I think we all knew it to be true that there is an alliance between Christianists and Islamists when it comes to gay people. But to see it like this (and the awful thing he implies about Kerry) is just plain sick. Karl Rove needs to be called on the fact that part of his strategy to win the '04 election was to invoke values that Islamists all the way up to Osama bin Laden and the Iranian president would approve of:
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1170 Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 5, 2006.
Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: Kerry, who ran against Bush, was supported by homosexuals and nudists. But it was Bush who won , because he is Christian, right-wing, tenacious, and unyielding. In other words, the religious overcame the perverted. So we cannot blame all Americans and Westerners.
Just so you know how far this guy goes, he says this further in the interview:
Interviewer: How should a homosexual or a lesbian be punished? We mentioned the story of the people of Sodom and how Allah punished them, but how should someone who commits this abomination be punished today?
Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: The same punishment as any sexual pervert - the same as the fornicator.
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The schools of thought disagree about the punishment. Some say they should be punished like fornicators, and then we distinguish between married and unmarried men, and between married and unmarried women. Some say both should be punished the same way. Some say we should throw them from a high place, like God did with the people of Sodom. Some say we should burn them, and so on. There is disagreement.
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The important thing is to treat this act as a crime.
I found this site about him (anti-defamation league material among others):
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP82804He supports the insurgency in Iraq who is blowing up our troops. And yet, he stands side by side with the religious right in our own country when it comes to gays. I'm so sickened by this terrorist scumbag (if you tell everyone to go to Iraq to blow Americans up, then you deserve to be called a terrorist scumbag), I just didn't know what to do with this quote but share it with you.
Yes, Bush is hated over there (for his own stupidity), but Kerry would have been, too, but for different reasons (they also would have played up his Jewish blood, the anti-semitism is so virulent). There seems to be no shortage of hatred over there.