LGBT tourists make up one quarter of Rio’s approximately 3 million international visitors every year, and the gay-pride march drew nearly a million participants, organizers estimated.ĭespite Rio’s reputation as a gay-friendly and sexually uninhibited place where anything goes, there have been 600 complaints of anti-LGBT violence in the last year just in Rio state. The shooting created particular attention because it came at a moment when Brazil’s LGBT community was holding its biggest celebration.Īdvocates called the shooting an example of lingering homophobic attitudes that mar the city’s reputation for tolerance. Luiz was treated and released at a local hospital. The army initially denied any involvement. The aggression escalated and he was shot once in the stomach. The 19-year-old said they told everyone to leave, but held him back and started verbally abusing him. 14 when three men in military uniforms approached. Luiz claimed he was with friends at the Arpoador, a rocky outcrop between Ipanema and Copacabana beaches, Nov. The two sergeants were arrested last Thursday and will be questioned by police. The Brazilian army is holding two soldiers in connection with the shooting of a young gay man following Rio de Janeiro’s pride parade.Īn army statement says one of the suspects acknowledged shooting 19-year-old student Douglas Igor Marques Luiz. The Saudi embassy said the materials were being taken out of context and often referred to historical descriptions. In a book for 14-year-olds, Sharia law and its punishment for theft are explained, including detailed diagrams about how hands and feet of thieves are amputated. A text for younger children asks what happens to someone who dies who is not a believer in Islam: The answer given in the textbook is ‘hellfire.’”Īnother text describes the punishment for gay sex as death and states a difference of opinion about whether it should be carried out by stoning, burning with fire or throwing the person over a cliff. While the Saudi government denied any official ties to the schools, the BBC reported that the Saudi government owns one London building where the textbooks were found, and that the Saudi embassy oversees the network of schools.Īccording to the BBC, “One of the textbooks asks children to list the ‘reprehensible’ qualities of Jewish people.
The BBC reported that BBC Panorama found that more than 40 Saudi Students’ Schools and Clubs are teaching the official Saudi national curriculum to about 5,000 pupils. Thousands of Muslim children in the United Kingdom are being taught the Saudi national curriculum with textbooks that contain homophobic and anti-Semitic lessons, according to a BBC documentary.
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