Law-abiding, well-educated people need not apply
Rod Liddle; 30/3/08
Should Britain afford Iranian homosexuals political asylum or send them back to be hanged in their home country? Surely not many people still cleave to such a view, although we ought to remember that within my lifetime homosexuality was illegal in Britain.
This point is made frequently by lefties who wish to draw some sort of equivalence between the Muslim world and Britain: see, we persecuted the poofs, too. Yes, we did, unforgivably, but we didn’t actually hang them, or whip them.
Or indeed, as they do in Iran and Saudi Arabia, whip them first and then hang them. Two gay kids were hanged in 2005 in Mashhad. They were 16 years old at the time of their offence, but this cut no ice with the Iranians.
The whole business has re-emerged with the case of Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian teenager whom the British Government wishes to send back to Iran. Kazemi’s boyfriend was hanged there and he fears, reasonably enough, that the same fate awaits him. In the 29 years since Iran experienced its joyful and uplifting Islamic revolution, an estimated 4000 homosexuals have been put to death.
See; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23447594-26040,00.html
Tags: Global, Homosexuality