In honor of the most surreal fatwa ever...

I was hanging out on the boards at airamerica.com and there was a video of Cenk Uygur talking about how in Iran, homosexuality is a capital offense the first time you're caught (lesbians have more leeway). The odd thing is that evidently the Ayatollah Khomeini (the guy from the '70s) in his wisdom, issued a fatwa that condones gender reassignment.

Interestingly, there are about 150,000 transgender people in Iran, making them the second-largest intersexed community in the world behind Thailand. Essentially, what seems to be happening is that a lot of gay folks, who have no choice if they want to survive, become transgendered, or possibly try to hook up with someone transgendered.

So anyway, in the comments for the entry, someone who posts as Uffdaguy said he was afraid of what he would find if he googled "Persian Transsexual". Well, being a helpful guy, I did a google image search and came up with this.



This is a pastry called a "persian" and it was the top hit when I googled.