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'No homosexuals in Iran': Ahmadinejad
AFP ^
| 9/24/07
Posted on 09/24/2007 7:18:46 PM PDT by Libloather
'No homosexuals in Iran': Ahmadinejad
6 hours ago
NEW YORK (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran on Monday, saying in a speech at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran.
"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.
"In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don't know who has told you that we have it," he said.
Ahmadinejad was challenged during his appearance on Amnesty International figures that suggested that 200 people had been executed in Iran so far this year, among them homosexuals.
"Don't you have capital punishment in the United States? You do too. In Iran there is capital punishment," he said.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; columbiau; denial; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; immadandimbad; iran; iranahmadinejad; strangebedfellows
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To: Libloather
Nutjob was saying our country is not vile like the Great Satan evil western society.
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:48:13 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: Libloather
Well, he’s right...Barney Frank is a phenomenon.
To: Libloather
If the entire spectacle isn’t all over the net by now, I’d be surprised. Whatever credibility the guy had in the west is now completely gone.
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:50:10 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Libloather
'No homosexuals in Iran' and the outcry from the liberals on this is...."".
Politics does seem to make, er, strange bedfellows.
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:50:30 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(life is like "a bad Saturday Night Live skit that is done in extremely bad taste.")
To: Libloather
To: MarkL
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:52:40 PM PDT
by
TheMole
To: Libloather
I just flew in from Tehran and boy are my arms tired! But seriously folks...
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:53:30 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(life is like "a bad Saturday Night Live skit that is done in extremely bad taste.")
To: Libloather
In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country,Pay attention to EXACTLY what he is saying.
"Like in your country" could mean "they are different from the homos in your country".
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:54:40 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: Libloather
None there 'cuz they're all dead?
Of course, fanaticism and hatred know no political, cultural, religious or psychological boundaries. The Iranian AntiChrist proves it by his very existence and by our failure to cull his kind from the human family.
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:55:34 PM PDT
by
Thumper1960
(Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
To: TheMole
To: ikka
No, what he is saying is that something about freedom or in the American culture creates homosexuals.
It’s one thing to say something like that when you own the media, quite another in a free society.
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:56:45 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
one thing Islam gets right...discourage buggery
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posted on
09/24/2007 7:59:56 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(if God is your co-pilot, you need to switch seats)
To: Libloather
Knowing how Iran treat the homos, why don’t we send Barney Frank over?
To: ikka
"Like in your country" could mean "they are different from the homos in your country". OR...he could be telling the truth simply because the homosexulas in the Islamic Republic of Iran are all KILLED. They don't exist because they're DEAD.
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posted on
09/24/2007 8:02:06 PM PDT
by
blinachka
(Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
To: Libloather
"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.
The president of Iran went on to explain that they simply execute any homosexuals.
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posted on
09/24/2007 8:02:15 PM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: Boston Blackie
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posted on
09/24/2007 8:03:12 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
To: Libloather
No homosexuals in IranMaybe not, but you're still gay.
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posted on
09/24/2007 8:03:59 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Libloather
‘No homosexuals in Iran’
Then why can’t he sit down?
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