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And the fucked up thing is though, the West gave these Muslim countries this anti-homosexual culture.
Muslim poetry of the 13th and 14th century is all about wanting to be with a man, poets like Rumi and shit. Like, to be honest, being hetero flexible was the thing to be as a man if you was well-cultured and of high status in most parts of the world.
Then here comes British colonialism that strictly forbids homosexuality and introduces or reinforces harsh racial and ethnic caste systems.
So all the repressive elements that were native in the Muslim world, gets reinforced by Western imperialism.
How homosexuality became a crime in the Middle East
Colonialism, culture wars and fundamentalist politicians have restricted sexual freedomwww.economist.com
And now we are shocked at how barbaric it is but we are the ones that made it that way.
There wasn't any hardcore jihadist sponsoring, ultra conservative, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, racist Muslim countries until the West got involved in the Middle East.
Lmaooo. Slow down a bit fam.
Its rumored Rumi wrote his love poems (which are the best love poems ever imo) for a dude. That doesnt mean homosexuality was accepted. Same way Shakespear wrote his sonnets for a dude. Doesnt mean England in the 1500s was accepting of homosexuals