No Gays In Iran

I suppose the fact that anyone who admits to homosexual tendencies are immediately tortured and executed has nothing to do with the fact there are no gays in Iran, as Ahmadinejad claims.

There are plenty of "rapists." A common punishment for "rapists" in Iran is public hanging (actually, its strangulation - the victim has a noose placed around his or her neck and then they are hoisted into the air by a crane) or placed in a sack, beaten, and then throw off a cliff.

But Iran's definition of "rapist" is not the same as that of civilized people. It is not a sexual crime against a woman. When a man forces intercourse or sodomy with an unwilling woman, Iran simply stones her to death for being unchaste. Since Allah didn't send four male witnesses to support the woman's claim of rape, no crime occurred.

No, in Iran, homosexuals are called "rapists." The world is much less inclined to react with outrage if it's just a "rapist" being executed rather than a gay.

Matt over at The Carden Chronicles has more about the lack of gays in Iran:

This is one of those cases that I am sure will give heartburn to some of my readers, however, I ask everyone to take a deep breath and look through the surface issue and look instead at the barbarity of Iran.

Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to Great Britain in 2005 to attend school. However, his situation has changed from being a student to running for his life. Kazemi is gay. His boyfriend was arrested, tortured and then hanged by the Government of Iran- not for murder, or rape, but simply because he was gay. Now Kazemi has been told by his father, that if he returns to Iran, he will be tortured and hung as well.

Islamic Bigotry: The Slaughter of 4,000 Gays

From Robert Spencer's FrontPage Magazine article:

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.”

Islamic Bigotry: The Slaughter of 4,000 Gays

Taliban Hangs 15 Year old For Having U.S. Money

(Hat Tip: Cyber Crusader)

The religion of "peace" strikes again in Afghanistan. Taliban militants hanged a teenager for possessing U.S. dollars:

Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.

The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world's No. 1 poppy-growing region.

"The Taliban warned villagers that they would face the same punishment if they were caught with dollars," said Wali Mohammad, the district police chief in Sangin.

http://sfgate.com

So much for Muslim claims that Islam forbids the killings of women and children...