So says Rooz (thanks to Gateway Pundit):
In reality, 2007 was one of the hardest years for Iranian homosexuals. According to Amnesty International, Iran had the highest number of execution of homosexuals in that year. Several cases of executions of homosexuals were cited in cities such as Shiraz, Esfahan, Tehran, Rasht, Ahwaz, Tabriz, Kermanshah and Mashhad.
At Columbia University last year, Iran's Thug-In-Chief said there were no homosexuals in Iran. This would explain why.
Could someone mention this to Ken Livingstone who has a penchant for gay hating islamic clerics.
And I've yet to hear of a single really prominent vocal protest from the gay political types in the west.
They're right up there with the feminists for sheer hypocrisy in my book.
I guess those mohammedan gays don't count for much in sophisticated western eyes.
Their sisters certainly don't seem to.
Joe Blough: You are so right on the hypocrisy issue. Or is it cowardice? Not long ago I met a woman who proudly proclaimed to me that her 'life partner' (lesbian live in lover) was ill. I offered her my prayers for her friend as a Christian. What I got in return was her promptly rejecting me since I let her know I was a Christian. She gave me the 'evil eye' and refuses to acknowledge I exist when she sees me. I am so sick of bigotry and 'Christian bashing' by homosexuals and lesbians! Still I pray for them and their safety in countries like Iran. Maybe the Pope needs to reach out to them in his remarkable eloquence.
I think everybody, regardless sexual preferences, should raise his or het voice againt the violence against gays and women in the islamic world.
I dont like the remark of Americantothecore about who he is supposedly treated by a lesbian because he is a christian. I do not know about gays ans lesbians filling their lives with not aknowledging christians, it seems to me to be more the other way around.
It is setting people apart as 'other' just because the are not heterosexuals that is the root of a lot of problems. And American, you might feel very nice that you wanted to pray for a lesbian, but that is not what it is about ofcourse. The question is whether you would vote for one, or give your live for her freedom, or raise your voice in church when non-heterosexuals are mentioned as less then hetereosexuals. And why should it be the task of gays and lesbians to raise their voice, it is the voice of all of us that should be raised. But then, we are also as silent as we can be when women are tortured and enslaved, just because they are women. Or is it exclusivly the task of women to oppose this, and tell me, why not yours?
For the record: I'm a heterosexual, a heterosexual atheist, that is.
And refering to the hanging of gays: it tells yu something about the religious mind, that can think two contradicting thoughts in one: they do not exist and we hang them.
There you go! Iran is just trying so hard to be number one in something..
I've yet to hear of a single really prominent vocal protest from the gay political types in the west.
Joe Blough and others, you may be surprised. See here.
Achmadinejad and Obama will have so much to talk about.
Murderous machiavellian maniac and naive, neophyte noodlehead.
At Columbia University last year, Iran's Thug-In-Chief said there were no homosexuals in Iran.
... well, yeah. He hung the last 4 a few days before.
"Iran leads the world in executions of homosexuals"
and they are not far behind in the executions of lawyers, teachers, Christians, Jews, black africans, retarded children, students, contraversial reporters, tv crews, travelors, and dogs.
Does this mean that the Elton John concert is canceled?