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SHOULD THIS GAY BLOGGER FORGIVE TOM MACMASTER?

 

Now that we know that Amina was a hoax made by Tom MacMaster I see that there is a lot of rage against him. I have read http://gaymiddleeast.com/news/news%20317.htm where gay bloggers from Syria are quite unhappy with the hoax and one even says that he would sue him if he could.

So I am think about my reaction to this hoax. Should I join the ones who want to sue him or should I just forgive this American man?

For the things I know now it seems that I just should be enraged. He has put in danger lgbt people in Syria. And in fact he has acted in a way that is harmful for the lgbt worldwide community. On the other hand I still do not know detail of the reasons why he has made all this.

Compassion and pity makes me think I should forgive him but at the same time I must remember the lgbt community in Syria. If they cannot sue him, me living in a Western country maybe I could join forces in the West to sue this man.

Until I decide my position, I just hope to know more. But reading the text from the Syrian bloggers whose lives are at risk because of this hoax I think that Tom MacMaster should be brought to justice. Needless to say that his use of photos from a woman in London seems to be a very good reason to bring him to justice. Not all the people in this planet use photos of other people. Some have still a bit of dignity. Shame on Tom!

Well, no doubt that now thanks to Tom now you may doubt to that this is a blog made by a gay man.

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June 13, 2011 | Categories: English | Tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment

AMINA ARRAF WAS A MAN CALLED TOM MACMASTER

Since I began this blog, muigai,  I am supposed to be a gay man writing from Catalonia. Lately I write a lot against the deal between Barça and Qatar Foundation.

Well, now I am afraid that anyone can suspect that in fact I am a heterosexual man from Qatar who is againt the emir. Or maybe I am just an homophobic man who just dislikes Barça and tries to atack this team through its deal with Qatar.

When you begin a gay blog where you talk about issues realted to the lgbt community you can imagine yourself fighting homophobia. But the last thing you can imagine is that casual readers may suspect that you are not gay and you do not live in Catalonia and that all you write is pure fantasy.

I say all that because now we know that Amina Arraf was a hoax. The blog of a gay girl in Damascus was in fact writen by an American man living in Scotland: Tom MacMaster.

There are people that are furious with this man. At the moment I am still in shock. The good thing of all this is that now when I read a blog I won’t be so innocent so I will wonder a lot about the fact that the one writing the posts maybe is not who he or she says. The problem is that this also apllies to this blog! Now, people reading this blog and now know about the hoax of Amina may doubt about this blog being writen really by a gay man in Catalonia.

Ahmadinejad thinks that homosexuality is an invention of the Western countries. Tom MacMaster, with this hoax, is giving weapons to this dictator to continue to say that homosexuality is something from the West! It was an American man who invented himself a Lesbian gierl in an Arab country.

So, I think that there are reasons to be very angry with this American man. On the other hand I would like to know more about this man. Why he did that?

I think that in a few hours he will say something else to a journalist.

 

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