Hilath Recieves Yet another death threat.

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Hilath Rasheed is a prominent and noteworthy figure in the LGBT community of Maldives. For the past 10 years, he has been slowly pushing the envelope with controversial subject matter via his blog. But this week, he shut his blog down due to the nuisance of Homophobes and Islamothugs conspiring to silence him.

No stranger to death threats, the latest unwarranted death threat to Hilath appeared on 9 September 2011 on an online newspaper against the governing party called Minivan Adu (Free Voice). The article was entitled, Is there no one to exterminate the traces of Hilath Rasheed. It is written in Dhivehi.

The article which does not attempt to conceal its endorsement of hatred and violence, called for the murder of Hilath Rasheed by way of asking the general public to do the dirty work. The article stated, “the punishment for such peoples are death according to the Shari’ah Law”. The next line read, “[Hilath] is a plague on this society”. Minivan Adu also says that there was no need for Maldivians to go abroad to Afghanistan or Pakistan to perform Jihad when Jihad was attainable right here at home.

This somewhat expected turn of events occurred with no provocation from Hilath, but as a direct result of hypocrisy, bigotry and self righteousness that is rampant in the majority Muslim island nation of Maldives. Hilath reckons a lack of education regarding sensitive issues plays a huge part in homophobic attacks on individuals such as this.

In an exclusive interview via the phone, Hilath confirmed he was safe and that he was not prepared to back down. However, he has given up the futile battles on the internet in favour of taking the fight to a street level 

with anticipation of real change. “We can’t get our rights unless we take it to the streets”, he said. Hilath doesn’t encourage violence but stressed that he won’t hesitate to do so in self defense.

Hilath went on to say that Queer Maldivians fighting the good fight on the internet everyday should continue to fight the good fight, and that if any one was ready to join him on the streets, they are welcome to and should do so.

Hilath revealed that he is working on a well thought out plan before taking the proverbial it to the streets. He refused to comment any further at this time.

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