Ahmadinejad: "We don't have homosexuality in Iran"

Roger L. Simon: “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made one of the most insane and reactionary statements I have heard a national leader say in public ever at Columbia today: ‘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 has told you that we have it.’”

More outrageous claims by Ahmadinejad:

"But as for women, maybe you think that maybe being a woman is a crime. It’s not a crime to be a woman. Women are the best creatures created by God. They represent the kindness, the beauty that God instills in them. Women are respected in Iran.”


This man thinks people are stupid.

Gays in Iran

Anti-gay program in Iran

A brief history of male homosexuality in Islamic culture

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Activist Burns Rare & Expensive Koran to Make Statement

Artist, atheist and gay activist Charles Merrill enjoys a moment of peace in Venice.Charles Merrill, the extravagant artist and gay rights activist, burned a $60,000 copy of the Koran to protest Islam's stance on gay rights. Via ROP and PR Newswire. He had also burned a Bible in public without fearing of being beheaded. He chose to burn the Koran in Private. I wonder why?

one of Mr. Merrill's smartest moves? We have to see and wait how many fatwas are issued for his beheading... Historically, the reaction from burning a Bible is not exactly the same reaction one receives when one burns a Koran. However, I give him credit. That took some intestinal fortitude.

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