When A Man Loves A Woman

posted at 3:21 pm on September 14, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat

In what is simultaneously the most unpredictable and least surprising piece of news that I’ve read in a long time (trust me, it’ll become clearer as you read), it turns out that Iran supposedly carries out more sex-change operations than any other country aside from the home of the lady-boy, Thailand.

The Guardian reports here on what will purportedly be Iran’s first transsexual marriage, between a woman known only as Shaghayegh and her best friend from school, who recently underwent sex-change surgery to become a man.

If your brain is on the verge of shutting down through trying to reconcile this news with the theocracy’s penchant for barbarically persecuting (not to mention executing) homosexuals, then here’s the kicker: the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a religious fatwa in which he stated that there was no religious restriction on sex-change procedures.

Can you guess why?

That’s right!

In an attempt to rid Iran of homosexuality, which is already outlawed there.  A more intolerant illusion of tolerance is not possible.  While the theocracy, and Ahmadinejad in particular, cannot stand the thought of homosexuals, they can abide – if not actively encourage – the presence of transgender people?  How does that make any sense?

It doesn’t, of course.  The mullocracy is riven by deep contradictions, this just being one of the most bizarre.

No doubt some on the Left will be all too ready to accept this as a sign of the Iranian regime’s much-fabled but non-existent capacity for moderation, just as they claim that the leadership cannot be as zealously anti-Semitic as they evidently are, given the presence within Iran of the Middle East’s largest Jewish population (outside of Israel itself, that is).  Here’s the thing about that: Jewish people in Iran number around 20-25,000, by most accounts.  Out of a population of 66 million.  The Jewish populace therefore equates to a whopping 0.04 percent of Iran’s total population.

If this could not appear to get any worse, think again: accounts of forced sex-change operations are widespread, done in an horrific effort to preserve the mullah’s fantasy world where homosexuality doesn’t exist.  If you’re in Iran and homosexual, the choice facing you is between bad and worse.

But never mind all that.  Instead, let’s attribute to the theocracy all the virtues of compassion, tolerance and sanity that they so plainly lack and do nothing to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons.

It’ll all even out in the end, right?

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