The LGBT war on the Muslim world
An incident in the UAE shows how LGBT cultural imperialism has turned its focus to the Muslim world.
Until last week, Dr Habib Al Mulla was the Executive Chairman of Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla, a partnership between his firm and Baker McKenzie, one of the world’s top law firms. As a name partner, he held one of the highest ranks in the legal profession in the Middle East.
On 6 September, Dr Al Mulla, made some comments about homosexuality and the LGBT movement on his personal Twitter account. He used the term “shudhoodh”, which best translates as deviancy, to refer to the LGBT movement and to homosexual acts. The term is commonly used in this manner throughout the Arabic speaking world by Muslims, Christians and Jews. Dr Al Mulla said that a movement that promotes sexual deviancy is, by definition, atheistic, as it rejects the teachings of the creator. Therefore, Dr Al Mulla’s said, promoting deviancy and presenting it as moral is inherently an act of disbelief, in contrast with practicing homosexuality in secret while knowing that it is sinful. Dr Al Mulla contrasted the idea of “my body, my choice” with mainstream Islamic orthodoxy, which teaches that the human body belongs to God and is to be used in accordance with His will.
On 9 September, in a spectacular show of tolerance and support for dialogue, Baker McKenzie issued a statement saying that they had parted ways with Dr Al Mulla, after over 30 years of partnership. Baker McKenzie said that “Baker McKenzie strongly believes that however much we may disagree with the beliefs and personal views of others, we must find ways to disagree respectfully, encourage inclusive dialogue and to ensure an inclusive work environment for all. Any social media comments by Dr Habib represent his own views and not those of the Firm”. This, to say the least, is a rather bizarre redefinition of tolerance, dialogue and inclusiveness. Dr Habib Al Mulla and his firm are now no longer associated with Baker McKenzie and the two sides are dissolving their partnership.
Cultural imperialism
There is a message in this episode to lawyers in the Muslim world and in the developing world: if you aspire to join the ranks of one of the world’s most prestigious law firms, you must set aside your own beliefs and values, and adopt those of the firm. And the message is not only to Baker McKenzie’s own staff. Rather, every single global law firm is now faced with the expectation that it would do the same to any employee who expresses a mainstream religious opinion on issues such as sexual deviancy, killing unborn children and other moral and religious questions. Critically, this issue is not limited to Baker McKenzie. The World Economic Forum, where all global companies go and meet, is fully on board with the LGBT agenda. This agenda is also backed by the United Nations though its Global Compact and its “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights”, where the UN insists, falsely, that “transgender women”, that is, men who claim to be women, are in fact women. Given the high-level institutional support, it appears clear that this type of incident will keep on happening in the Islamic world and in the developing world. Indeed, Argentina and Uruguay have reserved 1% of all public sector jobs to transsexuals, which was celebrated by the World Economic Forum. African countries are constantly attacked in Western media for rejecting homosexuality. Even Bangladesh was considering a law to give tax breaks to firms whose manpower is 10% transsexual, or who have more than 100 transsexual employees. The homosexual agenda has become a particularly nefarious form of cultural imperialism. Recall that at the height of Western colonial power, no Western official would have dreamed of making a Muslim drink alcohol or eat pork, which Christians view as natural, or to change their religion. Now, global companies are trying to make Muslims embrace sexual deviancy in all its forms.
Battle in the Muslim world
Muslim governments and societies must be made aware of how the normalisation of homosexuality, same sex “marriage”, and now transsexuality was done in the West. These ideas were introduced through a combination of human rights campaigns, positive media coverage, and claims of oppression. The homosexual and transsexual movements used emotional appeals to claim that their members were being oppressed, and that all they wanted was to live normal lives. When Western societies granted them all the rights that normal people had, the homosexual and transsexual movements initiated a two pronged attack, against adults and against children. Adults in the West are being pushed into acceptance of, or at least silence towards, the homosexual and transsexual agenda through the threat of professional retaliation. Almost all major companies have policies that ban employees from speaking publicly in a manner that harms the reputation of their employer. Speaking out against the homosexual agenda is considered harmful to these companies’ reputation, at least according to these companies’ human resources and senior management. Therefore, any employee or business associate who objects to homosexuality is at risk of dismissal and loss of income, as Dr Al Mulla has just found out. Furthermore, hate speech laws have been enacted in much of the West, including the United Kingdom. Saying obvious truths about homosexuality – that it is sinful, that it is unnatural, that it harms families and societies – can be punished under these laws with fines and prison sentences. Additionally, with much of the private and public sectors in the West seeking to increase diversity, homosexuality can bring to workers professional rewards. Adults in the West who speak against homosexuality can be silenced by the law and can lose their incomes. They can also gain financially if they embrace it. Baker McKenzie’s actions show that now the same template will be followed in the Muslim world.
The second target of this two-pronged attack in the West is children. Schools throughout the West, except for places like Poland, Hungary and Russia, are now telling children as young as three years old that homosexuality and transsexuality are normal. This is intended to weaken the minds of children and introduce them to sexuality at a far too early age. Disturbingly large numbers of youths and young adults now identify as homosexual or as transsexual, a phenomenon which is partly driven by social contagion and perhaps by influence from teachers. The more this is normalised and glorified, the more youths will adopt it. Worse, more and more children are claiming to be transsexual. In some cases, these children are being mutilated by doctors as they “transition” from male to female or from female to male. Doctors are in some instances removing the breasts of girls, and are removing boys penises and cutting open holes between their boys’ legs and calling them vaginas. For girls, they are moulding penises from tissue in other parts of the body and grafting them on. Baker McKenzie – the firm that ended its relationship with Dr Al Mulla – has committed itself to choosing up to 20% of its workforce from among the victims of such monstrous medical experiments. Its website says that it wants a gender balance among its workforce of 40: 40: 20. I do not know how else to explain that.
Screenshot from Baker McKenzie’s website
It is worth noting that this battle started in the 1960s and the 1970s in the West. It was a slow process, during which first homosexuality was normalised in cinema, in media and among the public. Then the battle over homosexual “marriage” started, ending with a victory for the homosexual movement. Rather than this resolving the issue, it led to worse outcomes: Hate speech laws banning objections to homosexuality were enacted, and the transsexual movement took the forefront. Now, this madness is embraced fully throughout government and the business community, including almost all global businesses.
In the Muslim world and in the developing world, the pace of the battle will be far more rapid. It is worth recalling that Netflix reduced negative coverage of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, in exchange for Saudi Arabia permitting more LGBT content. It is also worth recalling that Kuwait’s constitutional court struck down a law banning men from “imitating” women and women from “imitating” men, on the grounds that its terms were not clearly defined. However, most Western media interpreted the law as a victory for the transsexual movement, and was celebrated by global human rights campaigners as being so, even though the ruling was narrow and technical and made no mention of transsexuals.
Options for Muslim governments
In its drive for “tolerance”, Baker McKenzie has shown that it is utterly intolerant of any mainstream religious views. Dr Al Mulla’s views are well within the mainstream of Muslim society, and I dare say also represent the views of most Christians and Jews. Previously, the fight against religious faith was focused on the West, with only minimal attacks on the Islamic world itself (though there have been many attacks against Islamic values targeting Muslims in the West). Baker McKenzie has fired the opening shot for the battle in the Muslim world. Unless it receives a response, other companies will follow its example.
If governments in the Muslim world permit this to stand, their societies will pay the same price that the West is paying today, much sooner than they think. If they choose to fight back, they can introduce new laws banning transsexual behaviour, this time making the definitions extremely clear to prevent activist lawyers from overturning them. They can ensure that the schooling system does not permit any indoctrination that favours the homosexual and transsexual agenda, as Russia and Hungary have done. They can also simply blacklist any company that imposes transsexual or homosexual employment quotas, or that imposes trainings normalising homosexuality and transsexuality. The loss of business faced by global corporations would see them bending over backwards to respect Islamic sensibilities. The Christian world would be grateful for such a stance by Muslim governments, and the Muslim world would be spared much misery. Baker McKenzie has declared that it wants to fight this battle. Why not make it the first casualty?
Thank you for the valuable article brother. You mentioned that homosexuality affects the society, then why would the west do such thing to their own people? Is it because of capitalism? Thats what their economy need?
What is your opinion about the west gender equality? As a muslim, there is no difference between the two sexes, and it is clear in the Quran that both are the same. But Islam stresses on equity but not equality. I would like to know your opinion.