Iran’s Hate of Gays
It is scary to think of any nation that is so riddled with hate, might have a Nuclear Weapon in a year or two. Iran is not what one would call ‘progressive‘ nor could you call it even ‘tolerant‘ and yet today it is rising fast in the Middle East as a major player. There hatred for Gays is just one of the many ideologies that sets them apart from being a supposed modern society.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged. (source)
I suppose it is useless to worry, but then again, maybe we should. I mean this is what happens when other nations interfere in the domestic policies of sovereign states. Jimmy Carter, actively sought to force the then Iranian Government to be more ‘democratic‘ and to allow the return of the Ayatollah Khomeni.
How’s that been working out?
It led to the overthrow of the Shah, not a nice man himself, but far less obstinate and horrid than the subsequent governments have been. Yes he was a Dictator, a ruthless one too, but how many gay children did he publicly hang?
Now we have George Bush, and his drive to ‘bring Democracy‘ to the Middle East. It has led to the Iraq War, turmoil in Lebanon and Palestine. After all it was at his urging that so called ‘democratic elections‘ be held in Palestine, resulting in Hamas (a terrorist group) winning. Like no one foresaw that?
And now, we have Bush urging for ‘return to democracy‘ in Pakistan, a nation already possessing Nuclear Weapons. A Nation already in turmoil fighting the very same ideology that guide those running Iran. Seems to me that History is there to learn from, yet the USA seems bent on repeating its mistakes, over and over again.
In so many ways, this is very similar to the Crusades of the Middle Ages. It didn’t work then, so what makes the USA think it will work today?
