Gadhafi: 'Straights' Don't Get AIDS

The Tuscaloosa News ^ | July 12, 2003 | ELLIOTT SYLVESTER - AP

[yonif]

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told a conference of African leaders Saturday that Africans who are "straight" need not fear AIDS, which is ravaging many countries on the continent.

Speaking through a translator, Gadhafi drew some laughter with his reference to AIDS only affected homosexuals.

He told the closing session of the eight-day annual African Union conference, "All you have to do is observe the rules. If you are straight, you have nothing to fear from AIDS." He also described HIV, the virus that causes AIDS as "a peaceful virus, not an aggressive virus."

Of the 42 million people worldwide infected with HIV, 29 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. , at the close of the eight-day summit,

Gadhafi added in his address to 40 African heads of state that they should also not "worry about tsetse flies and mosquitoes" - which carry malaria and sleeping sickness - saying they were "God's armies" protecting Africa from its enemies, apparently foreigners.

"If they come here, they will get malaria and sleeping sickness," he said.

Malaria kills 5 million Africans a year, while sleeping sickness - also known as African trypanosomiasis - kills more than 25,000 people in Africa a year.

[Guillermo]

Anal sex among heterosexuals is quite common in Africa, I understand.

Point is, if you apply the same standards to homosexual behavior in the USA like liberals want to apply to fast foods, gm foods, and have applied to tobacco, homosexual behavior would be taxed at an enormous rate.

[BIGZ]

Africans practice annal intercourse as a form of birth control. It is not a mater of homosexual or hetrosexual sex, it is a matter of Sodomy.

[mr.pink]

Your "numbers game" arguement is too simplistic for the topic.

Are you utilizing it solely to flush out those you consider "bigots", as opposed to actually dealing with and debating the dynamics of the disease in a serious manner?

I think you're only interested in baiting people to use derogatory names towards homosexuals. On such a serious topic, that's sorta tawdry...but it is certainly easier on the brain than discussing the science and pathology of the problem.

Happy Hunting!

[carlo3b]

your post is meant to be sarcastic. ....It's so disjointed that I can't really make out your point.

Pity Trace, how quickly you were reduced to name calling.. how typical... it was crystal clear to those that haven't an agenda that clouds their vision.

[wideminded]

So he just accused a bunch of African countries of being full of gay people. Based on some conversations I have had with Africans, this was not the most politically astute thing to say by someone who clearly desires to have influence in sub-Saharan Africa.

[coloradan]

He also described HIV, the virus that causes AIDS as "a peaceful virus, not an aggressive virus."

So: HIV is a "virus of peace." Sort of like Islam is a religion of peace.

[Porterville]

What a horrible man. Ignorant to the unique nature of the disease in 3rd world nations. I be the liberals love this guy like Fidel.

[Porterville]

Appearantley there are quite a few.

[Porterville]

Trace, I'm with you, I lived in Africa and known many good people who were sick with the virus. Africa is also unique because it has more virulent strains than the West and the human population's resistance to the HIV virus is less do to historic epidimology. Cultural practices in Africa are also different and transen generation which open up risk to the disease. These ignorant punks (yeah you guys who are sick in the mind to gloat about human suffering, (sick) God would blight you for such behavior) should pray for a rapid cure.

[Porterville]

Trace, I'm with you, I lived in Africa and known many good people who were sick with the virus. Africa is also unique because it has more virulent strains than the West and the human population's resistance to the HIV virus is less do to epidemiological history. Cultural practices in Africa are also different and transcend generation that opens risk to the disease. These ignorant punks (yeah you guys who are sick in the mind to gloat about human suffering, (sick) God would blight you for such behavior) should pray for a rapid cure.

[Focault's Pendulum]

This guy is nutier than a fruitcake.

Apparently no one else bothered to read the rest of the article.

Gadhafi added in his address to 40 African heads of state that they should also not "worry about tsetse flies and mosquitoes" - which carry malaria and sleeping sickness - saying they were "God's armies" protecting Africa from its enemies, apparently foreigners. "If they come here, they will get malaria and sleeping sickness," he said. Malaria kills 5 million Africans a year, while sleeping sickness - also known as African trypanosomiasis - kills more than 25,000 people in Africa a year.

[jimmccleod]

I'm damn sure a gay-hating bigot... and much more...

Hey Carlo, are you the same guy as pictured on the www.cookingwithcarlo.com web site?

[chasio649]

Ok...it needs to be said since no one else will....aids is spread in Africa by anal sex....it is the prostitutes and cultural form of birth control...now was that hard people? Does it take 15 billion dollars to stop that? This was printed a long time ago in National Geographic...it is not a friggin' mystery.

[carlo3b]

These ignorant punks (yeah you guys who are sick in the mind to gloat about human suffering, (sick) God would blight you for such behavior) should pray for a rapid cure.

You pompous old fool, have you no shame...? Who in the hell are you calling ignorant punks! Who are you to hold themselves up as the only benefactor of wisdom.. it is you, who are guilty of profiting off the suffering of these hopeless, godless heathens, to no doubt raise you low self esteem because you are all caring... Well jerk, I and most on this forum care enough to want the tide to turn, and the perverts to stop spreading this scourge, and then cry ""pity my plight""...  and I'll not fear the wrath of God any time soon for calling a spade a spade!

[Once-Ler]

Hmmm, last I checked AIDS was being spread fastest by heterosexuals.

You have obviously NEVER checked. AIDS is predominantly spread by homosexual anal sex and IV drug use. Always has been.

[Teacher317]

He needs to read about Ryan White.

[Zipporah]

In Africa the spread of AIDS is not from sharing needles OR anal sex..

[Porterville]

What are you going to do about the plight of others than?? Agree with Kaddafi??? Hope for the death of a continent?? Sit on your coach and eat ice cream and a bag of chips and say they that what they get for not listening to you???

Love is patient, love is kind. Is does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. [Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 (NIV)

[xm177e2]

I would be interested to know how many gay-hating bigots on FR think that he is right.

Plenty. I guess they've never heard of people getting AIDS from infected needles. They probably agree that AIDS is a "peaceful" virus, in the same way that Muslim terrorists think Islam is a "peaceful" religion: As long as it's killing mostly the right people, they've got no objection to it.

[xm177e2]

Needles are actually a major factor, in many cases needles will be reused--not for illegal drugs, but to give medicine.