Whats shocking is how its being allowed to happen in public places. We have truly become a nation of hypocrites. We love to kill and burn when a western author writes negatively about Prophet (saw), but keep a blind eye on the sins happening in our public places.
Writer has mentioned how some of this is related to exploration of one's sexuality in a society that does not allow mixing with opposite gender and the boys will be boys attitude of elders towards it. Certainly mixing of opposite gender would not "solve" the problem, it would just shift it to other spectrum. What other steps can our society take to encourage our youth to stay on neutral grounds. Any suggestions?
^^ But there must be something that homosexuality is growing and well - established in societies like kandahar and saudia arabia where women are shunned out of public eye? I think that there is a reason that I now see why the Prophet (PBUH) said that women's faces could be uncovered as I bet many of the kids in the closed societies probably have more interaction with people from the same gender sort of like the homosexuality in prison dilemma.
I am against an indecent display of affection in public places, be it homosexual or heterosexual.
However, it's amusing that some people think homesexuality is a "problem" that can be "solved". Sexuality is not a disease. Can a straight person be taught to be attracted to someone of the same sex? How then do you expect gay people to make the switch?
As a side note, I actually admire gay people in desi societies who had the courage to come out of the closet despite a suffocating social environment. At least they are true to themselves, and are not ruining an innocent person's life by entering into a "convenience" marriage.
As a side note, I actually admire gay people in desi societies who had the courage to come out of the closet despite a suffocating social environment. At least they are true to themselves, and are not ruining an innocent person's life by entering into a "convenience" marriage.
I am against an indecent display of affection in public places, be it homosexual or heterosexual.
However, it's amusing that some people think homesexuality is a "problem" that can be "solved". Sexuality is not a disease. Can a straight person be taught to be attracted to someone of the same sex? How then do you expect gay people to make the switch?
As a side note, I actually admire gay people in desi societies who had the courage to come out of the closet despite a suffocating social environment. At least they are true to themselves, and are not ruining an innocent person's life by entering into a "convenience" marriage.
There is a difference between this and being gay because someone else is gay e.g. goray people.
^^ But there must be something that homosexuality is growing and well - established in societies like kandahar and saudia arabia where women are shunned out of public eye? I think that there is a reason that I now see why the Prophet (PBUH) said that women's faces could be uncovered as I bet many of the kids in the closed societies probably have more interaction with people from the same gender sort of like the homosexuality in prison dilemma.
I am not aware of any such saying of Prophet (saw). Only incidence I can remember is when he took the veil off his wife's face so a companion (or some other man) would not think that nauzobillah he (saw) was with some other woman.
And Pakistan is nowhere close to saudi arabia where women are shunned out of public places. In my opinion, lack of discussion between parent and children about their sexuality is the biggest culprit. In pakistan, parents just dont feel comfortable talking to their children (boys mostly) about sexuality, leaving them to "explore" it on their own.
There is a hadith where he pointed to his face, hands and some say feet but hands and face are definitely allowed to be uncovered.
I was talking about the gay phenomenon when women are shunned like in the extremely conservative pashtun society which is also part of Pakistan. You can teach your kids but barring that, how else do you "stop it" other than not allow public displays of affection?
i rmb around 7-8 yrs ago, i used to read this guy's blog. he was a pakistani gay. his blog was venialsin.com or venialsin.blogspot.com. one day, he closed down his blog. never found out why. but he was pretty open about his sexuality and had a huge pakistani readers following.