Discomfort in Civilization

It is indecent to take one's intimacy out of the bedroom, to parade it senselessly, and irritating to insist on certain rights based on one's sexual orientation, and all of it is ultimately immoral and abnormal. Apartments, houses, rooms are intended for intimacy – sometimes hotels, motels, business trips… and now, among other things, reality shows, from whose content sensitive viewers and children(!) are protected by codes and whatnot… From my perspective, intimacy is intimacy! intended for enjoyment – whatever that may mean for someone – and certainly not for taking it out onto the street and parading it. And that would be about the end of the story, if it weren't for the disproportionate reactions to the initiative of about fifteen activists from Prijedor, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Bijeljina, Tuzla to organize a Pride (parade of pride?!) in Sarajevo. Everyone and their mother (all uninvited) have raised a fuss… and it's not even known if it will be organized at all, so I'm a little…

Namely, the FBiH Government accepted the request for the legalization of same-sex marriages back in October last year, and it was initiated for the Federal Ministry of Justice to enact a law regarding this issue. "The item was on the agenda and was adopted in the form in which it was proposed," confirmed the Prime Minister of FBiH, Fadil Novalić, and emphasized that we are "on the road to the EU. Everything we encounter on this road, we accept as a necessity." Some technicalities, such as registration in vital records, remained contentious, and the Government appointed an interdepartmental working group last year that analyzed the regulations within which same-sex couples can exercise rights arising from the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms from their life partnership, and proposed regulations that need to be enacted in the Federation of BiH. And that's that.

I mean, it should be.

Why do these young Muslims have a problem with faggots, but not with Chetniks?

Namely, when the Chetniks gathered in Višegrad back in March, long ago, to celebrate the arrest and subsequent execution of their leader with traditional calls for slaughter and rape (in front of his grotesque statue, and at its base – under the feet – of a serious statue of the voivode)… I expected at least two or three cars of representative examples, say, those who promise to come to our doors if we don't vote for SDA… to show up at the gathering and disperse the drunken brethren. But, to my and everyone's surprise, they didn't… True, two or three days later, they protested against the gathering of lesbians in Tuzla, so in that way, they saved themselves, preserved, and somewhat redeemed their reputation…

The answer to the question: Why do Muslims have a problem with faggots, but not with Chetniks? … however complicated it may seem at first glance, it is actually not… simply and in short, for the same reason they dislike mustaches but not beards: they think one is haram, and the other is halal! And that's more or less clear to me… However, it is not clear to me – not even approximately – who SCH is that her private Facebook status is considered news worthy of media treatment, why AS issues fatwas and not IZ, and what the KO SDA is doing in this whole story? … And why are institutional believers and religious people not speaking out?!

I don't remember us ever seeing anything remotely as fierce a reaction to any discovered theft, bullying behavior, murder(s), unjust and illegal privatization, abuse of position and budget funds, untraceable enrichment, a whole list of endangered and deprived and oppressed people… or for example, for the failure to discover the murderers of DŽM, two police officers, murders at pedestrian crossings… ugh… it's hard to list even a part, let alone everything that has never been reacted to… which is the result of a quarter of a century of truly unfair and primitive politics and which should concern them greatly.

I understand that there is and always will be a dichotomy in the perception of rights: what we allow ourselves, we usually deny to others, or we never grant others the rights that we consider a right for ourselves. There you go… It is interesting, for example, that DČ never reacted / protested against the election law or any other law as long as it suited him… that no one reacts to the failure to implement any of the set of laws on determining the origin of property and confiscating property acquired through illegal acts… There is no official statement when MM asks who killed his child…

I know, people know, especially Muslims know – both old and young – that it is haram to be a faggot… and to be a lesbian is haram. But it is also haram to lie, it is also haram to (s)teal even from the state, it is haram to cheat, it is haram to kill, it is also haram to abuse one's position… Of course, such people do not parade in the streets, and they exercise their rights through democratic means, through political organizations, assemblies, parliaments, and governments… and they are very proud of it…

So who is the faggot here?