While deviating from his prepared remarks, the 91-year-old leader of Zimbabwe reportedly shouted : "We are not gays!"
Yes he shouted "We are not gays!" But you wont appreciate Mugabe till he's gone, he's the last of a dying breed. Africans must stand to support its own and what they believe in. A time shall come when Africa will miss a man like Mugabe. Who can stand before anyone and say things just as they are!!
"Even satan wasn't gay...he chose to approach naked Eve & avoided naked Adam" Mugabe made the comment as he criticized western nations' "double standards" and attempts to "prescribe 'new rights' that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions and beliefs."
For the record: President Mugabe is a damn good speech-maker (even at 91)..Only problem is: you can't eat speeches. In the same speech Zimbabwe's leader — who has been in power since 1987 — claimed the UN human rights charter did not give states "the right to some to sit in judgement over others".
According to him; "In that regard, we reject the politicization of this important issue and the application of double standards to victimize those who dare think and act independently of the self-anointed prefects of our time."
"We equally reject attempts to prescribe "new rights" that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions, and beliefs. We are not gays! Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double-standards will not."
Mugabe's remarks follow decades of state-sanction persecution against homosexuality, with male same-sex sexual activity remaining illegal within Zimbabwe.
A Pew survey in 2013 found the African continent — with the notable exception of South Africans — overwhelmingly intolerant of gay men and women.
For the record: President Mugabe is a damn good speech-maker (even at 91)..Only problem is: you can't eat speeches. In the same speech Zimbabwe's leader — who has been in power since 1987 — claimed the UN human rights charter did not give states "the right to some to sit in judgement over others".
According to him; "In that regard, we reject the politicization of this important issue and the application of double standards to victimize those who dare think and act independently of the self-anointed prefects of our time."
"We equally reject attempts to prescribe "new rights" that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions, and beliefs. We are not gays! Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double-standards will not."
Mugabe's remarks follow decades of state-sanction persecution against homosexuality, with male same-sex sexual activity remaining illegal within Zimbabwe.
A Pew survey in 2013 found the African continent — with the notable exception of South Africans — overwhelmingly intolerant of gay men and women.
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