Image: Click on image to show graph of referrals from Google India to GayEgypt.com during the last month which suddenly drop off yesterday. Indian authorities bowed to muslim fundamentalists by cutting access to GayEgypt.com on 23 August 2005. The Raza Academy alleged that GayEgypt.com was an outrage against Islam and against the prophet. GayEgypt.com has been very popular in India because of its' 100+ gay Indian message boards. Its' complaint voiced on its' own website RazaAcademy.com focused on two pages - one which merely provided a list of gay website addresses of interest to gay muslims (GayEgypt.com/muslims.html) and the other (GayEgypt.com/islam2.html) which speculated on the sexuality of the Prophet and in particular his close relationship with his male slave Zaid. It did not allege that the Prophet had gay sex, merely that there was considerable evidence that like many gay men today he did experience homoerotic desires. However the article stressed there was no evidence the Prophet ever acted these out. It was certainly not a shallow attempt to be provacative as it was researched in depth and the title of the piece "The Sunnah and Sexuality" was deliberately made as mundane as possible. The Academy in its' statement also attacked two other websites but gave urls which proved impossible to access or verify. It said that GayEgypt.com and the other websites might soon incite the masses even though the GayEgypt.com article in question has been up several years without provoking a single complaint from India. According to the Open Net Initiative GayEgypt.com is already banned in China ( see China report ) and Iran ( see Iran Report ). x |