Gay men and lesbians will be rooted out of hairdressing salons and massage parlours across Bahrain under plans afoot in the Middle Eastern state's young parliament to rid the country of homosexuals.
Ministers have also proposed that teachers should watch for
homosexual tendencies in children and 'punish them accordingly'.
MP's have proposed a wide-ranging set of initiatives intended to rid the country of homosexuals and have also called for a study into how widespread homosexuality is in Bahrain.
Although Bahrain is considered one of the more tolerant Muslim nations in the Middle East, its bi-cameral parliament is dominated by Islamist parties and homosexuality is a crime.
Since holding the first elections in 2002, Bahrain's political parties have largely concerned themselves with "moral" issues such as female mannequins in shop windows and an allegedly rampant problem with "sorcery".
In 2002 the country deported around 2000 gay Filipino workers for alleged homosexual activity.
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