Cempaka Belanda: Moroccan Gays Test Limits on Net

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, May 24, 2010

Moroccan Gays Test Limits on Net

Jakarta Globe, Mohamed Chakir, May 24, 2010

The Web site will test how Morocco can balance modernity with conservative religious and social values. (AFP Photo)

By Western standards it’s tame, with no nudity, no sex and mostly text. Yet a new gay Moroccan Internet magazine may test the limits in a country where homosexuality is taboo.

The founders of Mithly, the Arabic word for gay, say it’s the first site of its kind in Muslim North Africa and aims to fight homophobia with understanding.

While gay and lesbian information Web sites already exist in Arabic, Samir Bargachi, one of Mithly’s founding editors, said it was the first gay, fully fledged, monthly Internet magazine in Arabic.

“It’s encouraging,” he said after it went online this month. “Both Moroccans and foreigners have offered to write for our review and the letters page is already packed.”

The site could test Morocco’s bid to balance a move toward modernity and closer ties with Europe with the conservative religious and social values still embraced by many.

It hit the scene amid Islamic hard-liners’ outrage over the participation of British pop star Elton John, a homosexual, in a huge Rabat music festival this week.

The main opposition Islamist Justice and Development Party called — unsuccessfully — for authorities to ban the singer from taking part, saying his presence posed a “risk of encouraging homosexuality in Morocco.”

Yet Mithly jumps right out of the closet. Its home page states, in English, that it’s the “Moroccan Queer Magazine” and its logo, Arabic calligraphy for Mithly, is drawn in the unmistakable rainbow colors of the gay pride movement.

The “about us” chapter says the site wants to promote understanding about “what we aim for as a pressure group living in the most socially and politically turbulent area on the globe” so that “we may be recognized, accepted, included for who we truly are.”

What they are up against is Morocco’s penal code where Article 489 states — as one official in the Communications Ministry who asked not to be named reminded — that homosexual acts can be punished with “six months to three years imprisonment.”

While there are no figures on convictions for this “crime,” local papers still carry stories from time to time about people arrested on charges of homosexuality.

However, like liquor and wine consumption — proscribed for Muslims under Moroccan law — homosexuality is tolerated provided practitioners do not flaunt their difference.

Mithly, for example, is quietly put together by a dozen collaborators in Rabat and Casablanca (www.mithly.net), according to Bargachi, who is also coordinator of a homosexual rights association called Kif-Kif (The Same).

Before it went online, however, Mithly “published a first number on paper to mark the occasion with a powerful symbolic act,” Bargachi said.

More than 200 copies were grabbed up in a few days, with “very positive responses from homosexuals and from certain heterosexuals,” he said.

Others are more cautious.

“In Morocco, there are provisions to punish outrage against public morals,” Rabat barrister Mourad Bekkouri said. “In the case of this review, those responsible risk running up against the law.”

The Communications Ministry official, meanwhile, declined to comment on the site but said that Morocco has a “Constitution which considers Islam to be the religion of the state … and Islam, like other religions, disapproves of homosexual practices.”

Yet change is afoot.

Kif-Kif, for example, held without incident — and for the third year — a series of debates, a documentary and even a party with a drag queen for International Day Against Homophobia, marked around the globe on May 17.

And festival organizers refused to bend to the Islamists’ request to ban Elton John from the ninth annual Mawazine festival, which is running from May 21 to 29.

Agence France-Presse