Gaza man claims he was beaten for having affairs
Gaza is starting to look more and more like Saudi Arabia every day.A Gaza man claims that he was beaten by Hamas police for having affairs with women. The man is not married.
A Gaza art gallery owner said Wednesday that Hamas police had repeatedly beaten and abused him over allegations that he’d had sexual relations with women who were not his wife, which is forbidden by Islamic law.I suppose he is lucky. If they accused him of having affairs with men, he'd be stoned.
According to Gaza human rights activists, the rare admission by Jamal Abu Qumsan, who is unmarried, is the clearest evidence yet of a quiet but persistent Hamas moral crackdown in Gaza as part of an attempt to implement strict Islamic law.
“They kept asking me as they beat me, ‘Who are the girls you sleep with?’ I told them I’m not sleeping with anybody,” Abu Qumsan told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
He said police interrogators beat him across his back, legs and buttocks in hours-long interrogations over three days last week. To back up his claims, Abu Qumsan e-mailed reporters a photo of his bruises.
The 43-year-old said he had also been accused of hosting exhibitions in his art cafe and gallery without government permits.
Hamas officials were not available for comment.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:47 PM
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He is lucky he is not a woman or he would have been killed already.
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