Tag Archives: Egypt

EGYPT: Nine Men Ordered Arrested For Appearing In Gay Wedding Video

An Egyptian government news agency says seven men have been detained and two others are being sought for appearing in a YouTube video that shows a gay wedding. Charges include “inciting debauchery” and “undermining public morals.” Via Reuters: Gay marriage is not legal in Egypt, a conservative Muslim society where the footage, which went viral on social media sites last …

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EGYPT: Four Men Sentenced To Prison For Committing Homosexual Acts

The Associated Press reports: A judicial official says an Egyptian court has convicted four men of committing homosexual acts and sentenced them to up to eight years in prison. The Nasr City misdemeanor court issued its ruling on Monday. Police arrested the men for holding parties they say involved homosexual acts and where they found women’s clothes and makeup. Three …

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EGYPT: 14 Gay Men Arrested At Sauna

Egyptian authorities have arrested 14 gay men for “committing homosexual acts” at an underground Cairo sauna that may have presented itself as a medical center. An Egyptian prosecutor ordered on Saturday (12 October) that they be held for four days to enable them to be sent to a pathologist ‘for forensic reports’. He has also ordered and that the centre …

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Jon Stewart Vs The Three Tea Stooges

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Fireworks In Cairo Over Morsi’s Ouster

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BREAKING: Egyptian Military Seizes Control, Morsi’s Whereabouts Unknown

A full military coup has taken place in Egypt tonight.  NBC News: Armored cars, tanks and troops deployed in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, and advisers said they had lost contact with President Mohammed Morsi in what they described as a military coup. In a scene reminiscent of the earliest days of the Arab Spring, tens of thousands of Egyptians …

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Locust Plague Swarms Egypt

This happens every year but you can’t tell that to the End Times folks on the interwebs. It’s happening right before Passover, people! Audio kicks in about halfway through.

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Egyptian Court Sentences Florida Pastor Terry Jones To Death Over Movie

An Egyptian court has sentenced Florida Pastor Terry Jones to death for his alleged role in the creation of an anti-Islam movie. Seven others reported to be involved in the film were also sentenced to death.  All, including Jones, were sentenced in absentia. The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United …

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UN Condemns Gay Death Penalty

Yesterday the United Nations approved a resolution that condemns the killing of LGBT persons either by governments or via “extrajudicial” means such as hate crimes. Via press release from the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission: An international coalition of organizations dedicated to human rights celebrated yesterday’s historic vote in the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly …

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Obama: Egypt Is Neither Friend Nor Foe

Frenemy?

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Feds Identify Anti-Islam Filmmaker

Federal investigators have tracked down the man who produced Innocence Of Muslims. As it turns out, he’s neither Jewish or Israeli (as he told others), and he’s spent time in prison for bank fraud. A federal law enforcement official said Thursday that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was the man behind ‘‘Innocence of Muslims,’’ a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet …

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Gay Porn Actor Tim Dax Talks To Us About His Role In Innocence Of Muslims

After several JMG readers noticed that one of the actors in the infamous Innocence Of Muslims appeared to be the oddly tattooed and occasional gay porn star Tim Dax, I reached out to Dax for an interview, which he declined after confirming his role in the film. He did provide us with this statement via email: i can tell you …

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The Romney Smirk

News outlets yesterday took note of Mitt Romney’s smirk of satisfaction as he finished his slam against Obama over the Libya tragedy. [Photo credit]

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Editorial Of The Day

From the New York Times: President Obama’s statement of outrage and his vow to bring the killers to justice received bipartisan support, including from politicians otherwise committed to partisan warfare, like the House speaker, John Boehner, and the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, who rarely misses a chance to attack Mr. Obama. But not from Mitt Romney, who wants Americans …

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Conspiracy Plots Thicken

As the media questions the true identity of the filmmaker whose work is now inflaming much of the Middle East, Right Wing Watch reports on the man whose Arabic blog post first brought the film to attention among Islamic radicals. Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-American anti-Muslim activist, managed in one week’s time to take an overlooked YouTube video featuring a lame …

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Obama Press Conference On Libya

NOTE: I’ve replaced the live-stream link to the press conference with the below recording.

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EGYPT: Riots At US Embassy After Film Depicts Mohammed As Homosexual

Egyptian protesters today overran the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down the American flag after seeing clips from an anti-Islam film produced by Florida-based Pastor Terry Jones. [SEE UPDATE BELOW] The movie apparently depicts Mohammed as a homosexual and child molester. Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement, gathered at the embassy in …

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McCain Denounces Bachmann’s Claim That Clinton Aide Is Muslim Brotherhood Mole

Not only are Bachmann’s typically nutbag claims “unwarranted and unfounded,” they were picked up by Egyptians who on Monday pelted Clinton’s motorcade with tomatoes and shoes. Good for McCain on this. UPDATE: MSNBC reports that Bachmann has responded flippantly to McCain’s statement, vowing that she “will not be silenced.”(Via Buzzfeed)

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Rioting Returns To Cairo

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I’ll Meet You By The Third Pyramid

But it will have to be some other day than 11-11-11. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) closed the Great Pyramids on Friday after protesters said various groups, among them Jews, planned to attend a numerologist ceremony on the Giza Plateau. Egyptian media reported that some Egyptians feared that the event would be used by Jewish Masons to reclaim the …

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