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to Tabatabaei, the lust of men is active and women’s lust is
passive … and from these irrational arguments he concludes
that heterosexuality is natural and innate and homosexuality is abnormal and against human nature … assuming natural matters could be distinguished from unnatural ones … is it possible 31
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to say whatever is ‘natural’ is good and ethical and whatever is ‘unnatural’ is bad and immoral?” 31 Ganji considers this kind of reasoning to be a ‘natural fallacy’.
On 27 June 2008 ‘Ensanam Arezoost’ posted a comment on
Radio Zamaneh’s website about Ganji’s article: “I can only con-
gratulate Mr. Ganji for his human behaviour towards the right of others to live”. MM also commented on this post: “Homosexuality is a complicated syndrome of physiological and biological disorders of the human body, and it cannot be evaluated just
from a ‘beliefs’ point of view. It can’t even be called a disease, alt-
hough it treads the line of being one ... But whatever it is, it exists and it can’t be ignored. This unfortunate and unconventional
phenomenon could be minimised by a long-term programme,
but their rights can’t be ignored and we should try to encourage the society to look at this issue from a scientific point of view instead of a beliefs point of view”.
mohsen kadivar
// Azadeh Sepehri’s blog post, called “Mohsen Kadivar’s
Defence of the Maximum Punishment for Homosexuals”, quotes from Kadivar, a ‘religious intellectual’. Kadivar’s argument is
that “sexual relations with the same sex are strongly condemned in all Abrahamic religions, including Islam. The Holy Koran has
reprehended homosexuality with the strongest possible tone … Islamic scholars, both Sunni and Shia, believe in the religious
prohibition of homosexuality and in a maximum punishment for it”.