Speak for Yourself, Sailor [UPDATED]
There are no gays in Iran? Maybe cause you hanged ‘em all.
Asked about widely documented government abuse of women and homosexuals in his country, Ahmadinejad said, “We don’t have homosexuals” in Iran. “I don’t know who told you we had it,” he said.
He also repeatedly said that women have freedoms in Iran and refused to comment on reports that their freedom is severely constrained.
Allah thinks it was merely a mistake in verb tense.
Maybe it was a translation error and he meant “There will be no gays in Iran”?
I don’t see the reason for the Ahmadinejad kerfuffle. This kind of stuff is certainly worth the price of admission.
Kamangir sets us straight on the freedom of women in Iran, meanwhile, as he does on most matters Persian.
UPDATE
Of course, the Iranians have a strange perception toward sexuality of all kinds:
[The Westerners] have transgressed all moral boundaries, and that is why their family unit has collapsed. When modesty and chastity are abandoned, soon enough the family falls apart. The husband and wife are no longer satisfied with one another, and they begin having relations with other men and women. After a while, they start thinking that since they have already experienced this, it is time to try homosexuality. Then, they think this is old-fashioned, and they turn to animals. These things happen in the West. After a while, when they get bored with this, they turn to small children. Today, one of the most prosperous and lucrative trades in the world is the trafficking in sex slaves – mostly women and small children. They trade small children like slaves and use them for sex. They are worse than the most monstrous beasts in history. They have even developed theories about this. Throughout history, people did these vile things, but they never discussed it in public. They always did it in secret. These people raise their head up high, and admit that they do these things. They have now begun turning to objects. There are big factories that produce artificial genitals, and they sell them in stores. A sex shop is a store that sells sex toys.
I didn’t say they were wrong. Just strange.