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Now That Obama Is ‘First Gay President’ Will He Condemn Iranian Death Sentence of Four Gay Men?

After his landmark declaration (and flip-flop) supporting same-sex marriage, President Obama made the cover of Newsweek (again), this time bearing the moniker: The First Gay President — not necessarily shocking when one considers Andrew Sullivan or the Newsweek editorial team has had a knack for concocting provocative headlines lately. But assuming the assertion Sullivan put forth in the crux of his article — that, as a biracial man, Obama innately understands what it feels like to be a homosexual — holds water, one wonders if the president will be equally brazen in his opposition of the Iranian regime, especially considering it has recently tried and sentenced to death, four gay men charged under Shariah law’s anti-sodomy tenet.

Glenn Beck mocked the president’s “courage” on Monday, suggesting that despite his newfound resolve to be a champion of the gay community, it seems doubtful the president will come out and condemn the atrocities being committed in Iran.

According to the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) operating within Iran, Saadat Arefi, Vahid Akbari, Javid Akbari and Houshmand Akbari of Boyer-Ahmad Province have been sentenced do death by hanging, with the execution slated to take place shortly after the verdict was handed down. Yet aside from the most meager assortment of LGBT-oriented news outlets, the plight of these four men has not been covered anywhere in the mainstream media. The human rights group reports that four other gay men were also hung in recent months, and given the country’s abysmal track-record, the number is not shocking. It is estimated that at least 4,000 members of the gay community have been executed in Iran in recent years, and those are only the incidents that have been reported.

“I am horrified and saddened to have heard the news about these four men,” said London-based Iranian Human Rights lawyer Mehri Jafari.

“Not only with regards to the execution which is about to take place, but the fact that it is beyond our control.”

Jafari believes that since Boyer-Ahmad province is severely impoverished, there was likely inadequate legal assistance for the four men to avail themselves of. Likewise, due to the remote geographical location of the region, human rights advocates will have little access “to exert any influence on the process.”

Regardless of the odds, Jafari is pleading for international organizations to act swiftly as a “Hodud,” or Shariah-driven punishment is imminent.

Some are hearing the call. Gorji Marzban, member of an Austrian-based gay and lesbian advocacy group acknowledged that the death sentence of these four men underscores the discrepancy between Western and Islamic perceptions on homosexuality, and hopes that gay Iranians will one day gain equal rights and protection under the law. Despite threat of death, however, the harsh realities of Iranian life have not eradicated the country’s gay community, only shoved it underground.

Of course it would be impossible, at this moment, not to remind readers of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now famous declaration that homosexuality “does not exist” in Iran. It is likely because those who are, are killed or in hiding.

And in the wake of this most recent string of death sentences, the rest of the civilized world seems equally reticent. In fact, former French Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard paidGlenn Beck Asks if President Obama Will Condemn Iran For Hanging Gay Men
an impromptu vist to Tehran to meet with Iran’s foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi on May 12. While incoming French Socialist President Francois Hollande reportedly did not approve of the meeting, he himself garnered an estimated 93% of the Islamic vote in France. Considering these staggering statistics, it is difficult to imagine the incoming president becoming a hardline critic of the Iranian regime.

At the same time, it is a wonder what the draw to Socialism is for Islam, but the two separate ideologies seem to be working in tandem. An inkling into this possibility might be found when compared against another of Ahmadinejad’s recent announcement in which he said a war need not be perpetrated to destroy Israel, rather, it can be done if members of the international community, one by one, snub the Jewish State.

During a speaking engagement in northeast Iran, the Iranian president who has called Israel a “cancerous tumor,“ said that ”if countries of the region cut ties with the Zionists and give them dirty looks, it will spell the end of this puppet regime.”

Egypt

While members of the left are deafeningly silent over the atrocities being carried out in Iran, most seem all too eager to voice their condemnation for the country they deem “number one” in human rights violations: Israel. Yet Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East — and one with a thriving gay community.

They are also silent about the very real possibility that Egypt will turn into a full-fledged Islamic theocracy.

We are, by now, aware of the threats posed to the West and Israel should the Muslim Brotherhood take office, but new concerns are also rising with yet another Egyptian presidential frontrunner, Abdel Fotouh (or his full name: Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh Abdel Hady), who made headlines by declaring that the late Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin’s groundbreaking 1979 peace treat was and is, “a national security threat.”

Dr. Fotouh began his dissension in the 1970s as a student activist who coordinated the inclusion of the various small Islamic organizations into the Muslim Brotherhood. For many years, he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and served on its Guidance Bureau. He has been called “one of the Brotherhood’s most respected members” but was expelled in 2011 for refusing to relinquish his independent presidential campaign

If Fotouh is the alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, everyday citizens, especially minorities, have much to be worried about.

 

 

 

Comments (50)

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  • Gold Coin & Economic News
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 1:09pm

    Right, this whole “coming out” by the President isn’t a complete scam. We are so manipulated by this guy it is disgusting:
    http://www.isthatbaloney.com/obamas-gay-marriage-scam/

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 12:16pm

    All this media support is for history revisionists to refer back to. False reports that will later be told as true. From the Keynesian recovery of the Great depression (Puhlease), the refreshing transparency of a Democrat controlled Washington and more. Al of this BS can be found displayed in the tickertape/teleptompter media.

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  • G-WHIZ
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 11:25am

    O’blah–blah, “just-saying” is his normal non-reaction for [voteing PRESENT] . He actually won’t DO anything except [flap-his gums]. HE did NOT actually DO-ANYTHING except read his teleprompter. The prog/commies writing-script for his telleprompter told the-empty-suit to “hey…read this!”.

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  • Kisses6350
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 10:38am

    People are People. Thier sexual orentation is between them and what ever God they worship. We will always have diffrent opinions on this topic. I personally think it unfair and mean sprited for people to call ANY out of thier name! But one thing always rang true, what goes around will come around………….God loves all.

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  • blanco5
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 7:20am

    Let’s ask Larry Sinclair.

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  • TheBurningTruth
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:47am

    I wonder what Moochelle thinks about that. Perhaps she’s “evolved” too. Perhaps as we get nearer the election and the Transgender vote gets more importand, there will be a REAL evolution starting with Air Force One being flown to Sweden…

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:44am

    Have you ever noticed that everything that is dear to the liberals of America centers around sex in someway? They are the ones always telling people that they don’t want the government in their bedrooms, or the back alleys where they perform their deeds.

    Just wait until the islamists take over America. Their back alleys and bedrooms will really be monitored. It will be a very hard and trying time for the liberals of this country when that day comes.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:55am

      WELL, # 1 the ISLAMIST will NOT take over AMERICA, even tho‘ they’ve been helped by the President and his Marxist allies who are using the hapless Muslims as “cover” for what the SATANIC SOROS and He have been ‘pulling off’ since 1999… the methodical ruination of America. WHY does anyone think that one of the first acts this traitor performed once he got into office was to give Soros 2 B dollars (without Congressional approval.. They are gutless, useless wonders (80% of them) . It was to “repay” all the “invested dollars that Soros had spent since they discovered Obama”…Thanks to Frank Davis/Tom Ayers/Chicago Communist base. Soros doesn‘t give a damn what anyone’s belief is…as long as they will do the job of taking down America for him. WHY? So he can buy it up at 10 cents on the dollar. Do here what he’s done in 3 other countries and God only knows to how many businesses. But I’ll leave him to GOD.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:02am

      NOW I want to talk STRAIGHT about this GAY thing.

      THEY never respected US. (US = the Jewish or Christian Folks in America). THEY knew that we‘d been taught since childhood that man and man or woman and woman was wrong in GOD’S eyes. The Bible said so. Some Episcopalian GAY women Priests have tried to say that the BIBLE was ‘re-written’ and the word Homosexuality was added to some versions..but that can‘t ’fly’ because God defined Marriage Himself as a Union between one Man and one Woman. In fact most of the OLD TESTAMENT speaks in terms of one wife for life. Yes there were times in history when men had more than one wife, hundreds maybe…even Solomon ..but it cause his life, wise as he was, to end in misery.
      God keeps us on a tight leash the older we get and the more we understand about who He is. IF the Gays had any respect for US, they never would have wanted to co-opt our word Marriage. They could have easily come up with their OWN word. COMMITAGE — you get the idea. Most people I know want EVERYONE to be treated equally. Most of us know that we can not make people Equal. Most of us know that GOD has paths for each of us and special lessons for each of us so we can’t all think alike, be alike etc. I don’t know ANYONE who wants harm to come to anyone because of their sexual orientation. I’m sure that there ARE people who do. Hellfire! The Muslims want to KILL all the GAYS !! These freaks who want to blow Israel away. CONTINUED

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:09am

      To conclude about GAYS. Like most people I have great people I work with and respect who are Gay. These people don’t FLAUNT their relationships in front of me. They don’t try to “CONVERT” my kids. But, don’t you see people: The MUSLIMS – in their desire to destroy the moral fiber of America – not only pushed DRUGS (their OPIUM…duh Afghanistan ??) but they pushed the GAY lifestyle as convoluted as that sounds. THEY have infiltrated the Houston School Book situation, every where that we were weak (as all people) these bastards exploited and they are USING the GAY situation… OBAMA is MUSLIM. (We think he’s probably Gay too, Larry Sinclair et al) IT’S all about causing more strife and rifts. I think that most Americans would (while not approving of the life style) would say “life and let live” if they hadn’t tried to steal our word Marriage. And they did try to steal it.
      IF they stopped thinking about how they have been so disrespected and tried to respect others, they’d have gained that respect for their personal choices back. SO we have a multi-pronged problem: We have Obama trying his best to rip this country apart, financially, socially, every way he can. We have the bloody muslims moving in like they think they’ve already won because they have their guy in the WH and we have hysterical people who have forgotten what America is about trying to shut the 75% of us up. It may not be nice, but 75% of us are NOT going to give up America to

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    • EddardStark
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 5:30am

      @Patty

      In a story about Muslim intolerance that slyly suggests that somehow Obama approves of the Iranian death sentence for gay men, you say that “The MUSLIMS” are pushing their agenda through a cocktail of drugs and homosexuality? Curious that you would ignore any evidence of intolerance suggested in the article to link homosexuals and Muslims together. It sounds more like the short list of things that Patty Henry hates. Your associations are laughable, but fun. Here is one of my own that makes as much sense as yours: Catholics (Cocaine and Marijuana….. Mexico, duh) are using drugs to tear our country apart and establish a new Holy Roman Empire in America based on the domination of the Pope and pedophile priests all with the help of the reanimated corpses of John, Robert and Teddy Kennedy.

      Religion is a choice. Don’t push your behavioral choices on others.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 11:14am

      @ EDWARDSTARK Eddie: I understand that you can‘t get or don’t want to get the big picture connection between Obama, Soros, Muslims, Gay issue etc. This might help:

      http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid949801312001?bckey=AQ%7E%7E%2cAAAACEco_Vk%7E%2c9bOat4XcfB_88ri1a3UMdKnLpH9aM8Fv&bclid=0&bctid=1271237687001

      further it is obvious that you know -0- about our Catholic Church. GOD is our Leader, dude. and the typical liberal reference to the pedophile Priests? less than 1% (which is too many) but no different than any other group of adult males with the opportunity (Scout Leaders, teachers, other Pastors, a COACH or two) IF you knew ANYTHING about the Catholic Faith, you would know there is absolutely no call to “take over the world” our boss already owns the world and everything in it. OUR hope is that more people get to know him. Try to join a Catholic Church. It takes about a year at best – several years, so drop your childish nonsense about us.

      Now, if you’ve bothered to watch the link above, maybe you’ll get it that there is an ALL OUT assault against America. Obama is either the Anti-Christ or a total puppet of Soros. Soros doesn’t care evidently where trouble for the USA comes from, as long as it tears US(A) apart. I’m glad youi find what I say amusing. I wish I didn’t have to say it. I’ve never known a time in my life when every day was a trauma from the WH. That could be a great pulpit for leadership but is no

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    • gc68314
      Posted on May 17, 2012 at 2:51am

      @ Patty don’t you ever get tired of being wrong about everything all the time?

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  • zoro51
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 2:05am

    please this DAMN SOCIALIST wont care he wants the votes n HES GONNA LOSE.. even the wet back votes hes promised to ILEGALS.. wont save him nor the GYAS will come out in droves. IM GAY n i didnt vote SOCIALIST n i wil never vote SOCIALIST IMPEACH OBAMA NOW

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:16am

      THANK YOU. I support your right to be whomever you are and with whomever, as long as you respect my word Marriage. I want all Americans to be free. To have the right to pursue their lives with dignity and hope and success. This nonsense now about the RICH CLASS….who the hell do these people think the RICH are? They didn’t fall out of trees! Like Oprah Winfrey, they were born in the poorest of conditions (most of them) and they dreamed and in AMERICA it can and did happen… They practiced their touchdown pass or their 3 point shot, they built a silly looking circuit board in their garage and became the 2nd richest person on earth in 40 years time…and on and on.
      DO NOT become my enemy. I don’t understand your lifestyle or your attraction meter. It’s not up to me to do that. All I can do is love America and love Freedom and Pray that Americans realize the onslaught of lies, misquotes all geared to tear us apart, and not even for Ideological reasons…those fools are just being used by the GREEDS (SOROS) …it’s all about money. WE MUST BECOME energy efficient. WE MUST DRIVE the SOCIALISTS OUT. Thank you. Your remarks have made my day/NIGHT! God will Bless you and does Bless you.

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  • Jabocx
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 1:15am

    Give me a break newsweek!

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:47am

      Newsweek succeeded in making Obama even more of a laughingstock with THAT cover. It’s a national disgrace, most likely to become an INTERNATIONAL disgrace. Just LOOK at that cover on Newsweek. You just cannot help but laugh at that rainbow halo. I never expected THAT! Too funny! You can’t make this stuff up!

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  • Just in time
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 12:28am

    The POTUS will not speak out against Iran. They have said they want us dead. He is scared of them. They mean what they say. Unlike him

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:51am

      And why do Democrats not call Muslims homophobic? Why do Democrats not call most of the black population homophobic? Or call a lot of the Hispanic population homophobic? I wonder how they’d try to spin an answer to THOSE questions?

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  • possom
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 12:10am

    If you were going to say someday declare war on gay people, isn‘t it a good idea to have 1 piece of paper that identify’s 2 of them and whoever stood up with them!

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  • MADDFINCH
    Posted on May 15, 2012 at 12:02am

    Obama is for the freedom to marry, unless you are a Polygamist. Does he support this freedom to marry — Gay, Strait or Bisexual — What say you BO ? Mr treat everyone equally. Do you support a bisexual Polygamist freedom to marry?

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  • BlueSteel
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:51pm

    Does this mean Biden is gay too? It’s uncanny.

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  • drphil69
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:00pm

    Remember Newsweek also declared him a member of ‘womanhood.‘ so wouldn’t that make him the first lesbian president?

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  • trueamerican40
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:52pm

    This is just a distraction. Has unemploment gone down? How much did BO reduce the national debt in 3 1/2 years? Don’t blame Bush, you little wee wee communist crybaby, what have you done in 4 years? I rest my case.

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  • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:42pm

    “Vote for Romney, at least he’s not a gay commie”

    http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/newsweek-cover-obama-is-the-first-gay-president-t8991.html

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  • beckyspatflaveredstew
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:40pm

    Truth not allowed here, speak your mind, if it fits with network agenda!

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  • ShyMan
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:37pm

    He’ll do nothing. They need martyrs.

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  • ModerationIsBest
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:15pm

    Islam, preaching peace one murder at a time.

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  • Teabunny
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:14pm

    http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/afa-to-glenn-beck-anal-sex-is-not-in-gods-plan.html

    08/30/2010

    AFA TO GLENN BECK: ANAL SEX IS NOT IN GOD’S PLAN

    American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer ripped Glenn Beck a new a-hole (so to speak) for his recent statements in support of same-sex marriage, accusing Beck of siding with “people who want to use the anus for sex.”

    Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/afa-to-glenn-beck-anal-sex-is-not-in-gods-plan.html#ixzz1utuIIumK

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:39pm

      But even as they admire how passionately he’s enlightened Americans about U.S. history and its endurance through threats to its constitutional sovereignty, two authors revered by the right say Beck needs a lesson in how his latest stance actually is aiding and abetting the subversive roots he labors intensely to expose.

      http://www.wnd.com/2010/08/192741/

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  • FromSeaToSea
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:14pm

    Repost of Truth Uncovered – Google For Yourself & Study

    BARACK’s GAY PAST – COVERED UP BY THE MEDIA –

    1. Rahm & Barack – past memberships to Man’s Country Chicago (gay bath house) link below
    2. 3 openly gay members of Trinity United Church die within 30 days of Barack announcing His 2008 bid.- 2 are shot to death.- l was the choir director for the church – members are afraid to talk about this – media coverup – murders unsolved
    3. multiple men have claimed a gay relationship to Barack in the past. – media coverup.
    4. Death Threat – Chicago Police Dept. Warn Victim’s Mom – Mom leaving Chicago
    5. Obama’s teen mentor – Frank Marshall Davis – Openly Bisexual & Communist

    GOOGLE AND STUDY THIS FOR YOURSELF

    Link to Man’s Country Chicago –

    http://manscountrychicago.com/about/about.html
    (Minor Warning: shirtless young boys)

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  • Bryan B
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:07pm

    I believe in God and Jesus Christ, you may not believe that way.

    I don’t agree with Homosexuals, but I don’t want them dead. Murder is Murder, and thats what Iranian is doing.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:18pm

      Amen.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:52pm

      Well said BRYAN B. I simply disagree with the life style. I do not hate anybody, and I certainly want nobody dead over such an issue.

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  • Goldomark
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:02pm

    When did the USA not condemn Iran for the unjust killing of it’s citizens. Whether by POTUS or the Secretary of State or other members of the administration.

    Beck is just taking advantage of how conservatives are badly informed.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:01pm

    If homosexuals complains for Christians, wait to see when Islam takes over.

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    • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:57pm

      There will be silence because dead gays don’t complain. Well, at least openly, because homosexuality is rampant in the Muslim world: “Women are for babies, men are for pleasure”

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  • Bluebonnet
    Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:56pm

    Is this a confession that he is Gay? I’ve read a lot of stuff, but wasn‘t sure until it’s on a magazine.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on May 14, 2012 at 10:16pm

      As a man thinks in his heart so he is. If he is for then he is not against it . God in his word never approved of homosexuality so the president has taken a stance against GOD. And I personally have taken care of both gay men and lesbians and treated like any other patient. But I do not have to approve of their sexual immorality. Sin is sin , all have sinned and fall short of GOD’s glory, but people choose to think they are smater than GOD. Life is about choice follow GOD or follow a lie.

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