Gelare Khoshgozaran: Regarding Our Pain and Others’
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“In #Iran we don’t have any #homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country… In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have it!” (i)
As funny as it might sound, in the statement above, #Ahmadinejad is making a completely sane statement. His Persian word choice for homosexual is “Hamdjens-baz” (a commonly mistaken word for Hamdjens-gara, one whose sexual orientation is towards the same sex) meaning a rather promiscuous person who, regardless of sexual orientation, tends to have sex with the same gender to please her/himself. The suffix, “-baz” meaning “-player” indicates a hobby developed by the person referred to. Therefore “Hamdjens-baz” is the one who enjoys sleeping with the same sex just for the sake of pleasing one’s self as opposed to, for instance the law of Islam allowing sex only after marriage to provide for the individual completion, calm and procreation, therefore it is indicative of deviation, immorality, promiscuity and perverseness.