Thanks America for exporting your hate!

Everything is the fault of the west!

You can thank the European overlords pushing christianity everywhere during the colonial ages for shit like this.

Not that the islam is much better in other regions, but nigeria is christian afaik

You can go way down the rabbit hole here, you can blame Christian European colonial powers, but you can blame the pre-christian Roman empire for opening that door for Christianity to spread into Europe in the first place, you can blame Jews for being the religion that Christianity spun off of, you can blame various other religions and cultures that eventually morphed into Judaism

You can do that all the way back to the first organism that evolved that had a hint of sapience if you really want to

But that would be ridiculous.

That's all in the past, and while it's important to understand how we ended up here, we can't do a damn thing to change any of that.

However here and now, we have groups like family watch international actively fanning the flames and funding this crap.

They're not the only ones, they're not all American, but you have your head in the fucking sand if you think America isn't the biggest piece of this puzzle.

pretty much is caused by american evangelical groups inside AFRICA, they even helped write some of the anti-lgbtq+ legislation in some african countries.

Is this neocolonialism?

How is this the fault of Europeans? Not saying colonialism didn't cause an endless list of problems, but the same European countries are in the global minority of having legalized same-sex marriage nowadays lol. None of this is meant to diminish the persecution of homosexuals that happened in the European past. It very much existed, but there's plenty of evidence of it existing outside of Europe as well.

It's not at all about the religion.

If a country where many people follow a book that says homosexuals should be stoned to death are abusing homosexuals I think it is naive to dismiss the connection.

And yes, Europe nowadays is quite tolerant, and I am very thankful to live there myself as a queer man, but it was a very different story in many countries only 100 years ago.

Nigeria has both a large Christian and a large Muslim population. This is an abrahamitic problem, not just a European one.

It's incredibly effortlessly easy to understand that being gay is fine.