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[mahnmut]

Gay Iranian Fights For Asylum In Europe
19-Year-Old Man's Plea Initially Rejected By U.K., Says Boyfriend Executed In Iran


The Netherlands' highest court rejected a gay Iranian asylum seeker's last-ditch bid to avoid deportation to Britain, where he fears authorities will send him back to Tehran and possible execution.

In a ruling published on its Web site Tuesday, the Council of State said Britain is responsible for Mehdi Kazemi's case, because it was there that the 19-year-old first applied for asylum.

Gay rights campaigner Rene van Soeren said Kazemi's Dutch lawyer was considering an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The lawyer, Borg Palm, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Boris van der Ham, a lawmaker who has taken up Kazemi's cause, has tabled questions in Parliament asking the junior minister for immigration, Nebahat Albayrak, to lobby British authorities on Kazemi's behalf.

Albayrak should either urge Britain not to send Kazemi back to Iran or offer him asylum in the Netherlands, Van der Ham said in a telephone interview.  ...

Blindfolded Mahmoud Asgari, 16, left, and another unidentified teenager are set to be publicly hanged, in Mashhad, Iran, on charges of raping boys in this photo taken on July 19, 2005. Adovcacy groups say homosexuality is often punished by execution in Iran

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

This is a disputable theory. You're basically saying that homosexualism is obtained due to the circumstances of one's environment. While this could be partially true, the other theory is that homosexualism is right from birth and depends more on the influence of the mother's hormones during pregnancy. Which one is true? You're a professional, I thought you could explain this a little more.

[ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com]

well I didn't mean homosexuality when I was talking about the circumstances, I was meaning the rape!!
they said he is a rapist
as for homosexuality there are lots of theories but no one is proved yet. some evidences about differences in size of some brain centers in homosexual brain was proved in a famous medical study yet no gene was identified till now, or it will be discovered latter
Also another study found that there is 33% increase in the chance of having homosexual kid with every preceding male brother whether raised together or not, this means that a third male son will have 99% of being homosexual; I am the third son in my family!
as I said the debate is still unclear but there is a direction towards one opinion that homosexuality is biological mainly and social elements can contribute in some cases, also it may be inherited

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Yes I think I agree the most with the theory that it is mainly biologic and also the social factors contribute to it.

So how many % of the humans are homosexual? Is there such a research?