"Corrective Rape" to cure homosexuality?

Schadenfroh

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Just when one thinks that raping children to cure AIDS is the end of horrible thoughts, this latest justification for sexual crimes comes along...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=136170552
The lesbian activist had been repeatedly stabbed with broken glass, and beaten so severely with chunks of concrete that her teeth had been knocked out.
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The assaults on lesbians have been called "corrective rapes," and are meant to humiliate and punish women who don't fit the norm. Some attackers have reportedly said they believed they could "cure" women of being lesbians by raping them

All the while with some of the most liberal laws on the continent regarding same-sex relationships, but that does not equal police protection:
Same-sex marriage is legal in South Africa and the country has among the most liberal laws on sexual orientation on a continent where many other countries punish gay sex with fines and jail terms.

This comes on the heels of a shocking study to the north in The Congo where 48 women per hour are being raped:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/11/136219082/48-women-raped-every-hour-in-congo-study-finds
The central African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released Wednesday shows it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour.
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Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in gender-based violence, said the rate could be even higher.
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Its vast forests are rife with militias that have systematically used rape to destroy communities.
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That means that even in the parts of Congo that are least affected by the war, a woman is 58 times more likely to be raped than a woman in the United States

The Congo has slightly more people than France and even in the "safe" areas, you are 58x more likely to be raped there than in the United States.

Lots of bad news over the past day, my heart goes out to those living in fear and those that have been harmed, terrible, terrible situation. Hopefully, in time, their governments and police can crack down on the perpetrators and end this crisis. I fear it will only grow worse if there is a disruption in the food supply (which some are predicting).
 

Craig234

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In related news, Uganda - influenced by some radical religious fundamentalists in the US, including 'The Family' - is set to vote on passage of a 'kill the gays' bill tomorrow.

Already, gay political representatives speaking out for protecting gays from abuse have been murdered there.

Bigotry is thriving in many parts of Africa against gays, far more than here in the US where things like marriage are mostly not allowed, and jail was ended in 2003.
 

JSt0rm

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In related news, Uganda - influenced by some radical religious fundamentalists in the US, including 'The Family' - is set to vote on passage of a 'kill the gays' bill tomorrow.

This is why I think only self hating gay people would actually vote republican.
 

Schadenfroh

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Uganda - influenced by some radical religious fundamentalists in the US, including 'The Family' - is set to vote on passage of a 'kill the gays' bill tomorrow.
A handful of Americans convinced the people of an entire country to enact a state-sponsored genocide? Damn...
 

gevorg

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they still practice cannibalism, gay rights is centuries away from them
 

shortylickens

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Kill them all and let God sort them out.

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Jaskalas

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Africa, a stark lesson in humanity and what we are without society and rule of law.
 

a777pilot

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I'm curious: Just what do tribal African nations and muslims in Africa, stupidity have to do with this nation?
 

Doppel

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The central African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be.
Fixed.

Some of the atrocities in Africa are things that only the rest of our ancestors would have done in their darkest hours before we even knew how to write or create fire. The savagery that exists in much of Africa is virtually unspeakable. The way some people treat each other is truly not fit for civil conversation. Many of them act far worse than any animal could ever act. Basically take things from movies like Saw, think how they could be worse, and then go and actually do them, minus any of the intellectual involvement (man, that's tough to say) from the movie's machines and gadgets.
 
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ShawnD1

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Lol africa. Its too bad we cant just invade it and start developing it. That continent has insane resources. Its like that barren wasteland called canada.
 

Craig234

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Yup. I live in canada and its really not that bad once it is developed. Our friends in africa deserve that too :)

Ask the natives who lived there before colonization.

You're not the colonized, you're the colonizer. Big difference.
 

Schadenfroh

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You're not the colonized, you're the colonizer

I am going to go out on a limb and guess that his parents, grandparents and likely their parents were born and raised in Canada. At what point do the "colonists" become native inhabitants?

The Asians that colonized America were not all living together in perfect harmony, they attacked each other and occupied land belonging to other tribes. This was clearly documented in modern day Mexico as the Spanish rallied the oppressed populations that were conquered by other Native American nations to their side to overthrow the Aztecs and other Native American Empires.

Should we conduct further research to determine which tribes were the first to settle in a particular region, remove whoever is there now (even if it is another Native America tribe) and redistribute their land to the ones that first claimed it prior to any humans setting foot there?

This decolonization is going to get very complicated.
 

DominionSeraph

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Africa: Conservatism in the buff.

Shit education for the populace.... No media with a slant based off that education, because even if attempted by a small cadre of the Western educated, it would all be "liberal mumbo-jumbo" to the audience...

Amazing how that works, eh?
 
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