 Bahrain is looking at ways to curb homosexuality, including
spying on its schoolchildren and refusing entry to foreign homosexuals.
Under the headline ‘Root out gays in our schools’, the Gulf Daily News reported that MPs
accepted the findings of a committee, which also recommended the monitoring of
hair salons, massage parlours and health clubs.
The committee is also demanding the Education Ministry monitor
students and punishes those “who veer towards homosexuality”.
MPs urged the ministry to raise awareness amongst students, suggesting
lectures given by visiting health specialists, psychiatrists or sociologists.
Committee secretary and Al Menbar faction MP Shaikh Mohammed
Khalid Mohammed said people were complaining about homosexuals entering the
country to work in massage or hair salons.
"Those people are either from the Philippines or
Thailand and they come for these two jobs, which they use as a curtain for
their homosexual behaviour and immorality."
In 2006, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights included Shaikh
Mohammed Khalid Mohammed on a ‘blacklist’.
The move came “to enlighten the public in regard to members and blocks of the
expired House of Representatives who have ratified laws that restrict freedoms
and contradict human rights norms”.
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