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Iran: 50 young people condemned to death for 'immorality'
2007-11-21
Tehran, 21 Nov. (AKI) – Iranian police responsible for moral crimes have announced death sentences for 50 people in the latest clampdown on what the authorities term as "immoral behaviour".

"Fifty of the 3,400 people arrested for immorality in recent weeks, have been condemned to death," said General Ahmad Roozbahani, who is in-charge of moral crimes.

While announcing that arrests would continue, the Iranian general said that 53 percent of those arrested were aged between 17 and 25 years. He said 5 percent of those arrested in the moralisation campaign, which began in March, were minors under the age of 17.
Posted by:mrp

#9  What Frank said.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-21 22:59  

#8  ryuge gets it - amen, well said
Posted by: Frank G   2007-11-21 20:54  

#7  Well said, ryuge dear. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife in Buffalo for Thanksgiving   2007-11-21 19:52  

#6  And this article will be posted at Columbia, U?
Perhaps the nyt would like a quote from the chancellor? Any press release on this from cair?
Posted by: Phinater Thraviger   2007-11-21 18:26  

#5  Well, it seems that these 50 will be non-existent soon enough (if they are indeed gay).

You know, as a gay man, few things so fills me with contempt than self-styled gay rights advocates who carry on about how President Bush is a homophobe for advocating tradional marriage and an Islamophobe for finally standing up to Iran's two decades of aggression against us.

Meanwhile Iran is concocting a form of government which tries to combine the worst of Nazi ideology with the worst of an perspective from the Dark Ages, and the condemnation - when there is any - is perfunctory and usually "balanced" by noting that Iran's leaders are "fundamentalists" like Bush (or some similarly specious claim).

Bush destroyed the government most openly hostile to gay people in the world (the Taliban) and is now trying to stop one most likely to endorse an anti-gay holocaust from getting nukes. And for this he gets cynical comments from demogogues like John Edwards about "We know how this movie ends". It's disgusting and it's an outrage. Any gay leader who backs this sort of nonsense is the equivalent of an Al Sharpton.

I have more respect for a sincere Christian who feels homosexuality is a sin than I do for hypocrites who want to buy my vote by having the government do favors for me. I happen to know that my liberty and my great life are due, in large part, because of our Judeo-Christian heritage with its development of respect for the individual, post-Enlightenment humanism, etc. I am frightened by those who would jettison this wide-ranging set of traditions and ideals for this or that academic, collectivist flavor-of-the-month ideology. I would never trade my liberty as a self-reliant citizen for "equality" as the member of a group "taken care of" by the government.
Posted by: ryuge   2007-11-21 18:24  

#4  ah, the islamic paradise that is iran.
Posted by: PlanetDan   2007-11-21 18:22  

#3  Of course this is the solution to the problem

Pish-Tush.

Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
When he to rule our land began,
Resolved to try
A plan whereby
Young men might best be steadied.
So he decreed, in words succinct,
That all who flirted, leered or winked
(Unless connubially linked),
Should forthwith be beheaded,
Beheaded, beheaded,
Should forthwith be beheaded.
And I expect you'll all agree
That he was right to so decree.
And I am right,
And you are right,
And all is right as right can be!
Chorus.
And you are right.
And we are right,
And all is right, is right as right can be!
Pish-Tush & Chorus.
And all is right as right can be,
Right as right can be!

Pish-Tush.
This stem decree, you'll understand,
Caused great dismay throughout the land!
For young and old
And shy and bold
Were equally affected.
The youth who winked a roving eye,
Or breathed a non-connubial sigh,
Was thereupon condemned to die —
He usually objected,
Objected, objected,
He usually objected.
And you'll allow, as I expect,
That he was right to so object.
And I am right,
And you are right,
And everything is quite correct!
Chorus.
And you are right,
And we are right,
And everything is quite, is quite correct!
Pish-Tush & Chorus.
And everything is quite correct,
All is quite correct!

Pish-Tush.

And so we straight let out on bail
A convict from the county jail,
Whose head was next
On some pretext
Condemned to be mown off,
And made him Headsman, for we said,
"Who's next to be decapited
Cannot cut off another's head
Until he's cut his own off,
His own off, his own off,
Until he's cut his own off."
And we are right, I think you'll say,
To argue in this kind of way;
And I am right,
And you are right,
And all is right — too-loo-ral-lay!
Chorus.
And you are right,
And we are right,
And all is right — too-loo-ral, loo-ral-lay!
Pish-Tush & Chorus.
And you are right,
And we are right,
And all is right!

Exeunt Chorus.
Posted by: bruce   2007-11-21 18:01  

#2  Holding hands in public? Dancing together? Sitting next to each other at a movie? Kissing in the park? Who knows what vile offenses against the state were committed by these heinous criminals.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-21 18:00  

#1  Those non-existent gays?

Or maybe it is now immoral to dissent politically?

The problem is iSlam. It was always the problem.

Posted by: twobyfour   2007-11-21 15:52  

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