As #1 said these European governments have gotten themselves into a spot where more and more of their decision-making is based on appeasing their Muslim populations. This is bad for gays, and free speech, and many other things.

The photo is very disturbing, the SGN ran it on their front page with the story over a year ago, as I remember.

Thank God for the radical London queers, or this issue would be buried and have little voice.

There have been some good demos in SFO on the issue and in other major Western national centers.

More must be done. Where is ACT UP???

Islam is a religion of terrorists, and Christianity is a religion of sex perverts. Only Judaism is a true religion that allows gay Jewish men in Israel to live rich, spritual lives.

I believe constructing a narrative about "The United States will go to war to protect Gay rights" could convince many liberals to back an attack on Iran lead by Israel.

Dan was brilliant in stumping for the attack on Iraq, and I believe Dan can push this gay right angle on Iran hard enough that attacking Iran will be the rational choice.

Israel needs to be able to nuke Iran. All that's preventing it is the idiot anti-war public.

Sheesh.

And I don't want to feed the trolls... all that crap that right-wing religious nuts use to justify their hatred of homos? It's in the Talmud. The Jews injected their homo hatred into Christianity and Islam.

i lived over there for nearly a year while in college and the difference between europe in 1997 and europe in 2007 is revolting.

@30: The difference between Europe 10 years ago and now is simply 10 years of the world going to shit, led by fear. It's no different in Asia or the US.

Having experienced the Dutch system for the past 28 years I cannot imagine this guy actually getting deported, but we'll see.

You want to save those gay teenagers as well as save the planet? Understand that religon in all of its forms is a sick perversion.

Shame on them.

Yet the UK won't take someone who hasn't even committed a crime, yet would face the death penalty no questions??? WTF Gordon Brown?!?!?

Issur is not a troll, good sir. He speaks the truth.

If it were not for the long UK holiday season, then there is a chance that an injunction could be go in the High Court in London to prevent deportation until the court has heard an appeal, which, when in front of a real judge, the lad would more than certainly win.

The fear is that the UK will take the lad off a flight from Amsterdam and put him on the next flight to Tehran - and if this is the case over the holiday, then there is little chance of a lawyers getting an injunction.

If you are able to, please express your toughts to the British Embassy in your country, of fax Prime Ninister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street. Fax number is: +44 207 925 0918.

Mehdi has had an unbelievably tough time since he left Iran for complete his education. While in England he learned that his boyfriend was with someone else, then that he had been arrested and under (presumably) torture revealed Mehdi's name, and then Mehdi learned that his former boyfriend had been executed for "being gay". All this when he was 18 - he is now 19.

Yes ... I'm a Brit - and I am totally ashamed of my country and the European Union over this.