guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 May 2012
A study
conducted by Small Media ( a non-profit group based in London) shows that gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are denied but also terrible punished
by the Iranian Government. Small Media
gathered information and statements through a secret online forum. The
president of Iran said that these people don’t exist in Iran. The first
detailed report on Iran's LGBT community has found that its members live under
terrible circumstances: They are being persecuted and punished and even
sentenced to death. Homosexuals feel they are not part of society and they are
very lonely because they can’t trust anybody.
Comment:
It is my
opinion that the international community should help these people as much as
they can. They should help them escape from a regime like in Iran and offer
them shelter in a Western country where they can live their own life. I think
that this way these terrible ideas about homosexuality will gradually
disappear. We should show everybody we stand for our values and one of them is
that people are free to choose their own sexual preference.
The Iranians are not known for their openmindedness. This should no longer surprise us but we need to still be outraged by such a train of thought. It seems countries like Iran have been standing still in developing other ways of thinking. I don't really see how we would be able to help to get rid of the ideas.
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