You can broaden it from “fundamentalist” to “ideologue”…people who define their reality based on an ideology, and expect the real world to conform. For years China had no formal program of AIDS treatment or education because the government insisted that the world’s most populous country had no homosexuals.

I am the only gay in this village.
– Dafydd

Sure. It’s exactly the same. The fact that homosexuals are actually executed in Iran amounts to nothing. Show me a leftwinger and I’ll show you an idiot.

There are nutters everywhere. You and Juan Coles are confused in your comparisons.

Juan says: So if some American Republicans, Catholics and evangelicals want to have the standing to laugh at Ahmadinejad for his prejudice, they have some work to do at home first.

In fact the vast majority of Republicans, Catholics or evangelicals deny the existence of gays. Neither do they support persecution or execution of gays. No idea why “Republicans” are in this list in any case: it’s like saying “If horses, Irish and other Celts want to jump high, they have some work to do at home first.

Pesonally I find it fascinating that the “left” are

a) defensive of Mr Ahmadi Nejad and at the same time
b) imply that he is “right”.

Daily Kos authors were ever so upset that Mr Nejad wasn’t made feel welcome enough in the States…

In fact he is a typical left-wing populist who is using socialist economic model combined with racial, religious and homophobic populist hate as his political tools. No different from the Soviets.

I didn’t say that the majority of anyone denied the existance of gays shlemazl, or even that Republicans, Catholics or evangelicals supported the persecution or execution of gays - but some of the nutbars do exactly that, don’t they?