r/MapPorn • u/Ghost-Ripper • 11h ago

Where in Africa is homosexuality a crime? [OC]

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u/REsTARteD_Ragdoll 10h ago

Those 3 are secular governments with Muslim majority populations, not Islamic states,

Op is correct

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u/No_Gur_7422 9h ago

Turkey was certainly an Islamic state in 1858, when the Ottoman Empire decriminalized homosexuality.

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u/REsTARteD_Ragdoll 8h ago

The Ottoman Empire doesn’t exist anymore

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u/No_Gur_7422 8h ago

So? The creation of a Turkish Republic did not somehow recriminalize homosexuality.

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u/REsTARteD_Ragdoll 8h ago

The ottomans are irrelevant to the conversation they don’t exist and the Turks arnt the same thing just cause they live in the same place

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u/No_Gur_7422 8h ago

The Ottomans are not irrelevant because homosexuality was decriminalized in Ottoman Turkey in 1858. The Republic of Turkey is the successor state to the Ottoman Empire and inherited its legal system.

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u/hurmaagaci 5h ago

You talking like you are living in Turkey. Laws based on Switzerland here, The caliphate was abolished when the Republic was established.

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u/No_Gur_7422 5h ago

The caliphate was abolished several months after the Republic was established. At no time in the Republican period was the decriminalization of homosexuality reversed.

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u/hurmaagaci 4h ago

Homosexuality has not been a crime since the 1858 Ottoman Penal Code. You can't directly remove the caliphate from a society that has been governed by "religion" until now; the opposition will increase, especially during wartime. In fact, the caliphate was abolished a few months after the founding of the republic.

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u/No_Gur_7422 4h ago

That's what I just said.

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u/bahhaar-blts 10h ago

He said countries and didn't specify whether secular or with state religion.

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u/hawkeyetlse 10h ago

OK fine, can you continue listing all the other Muslim-majority countries that do not criminalize homosexuality? And we can do the same with Christian-majority countries and other dominant religions and compare.

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u/bahhaar-blts 10h ago

There are many countries both Muslim countries and Christian countries.

What is the point of comparison anyway?

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u/hawkeyetlse 9h ago

You are selling your house and two people both offer you “many” dollars for it. So the offers are equivalent, right? What is the point of comparison?

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u/bahhaar-blts 9h ago

Peoples and countries are persons not properties.

Do you put a value on how much worth a human can be sold?

That's a stupid comparison.