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Two Testify in Alleged Homosexual Case

Two witnesses have on Tuesday the 16th September 2008 testified in the ongoing alleged homosexuality case involving Alimameh Dukureh, Principal Bilal Islamic Boarding School. Mr. Alimameh Dukureh is standing trial on a charge of homosexuality. He is being arraigned for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts with some of his students at the school campus in Yundum. In his testimony, a student at the said school (name withheld) told the court that sometime in the month of July 2008 he went out of...

Alleged Homosexuals Released

Information reaching this paper has it that the two alleged Spanish homosexuals, who were arrested by the police last Friday, were released yesterday. Pere Joan, 56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54, who were held at the Kotu police station, allegedly approached two taxi drivers and made amorous proposals to them. The drivers were reportedly swift in alerting the police without causing any unnecessary suspicion to the two culprits who were lured to a rendezvous in Manjai where they were...

Re: The gay issue

Editor, Allow me space in you widely read paper, I can understand the sentiments being expressed by many people regarding the gay issue, I know a lot of people areagainst homosexual practices, but I wish to urge caution regarding the language being used addressing such a group. It is indisputable that The Gambia is heavily dependent on tourism and sending the wrong message could have an adverse effect on such a volatile industry. The gay community have a big lobby in the West and for a small...

GLOBAL: Doors of tolerance begin to open for gay Muslims

Suhail AbualSameed looked calm, yet he was shaking inside. He was seated before a row of ulama, distinguished Islamic scholars, from Afghanistan to Yemen at the International Consultation on Islam and HIV/AIDS, organised by the charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week. The previous day, several of them had denounced homosexuality as un-Islamic and evil. Today, AbualSameed had something to tell them. "As a gay Muslim, I feel unsafe, unloved and...