SODOMY: DSAI, THE AMBIGA, US AND TURKISH CONNECTIONS

When I went through a brief search on the internet on the issue of contemporary sodomy, I found that

In Turkey, sodomy has been legal for many years. #. This I presume must be the work of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who brought westernization and secularisation into the Republic of Turkey after the fall of the Ottaman Empire in the aftermath od world war 1. So when DSAI went to seek shelter at the Turkish Embassy Kual Lumpur while buying time for foreign powers to come to his aid, he was sure the Turkish Embassy would accommodate him. Being a Muslim country, under the Turkish flag, he sought to receive the attention and support of certain Islamic organizations especially those receiving funding from his Chairmanship in the Foundation of the Future, an apparatus of the US State Department which the US contributed USD 30M.

“Most international human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty also ruled that such laws violated the right to privacy guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human RightsInternational, condemn laws that make homosexual relations between consenting adults a crime. Since 1994 the United Nations Human Rights Committee has and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”# This is where Ambiga and her kind come in, to promote human rights in Malaysia irrespective of Malaysia’s rule of law and the Social Contract and in this case sodomy is the most heinous and sexually derogatory act condemn under Islam.

3. “On June 26, 2003, the US Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision struck down the Texas same-sex sodomy law, ruling that this private sexual conduct is protected by the liberty rights implicit in the due process clause of the United States Constitution. (See Lawrence v. Texas.). Around the time of the 2003 Supreme Court decision, the laws in most US states were no longer enforced, or were very selectively enforced. The continued presence of these rarely enforced laws on the statute books, however, was often cited as justification for discrimination against gay men and lesbians.”3##. Our existing rule of law and that the US are so widely apart in respect of sodomy. In the US, its ‘god’ is its constitution but not so here in Malaysia. The US is intensively promoting its program of greater freedom and liberty world wide especially to the Muslim world after its apparent failure or limited success on the War on Terror and the branding of Muslims as terrorists.
It’s also good to find out how the US military looks at homosexual cases

4. Besides Sodomy Part 1 (the earlier sodomy case of DSAI) there’s another case where International human rights groups have strongly protested but to no avail. See http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/uzbekistan/uznews16.htm where Uzbek Journalist Pleads Guilty to Sodomy Charges
The above to me are the simple close linkage between DSAI, the US, Turkey and Ambiga (representative of human rights advocates in Malaysia). To all Malaysian Muslims, beware of the onslaught by the United States and its allies in coming to the rescue of their protégée accused of Sodomy. These countries, especially the US administration care not of our laws or the truth. I bet PM and SIL are shitting in their pants and I wonder if they (PM and SIL) will sell out our country’s honor.
I wish to reiterate that I am among those who are certain that DSAI is capable of repeating the heinous crime and thus my duty to warn my fellow Muslims in PAS or elsewhere to be aware of the monstrous destruction DSAI and his loyal human rights supporters can bring to this beloved country out of this despicable incident.
References: # http://www.answers.com/topic/homosexuality-and-islam
## http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States
Legal status in modern Islamic nations (http://www.answers.com/topic/homosexuality-and-islam)
Homosexuality is a crime and forbidden in most of Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. In other countries, this is not the case, Turkey being an example. Despite the laws, some Muslim nations are widely believed to have a thriving underground homosexual subculture. [citation needed]
Same-sex intercourse officially carries the death penalty in several Muslim nations: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen.[citation needed] It formerly carried the death penalty in Afghanistan under the Taliban. The legal situation in the United Arab Emirates is unclear. In many Muslim nations, such as Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria and the Maldives, homosexuality is punished with jail time, fines, or corporal punishment. In some Muslim-majority nations, such as Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, or Mali, same-sex intercourse is not specifically forbidden by law. In Egypt openly gay men have been prosecuted under general public morality laws. (See Cairo 52.) On the other hand, homosexuality, while not legal, is tolerated to some extent in Lebanon, and has been legal in Turkey for decades.
In Saudi Arabia, the maximum punishment for homosexuality is public execution, but the government will use other punishments—e.g., fines, jail time, and whipping—as alternatives, unless it feels that homosexuals are challenging state authority by engaging in LGBT social movements.[2] Iran is perhaps the nation to execute the largest number of its citizens for homosexuality. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, the Iranian government has executed more than 4,000 people charged with homosexual acts[citation needed]. In Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban homosexuality went from a capital crime to one that it punished with fines and prison sentence.
Most international human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, condemn laws that make homosexual relations between consenting adults a crime. Since 1994 the United Nations Human Rights Committee has also ruled that such laws violated the right to privacy guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. However, most Muslim nations (except for Turkey, which has been ruled by secular law since 1923 and recently has modernized its laws in order to meet the requirements of entry to the European Union) insist that such laws are necessary to preserve Islamic morality and virtue. Of the nations with a majority of Muslim inhabitants, only Lebanon has an internal effort to legalize homosexuality.[3]

Islamic views on Sodomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy)
The Qur'an makes a more explicit scriptural connection between homosexual aggression and Sodom. The city name ‘Sodom’ does not appear there, but the Sodomites are referred to as “the people of Lut (Lot).” Lot is the nephew of the Hebrew/Arabic patriarch Abraham and, in the Judaic Sodom stories, is head of the only family allowed by God to survive Sodom's destruction. In the Qur'an, he is also the divinely appointed national prophet to his people. Since their national name was unrecorded and “people of Lot” was the only available designation, the Islamic equivalent of ‘sodomy’ has become ‘liwat,’ which could be roughly translated as “lottishness” (see Homosexuality and Islam).
According to Islamic view, homosexuality is not a natural activity and it was initiated under the influence of Satan among the people who dwelled in Sodom and Gomorrah. In order that they should abandon this immorality, Allah had sent to them Lut as a Prophet. The Qur'an relates,
'We also (sent) Lut: he said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds".' - Holy Quran 7:80-81
It is evident from this verse that the sin of the Sodomites was indeed homosexuality (specifically, amongst men) in the Islamic context.
In Islam sodomy (Anal sex) is forbidden whether done with a man or a woman.