Ahmadinejad’s homosexual-free Iran
By PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT
IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I think it’s fair to say, has a slight credibility problem.
During his recent, much-publicized speech at New York’s Columbia University, Ahmadinejad couldn’t have appeared any more foolish, even if he had insisted the moon was made of cheese or that babies came from storks, than when he denied that homosexuality existed in his country.
But is the man merely ignorant, or did his position reflect a subtext of menace?
Certainly, Ahmadinejad is broadly seen as an intellectual featherweight among Iranians. The writer of one Iranian blog, Adventures of Mr. Behi, applies the Persian proverb "This coat is too big for you," (meaning a person isn’t up to the job) to the Iranian president, who has made a number of bizarre statements during his two years in office. Remember the "rim of light" Ahmadinejad claimed surrounded him when he spoke at the UN in 2006? Another Iranian blogger, who authors View from Iran, notes they’ve encountered others in the country who believe no gays exist there, so perhaps Ahmadinejad really believes such nonsense.
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Islamic Bigotry: The Slaughter of 4,000 Gays
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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.”
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