[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[Thomas Dalton]

> If the justice system of an american state was torturing LGBTs, I
> think a lot of people wouldn't want to go to a wikimania held in that
> state.  (Mind you, those people might be wrong -- isolating the state
> might just increase its radicalism.)  Expecting them to not care when
> *arab* LGBTs are persecuted is a little condescending.

Of course people are going to care, and not just LGBTs, I think
everyone on this mailing list is unhappy at the treatment of LGBTs in
Egypt. However, if we're going to rule out countries on ideological
reasons, we'll end up ruling out the entire world.