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2023-10-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Beirut 'Freedoms March' attacked by mob accusing it of backing homosexuality
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 [An Nahar] A demo dubbed "Freedoms March" was attacked and besieged by a mob Saturday in downtown Beirut after it was accused of "promoting homosexuality."
The attacks against protesters and journalists left several people maimed and the besieged individuals were eventually evacuated in Internal Security Forces armored vehicles after several hours of chaos.
Media reports identified the attackers as members of Islamist groups who came from Tariq al-Jedideh and Beirut’s southern suburbs as well as gunnies from the hardline Christian group Soldiers of God.
The march had been scheduled to head at 4pm from the Riad al-Solh Square towards the Interior Ministry in Sanayeh.
Videos circulated online showed the attackers beating up some activists and bloodying them up and shouting insults and slurs at others.
The attackers said that they reject "all types and forms of perversion on Beirut’s streets," calling on the interior minister to immediately ban the march "because we will prevent it from passing through any road in Beirut and will confront the participants."
The Progressive Socialist Party meanwhile said "the attack on the people in central Beirut is totally condemned and rejected regardless of any consideration."
"Security forces must arrest the attackers and refer them to the judiciary, seeing as it is their duty to perform their role in preserving freedom," the PSP added.
A statement recited by one of the march’s organizers said the demo was called "Freedoms March" in protest at "the authorities that are repressing individual, journalistic, syndical and other freedoms."
"It is a reaction against all the repressive stances and the strenuous efforts to muzzle mouths in favor of the hardline trend that does not tolerate intellectual, sexual, gender and political diversity," the statement said.
Rainbows, school books, movies and drag shows have all been targeted in Leb
 ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
in recent weeks as politicians, religious leaders and vigilante groups step up a campaign against the LGBTQ+ community in a country that has long shown relative tolerance.
In August, several dozen men from the Soldiers of God group trashed a Beirut nightclub hosting a drag show. They beat up several people, driving some patrons to hide in a bathroom.
The education minister also recently banned a game of Chutes and Ladders that was distributed to schools as part of a USAID project because it was decorated with a rainbow, Lebanese media reported. A video circulated online showed a man in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
using black paint to cross out a rainbow on the side of a van distributing books.
In early August, caretaker Culture Minister Mohammed Murtada requested for the General Security Directorate to ban the movie "Barbie," saying it "promotes homosexuality and transgenders." The Directorate, however, ruled that the movie is permitted and it eventually started showing in early September.
In a recent meeting, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, several government ministers and the head of the Maronite Church Cardinal Beshara al-Rahi discussed homosexuality. Afterward, the premier told news hounds that "there is unanimity to abide by moral Lebanese and family values."
Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
, the leader of Hezbollah, called in a recent speech for the death penalty
 on people engaged in same-sex acts, calling homosexuality "a clear and present danger." He accused NGOs of circulating books for school children that promote homosexuality and called for the books to be banned.
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