Iran hangs two young homosexuals

[Logan13]

Iran hangs two young homosexuals
Iran focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/new...p?storyid=4403
Jan. 03, 2007

Tehran, Iran,
Two young men were hanged in a public square in the northern city of Gorgan after being found guilty of lavat, or homosexual relationship, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday.

The two men, identified as Mokhtar N. and Ali A., were aged 24 and 25 years old respectively. They were hanged in public in Shahid Bahonar Square in Gorgan, the daily Kayhan wrote.

The newspaper said the “criminal past” of the two young men included kidnapping and rape, but the report made it clear that the “crime” for which they were hanged was lavat, which means homosexual relationship between two men or sodomy.

The execution of two homosexual teenagers in the city of Mashad in July provoked an international outcry. The hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to follow a tougher line to implement Islamic law in Iran.

Under Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, homosexuality between consenting adults is a capital crime and official Iranian sources express hostility to homosexual practices. A state radio commentary on March 7, 2005 criticised gay marriages in Western countries. Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini, an influential cleric, said in his Friday-prayer sermon in Qom that gay and lesbian marriages reflect a weakness of Western culture, state television reported on July 13, 2002. Ayatollah Ali Meshkini in his Friday-prayer sermon in Qom criticised the German Green Party for being pro-homosexual, state television reported on April 29, 2000.

[spywizard]

and?? in their society that is the way they choose to have their culture be..

so ???

[rafael]

if u got nothing nice to say about the issue @ hand...dont say anything..so imma keep my mouth shut on this one..bfre i get banned or sumfin for speaking my mind.

[spywizard]

if u got nothing nice to say about the issue @ hand...dont say anything..so imma keep my mouth shut on this one..bfre i get banned or sumfin for spekaing my mind.

yea, me too.. this isn't the political forum after all..

hey did you read my sex with fruit article??

[rafael]

yea, me too.. this isn't the political forum after all..

hey did you read my sex with fruit article??

are you gonna make me lol jk not yet..imma search for it now

[zodiac666]

wish they would do that in iraq and afghanistan, then we wouldnt even be over there.

[Tock]

It's a Christian thing, too. You hear preachers preach from this verse every now and then . . .

Leviticus chapter 20, verse 13:
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Ya, folks who criticize Muslims for doing this can't be accused of being "Bible-beleiving" Christians.

[rafael]

i dont have a religion....and i thank my parents for not forcing one upon me so dont " you folks " me mr

[Carlos_E]

Who's up for a banning?

[RA]

It's a Christian thing, too. You hear preachers preach from this verse every now and then . . .

Leviticus chapter 20, verse 13:
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Ya, folks who criticize Muslims for doing this can't be accused of being "Bible-beleiving" Christians.

Yes, and in the mostly Christian dominated country you see homosexuals being put to death daily.

[realtalk]

well I say it's a individual choice and it's for God to decide in the end.

[zodiac666]

what's ironic is that most of the muslims in iraq and afghanistan are gay, and no im not just saying this to piss people off, just ask anyone who has been to these countries. also i think being gay is not a choice so you would wonder how the vast majority of a country could be gay. i think the reason is because of how restrictive their societies are with women. i mean its nearly impossible for a teenage male to go get laid with a girl so they do it the socially acceptable way and grow up having sex with their male friends. the only reason im stating this is because some people think that muslims hate gays when the majority of muslims i have had contact with were gay, even most of the ones that were married to women were gay. i was told by one that "women are for procreation, men are for pleasure", and im not saying that all the males in those countries are gay but it is the socially acceptable way.

[Logan13]

i dont have a religion....and i thank my parents for not forcing one upon me

I second that.

[dhriscerr]

I was in Iraq 2 times lots of gay's there, especially the younger guys, I think its that way basically until they get married because women are to be virgins, but there are also alot of hookers in baghdad

[singern]

I can tell you that the Palestinians are the same. Since girls are basically untouchable until marriage, the boys are left to **** each other. Its is a common behavior although unspoken in public.

One of my workers tried to fallow me into the washroom, until I kicked him in the nuts.