LATEST NEWS – 21 June 2016 – Kaieteur News
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- Audit exposes Brassington’s scam in state assets sales
- Controversial parking meters deal…Contract signed before Mexico’s due diligence trip
- Sole sourcing…Don’t do what we did – Rohee tells Government
- Engineer injured, aircraft damaged in Ogle airport incident
- Two Diamond E.B.D. wells to cost $280M
- Second phase of works begin to rescue river defence at Friendship
- Expect criminal, administrative action from forensic audit findings – Harmon
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How Did Homosexuality Become So Offensive to the Muslim World? – by Ofri Ilany
How Did Homosexuality Become So Offensive to the Muslim World? – It wasn’t always this way.
Rainbow flag – LGBT
by Ofri Ilany – HAARETZ
In the 1820s, Egyptian scholar Rifaa al-Tahtawi visited Paris and remained there for several years. After his journey, he wrote about the lifestyle of the French, and the Europeans in general.
An important Islamic scholar, Tahtawi reported on the patriotism of the French and their recreational and eating habits. He devoted special attention to a surprising fact: European men love only women.
He noted with amazement that they don’t tend to love young boys, and – unlike the poets in his own country – refrained from writing poems in praise of their beauty. To the point where, he claimed, the French language doesn’t enable a man to write “I fell in love with a boy.” Continue reading →
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