When he isn't claiming to have cured AIDS, Gambian president
Yahya Jammeh has a history of making unbelievable homophobic comments.
1) In a speech on
Saturday Jammeh said gay people would doom the world and that the “empire of
homosexuals” would “go down the dirty drain”.
“All empires before collapsed not at the time they were
weakest, but at the peak of their might and when they equated themselves with
the Almighty Allah. So this evil empire of homosexuals will also go down the
dirty drain and garbage of hell,” he said.
2) In May 2014 Jammeh said he would “kill” anyone who cited the persecution of LGBTQ people as
a reason for seeking asylum abroad.
“Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that
their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay
in Europe. If I catch them I will kill them,” he in a speech in the city of
Basse, according to African news service APA.
3) In February
2014 he described gay people as “vermin” who should be treated worse than
mosquitoes.
“We will fight these vermins called homosexuals or gays the
same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively,”
he said in a speech made to mark the country’s 49th anniversary of independence
from Britain.
4) In September
2013 he said that homosexuality was “more deadly than all natural disasters put
together”.
In an address to the UN general assembly he put
homosexuality alongside “greed” and “obsession with world domination” as the
three “biggest threats to human existence” that “are more deadly than all
natural disasters put together”.
5) In February
2012 Jammeh said gay rights were a “great mistake” and that they “destroy
culture”.
“We know what human rights are. Human beings of the same sex
cannot marry or date,” he said. “If you think it is human rights to destroy our
culture, you are making a great mistake because if you are in the Gambia, you
are in the wrong place then.”
6) In February
2014 he said that LGBT stood for "Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and
Tuberculosis".
“As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for Leprosy,
Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis; all of which are detrimental to human
existence,” he said.
7) In May 2008 he
said he would decapitate any homosexuals he found in his country.
Jammeh promised laws against LGBTQ people "stricter
laws than Iran" and said he would "cut off the head" of any gay
person found in Gambia. "The Gambia is a country of believers... sinful
and immoral practices [such] as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this
country," the president told a crowd at a political rally.
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