Posted on 10/06/2007 11:30:02 PM PDT by Son of Dis
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.”
The left won’t ever criticize the Cult of Death because they both have similar goals: eliminate Christianity, eliminate free speech, establish a repressive totalitarian government.
The left is willing to tolerate the murders and repression in order to bring about social strife leading to a breakdown in the Judeo-Christian order.
RIGHT ON.
President Bob (that’s what I call President I-Wanna-Jihad) is nothing more than a hypocrite. There IS homosexuality in Iran, some of it is even practiced by Muslim clerics...aside from pedophilia and pederasty.
Islam is the worst case of “Do as I say, not as I do”
Homosexuality and other perversions are rampant throughout the Muslim world where Islam’s absolute denigration of women denies to males the normal intermingling of the sexes referenced earlier.
Even for those with access to females there’s a chilling saying:
“Women for babies, boys for pleasure”
Islam: disgusting, perverted, evil, and dangerous.
Because active homosexuals are so self absorbed, narcissistic, and self destructive, they have no outside interests.
Could I have been wrong about the mooselimbs all this time?
Logic is certainly not their strong suit -- nor even among the cards that they play.
Just as it was for Anita Broderick and Monica Lewinsky. Anything that get in the way of their power - especially their principals if you can call them that - is to be immediately dispensed with. Power over others is their raison d'etre.
Sounds like a Holocaust of Gays in Iran, and to think Columbia allowed the leader of the Holocaust into their academia setting.
That is the ironic point to the dims' support of terrorists, hedonists, etc.: WHEN the towelheads take over, after they behead all the Christians, they will impose their Islamic law on the US - including San Francisco. That will be the one redeeming aspect of the loss of our country and way of life - that at least there will be a stop to the unchecked indecency that so permeates our country now. Unfortunately, that is the only positive aspect of the takeover - PLUS most of us will have been killed by then too.
What many fail to capture is the fundamental definition most muslims share concerning homosexuality. Simply put, as long as you are the "pitcher" then you are not gay. Once you "catch", then in their warped view, you are gay.
Any male sexual deviance could be cleared up by a fatwa or ruling. Hell, even the Ayatollah Khomeini allowed for the "thighing" of a young boy or girl... and why shouldn't he? This was what Mohammed did to Aisha while she was between the ages of 6 and 9.
It truly is a religion of piece (of azz).
“Why do we not hear of homosexuals protesting Islam?”
Because they are “useful idiots” for the Islamics, by and large.
At UCLA, the Muslim Student Association and the GLBT crowd often work
in alliance.
To the amazement of many observers...because one of the first things
MSA members would do if Sharia was imposed on the UCLA campus:
Kill every GLBT person they could round up.
That might be the only good thing they would do. At least, there wouldn't be naked men masturbating in the streets with kids present at events like the Folsom Street Fair.
Imposing Islamic law on San Francisco might be the only good thing they would do. At least, there wouldn't be naked men masturbating in the streets with kids present at events like the Folsom Street Fair.
“Homosexuality and other perversions are rampant throughout the Muslim world where Islam’s absolute denigration of women denies to males the normal intermingling of the sexes referenced earlier.”
Bingo. This is one of the reasons the Dem homosexual leftistis turn a blind eye towards Iran. Two of my buddies recently came back form Iraq and last summer another one came back from Afghanistan. They all described a disgusting culture filled with men holding hands and the rape of young boys being common. Our sick homosexuals and the degenerate Islamists have a lot in common.
I picked this up from Faith Freedom International.
Apparently, homosexuality IS permitted...so long as the other person is a child or a preteen.
And then they want to preach to us about what is right and wrong.
Pedophilia and Pederasty
Quran 52:24 Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants (handsome) as Pearls well-guarded.
Also in Surah 76:19 Allah promises fresh youths to Muslim men.
And round about them shall go youths never altering in age; when you see them you will think them to be scattered pearls.
I apologize if the above picture is disturbing. It is indeed disturbing. But it would be more disturbing if no one spoke about it.
When Catholic priests molest children there is a law, there is a justice that holds them accountable. The Mullahs ARE the law, justice and the government. So they can do their shameful acts in public and who is going to stop them?
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/gallery2/d/176-1/mollah.jpg
The Wahhabist groups are in the axis of evil..OBL is a Wahhabist. I think what you want to ask, assuming that you are like a lot of people and believed Micheal Moore's propganda film, is why isn't Saudia Arabia included in as part of the Axis? Am I correct?
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