1./ Do Scotland's self-appointed LGBTQ+ warriors actually give a damn about homophobia? They bang on about @ALLIANCELGB but spend next to no time speaking out about a real issue closer to home: a billionaire homophobe's cult on a Scottish island. 👇mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/bab…
2./ In 2009 a couple who made millions from care homes in Scotland "donated" the island of Little Cumbrae off the Ayrshire coast to Baba Ramdev, an Indian yogi who claims to cure homosexuality. Yes ACTUAL conversion therapy, and not the made up stuff.👇rediff.com/news/slide-sho…
3./ According to Ramdev, a big supporter of the equally awful Narendra Modi, homosexuality is an addiction. He claims to cure it with intense yoga, and ayurvedic medicine (ie quack potions) ...all set in a residential conversion camp, sorry ashram. 👇deccanchronicle.com/131211/news-cu…
4./ Shortly after he made his incendiary remarks he was defended by Goa's Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ramesh Tawadkar who looked forward to camps being set up by the BJP that would allow Ramdev to "cure same-sex attraction".👇 zeenews.india.com/news/goa/baba-…
5./ We know lavishly funded LGBTQ+ organisations like @StonewallScot don't care about boring old gay rights anymore. But Ramdev also uses the word "transgender" as an insult so you'd think that might pique their trans-obsessed interest. Apparently not.👇
6./ Ramdev said he was happy to teach ordinary Pakistanis yoga but not a "hijira" like Imran Khan (hijiras being the traditional "trans" icons of India). Under the previous Indian govt the island's donation was part of a wide-ranging corruption enquiry.
7./ In response, Ramdev swung his millions of followers behind Modi, who has been helping the yogi ever since. In 2015 he gave Ramdev India's highest honour, a Padma Bhushan. @indiatimes offered 12 reasons why that was a terrible idea.👇indiatimes.com/news/india/12-…
8./ They include him being caught on camera discussing bribery against BJP candidates, his claims to cure AIDS and cancer and ...the err..failure to account for his wealth including a certain Scottish island. 👇
9./ Given @MhairiBlack, that bloke Paisley and St John of Nicolson bleat so much about conversion therapy they'd be making a fuss about a guru that claims homosexuality is "an American disease" which he can cure. I can find no evidence they've said a word.
10./ Maybe they only complain if the "converter" is a white-skinned Christian? You'd think they'd care anyway about Ramdev's presence given his entirely fake cures for COVID have been found on sale in the UK; despite the MHRA warning they're illegal.👇indiatoday.in/coronavirus-ou…
11./ I don't myself agree with banning people. It would be more useful to protest and then debate with the guru's followers, exposing his absurd views. But what did the LGBTQ+ peeps do last time Ramdev had a big event in Glasgow? Precisely nothing.👇
12./ It's yet more proof they've now become a lazy adjunct of the SNP state; a well-funded back-patting elite that focus their energy on critics who challenge their ideas but don't give a monkeys about actual homophobes or transphobes who are allowed to operate in plain sight.
13./ It's almost as if there's a pressing need for organisations that put LGB people first and aren't owned by the Scottish state. If you want to know more about the weird yogi's outsize impact on the chaos now unfolding in India...here's a thread. 👇
14./ For those wondering how hard it is to find out about Little Cumbrae, the island is 90 mins door to door from the Paisley constituency of @MhairiBlack, 100 from the Bearsden pad of Mr Nicolson and 2 hours 20 from the HQs in Edinburgh of most LGBTQ+ groups. A world away?

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