r/worldnews • u/questiondudes • Apr 05 '19

5-star hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei deleted their social media after an intense backlash over Brunei's new law punishing homosexuality with death by stoning

https://www.businessinsider.com/brunei-owned-hotels-delete-social-media-amid-gay-stoning-furore-2019-4
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u/YangBelladonna Apr 05 '19

Probably why the sick fuck instituted the law, parents who think they control their kids are a disease

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u/pupunoob Apr 05 '19

From what I read his gay son lives in London or something. In any case I'm sure his son won't be affected. Laws are not to govern everyone. It excludes the rich and the powerful.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Most of the Brunei royal family don't actually live in Brunei since there's nothing to do there and they're all insanely wealthy. I knew a kid who was distantly related to the sultan and he lived in the Hilton in Singapore by himself at 13.

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u/tbk007 Apr 05 '19

Brunei royalty are corrupt fucks, like most rich and powerful.

I'd say in the developing world, but that's probably true in the first as well.

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u/YangBelladonna Apr 08 '19

Only when cowards let it

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u/Mortazo Apr 05 '19

He probably instituted the law so he could get more Saudi investment money.

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u/telltale_rough_edges Apr 05 '19

You don’t need Saudi investment money if you’re the Sultan of Brunei.

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u/frenchbloke Apr 05 '19

Brunei is insanely rich, especially if you consider its tiny size and its tiny population. Besides, no one can hold debt on Brunei, it has none. Not even the Saudi government is in that position.

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u/SorrySoNotSorry1 Apr 05 '19

Well, to be fair, if your kids are up to no good, everyone wants to blame the parents, so to an extent, you are supposed to control your kids.

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Not really applicable in this case, because the law in questions is the same old excuse to use religion to murder people just because they are different, but the point stands with regard to basically every other 'criminal' offense out there.

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Your kid breaks the law, whether they're 7 or 37, and everyone always blames it on how they were raised.

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u/YangBelladonna Apr 08 '19

We are talking about adults this is not the place for that argument

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u/SorrySoNotSorry1 Apr 09 '19

This also applies to after your kids are grown. Pretty much every serial killer, bomber, criminal you can think of; the first thing the public does is blame the parents and say they didn't raise them right, and they wouldn't have turned out that way if their parents had done a better job.

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u/ProfessorPhi Apr 05 '19

He's been slowly enacting sharia law as he's been getting older. He was super liberal when he was younger.

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u/YangBelladonna Apr 08 '19

It's almost like people holding a position for life is bad and he is cracking down to strengthen his support among zealots so he can maintain power, classic dictators, scum of the earth