality is a taboo, punishable in several countries by death. In the Palestinian occupied territories, women or men who have sex with people of the same sex face imprisonment and torture. They are also rejected by their families and the rest of society. Several hundred Palestinian gays and lesbians have fled to Israel. Because they’re Palestinian, they’re illegal and they cannot obtain asylum in Israel. No other country wants to accept them either. Eric Beauchemin reports on these Palestinians in limbo.
CALL TO PRAYER
BASSEM-1 0’15”
We are living under Islamic rules and according to the Koran, it is something which is prohibited, which is forbidden, and this is why the Arab laws mention that gays must have to be punished.
Bassem Eid is the director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.
BASSEM-2 0’1...
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The Sacred Koran, VID-25006, CD Ethnic Sound Series 30, 0'30"
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Review of In Limbo: Palestinian gays
This piece reveals the hardships and complexities of being a homosexual in Palestine. Many are arrested, tortured and ultimately flee to Israel to elude the Hamas and to spare their families relentless interrogation. Life in Israel isn't much easier.
This piece is worth broadcasting wherever your schedule permits. It is sophisticated in content, simple in execution. Through the stories of a few this piece reveals the suffering of an entire society.
In the Western hemisphere where homosexuals are fighting for the right to get married-- it is gives you pause to hear that in other parts of the world they are merely fighting for their lives.