Posted on 10/02/2007 5:20:11 AM PDT by SJackson
At Columbia University on Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared: “We don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. We don’t have this phenomenon; I don’t know who’s told you we have it.”
If there were any truth to this – and there is none – it would be because because the Islamic regime in Iran had killed them, since homosexuality can be a capital crime in that country. One notorious case occurred on July 19, 2005, when two teenage boys, Mahmoud Asgari, 14, and Ayaz Marhoni, 16, were hanged in a particularly brutal manner in Iran for the crime of homosexual activity. Although Iranian officials insisted that the death sentence was for the rape of a third boy, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, has said otherwise. But Asgari and Marhoni were not alone. According to the Iranian gay and lesbian rights group Homan, the Iranian government has put to death an estimated 4,000 homosexuals since 1980. According to Scott Long, director of the Human Rights Watch Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program, Iranians who are suspected of being gay commonly face torture. Hossein Alizadeh of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said Iran gays live with “constant fear of execution and persecution and also social stigma associated with homosexuality.”
This is true not only in Iran, but in all too many areas of the Islamic world. The Qur’an characterizes those who “practice your lusts on men in preference to women” as “transgressing beyond bounds” (7:81). A hadith pronounces “the curse of Allah” upon those who engage in homosexual activity. A contemporary Muslim writer, Shaykh Abdul-Azeez Al-Fawzaan, called homosexuality “one of the most sinful acts known to humankind” and said that it was “evidence of perverted instincts, total collapse of shame and honor, and extreme filthiness of character and soul.”
Legal views on punishment vary. Among the Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence (madhahib), the Hanafi school mandates a severe beating for the first offense, and the death penalty for a repeat offender. The Shafi’i school calls for 100 lashes for an unmarried homosexual, death by stoning for a married one. The Hanbali school requires stoning across the board. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, directed his followers to “kill the one who sodomizes and the one who lets it be done to him” (‘Umdat al-Salik, p17.3).
In many areas these injunctions are still followed. The Islamic Penal Law Against Homosexuals in Iran calls for the death penalty for sodomy and one hundred lashes for lesbianism for the first three offenses, with death for the fourth offense. Homosexuality is a capital offense not only in Iran, but also in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Mauritania. In Malaysia, it can draw a twenty-year prison sentence, and is illegal also in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan, among others.
Of course, Afghanistan under the Taliban regime drew international attention for killing gays by toppling walls onto them. Pakistani law mandates two years in prison for homosexual activity, but the traditional Islamic penalties of lashing and stoning are still widely popular. When authorities in the United Arab Emirates arrested twenty-six men whom they accused of participating in a mass gay wedding – with twelve dressed as grooms and twelve as brides, plus a disc jockey and a man who was to perform the wedding ceremony – in November 2005, they announced plans to subject the men not only to lashings and jail time, but also to hormone treatments.
In light of all this, the silence of campus gay rights groups and the so-called “progressive” Left generally about the global efforts by Islamic jihadists to impose Islamic Sharia law is appallingly short-sighted. While they attack Christians, who are not calling for gays to be imprisoned or killed under any circumstances, they say nothing about a genuine threat to their survival. While they attack Israel, a gay-friendly country, they are silent about the murder of gays in Islamic Iran.
The late columnist Cathy Seipp recounted a telling incident in March 2006, when a friend of hers went into San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore and asked for a copy of the late and much-missed Oriana Fallaci’s The Force of Reason. “We don’t carry books by fascists,” sniffed the clerk, prompting Seipp to muse: “Strangest of all is the scenario of such a person disliking an author for defending Western civilization against radical Islam -- when one of the first things those poor, persecuted Islamists would do, if they ever (Allah forbid) came to power in the U.S., is crush suspected homosexuals like him beneath walls.”
But to the leftists and homosexuals here in America, George Bush is the evil one. Pathetic
I will give props though to the gays who were in the audience at the Columbia debacle. They booed. They were heard.
>>But to the leftists and homosexuals here in America, George Bush is the evil one. Pathetic<<
Certainly that’s true with respect to the “gay rights” political movement in the US and Europe - although I’m not certain the degree to which that movement speaks for all gays. You never hear the gay rights movement talk about radical Islamic threat and I’m sure its because it would put them on the same side as President Bush. That IS pathetic.
Ditto!
Why are we so concerned about these sodomizers who corrupt and have comtempt for America?
“Why are we so concerned about these sodomizers who corrupt and have comtempt for America?”
Because they are God’s children just like us. Have contempt for the sin and not the sinner.
IMO, The radical anti-America activists don’t hate America because they are gay. They hate America because its been blessed by God and they can’t stand it.
Because God "wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth."
What is a properly PC person to do? On the one hand, opposition to ChimpyMcHalliburtonHitlerCorp requires one to support Iran. On the other hand, Iran is hanging gays from the lamp-posts.
What is a properly PC person to do? On the one hand, opposition to ChimpyMcHalliburtonHitlerCorp requires one to support Iran. On the other hand, Iran is hanging gays from the lamp-posts.
Okay, then :D
They booed right after they applauded every anti American thing he said.
Interesting and sadly tragic, Paul said that homosexuals would be punished twice, once in their body and once in their afterlife.
I am appalled at Iran’s executions of gays, however I cannot say that I am very surprised, how can they expect to escape the consequence of their actions?
One reason why radical Muslims hate us is because of our moral decay. Just as we don’t know much about the details of life in the Middle East, they also don’t know the details of our society. They believe in the image that Hollywood portrays of us.
This comment by the Iranian nutbag is the silver lining to this whole Columbia brouhaha. Homos are so pissed about it...it really gives a chance to exploit division between the anti-West Left and their Islamofascist allies.
“One reason why radical Muslims hate us is because of our moral decay. Just as we don’t know much about the details of life in the Middle East, they also don’t know the details of our society. They believe in the image that Hollywood portrays of us.”
Thats one reason they use to incite violence and build their terrorists networks. The real reason for their hatred is the Koran instructs them to kill us if we won’t convert.
They do believe Hollywood which is unfortunate. Doesn’t explain why those in America hate us.
One excuse the Muslims have to hate us is our moral decay.
The underlying reason for the hate is our success and how we make their culture look by comparison.
I’m sure after 4000 gays were killed, they can rightly say “we don’t have homosexuals in our countries”.
It is time for all American Jews to stop supporting the DEMS. We need you all to support a Reagan Conservative movement.
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