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Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye launched a virulent anti-gay tirade on Friday, saying same-sex couples should be publicly stoned.

He also lashed out at Western countries that press other nations to allow gay rights or risk losing aid.

Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    6 months ago

    a conservative Christian country in East Africa

    Remember that when people claim it’s only Islam that is brutal to queer people. It’s so many religions.

    • Jilanico@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2827·
      6 months ago

      Russia is full of atheists and they are also brutal to queer people. Excising religion from the world isn’t going to solve that.

        • Jilanico@lemmy.worldEnglish
          314·
          6 months ago

          Just about every hospital near me was started by charitable religious folks. Religion has caused a lot of harm, but also tons of good. Let’s not toss the baby out with the bathwater.

          • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            6 months ago

            Do you think these extremely profitable hospitals would not exist if not for the benevolence of churches?! Lol 🤣

            The church branding is just branding. There has never, ever been benevolence involved in corporate healthcare. Never.

          • Cinner@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            6 months ago

            It’s so insane to me how quickly Lemmy almost as a whole has been ideologically subverted, they can not even see wool as it is being pulled over their eyes.

            I am a nonbeliever, but I am a truthseeker. The majority of an entire world’s generation has already been subverted in one area or another, due to global media. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok or YouTube, Douyin or Telegram; an entire generation has grown up ingesting content specifically engineered to target them and program them to think a certain way.

            I suppose it’s not much different than traditional television and radio media from the 1920s onward, and paper before that.

            The tides are just turning so. much. faster.

            May those with the best tooling and best protected undersea cables win.

  • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    6 months ago

    “Burundi is the poorest country in the world by GDP per capita, and is one of the least developed countries, facing widespread poverty, corruption, instability, authoritarianism, and illiteracy.”

    “The country’s dominant party is the National COuncil for the Defense of Democracy, a former Hutu faction in the civil war. It has widely been accused of authoritarian governance and perpetuating the country’s poor human right’s record”.

    The record is so bad it gets its own Wikipedia entry.

    Source for above quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi

    This guy’s a clown and a failure of a leader. His country is a mess and he can’t run it properly. Maybe he should focus on his own failures before attributing failures to others.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009 with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      The only difference between the conservative Burundi government and the conservative American government is what they think they can get away.