Homosexuality

The preparation of a new campaign against homosexuality (sodomy) is underway on the blogsphere. I'm not sure if it is against homosexuality or just to understand the position of homosexuals in our Arab societies since the person calling for this campaign was not really clear, nevertheless there is something about sodomy and there will be alot of clashes between those who believe that homosexual people have a right to express their sexual orientation in public while in the other corner there are those who believe that homosexuality corrupts society (the later is my position on homosexuality).

Just a quick thought and comparison. The idea of deregulation of markets has been viewed by many as a means of increasing trade and improving the economical aspects of a country. However and without going into details this has not worked out and the current economic downturn for example can only, in my opinion, be dealt with through more stringent regulations on markets and more importantly on the financial sector. Deregulation is based on the assumption that corporations and companies are run by good people that run their businesses under ethical and moral considerations, unfortunately this is not the case and in reality corporations are greedy organizations that want to maximize profits as quick as possible.
In addition to that, regulators underestimated the greediness of some businessmen, their inefficiency and carelessness led to the biggest scams in the history of this market system (that we know of). A good example here is the case of Bernard Madoff.

Now the same goes with society. If we assume that every person is a good person whom live their lives according to high ethical and moral standards we will be fooling ourselves. I am not saying that everyone is bad, but at the same time not everyone is good. The move of societies away from religion and into more secular, liberal societies is due to the affluence of a population in a society. The more affluent a society is the more they have resources and time to fulfill their needs and ‘desires’. People’s needs are instinctive, we need to eat, sleep, psychological needs and so on. However our desires are things we make up. Accordingly sexual orientation is a desire and not a need. A person does not need to have sexual intercourse with another person of the same sex, but because that person has reached a certain level of affluence where all their needs have been fulfilled they turn to their desires, things they make-up in order to quench that desire.

Religion regulates our lives, it reminds us of what is right and what is wrong and what is healthy in a society and what will corrupt society therefore religion maintains the integrity of a society. In most religions, especially in Islam, the society as a whole is always more important than the individual but that does not take away the rights of the individual. When an individual is seen to be practicing something that will lead to a corruption of society they are punished, and the punishment varies today from one Islamic country to another, from being fined to capital punishment as is the case in Iran. However in Islam and the Islamic law, the Sharia’ah, a person accusing someone of homosexuality (or any other crime punishable under Sharia’ah) is not something easy to go on about. In order for a person to be accused of homosexuality there needs to be four witnesses that can bear witness that the person accused has committed sodomy, in the case that one fails to be a legitimate witness all four witnesses are punished.

So to conclude, there is no need for those who like to consider themselves as homosexuals/transsexuals to openly act in a homosexual way in public in a country where the majority of people follow the religion of Islam. If someone does not believe in islam, lives in a muslim country and is homosexual then maybe you should keep it to yourself and practice whatever you practice in your house.