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Islamic Republic of Iran arrests over 30 gay men, will subject them to “sodomy tests”

Apr 25, 2017 6:03 am By Robert Spencer

“Under Sharia law in Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death.”

But those in the West who call attention to the persecution of homosexuals under Islamic law are excoriated by gay rights activists as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” Perhaps they don’t believe that things like this are really happening. Well, they are.

“Iran Arrests More Than 30 ‘Gay’ Men, Will Subject Them to ‘Sodomy Tests,’” by Adelle Nazarian, Breitbart, April 21, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Iran arrested more than thirty men between the ages of 16 and 30 at a private party in Isfahan last week, all of whom are suspected of being homosexuals.

According to the Jerusalem Post, authorities raided the party in Iran’s Bahadoran District and fired their guns while seizing the men.

Canada-based non-profit Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR) reported that the men were arrested and charged with sodomy, drinking alcohol, and using psychedelic drugs. IRQR reported that the men will also “be sent to Esfahan’s Medical Jurisprudence department for anal examination in order to provide evidence of homosexual acts to the court.”

The group issued a statement responding to the incident:

Last Thursday around 8:30 pm, Esfahan’s police raided a private party in Bahadoran, the Garden region of Esfahan. After firing several gunshots, they arrested more than 30 men apparently between the ages of 16 and 30 for being homosexual.

IRQR received several reports in last few days and were able to confirm that police attacked guests and physically beat them. Police detained them all at the Basij (Revolutionary Guard Militia) Station and then transferred them to Esfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. A few people managed to escape and we received reports that there were several heterosexual individuals among those arrested.

According to IRQR, Iran’s Basij, or paramilitary, forces notified relatives of the detained individuals that their sons were arrested for sodomy several days afterward. Although a special persecutor has reportedly been assigned to their cases, many Iranian prisoners do not receive a fair trial.

Iran is documented for persecuting homosexuals.

Breitbart News reported that since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian regime has executed more than 4,000 LGBT people.

In 2007, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have it.”

Shortly after delivering his remarks, Ahmadinejad’s media adviser, Mohammad Kalhor, told Reuters that American media simply misunderstood the president. “What Ahmadinejad said was not a political answer,” Kalhor told Reuters. “He said that, compared to American society, we don’t have many homosexuals.”

Under Sharia law in Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death. If two men or women are seen kissing in public, they may be punished by flogging. Often, people who are found to be gay or suspected of engaging in homosexual acts will be hung. The Hadiths also mandate death for homosexuals.

“It is outrageous that the European Union is cozying up to the Iranian regime for trade and ignores the deadly homophobia, the overall disastrous human rights situation, the latest execution and arrest waves and the regime’s promotion of antisemitism and support for terrorism,” Stefan Schaden, an LGBT rights activist and spokesman for the European “Stop the Bomb campaign,” told the Jerusalem Post. Iran’s Islamist regime with [Hassan] Rouhani as President is anything but ‘moderate.’”…

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  1. Benedict says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 6:52 am

    It should be legitimate to express misgivings and reservations about homosexuality in any society, but hanging gays or throwing gays out from high buildings is so barbaric and disgusting that today one has to be a Muslim in order to condone and execute such actions.

    • afrostreetwise says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 2:44 pm

      I second that.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 10:25 pm

      True, Benedict.

  2. panaaronowski says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 8:12 am

    For some odd reason, many gay activists have a problem grasping the concept and implications of Muslim scientific research on the deadly effects of gravity upon homosexuals. This isn’t rocket science.

  3. Rev g says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 8:47 am

    Sodomy testing, is that like the prostate exam from hell or what?

    • Laura says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 9:38 am

      Just what I was wondering!!!

  4. David M says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 8:57 am

    “The Hadiths also mandate death for homosexuals.” Don’t hold your breath waiting for politicians or the MSM to tell you about this though.

    Also, all the leftists who support Islam as a mainstream religion, actually anyone who supports Islam at all, you are also supporting the killing of homosexuals. I want to see more public debates with leftists on this.

    • mousey says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 11:27 am

      david, what would you like to see debated? Maybe: if killing homosexuals should be law.
      Do you mean leftist debating muslim, of leftist debating rightist?
      i’m trying to get clear on your idea, because before it is manifest it has to be a clear desire in people’s heads, and i agree more debates must be happening. Debates used to be a big thing, now not at all. How and where would you start these debates happening, or expand the debates reach? What are some of your ideas? If you included leftists in the debate, you’ll probably have to separate true-left and the postmodern left who despise debate and call it mechanism of oppression.

      • David M says

        Apr 25, 2017 at 9:03 pm

        Well mousey I’d like the debate to be : “Islam supports the killings of homosexuals.” We can have someone like Robert arguing in the positive, providing the hadiths & showing the statistics of it happening now. In the other corner you can have any leftists who want to argue for the negative side, they wouldn’t have a chance to win based on facts.

        • Ethel Red says

          Apr 26, 2017 at 7:38 am

          Mayor Crombie west of Toronto has a son I read in Freedom Report.com who is gay. Trudeaus Christmas vacation to the Khans private island included 2 gay men who were married to each other. Trudeau and Crombie both support Islam and the Koran. They must think that what is written in that book doesn’t apply to them, or that Islamists believe that parts of the Koran they don’t follow. Don’t the son and the guy men realize if Sharia ever came about what the penalties could be.

        • mousey says

          Apr 26, 2017 at 8:12 pm

          david,
          robert spencer and others try to have debates and it seems like they’re never taken up on it. I suppose there is tucker, but…it needs to be some other set up…
          Some streaming…or tv channel/show that focused on the importance of free speech and the importance of really finding out what different people’s beliefs actually are–and getting big names. Debates with some kind of twist that pulled people in. So, you know, a million, 10 million…people watch them…

  5. John A. Marre says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 9:30 am

    So, in the USA you lose your job for expressing an opinion about homosexuality, and no one on the left in the USA says a word about the killing of gays in Iran.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 9:35 am

      Western Leftarded Regressives are not really interested in HUMAN RIGHTS… they are interested in political power for their small clique of ideologues.

      • Oliver says

        Apr 26, 2017 at 5:40 pm

        Mortimer- you are partly ( but mostly) correct.

        IF, HOWEVER, AN AMERICAN OR ISRAELI, HEAVEN FORBID, DOES SOMETHING-EVEN ACCIDENTALLY — TO AFFECT THE ” RIGHTS” OF A TERRORIST OR CRIMINAL, then the left is concerned.

        About law abiding citizens- they culd give a feces in hell less.

    • Tony says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 10:26 am

      Oh this one is so easy! The left is only against Republicans who are homophobic but when it comes to the Iran thug MOSLEMs or the Saudis killing homosexuals then not a word comes out of their mouth. This is also the same line of reasoning when it comes to the girls and women being raped by MOSLEM THUGS. If they are women, white, and Christian then it is okay to kill them but if it is killing Moslem then it is genocide. REMEMBER THE ARMENIAN WERE KILLED BY Molsem Turks around 1915-1916 and no one cared – and to paraphrase Hitler “who after all is going to remember the annihilation of the Armenians”?

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 9:33 am

    HUH??? HOMOPHOBIA???

    Even San Francisco’s leaders of the gay OSTRICH BRIGADE can’t see any homophobia in Islamic countries.

    Western elites DENY, DEFLECT and DEMONIZE all valid criticism of Islam.

    • Tony says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 10:36 am

      6 words – Praise Moslems, Ignore Christians, Criticize Jews.

      • underbed cat says

        Apr 25, 2017 at 1:19 pm

        Tony are those the 6 words that San Francisco leaders follow…same as deny, deflect and demonize….”Praise Moslems, Ingnore Christians, and Criticize Jews”…..I think I got it.

        It is true they gays often have friends who defend sharia and the Quran…and maybe those friends are muslim, that is highly dangerous Russian roulette, I bet even Putin knows that there are big problems with that situation. He may not want to promote gay lifestyles, but he does not kill them.

      • underbed cat says

        Apr 25, 2017 at 1:23 pm

        Tony are those the 6 words that San Francisco leaders follow…same as deny, deflect and demonize….”Praise Moslems, Ingnore Christians, and Criticize Jews”…..I think I got it.

        It is true they gays often have friends who defend sharia and the Quran…and maybe those friends are muslim, that is highly dangerous Russian roulette, I bet even Putin knows that there are big problems with that situation, he may not want to allow promotion of gay lifestyles, but he does not kill them.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 10:32 pm

      Mortimer, there *are* those in San Francisco who at least partially understand the threat of Islam, and are willing to speak out. The Bay Area Reporter is a Gay newspaper:

      “SF vigil recalls gay Iranians’ hanging”

      http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1032

      “LGBT concentration camps reported in Chechnya”

      http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=72515

  7. S Kevin Wojtaszek says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-refugee-nepal/

  8. Blackjack says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    Quran 7:80-84
    And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, “Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds?
    Indeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people.”
    But the answer of his people was only that they said, “Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure.”
    So We saved him and his family, except for his wife; she was of those who remained [with the evildoers].
    And We rained upon them a rain [of stones]. Then see how was the end of the criminals.

    Abu Dawud (4462)- The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot’s people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.

    Abu Dawud (4448)- If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.

    Abu Dawad (4019)-The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A man should not lie with another man and a woman should not lie with another woman without covering their private parts except a child or a father.

    Sunan Abu Dawud 31:4007- The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A man should not look at the private parts of another man, and a woman should not look at the private parts of another woman. A man should not lie with another man without wearing lower garment under one cover; and a woman should not be lie with another woman without wearing lower garment under one cover.

  9. Blackjack says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    Homosexuals are executed in 11 countries: Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Somalia, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Brunei, Sudan and Afghanistan. All are majority Islamic with the exception of Nigeria, though the regions that do execute gays are majority Islamic areas like Gombe, Jigawa, and Zamfara.
    Not to mention the areas in Syria and Iraq that are controlled by ISIS are places where homosexuals are killed usually by beheading or throwing off of buildings.

  10. Oliver says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    “It is outrageous that the European Union is cozying up to the Iranian regime for trade and ignores the deadly homophobia, the overall disastrous human rights situation, the latest execution and arrest waves and the regime’s promotion of antisemitism and support for terrorism,” Stefan Schaden, an LGBT rights activist

    I doubt that an AMERICAN OR CANADIAN LGBT OFFICIAL WOULD HAVE THE GUTS TO SAY THE SAME.

    And, in line 1, substitute American (and/or Canadian) for European Union.

  11. abad says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    And I wonder what George Takei has to say about this?

    That’s what I thought.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 25, 2017 at 10:35 pm

      I’m afraid George Takei is so clueless that he has supported Muslims against Trump’s attempts to protect us against Jihad.

  12. gravenimage says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran arrests over 30 gay men, will subject them to “sodomy tests”

    “Under Sharia law in Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death.”
    ……………………..

    And not just in Iran. God, I hate Islam.

  13. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 25, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    Yes, the Iranian Regime also likes to hang pacifist Baha’i from time to time, including very young women; this also doesn’t seem to appear on the radar as a significant minority rights or human rights issue.

  14. No Fear says

    Apr 26, 2017 at 3:22 am

    How about the West having a zebibah test? A positive reading indicates the person has a history of bashing his head on the ground (and lifting his arse to the sky). Doing this repeatedly, especially in Iran, causes homophobia and an overwhelming supremacism.

  15. p says

    Apr 26, 2017 at 3:53 am

    Come to America. The people of California welcome you and your beliefs. Sounds like suicide?

  16. Jeanette says

    Apr 26, 2017 at 9:49 am

    Liberals have to be some of the best ignorers of fact that have ever existed on this planet.

  17. Robert says

    Apr 26, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    When will conservatives realize that the Left doesn’t really care about Human Rights? They just use Human Rights to push their own agenda — to shame their opponents by calling them oppressors while doing the very thing they condemn?

    When Clinton says publicly that she’s pro-women and pro-African American, then you know she’s, in fact, the opposite. In reality, she attacked real women who were victims of sexual assault and pushed government policies that would harm blacks long term. But she concealed her real intentions and actions behind a smoke-screen of respectability. Say the opposite of what you’re really going to do — that the maxim of the Left. And Obama and Hilary follow that maxim to the letter.

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