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11/12/2007

Iranian Leader says Gays should be Tortured, Killed

Filed under: International — DRJ @ 7:50 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Iranian leader Mohsen Yahyavi (a member of the Iranian Parliament’s energy committee and further described here as the Majlis deputy from Boroujerd) told British MPs last May that overt homosexuals deserve to be tortured or executed:

“Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.

Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged. President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.
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Minutes taken by an official describe a meeting between British and Iranian MPs at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a peace body, in May. When the Britons raised the hangings of Asqari and Marhouni, the leader of the Iranian delegation, Mr Yahyavi, a member of his parliament’s energy committee, was unflinching.

He “explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted”, the record states. “He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce.”

Good thing Ahmadinejad told us Iran doesn’t have gays or they might even be waterboarded.

— DRJ

24 Responses to “Iranian Leader says Gays should be Tortured, Killed”

  1. Yeah, but Bushitlerchimphalliburton proposed a Constitutional amendment disapproving same-sex marriage. He’s the real evil. The Iranian people are just adhering to their cultural traditions. You imperialist racist.

    nk (09a321)

  2. Good thing Ahmadinejad told us Iran doesn’t have gays or they might even be waterboarded.

    Nooooooooooooooooo! Not that!

    Paul (ec9716)

  3. If waterboarding is done in groups, do you think we could develop an Olympic event of Synchronized Waterboarding?

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  4. Dam! Everybody wants to talk about waterboarding. What’s wrong with talking about man-on-man or woman-on-woman sex? With videos if anyone has them.

    nk (09a321)

  5. nk, how’s this for kink-of-the-day:
    Waterboarding during sex?

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  6. There is nothing the matter with a couple lipstick lesbians getting together. Beautiful is beautiful. A couple of scruffy guys? Not so much.

    JD (6887fb)

  7. AD #5,

    It’s ok with me. Got any videos?

    nk (09a321)

  8. Well, we were in pre-production, but the writers went on strike!

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  9. lol

    papertiger (f6198c)

  10. What’s wrong with talking about man-on-man … sex? With videos if anyone has them.

    See, this is why I don’t ask if you wanna hang out…

    🙂

    Scott Jacobs (a1de9d)

  11. “He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce.”

    Boy, good thing those Iranian gays are in the US… We wouldn’t let them marry…

    Scott Jacobs (a1de9d)

  12. aren’t in the US*

    Scott Jacobs (a1de9d)

  13. Couple of years ago I would send articles/photos about the treatment of gays under Islam to longtime gay friend, yet after having spent so much of my time forwarding all the articles/photos I would come across my friend ended up saying to me “sometimes I think you do this just to be different”

    All he cared about was his gay.

    After that I ended the friendship and now I could care less about teh gay in America; I no longer lock-step march for the benefit of those who feel they are the special class.

    syn (7faf4d)

  14. I haven’t seen anything out of the left on this story. Curious.

    daleyrocks (906622)

  15. I haven’t seen anything out of the left on this story. Curious.

    Yes, Iran is a backwards, fiercly primitive, relion-ruled society. The left already knows that.

    They also know that the whole reason any of you even care about its primiteveness/backwardness is because you want to bomb it. So they aren’t impressed by your fake expressions of concern.

    Phil (6d9f2f)

  16. I don’t really want to bomb Iran. It’s just that the Rovian mind control machine keeps beaming those thoughts into my head. Help me, Phil! I need a better brand of tinfoil.

    nk (09a321)

  17. I can’t wait for you guys to use this same “they shut up and be glad they aren’t in IRAN” line of reasoning on women, by the way.

    Phil (6d9f2f)

  18. Iran needs a free press so that they can catch esteemed MPs like Mr. Yahyavi and maybe a few pro kill-the-gays imams playing footsie in a public toilet somewhere.

    EdWood (c2268a)

  19. nk,
    Do you feel like bombing something too? Man, it’s getting to me!

    May be Kurt Vonnegut can explain.

    “The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that killing doesn’t seem to bother the conservatives at all.”

    Patricia (aaa977)

  20. Isn’t Vonnegut into Holocaust denial too, these days?

    nk (09a321)

  21. Who knows, nk? It does fit with the moldering boomer ethic, though.

    #

    “I can’t wait for you guys to use this same “they shut up and be glad they aren’t in IRAN” line of reasoning on women, by the way.”

    Comment by Phil — 11/13/2007 @ 11:16 am

    Phil, is this a preemptive insult? Do you have the right to do that based on no credible evidence? Insult monger! PhilHitler!

    Patricia (f56a97)

  22. Yes, Iran is a backwards, fiercly primitive, relion-ruled society. The left already knows that.

    They also know that the whole reason any of you even care about its primiteveness/backwardness is because you want to bomb it. So they aren’t impressed by your fake expressions of concern.

    So what do you think of this statement, Phil:

    Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both

    because the right knows that the left would scream “Hate Crime!” if a US citizen uttered such a statement, yet, since it comes from a “backwards, fiercly primitive, relion-ruled society,” the left simply shrugs its collective shoulders without comment.

    Like you have in this thread.

    I find it interesting, Phil, that you have commented on this thread without once addressing the subject of it.

    Paul (ec9716)

  23. Phil’s only interest in Iran is what his political opponents want to do with respect to it. Once he’s figured that out, then he knows what his view to Iran is.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  24. Hey where the UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISION WHERES AMNESTY INSERNATIONAL WHERE THE ACLU and why are the wacks from SAN FRANCISICO BURNING IRANIAN FLAGS OVER THIS?

    krazy kagu (6b296a)


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