Iran: Totally not light in the loafers.

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2. Just because the guys like to sex each other, doesn’t mean they’re homosexual — they’re just protecting the chastity of Iranian women.

3. It’s apparently a necktie-free zone as well.

4. It is interesting that an Ivy League university would open the floor to a homophobic, misogynist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying nutbag.

   Why not tell us how you really feel?

5. “What’s their secret?”

   That’s what all the conservative Christian fundies are asking.

6. What’s their secret?!

   their secret is that they’ve already executed all the gays they could find.

   i was planning to go on vacation to iran this year. i was supposed to leave for tehran just three weeks from now. i couldn’t get the visa, however, so i’m going to egypt instead. but i did buy the iran guidebook. here’s what it says about gay & lesbian travelers.

7. I’m surprised he’s not speaking at Liberty University. Or, perhaps it is below his standards.

   upyernoz,

   Re: your link. Wow. “Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”

8. It is interesting that an Ivy League university would open the floor to a homophobic, misogynist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying nutbag.

   Well, the president of said Ivy League university did tell Ahmadinejad to his face that he’s a homophobic, misogynist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying nutbag, not to mention “the face of evil” and “astonishingly uneducated.” Anyone who heard Bollinger’s speech would have no doubts about the degree to which he opposes Ahmadinejad’s policies.

9. There’s plenty of homosexuals in Iran, if you count corpses.

10. Whatever people think of this guy, it’s pretty obnoxious for the president of Columbia to introduce him as a “”a petty and cruel dictator”.

    Why invite him to your school then?

    I can’t remember any other time when a host has derided a head of state like that.

11. Whatever people think of this guy, it’s pretty obnoxious for the president of Columbia to introduce him as a “”a petty and cruel dictator”.

    He may be a crazy man, but he does not wield absolute power. Iran is run by the ayatollahs, headed by the Supreme Ruler. They are the ones that run the show.

12. In retrospect, I don’t want to go to war with Iran. The Iranian people held candlelight vigils after 9/11. To bomb them would completely be unreasonable. Unfortunately, I have an uneasy feeling that war could break out…

13. Whatever people think of this guy, it’s pretty obnoxious for the president of Columbia to introduce him as a “”a petty and cruel dictator”.

    Yeah, that bothered me a tad. Not that it isn’t fairly true mind you (though, he’s not a dictator, he doesn’t actually have that much power in Iran), but being polite to one’s opponents, no matter how inhuman they are, is the sign of a civilised society.

    Would the world be a better place without this man in it? Probably, but the ends do not justify the means, and one can show one is opposed to another’s policies because they are inhuman without becoming as rude as that other.

14. re: the petty and cruel dictator thing

    what bothered me is that it isn’t accurate. in the iranian system the president has very limited power. ahmadinejad is more of a grandstanding buffoon than a threat to anyone. there is a lot of political oppression in iran and if ahmadinejad were so inclined he could make things slightly better (mostly through the people he appoints), but not by much. the real culprits is the supreme leader (currently ayatollah ali khamenei). he’s the guy who is really in charge there.

15. If only our President was that powerless. But, of course, that analogy would have James Dobson wielding all of the power.

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