I am confused, when Ahmendinijad was here he told us that there were no homosexual people in Iran :rollseyes

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2859606.ece

 

Gays should be hanged, says Iranian ministerDominic Kennedy

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.

 

Britain regularly challenges Iran about its gay hangings, stonings and executions of adulterers and perceived moral criminals, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) papers show.

 

The latest row involves a woman hanged this June in the town of Gorgan after becoming pregnant by her brother. He was absolved after expressing his remorse. Britain said that this demonstrated the unequal treatment of men and women in law and breached Iran’s pledge to restrict the death penalty to the most serious crimes.

 

A series of reported executions of gays, including two underage boys whose public hanging was posted on the internet, has alarmed human rights campaigners.

 

The Pet Shop Boys dedicated Fundamental, their Grammy-nominated album, to Mahmoud Asqari and Ayad Marhouni, who were hanged in Justice Square in Mashhad in 2005. Graphic photographs of the execution of the youths, who were under 18 when arrested, were released by the Iranian Students News Agency.

 

Gay rights groups in Britain, such as Outrage!, accuse Iran of cloaking executions for homosexuality with bogus charges for more serious crimes.

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act, the FCO released papers to The Times about the death penalty being used in Iran for homosexuality, adultery and sex outside marriage.

 

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.”

 

Nicole Pichet, a researcher who also took notes of the gathering, told The Times that the discussion began with British MPs discussing the underage gay hangings. Mr Yahyavi responded by saying homosexuality was to blame for a lot of diseases such as Aids.

 

Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP and head of Britain’s delegation, said yesterday: “It is of great concern that these attitudes persist and we made it clear what we felt.”

 

Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Nigeria apply the death penalty for homosexuality, according to the International Lesbian and Gay Association.

 

 

 

Sharia’s victims

 

2005

 

— Homosexuals Farbod Mostaar and Ahmad Chooka sentenced to death. Iran said Chooka had kidnapped, knifed and raped a student

 

— A woman called Soghra was sentenced to stoning for adultery and being an accomplice to her husband’s murder

 

— Two men executed in public after being found guilty of a homosexual relationship. A newspaper said they were convicted of sodomy, rape and kidnapping

 

— Zhila Izadi, 13, sentenced to stoning after becoming pregnant with her brother’s child

 

2006

 

— Malek Ghorbany sentenced to stoning for adultery

 

— Leila Qomi sentenced to stoning for adultery and assisting a man who killed her husband. He received 100 lashes

 

2007

 

— Jafar Kiana stoned for adultery. His female lover Mokarrameh Ebrahimi sentenced to the same fate

 

Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office documents released under Freedom of Information Act

Just consider the source.

nuke em. what's the loss?

Several million people who don't control their own fate within Iran.

Anybody want to send the rodeo leader from Borat there? Seems like he'd fit right in with this mentality.

there aren't any gay's in Iran.... well.... not for very long at least.

Shouldnt it be "hung".

 

Hanged just doesnt sound right there, I think bad grammar should be hanged!

 

 

Shouldnt it be "hung".

 

Hanged just doesnt sound right there, I think bad grammar should be hanged!

Actually, pictures get hung and people get hanged. That's proper grammar believe it or not.

Yeah I know, I just always found that a strange one. Hung actually does include; 4. to put to death by suspending by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, yardarm, or the like.

 

And the only way you can be put on a cross is to be "hung from a cross".

 

I always hate how hanged sounds, it just bad.

 

 

Shouldnt it be "hung".

 

Hanged just doesnt sound right there, I think bad grammar should be hanged!

There's a joke in there somewhere.

There's a joke in there somewhere.

 

 

SS2k:

 

"Gay people should be hung"

 

He doesn't like it when they're not.

Pictures and horses are hung

Ok... some dude rapes his 13 year old sister and gets off free and clear because he said he was sorry but the 13 year old gets stoned to death... Screwed up system there...