Just downloaded this from the Kuwait Times-backdated issue.Interesting.have you noticed any of this?
”The L word in Kuwait
Today I will be discussing a phenomenon that is on the rise in our society. Lesbians it seems just as much as gays are more and more visible, and this is starting to cause a heated debate within our society. Last night while on MSN a friend of mine sent me a link to Youtube to a show “Sa’at saraha” (Arabic for ‘An hour of truth’) presented by a well-known preacher, Nabeel Al-Awadi. The show aired on Al-Rai and it’s a testimony to the level of freedom of speech in Kuwait, for the show was rather explicit and brought up several interesting points.
The show starts with the introduction of the problem: A rise in the number of lesbians in Kuwait’s schools. The show asks what can and should be done about this shocking situation.
The first few ideas are outrageous. The preacher claims that it is no longer safe to send girls to school because they might be harassed by aggressive lesbians who would either convert them or worse prey upon them sexually.
Al-Awadi is surprised by such behaviour, which he says has no roots in our Arab-Islamic societies. He says that even though in the Gulf, boys and girls are segregated they become sexual targets by some of their peers.
I wrote last week about the idea of having co-ed schools. One of the reasons to have co-ed schools and to mix both boys and girls is the idea that when together if anything they would perhaps fall in love and in the near future create a healthy couple.
Such a solution would not prevent same-sex relations for it seems that it is a global trend that is on the rise. However if boys and girls are together than at least the figures won’t be as high.
According to a female friend of mine, at least half the girls in government high schools have had at least one either lesbian or bi-sexual encounter. In tackling the problem, several callers suggested some very radical ideas. One solution put forward was isolation. A caller suggested that girls caught engaging in such forbidden acts be kicked out of school and barred from any decent education.”
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTgwOTM0MjUwMA==
L-Word Fan said,
January 24, 2009 at 9:12 am
So homosexuality is a “trend” like capri pants or “bed head” hair do’s? Education seems to take a back seat in this country. Since there are no reports of girls being “victimized” or “recruited” into lesbianism, where did they get this idea? WHO is getting hurt when two girls fall in love? Those lustful Kuwaiti men getting jealous that they are not chosen by those girls? Come on!
Papallacta said,
April 23, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Have you seen the documentary “A Jihad for Love”? I have not, but it was inspired by another documentary which I have seen, and just hearing people’s stories about struggling to find a balance between religion and orientation was impacting.