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Former Mufti of the Republic intervenes to cancel LGBT party
31-10-2018
The former Mufti, Mohamad Rashid Qabani, appealed yesterday to the heads of cabinet, parliament and republic and to the AUB administration to ban and stop an LGBT dating/mixer night planned by the University’s Gender and Sexuality Club on October 30. Describing the event as a disgrace to all Lebanese that could bring about the Divine destruction of Lebanon, Qabani called for closing Madame Om Hamra venue, arresting the organizers and punishing the concerned interior ministry officer who gave the OK. In the footsteps of the Mufti, Dar al Fatwa reminded that it has always been “against all those who violate religious teachings and moral values of the holy books on which our society based its mores,” as he put it. Dar al Fatwa warned that it will prohibit homosexual persons from acting contrary to moral values. For its part, the AUB club announced on its Facebook page the canceling of the event, noting that it will issue a detailed statement on the subject later.
On the other hand, Al Akhbar newspaper reported that the Lebanese State Security yesterday arrested HIV patient, Richard G. on charges of providing tattoo services in a beauty clinic in the Beirut neighborhood of Verdun, sealed the center with red wax. Al Akhbar pointed out that the law is not clear in banning an HIV positive person from practicing any profession, even a medical related profession, citing human rights jurists who questioned the right of the State Security department to expose or reveal the medical file of a detainee. Is this apparatus now hunting HIV/AIDS patients as dangerous criminals in a country lost between the rule of law and the confessional law, they asked. (Al Akhbar, Al Diyar, October 31, 2018)
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