Ahmadinejad: “Oh No No No, I Didn’t Really Mean There Are No Gays In Iran”
Give me a fucking break! This has the same ring as “Oh when we say ‘Death to America’, we don’t really mean ‘Death to America’.”
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s president was misrepresented by Western media when he was quoted saying there were no gays in Iran, and actually meant there were not so many as in the United States, a presidential aide said on Wednesday.
Addressing New York’s Columbia University last month, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad replied to a question about gays in the Islamic Republic saying: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
Speaking through a translator, he also said: “In Iran we don’t have this phenomenon.”
The remarks drew widespread criticism in the West.
Homosexuality is punishable by death in the Islamic Republic.
“What Ahmadinejad said was not a political answer. He said that, compared to American society, we don’t have many homosexuals,” presidential media adviser Mohammad Kalhor said.
Kalhor told Reuters that because of historical, religious and cultural differences homosexuality was less common in Iran and the Islamic world than in the West.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in May the last person known “with reasonable certainty” to have been sentenced to execution in Iran for consensual homosexual conduct was in 2005. But it did not know if the sentence had been carried out.
MSNBC
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The munchkin from lolipopville made a boo-boo? LOL
October 10th, 2007 at 6:07 pmHe really didn’t say he wasn’t trying to build a nuclear bomb. He was just saying that he doesn’t see the need for one.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:40 pm“No no, of course we have gays, we use them as crane ornaments”
“No no, I did not mean ‘death to America,’ I meant less life in America”
“No no, I did not mean ‘wipe Israel from the pages of history,’ I meant, I meant….. what does this mean wipe from pages of history?”
What! What do you mean bomb-iran is not a Beach Boys tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moNznL7RFG4&mode=related&search
October 10th, 2007 at 9:35 pm