The Lebanese community woke up this morning to a disturbed LGBT community (and supporters) because of a poorly edited article entitled “Viewpoint: Please me at any Price” by Mohamad Sibai, a student and staff writer at Outlook, AUB’s official student newspaper. In his opinion piece, Sibai used hateful homophobic comments to attack homosexuals after he witnessed two guys holding hands in Hamra. In addition to the insulting comments, he refers to faulty “facts” and misconceptions to defend his argument.
We, as Homos Libnani, will not dignify this article with a response because, firstly, we do not want to fight hatred with hatred, and second, we do not want to contribute to Sibai’s 15 minutes of fame.
However, due to the viral nature of the topic on social media, we thought it would be helpful to compile the resources together in one place.
Original article by Mohamad Sibai:
Official AUB Replies:
- Reply of the Outlook Editor in Chief, Lojine Kamel
- Official Apology from Lojine Kamel to Lebanese LGBT Media Monitor
- Outlook’s Published Responses About the Homophobic Article (Issue of Tuesday May 8)
Responses to the Article
- Hummus for Thought: In Response to AUB Outlook’s Homophobic Article
- A Separate State of Mind: AUB Student Newspaper “Outlook” Publishes Article About Homosexuality
- Gino’s Blog: A Reply to Outlook’s Silly, Homophobic Article
- Tumblring: This has got to be the silliest essay ever!
- Ohmyhappiness: Dear Mohamad Sibai (My favorite)
- All is Fair in Love and War: Answer to AUB Outlook’s (I thought respected and educated) Homophobic Article
- Lebanese Voices: Homosexuality Article in AUB’s Outlook Aftermath
- Le Jour Un: Please Hold My Hand, In Response to AUB’s Outlook Homophobic Article
- Sam J. Chalhoub: Response: Mohamad Sibai
- An anonymous heterosexual woman: An Open Letter to Mohamad Sibai, Re: Your article, “Viewpoint: Please Me at Any Price”
- Lebanon’s Rebellious Girl: A response to Mohamad Sibai’s homophobic article.
- Antoine Atallah: To Outlook Newspaper’s editors (Facebook Post)
- Peter Hayat: Response to Viewpoint: Please me at any Price, written By Mohamad Sibai and published in Outlook
- Mazen Abdallah: The Passion of Mohamad Sibai
- Mind Soup: Please Halt the Spread of Misinformation: A Response to Mohamad Sibai
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Response to AUB’s Homophobic Article by Erica Lea Moukarzel
- Witchy Lisa: In Defense of Muhammad Sibia
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Yasmine Hallab’s Response to AUB Outlook’s Homophobic Article
- Beirut Spring: Outreach, Not Piling On. How to Talk with Homophobes
- Beirut Boy: I Love Mohamad Sibai
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Ralph Haddad’s Response to Homophobic Article by AUB’s Outlook
- Meta: On love
- Witchy Lisa: Hey Kid!
- Adam Fakhreddine’s Piece of Mind: AUB Victim: Ignorance Strikes Again
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Response to Outlook Controversy by AUB Architecture Alumni
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Amine M.’s Response to the Homophobic Outlook Article
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Marieke Krijnen’s Emails to Outlook Newspaper
- Peter Hayat: Teta, Sajedeta and Mohamad Sibai, the aftermath of a published homophobia
- Social Stuff: Reply to Latest article by Mohammad Sibai
- ohmyhappiness: Why Outlook’s Sibai Article is Offensive
- ohmyhappiness: Dear Lojine Kamel
- Fafathinks: Yet another reply to the homophobic article by Mohamad Sibai.
- Raynbow Media Monitor: Jean Salim Responds to Homophobic Outlook Article and “Free Speech” Supporters
- Wissam Chidiak‘s email to Lojine Kamel
- Lama El-Kallassi:A Response to Mohamad Sibai’s “Please me at any price”
- ohmyhappiness: A Discussion with AUB’s Dean of Students re: Bigotry and Homophobia
- ohmyhappiness: AUB Faculty Statement on Hate Speech and Bigotry
Meda
- Al Akhbar Online: AUB paper’s homophobic rant sparks fury
- Now Lebanon: A Narrow Outlook on Gays
- The Angry Arab News Service: Anti-Gay
- Global Voices: Lebanon: Uproar over Homophobic Article in University Newspaper
- L’Orient Le Jour: Liban : un article homophobe engendre une polémique à l’AUB
Amusing Stuff
- Nay Dia: Inlook- The homophobic, preaching and bigoted AUB newspaper.
- Mohamad Sibai Uncovered
- Meme by Ibrahim Diab
- Ink on the Side: Homosexuality (Safe for Work) comic
The Outlook Leaks
A Twitter account that will be leaking 94 emails related to the Mohamad Sibai article. Check out their official statement. Posts marked with two stars (**) are internal Outlook emails.
- **Sibai sends his piece to Outlook.
- Re: Homophobic article
- Re: Possibility to write an article
- Re: Do you know what’s disgusting?
- No Subject
- Re: Reaction towards “Please Me At Any Price”, by Mohamad Sibai
- Re: Homophobic article
- Re: Just another angry message
- Re: Mohamad Sibai
- Re: Response on the article: Please me at any price by Mohamad Sibaii
- Re: Outlook: (dis)please me at any price?
- Re: Conversation with ———————–
- Re: Homophobic article
- Re: At any price?
- **Hate mail (Lojine Kamel emails Mohamad Sibai)
- Re: Concerning ‘Please me at any price.’
- Re: reply to the piece about gay men
- **Lojy emails the Outlook team, a previous writer responds
- Please me article (supporter of Sibai)
- Nice article (supporter of Sibai)
- Outlook, gay article (supporter of Sibai)
- article (supporter of Sibai)
- Re: In response to yesterday’s viewpoint
- Please me at any price (supporter of Sibai)
- **Re: TO ——-, ——-’S ARTICLE
- Re: Homophobic Article
- Please me (supporter of Sibai)
- ** Re: Formal Apology
- No Subject (supporter of Sibai)
- No Subject (supporter of Sibai)
- Re: Concern with one of your op-eds
- Re: AUB Outlook’s Homophobic Article
- Re: Article on homosexuals
If you would like to publish a response, you are more than welcome to publish on our blog. You can also send it to raynbow.org@gmail.com, they are more than ready to publish it on their blog too.
If we missed any articles or posts related to the issue, please let us know so that we can update the post 
How’s this for you Mr. Sibai?
Amazing job compiling everything! Thanks so much for including posts from our blog as well as from the monitor. Thanks for your support and great work!
As a longtime gay activist I laughed at Sibai’s article, an auto-satirical list of cliches based on ignorance and misinformation. (1) In its first millennium Christian churches blessed same-sex unions and nowadays it is not hard to find Christian churches or Jewish synagogues that will do likewise. (2) A great many scientific studies offer evidence that homosexuality is innate. There are no reputable studies offering any evidence that it is not. (3) Enough — and arguably too many — couples are reproducing. Ever hear of overpopulation? That gay couples mostly don’t is only somewhat slowing a still ever-growing rate of increase. (4) Yakov Smirnov is a comedian. The line about Russian jails was an obvious joke. That Sibai took it seriously shows even more than the rest how desperately eager he is to believe the worst about gay people no matter how absurd. In fact the whole thing is so excessively ridiculous I have to wonder if it was intended as a spoof, and the Smirnov line was supposed to be the tip-off.
Thank you for this EXCELLENT post fellas.
Compiling all of those links is a great idea! Was helpful. 10x
Thank you Beirut Boy!
Unfortunately, this blog has stolen our recap and used it in their post without attributing us. The nerve of some people :-\ http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2012/blog1205.htm
Alloush! So sorry to hear that. I actually posted that link on the Monitor thinking that maybe they compiled the list on their own, but I promptly removed it after I saw what you wrote. Sorry about that!
Don’t worry about it! I also thought they compiled it on their own until I realized its the same order of links and they had the same “(Facebook Post)” where I had it.
Thank you for your continuous support!
And thank you for this great post compiling everything! I can’t believe we have over 20 responses!
Hey there, I have written a blog post about Sibai, I am a former teacher of his and a former student of AUB! I actually ironically wrote a lot articles for OUTLOOK! http://meetmeta.blogspot.com/
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Thanks for gathering all articles in one place. I would like to add mine:
http://adam-fakhreddine.blogspot.it/2012/05/aub-victim-ignorance-strikes-again.html
Great post! We have already shared it on the monitor.
Bravo!! didnt know what was written, Sibai needs to meet people and get over the hatred speech he wrote, reading, speaking, and meeting diverse pple is a must, hetero, homo, black, white, red, bref, meeting and speaking and getting to know others is a must for sibai, for him to tolerate, accept and respect others after that…. Human are Human no matter what…
again thks for the compilation,
rita
I don’t know what to say. Mazen Abdallah put it best, let’s put it that way.
Dude. Two words:
you rock
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