Mal, you might be interested in
W. Patrick Lang's take on what Ahmadinajad remarks regarding homosexuality meant:
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Thanks for the link. I also watched the whole speech, and Col Lang's interpretation is admittedly a little different from my own. IMO, Ahmadinajad's comment about homosexuality didn't appear to be a joke at all as he seemed to deliberately evade the question initially before being asked a second time about the persecution of gay's in Iran. After being called on it again, he seemed more than a little defensive in having to answer something he tried to avoid in the first place. Maybe he didn’t expect to have to answer such a question at a major university in the United States? If in fact it was a joke, it was one made in extremely bad taste considering the very real political persecution of homosexuals in Iran:
Inside Iran's Secret Gay World - You Tube As an aside, do you think Lang’s depiction of Ahmadinajad supporting “scholars who seek the truth” a little strange considering that some liberal Iranian-American scholars have recently found their way into Iran’s Evin prison?
'Bad Veils' and Arrested Scholars: Iran's Fear of a Velvet Revolution 
