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| Iran cleric: People who are vaccinated for COVID have ‘become homosexuals' | |
| 2021-02-08 | |
I'm vacillating in how to tell my 83 yr old (albeit Catholic) Mom
Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian wrote on his Telegram social media platform: "Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals." The radical Islamist has nearly 210,000 followers on his Telegram account. Tabrizian has a history of anti-Western medicine views. Last year, a video showed him burning Harrison's Manual of Medicine, in which he argued that "Islamic medicine" has made such books "irrelevant," according to an article on the US government Radio Farda website. Sheina Vojoudi, an Iranian dissident who fled the Islamic Republic of Iran due to repression, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that "Like other clerics in the regime, also Tabrizian relates all the shortages to sexuality. The clerics in Iran are suffering from lack of knowledge and humanity. Actually, his goal of spreading nonsense is to try to scare people [out] of getting vaccinated while the leader of the regime and other officials got Pfizer and they don't provide it for the people with the excuse that they don't trust the West." Peter Tatchell, the LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner, told the Post that "Ayatollah Tabrizian combines scientific ignorance with a crude appeal to homophobia. He's demonising both the vaccination programme and LGBT+ people, without a shred of evidence. By seeking to scare the public into not getting vaccinated against Covid-19 he is fueling the pandemic and putting lives at risk. Typical of many Iranian religious and political leaders, his bizarre, irrational claims scapegoat LGBTs and put theological prejudice before scientific knowledge." Iran’s regime has executed 4,000-6,000 gays and lesbians since its 1979 Islamic revolution, according to a 2008 British WikiLeaks cable. | |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Lemuel Cloling1392 2021-02-08 06:17 |
| #1 Lost in translation? Maybe he said, "Their spirits have been lifted; they are gay"? |
| Posted by: Skunky Prince of the Esquimeaux1967 2021-02-08 01:21 |