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	<title>Comments on: California town&#8217;s mayor calls gays &#8216;sinful&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: JohnK</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-86031</link>
		<dc:creator>JohnK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rahmans Islamic solution to homosexuality.

1. Repent of your homosexality
2. Convert to heterosexuality

or

For those who refuse to comply with the above, you will be killed by being taken to the top of a mountain and then in the name of Allah . . . thrown off it.

How do I know this about Rahman. Check out the 616 threads of dialogue with this extremist fantatical islamist crackpot.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/24/london-universities-invite-homophobic-preacher-to-speak</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rahmans Islamic solution to homosexuality.</p>
<p>1. Repent of your homosexality<br />
2. Convert to heterosexuality</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>For those who refuse to comply with the above, you will be killed by being taken to the top of a mountain and then in the name of Allah . . . thrown off it.</p>
<p>How do I know this about Rahman. Check out the 616 threads of dialogue with this extremist fantatical islamist crackpot.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/24/london-universities-invite-homophobic-preacher-to-speak" rel="nofollow">http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/24/london-universities-invite-homophobic-preacher-to-speak</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jean-Paul Bentham</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-85611</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Paul Bentham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rose, Simon Murphy and JohnK all saying he same thing: Ignore Rahman. 

He is a disrupter. Why can&#039;t we just ignore him. He is &quot;kara beech&quot;, full of sh...t!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rose, Simon Murphy and JohnK all saying he same thing: Ignore Rahman. </p>
<p>He is a disrupter. Why can&#8217;t we just ignore him. He is &#8220;kara beech&#8221;, full of sh&#8230;t!</p>
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		<title>By: Will</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-85448</link>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;He distroys his path to Heaven.&quot;

Rahman, there is no heaven. Just a false hope made by people like you and this mayor. Try doing something more constructive with your life than ranting like a lunatic on a gay site for our amusement, there&#039;s a good little troll.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;He distroys his path to Heaven.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rahman, there is no heaven. Just a false hope made by people like you and this mayor. Try doing something more constructive with your life than ranting like a lunatic on a gay site for our amusement, there&#8217;s a good little troll.</p>
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		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-85336</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1.
Osby Davis.

2.
RAHMAN - of PINKNEWS fame...almost 600 comments now on another thread.

3.
Jozef Ratzinger.

All got lots to spout about summat they shouldn&#039;t be knowing owt about.

Unless of cou.....

I think I&#039;ve got it in one.

Keith.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.<br />
Osby Davis.</p>
<p>2.<br />
RAHMAN &#8211; of PINKNEWS fame&#8230;almost 600 comments now on another thread.</p>
<p>3.<br />
Jozef Ratzinger.</p>
<p>All got lots to spout about summat they shouldn&#8217;t be knowing owt about.</p>
<p>Unless of cou&#8230;..</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ve got it in one.</p>
<p>Keith.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon Murphy</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-85297</link>
		<dc:creator>Simon Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People should ignore Rahman. 

If you reply to him then the whole discussion gets hijacked by irrelevancy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People should ignore Rahman. </p>
<p>If you reply to him then the whole discussion gets hijacked by irrelevancy.</p>
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		<title>By: Rose</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-85151</link>
		<dc:creator>Rose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There was an intelligent discussion going on here until this Rahman started! Then it all fell apart. It&#039;s just deliberate disruption of the discussion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was an intelligent discussion going on here until this Rahman started! Then it all fell apart. It&#8217;s just deliberate disruption of the discussion.</p>
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		<title>By: Neville</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84870</link>
		<dc:creator>Neville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh course Rahman is a homosexual.   He likes boy&#039;s bums and he likes lingam up his yoni.
The evil Muslim comments about homosexuals is not lawful in this country.   Recent hate legislation can mean that he will be hunted down and face the full force of British law and not the nonsense of sharia law!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh course Rahman is a homosexual.   He likes boy&#8217;s bums and he likes lingam up his yoni.<br />
The evil Muslim comments about homosexuals is not lawful in this country.   Recent hate legislation can mean that he will be hunted down and face the full force of British law and not the nonsense of sharia law!</p>
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		<title>By: JohnK</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84869</link>
		<dc:creator>JohnK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jane . . . ignore him . . . another Troll Wacko who has generated 450 threads of homophobic bile on the Islamic Univeristy Soceity thread.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jane . . . ignore him . . . another Troll Wacko who has generated 450 threads of homophobic bile on the Islamic Univeristy Soceity thread.</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84865</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And by the way, LAWFUL in the way you mean it, that is on the basis of Islamic belief, may well not be lawful under the Law of this country.  Since we do live in a civil society and not a religious one, your saying that your attitudes are &quot;perfectly LAWFUL&quot; is quite likely to be wrong and reveals exactly what and where your problem is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And by the way, LAWFUL in the way you mean it, that is on the basis of Islamic belief, may well not be lawful under the Law of this country.  Since we do live in a civil society and not a religious one, your saying that your attitudes are &#8220;perfectly LAWFUL&#8221; is quite likely to be wrong and reveals exactly what and where your problem is.</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84862</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course you can believe what you like and live your life as you like, at least in Western countries. What you are doing, though, is benefitting from those freedoms (which are rare in Muslim countries, I lived in one for fourteen years) and abusing those freedoms by seeking to impose on the rest of us your unfree and restrictive philosophy.  That is what we don&#039;t accept and never will.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course you can believe what you like and live your life as you like, at least in Western countries. What you are doing, though, is benefitting from those freedoms (which are rare in Muslim countries, I lived in one for fourteen years) and abusing those freedoms by seeking to impose on the rest of us your unfree and restrictive philosophy.  That is what we don&#8217;t accept and never will.</p>
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		<title>By: Neville</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84816</link>
		<dc:creator>Neville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There can be no reasoned debate over the Koran or the Bible as both are based on nonsense and are, therefore, themselves nonsense -&#039;Nothing can be made of nothing&#039;!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There can be no reasoned debate over the Koran or the Bible as both are based on nonsense and are, therefore, themselves nonsense -&#8217;Nothing can be made of nothing&#8217;!</p>
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		<title>By: flapjack</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84812</link>
		<dc:creator>flapjack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Neville - In fairness to Rahman I think someone is posting under his name on that thread which muddies the waters a bit. I&#039;m sure he wouldn&#039;t post that comment himself even if he was closet.
However, those comments that do sound like he said them himself are pretty much what we&#039;ve come to expect from Hank, but using the Koran rather than the Bible as his source of all wisdom and knowledge. 
As such a reasoned debate with him is a non-starter as empirical evidence doesn&#039;t even come into it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Neville &#8211; In fairness to Rahman I think someone is posting under his name on that thread which muddies the waters a bit. I&#8217;m sure he wouldn&#8217;t post that comment himself even if he was closet.<br />
However, those comments that do sound like he said them himself are pretty much what we&#8217;ve come to expect from Hank, but using the Koran rather than the Bible as his source of all wisdom and knowledge.<br />
As such a reasoned debate with him is a non-starter as empirical evidence doesn&#8217;t even come into it.</p>
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		<title>By: Neville</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84810</link>
		<dc:creator>Neville</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rahman has admitted on the page about the university cancelling a talk by a Muslim preacher that he is not the fundamentalist Muslim that he has pretended to be.   He admits to liking &#039;boys bums 16 and 17 yrs&#039; and to liking a &#039;lingam up my yoni&#039;.   What does that make him?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rahman has admitted on the page about the university cancelling a talk by a Muslim preacher that he is not the fundamentalist Muslim that he has pretended to be.   He admits to liking &#8216;boys bums 16 and 17 yrs&#8217; and to liking a &#8216;lingam up my yoni&#8217;.   What does that make him?</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Burton</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84759</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Burton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So we have an Islamic Homosexual on these threads. Do not try to deny it Rahman or else why are you prowling around this Pink Site?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So we have an Islamic Homosexual on these threads. Do not try to deny it Rahman or else why are you prowling around this Pink Site?</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84754</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rahman, well yes, I&#039;ve read it, congratulations, just as much rubbish as you find in the &quot;Holy&quot; Bible.  If you need to believe in imaginary friends, angels flitting about and all the rest of the paraphenalia of incredulity, then good luck to you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rahman, well yes, I&#8217;ve read it, congratulations, just as much rubbish as you find in the &#8220;Holy&#8221; Bible.  If you need to believe in imaginary friends, angels flitting about and all the rest of the paraphenalia of incredulity, then good luck to you.</p>
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		<title>By: 21stCenturySpirituality</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84616</link>
		<dc:creator>21stCenturySpirituality</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rahman, please could you provide a sound theological, philosophical, verifiable and rational argument to support the assertions you have made in comment 22. Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rahman, please could you provide a sound theological, philosophical, verifiable and rational argument to support the assertions you have made in comment 22. Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: Nina</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84615</link>
		<dc:creator>Nina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Mayor does NOT represent most Christians. 2008 UK figures show that over 70% are gay affirming (same figure as for the general population). As a Christian from that 70% majority and part of the gay affirming Liberty Church in Blackpool I strongly object to the Mayors comment and his very narrow view that is distorted enough to think that God  would be prejudiced about part of his own creation. He doesn&#039;t seem to know the Jesus who sided with the marginalised and spoke up against injustice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Mayor does NOT represent most Christians. 2008 UK figures show that over 70% are gay affirming (same figure as for the general population). As a Christian from that 70% majority and part of the gay affirming Liberty Church in Blackpool I strongly object to the Mayors comment and his very narrow view that is distorted enough to think that God  would be prejudiced about part of his own creation. He doesn&#8217;t seem to know the Jesus who sided with the marginalised and spoke up against injustice.</p>
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		<title>By: Coemgenus</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84566</link>
		<dc:creator>Coemgenus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is this Mayor allowed to threaten his Gay electors? Don&#039;t these religious cranks equate &quot;sin&quot; with everlasting punishment and torture? Even in the USA there must be some law to prevent this drivel?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is this Mayor allowed to threaten his Gay electors? Don&#8217;t these religious cranks equate &#8220;sin&#8221; with everlasting punishment and torture? Even in the USA there must be some law to prevent this drivel?</p>
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		<title>By: Jean-Paul Bentham</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84529</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Paul Bentham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Gay rights activists were not placated by the apology&quot;...I should say!

Mike (12):

Good one!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Gay rights activists were not placated by the apology&#8221;&#8230;I should say!</p>
<p>Mike (12):</p>
<p>Good one!</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/27/california-towns-mayor-calls-gays-sinful/#comment-84511</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me guess. A &#039;devout&#039; Christian? Of course. This piece of crap Osby Davis shamefully led the City of Vallejo into California&#039;s first City Bankrupcy. As a resident of Vallejo I can confirm he won by a handful of votes over an openly gay man. Guess the po folks of Vallejo voted him in their ignorance. 
Way to go, homophobe! YOU&#039;LL answer in hell, Davis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me guess. A &#8216;devout&#8217; Christian? Of course. This piece of crap Osby Davis shamefully led the City of Vallejo into California&#8217;s first City Bankrupcy. As a resident of Vallejo I can confirm he won by a handful of votes over an openly gay man. Guess the po folks of Vallejo voted him in their ignorance.<br />
Way to go, homophobe! YOU&#8217;LL answer in hell, Davis.</p>
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