Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 01:09:01 +0300

Subject: Re: Mohamad Sibai
From: AUB Outlook <outlook@aub.edu.lb>



Dear ---------,

We have been receiving several complaints on behalf of this article. It is
within every AUB student's right to respond with a "Letter to the Editor",
though I believe the LGBTQ community in AUB would like to issue a response
themselves, which we will be giving priority. Should you like to submit
your own reply (approx 300 words), please do so before Sunday so we may
give it space within the layout.

The writer in question is responsible for his own views, and Outlook
maintains that every staff writer has the right to publish their own
viewpoints, which are not meant to be edited unless for grammatical and
stylistic error. As stated in our bylaws, we do not reflect any of our
staff writers viewpoints, and remain a secular, independent newspaper.

We will be publishing an errata about the comment on Russia's jail cells,
as Russia legalized homosexuality in 1993.

Please let me know should you have any further questions.

Lojine Kamel
Editor-in-Chief

Outlook 2011-2012

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:02 AM, --------------------------------- wrote:

> I think that people such as Mohamad Sibai who at first confuse secularism
> with sexual freedom and personal rights, are ignorants. What Mohamad
> doesn't seem to understand is that, many people feel the same way he felt
> when he saw the gay couple, but towards a straight couple holding hands. If
> a man and a woman were in modern cloths and holding hands in let's say
> Tehran, a man just like Mohamad could pass by and be HORRIFIED by this act
> and possibly ignorantly blame secularism or go to such extremes as accusing
> the woman of sexual addiction and perhaps finally this man would post
> online a story about how some women would willingly become prostitutes
> because of their sex addiction.
> In general, we should all feel sorry for people like Mohamad Sibai, wether
> they oppose gay couples or women's rights, or believe that women driving in
> Saudi could bring an end to the values and culture... You are all alike,
> close minded and ignorants.
> Much love
>