Muslims are no Different, or why Bill Maher’s blood libel is Bigotry

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150. As your link makes clear its not known whether they were executed for being gay.

Apparently there were four men executed. At least two of them appear to have been journalists. They were all charged with "rape and fraud". The other two men were accused of running an underground network concerned with corrupting young women. The other two were accused of sodomy, amongst various other things. It seems to have been an execution of two sets of brothers. I think the family name of the two you refer to also seems to be an Azeri name.

Very hard to glean what the real story is. Obviously if they are brothers they were unlikely to have been a gay couple. There may well have been truth in the accusations that at least two of them were pimping, but the reference to journalism makes me suspect that this may have been politically motivated.

Whatever the motivation, its a terrible thing and the Iranian regime should hang its head in shame - but these sorts of extra-judicial killings are stock in trade for most autocratic regimes in the world. If a Christian regime did it we would not assume that all Christians supported such things, but we are far too willing to do so in the case of Muslims.

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