I tend to like Reason magazine, but I think I need to stop reading the blog. The majority of the commentators frighten me.

gave some thought on my previous reactions to this subject, I think the identification of Islam with gay-hate has to do with making the short-thobed loons the spokespeople of Islam in the West, since they must be the most Muslim of all, with their weird dresses and huge fuck-off beards. The Hilali debacle comes to mind as an example. It would be comparable to having Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell represent Christianity, or Le Pen to represent Frenchmen.

Skimmed the comments. Same old bigotry, just better sentence structure.

Here in the Gulf, where homosexual behaviour is exceptionally high (largely because of gender segregation) denial is not so much a religious/Islamic bigotry as a cultural/ethnic one. While so many do it, they still want to believe it's a phenomenon of the "corrupt west" - something emasculating, not something that "Arab men" would every do.

So they won't admit to it even existing in their culture, and vilify those publically uncovered to be involved.

Everyone knows, but don't tell anyone.