A lot of human rights activists raised their eyebrows upon hearing Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the Columbia University, claiming that “Iran is homosexual free”. It is a fact that in Islam, homosexuality is a sin and is punishable by death and two homosexual teenagers were sampled by this rigid law (they were hanged). Ahmadinejad said in his speech that in Iran, they didn’t have this kind of homosexual phenomenon like what the Americans have. Human rights activists, especially the British group OutRage, have also been keen in following the activities of the President.

Whether there are no homosexuals in Iran because there really are no homosexuals, or the President is trying to eliminate them one by one, is debatable.

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