Indonesia thinks LGBT community is a bigger threat than ISIS
Gay bashing has become the newest favourite pastime in Indonesia, a nation that once prided itself on its record of tolerance.
This past month, the national news has been filled with daily attacks against a group of people known as LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
Everyone seems to be doing it. Everyone wants to have their say.
The attacks are not confined to social media where everything and anything goes. Anti-gay venom is also to be found in the nation’s mainstream newspapers and TV stations.
The public square has never been this suffocating.
The few voices defending the rights of LGBTs are being drowned out, or rather bullied, by the growing chorus that has turned the LGBT community into Indonesia ‘s public enemy No. 1.
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As far as Indonesians are concerned, the LGBT community is the bigger threat than ISIS, because it concerns the nation’s morality and, therefore, its existence and its future.
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