3
POPSMore Insanity From Columbia University When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Columbia last fall and made a similar claim ("In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country."), students laughed and booed. They recently, however, elected to award Massad the Lionel Trilling Book Award for making the nearly identical claim. Last year, Marty Peretz reported some good news: Columbia University had declined to give Massad tenure. Apparently, Peretz spoke too soon. After cries from the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Provost agreed to appoint a second ad hoc committee this year. Will Columbia have the good-sense to banish him once and for all?
4
POPS Ehsan Jami:::Ex-Muslim Politician Forced Into Hiding Even Jami, who says he gave up Islam after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, doesn't paint all Muslims with the same brush. He said he has nothing against moderate Muslims who adapt to Dutch values. "What I'm against is the creation of special rules for the Muslims," he said. "I don't mind if people are Muslim but I do mind when their values go against Western values," Jami said in a recent interview, under the watchful eye of his bodyguards. "We have to be very clear with Muslim immigrants that we will not negotiate our values."
2
POPS Petty Cruel Ahmadinejad's Lovefest at Columbia U In Iran, people are executed for consensual sex. Amnesty International also reports that women are frequently jailed, flogged, and stoned simply for speaking out about women’s rights. The human rights watchdog group also reports that Iran continues to have one of the highest rates of executions in the world, including the stonings and executions of child “offenders”…those under the age of 18 accused of alleged crimes. "Finally, he got rid of that 'Members Only' jacket" LOL
3
POPSIslamic bigotry: the slaughter of 4,000 gays Interesting how someone mentioned in comments the other day how it sucks for someone else to have the same freedom as I do; attacking me for my clip on radical Islam. No, it sucks when radical elements are excused for their behavior, like liberals do, because they want so much to 'feel good'.
22
POPSGays Exist Quietly, In Iran "Shahin, 27, a chemist, has kept his gay life secret from his parents. “I don’t want to upset them,” he said. “Maybe they will consider me sick and feel sorry for me.”
12
POPSFundamentalism & Government: There, but for the Grace of the Constitution, Go I
It's interesting how much agendas of Christian fundamentalists can overlap with other religious fundamentalists. Obviously, they will never be able to get a completely straight society. Laws and persecution don't make homosexuals go away. Is a society of convenient denial what these religions truly want? In that case they aren't saving souls, they are just insulating themselves from diversity. What is also quite interesting is that the article goes on to talk about Iran's encouragement of homosexuals to undergo sex changes. (Never mind that gender disphoria isn't necessarily linked with homosexuality...) I see in this the same agenda at work as when American Christians talk about "curing" homosexuality. But the BIG question is: if we let the Christian fundamentalists run the country like they want to, would they do things any differently than what we are seeing in Iran? I haven't seen anything to suggest they would.
3
POPSColumbia faculty and students applaud death penalty for homosexuals The transcript does not really do the scene justice. In all honesty, it sounded as though the audience was unsure about their applause and cheering, but then it grew. It seems to me the audience was so willing to make useful idiots of themselves that it really did not matter what Ahmadinejad said.
1
POPSOfficial Iran Hides Presidents Gay Comments Does this mean that even with the Internet, and 24 hours cable news services, the news can still be manipulated in Iran so that their president's ridiculously ignorant comments can be hidden and ignored, or does it mean that they will do anything conceivable to make gays invisible in their midst? Whaddaya think?
21
POPSNo Homo's In Iran "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon."
0
POPSPro-Life is Anti-Gay It's encouraging that Democratic Sen-elect Bob Casey wants to pass hate crime legislation that includes LGBT people. It's also telling that the folks at Agape Press think that anyone who wants a works where LGBT people aren't targeted for violence and murder because they're LGBT people cannot possibly be pro-life. Maybe they'd be more comfortable in the Islamic republic of Iran, where homosexuals are hanged before cheering crowds.
1
POPSHanged for Sodomy Maybe Michael Savage would approve of how Iran's Islamic republic handles homosexuals: with hanging, as hundreds of cheering citizens look on.
0
POPSUS Votes to Deny UN Voice to Gay Groups ..along with Iran, Cuba, and Zimbabwe. BTW, the article doesn't make clear what exactly happened with the vote--did it pass the UN's General Assembly, or was the US able to veto it because of its seat on the Security Council? EDIT: Via http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com EDIT: Corrected Title (second vote=voice)
10
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Most Pops
Print
Save
Turn on live update