Mugabe: Gays Worse Than Pigs And Should be Beheaded

Read Time:3 Minute, 5 Second
President Robert Mugabe’s palace. Mugabe accused certain African countries that accept homosexuality of succumbing to European countries in exchange for aid.  (Source:News Time Africa)
President Robert Mugabe’s palace. Mugabe accused certain African countries that accept homosexuality of succumbing to European countries in exchange for aid. (Source:News Time Africa)

Wide eyed liberals, as opposed to us ‘common’ liberals, are fond of condemning the United States for racism, homophobia, and other such sins.  They screech and moan about all sorts of perceived slights, threatening to immigrate to Canada or escape to the Maldives because America is just the worst place.

Sadly, these deluded wing nuts have no clue as to what happens in the rest of the world, places like Afghanistan, where women are so much chattel, or Iraq, where you can be shot because you believe something different than your neighbor, or Zimbabwe, where being gay can cost you your head:

Addressing a rally of thousands of Zimbabwe African National Union supporters in Mutare, Zimbabwe last week, President Robert Mugabe vowed to continue to criminalize homosexuality, saying gay men and women “worse than pigs, goats and birds” and threatening to behead them, reported News Day.

Not only are gay people under attack, however. Mugabe also called out men who are perceived as gay and men who live under the same roof and fail to produce children.

“If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads,” Mugabe said.

According to Amnesty International’s 2012 annual global rights report, discrimination is worsening “in Africa over people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”

The organization said that in October of 2011 two men were arrested in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, after being assaulted by mobs for allegedly being gay. Even after the men were cleared of the charges of engaging in homosexuality, Mugabe’s party militants repeatedly threatened violence against the men’s lawyers.

One of the main reasons Mugabe opposes homosexuality is that it threatens women’s God-given right to bear children.

“Mothers were given the talent to bear children. That talent doesn’t belong to men,” Mugabe said at a women’s HIV/Aids and gender rights conference in Harare, reported the Associated Press.

“When a man says he wants to get married to another man, we in Zimbabwe don’t accept it. We can’t talk of women’s rights at all if we go in that direction. It will lead to extinction,” he said.

Still women’s rights are hardly human rights to Mugabe.

“Our customs look down on women as inferior,” he said at the women’s HIV/Aids and gender rights conference. “Men pay cattle and money to get a wife and expect women to obey them. Women will surely lose. Men say that women are not as knowledgeable as us.”

In a time where political leaders, like President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, are defending the rights of LGBTQ people, Mugabe vehemently insists that homosexuality is not a human right.

Amnesty International said human rights defenders were arrested, detained and tortured under Mugabe’s rule. In meetings with United Nations’ human rights chief, Navi Pillay, Mugabe’s party has denied the existence of state-sponsored political violence, the AP reports.

“Imagine this son born out of an African father,” Mugabe said of the US president, “Obama says if you want aid, you should accept the homosexuality practice. Aah, we will never do that.”

Now that’s a country you don’t want to live in, and I doubt even the most disaffected Americans will be booking a flight anytime soon.

Check out more stories from editor Peter Lake.

About Post Author

Peter Lake

Peter Lake hails from the Midwest, but is now living in Germany. He is a professional writer who spent many years honing his craft at a well known newspaper. Peter originally sent an article to us through the citizen journalist program and decided to stay. We are glad he did.
Happy
Happy
0 %
Sad
Sad
0 %
Excited
Excited
0 %
Sleepy
Sleepy
0 %
Angry
Angry
0 %
Surprise
Surprise
0 %
0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of

4 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Michael Scott
10 years ago

We definitely need to rethink our Africa policy. If we don’t that’s where we’ll be fighting our next war.

Bill Formby
10 years ago

These latest dictators make ones from the past look like child’s play. We should really rethink our African policy.

10 years ago

Does Pat Robertson know he has a black twin brother? I suspect that might upset him almost as much as if he had a gay twin brother. 🙂

10 years ago

And precisely what is wrong with pigs, goats and birds?

Can’t we finally ‘go into’ a country that hasn’t any oil deposits and facilitate ‘regime change’. The man is mad as a hatter and has completely ruined a once wealthy country.

Previous post Billy No Mates Has Been Shot
Next post The Ancient Origins of Those Feisty Chihuahas
4
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x