Head of SF Human Rights Commission Transgender Theresa Sparks on AFDI Gay ads, it’s “easier to get insurance for sexual transition procedures in Iran than in America”

The disconnect is breathtaking. The head of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, transgender Theresa Sparks, continues to support the sharia and denounce our ad campaign designed to raise awareness of the
plight of gays under Islamic law. Our new campaign uses the actual
quotes of President Ahmadinejad, global Muslim spiritual leader Qaradawi
and popular radio host in the UK, Sister Ruby Ramadan (political,
religious and cultural).

Sparks, something of the spark for our new AFDI campaign, went so far to say, "it’s actually easier to get insurance for sexual transition procedures in Iran than in America." Hmmm, is that why the President of Iran insists there are no homosexuals in that country?

Such delusion is without peer. Sparks ought to spend a little time in that hellhole and see if she escapes with her life. For someone so clear about being true to herself and being who she is, she is either blind or cowardly. The persecution, subjugation and oppression of gays is religious — it's the sharia. Not every Muslim subscribes to it, of course. But the ideology behind it is very much the problem. Sparks claims it's cultural — what culture is that? Islamic culture. Sparks is sharpening the blade of her executioners.

Sparks is intellectually dishonest when she claims that our ads "suggest that all Muslims hate gays." That's a red herring. The ads suggest no such thing. The oppression and persecution of gays is epidemic in the Muslim world and Sparks is sanitizing this horror. And many in the gay community suffer here in the United States.

Where was Theresa Sparks when a Muslim gang was targeting gays in San Francisco in a series of attacks, shooting them in the face with a BB gun and video-taping the attacks? A Muslim gang targeted nearly video camera confiscated by police along with a “rifle-style” BB gun.There was a concerted effort within the San
Francisco police department to bury this story, and it is only because one
officer leaked the report to the media that anything was ever
reported. Where was Sparks then?

The Muslims chose their victims "because they
appeared to be gay."

How many attacks do we not hear about so as not to offend the sensibilities of the Muslim community? These attacks are increasing across the country with large Muslim communities, i.e. New York, Minnesota, Maine, not to mention the gay-bashing in sharia zones in the UK, France and across Europe.  Shame on Theresa Sparks.

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San Francisco Muni buses getting more anti-Islamic ads, this time with anti-gay message San Francisco Examiner, March 19, 2013

More controversial anti-Islamic advertisements are scheduled to be
coming to Muni buses, with the new messages quoting anti-gay rhetoric
from Islamic leaders. The head of the initiative said local gay leaders’
criticism of previous ads led to the latest effort.

A number of city officials, religious figures and community activists
held a news conference last week to condemn a set of ads paid for by
the American Freedom Defense Initiative that expressed views widely seen
as anti-Islamic.

The messages, containing phrases attributed to notorious figures such
as Osama bin Laden, were the second set of Muni ads paid for by the
organization.

In both instances, Muni dedicated revenue from the campaigns to the
San Francisco Human Rights Commission. The $3,000 in revenue for the
next ads also likely will be donated.

With Muni unable to refuse the ads because of First Amendment
conflicts, initiative leader Pamela Geller has created another campaign
to run on six Muni buses starting in early April. The new ads quote
Islamic leaders making inflammatory comments, this time about
homosexuality.

One message quotes Yusuf al-Qaradawi of the Muslim Brotherhood
saying, “The punishment of homosexuality is the death penalty.” Each ad
ends with the same line as the previous campaign: “That’s His Jihad.
What’s Yours?”

Geller said she decided to embark on the campaign after hearing gay leaders in San Francisco denounce her previous ads.

“The ads will increase awareness about the subjugation and oppression
of gays under Shariah law,” said Geller. “The gay community should be
standing with me, not against me.”

Theresa Sparks, head of the Human Rights Commission, said the ad
campaigns are another example of Geller categorizing an entire religion
as intolerant.

“She is posting these ads to suggest that all Muslims hate gays,”
Sparks said. “Some cultures do discriminate, and that’s wrong. It all
depends who you’re talking to. But she’s trying to generalize and cast
this wide net around a diverse group of people.”

Sparks, who is transgender, said it’s actually easier to get insurance for sexual transition procedures in Iran than in America.

In a post Tuesday on Geller’s blog, Atlas Shrugs, she dedicated the latest campaign to Sparks.

Geller has run similar campaigns in other cities, and the New York
City Metropolitan Transportation Authority attempted to bar the ads from
its vehicles. However, a federal judge ruled in July that such a move
would be unconstitutional.

Last week, Muni announced that it would run an ad campaign to counter
the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s messages. Those ads, located
inside more than 100 buses, espouse messages of peace and acceptance.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have
both deemed the American Freedom Defense Initiative a hate group.

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Fitna

11 years ago

That reason it’s easier to be transgendered in Iran is precisely because they do not allow homosexuality in Iran, which they consider unnatural and an abomination. So the options for gays are execution or sex-change, even if they don’t want to a woman.
Leftist nimrods like Theresa Sparks often misconstrue the cultural norms of a different nation by picking out anecdotal examples that appear to contradict the message of the detractors.
Iran has a small ‘protected’ Jewish population of dhimmis, which they can point to, to ‘prove’ they are not anti-semitic, meanwhile they call for Israel’s destruction on almost a daily basis. The left only prove they are gullible morons for falling so easily for this obvious sham and ploy to deceive the ignorant and weak-minded.

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Fitna

11 years ago

*The reason

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James Linnstrom II

11 years ago

Pamela Gellar is just quoting some prominent muslim leaders on important issues. What is wrong with that?? The goal of these interesting ads are to inform people, to make people more aware of what is happening. What the president of Iran says about homosexuality MAY be of some interest to some gay people in SF.
And what is up with these SF leaders like Theresa Sparks? They don’t have anything better to do??

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TMI

11 years ago

Well, if he/she wants to hypnotize herself into a gay and tranny friendly Muslim society she can do so, but that doesn’t change facts or reality. She should ask herself why hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers to the west are – gay muslims. They should all go to Iran then.
It is true that there are gender surgeries made in Iran (although they require prior government approval) in spite what Ahmedinejad says about gays in the country. That is the work of ONE singular doctor. It is not approved all across the country. But that’s not because they accept gays. It’s because they want to remove their condition and put them into one or the other so they simply are less obvious in society.
Theresa is in denial and quite naive about Islamic society. Rather than accuse and vilify those who support her freedom to exist as a transsexual without it ending one day under Muslim demands, she should support the fight for continued freedom in our society.
Here’s a short video about Iran and the situation of gays, where over 4000 have been killed and many commit suicide by consuming arsenic. Maybe Theresa should sympathize with them rather than help to prolong their suffering and oppression by abetting their persecutors:
http://youtu.be/qObBjvjGK1M

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TMI

11 years ago

All Muslims do not hate gays, but the majority do.
A recent poll published in the Guardian (a leftist dhimmi Islamo-appeaser) stated that Muslims in Britain have zero tolerance of homosexuality. That’s strong for the Guardian. However, in a typical Guardian fashion the article was written only to highlight the positives. For example, it said 35% of French Muslims found it acceptable. Why did the article not instead state the truth, that 65% of French Muslims found it unacceptable? How are minority numbers highlighted as a majority? They want to distort the unpleasant truth.
This is what the study revealed:
65% of French Muslims found homosexual acts unacceptable.
French Muslims ranked highest again, with 48% believing it was acceptable, followed by 73% of German Muslims responding unfavourably.
British Muslims came last, with 93% of those questioned personally believing that sex between unmarried men and women was immoral.
And what does it mean when they find it unacceptable and immoral? It means death penalty. It means they endorse the sharia death penalty against gays. In other words, 93% of some 5 million Muslims in the UK endorse the Sharia death penalty for gays.
Theresa Sparks is like the Turkey voting for Christmas. She cannot see that her assumed victims are the butchers in disguise.

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Cheesy

11 years ago

Kissing muzzie ass in the hopes they’ll lose their heads last.
It’s a liberal thing.

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Madeleine

11 years ago

Hey Sparks, YOU should be helping Pam highlight who these evil and vicious religious muslims are, not fighting her on it. She’s helping you and those like you by exposing their sick and twisted belief. Why aren’t you? What are you doing to help your own kind, anything? Do you feel a need to walk in solidarity with your own element and provide a safe haven even for those who are tortured and killed because they are like you? I bet you don’t. I am betting that rather than seek justice for homosexuals and transgenders who are singled out, subjugated, attacked mercilessly by those whose religion tells them to do these things, you are a scared little puttycat who has no guts to get involved. If you can’t handle this subject matter which is real, don’t worry about, don’t fight against it, just allow the people who can deal with it.
Weaklings such as yourself are only hurting your cause, (as a gay or transgender to be free from hate), that people like Pamela choose to support with her entire being.
fight for

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RCCA

11 years ago

It seems awfully short sighted that Sparks has no concern for the gay community in Iran and her viewpoint is biased by the advantage she personally would have enjoyed in Iran.
Some finer points about the LGBT community — in the US the transexuals are lumped in with gays and lesbians but are mostly just tolerated by many gays; but in Iran the transexuals are completely separated from the gay community. According to wiki and a UNHRC report, trannies are not supposed to talk about their past identity after they have made their transition.

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Rocky Lore

11 years ago

And of course, no reaction from Hamas-CAIR.

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Poco424

8 years ago

Is it just me or do these homosexuals who sympathize with Sharia Muslims remind one of the NOW gang when they backed Bill Clinton and ignored the victims of his sexual assaults?
Must just be me.

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Mr. Tooyu

8 years ago

They remind me of the French in Vichy France, who thought Hitler was OK., until he started to kill them off too. Then they turned to the US for help for all the thanks they gave the US after the war.

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Lynn McCrann

8 years ago

Reply to  Mr. Tooyu

And too Hitlers use of the Brown shirts whose leader was a rampant homosexual. Once his use was over Hitler himself put a bullet into his body.
I see a clear analogy here with the libs use of homosexuals and what happened in Germany by the Nazi’s. And also remember the Arab alliance with the Germans in their goals in Africa. Two peas in a pod.

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Gregory Deese

8 years ago

There is an over-arching strategy at play here with the left. They want Islam to destroy Western civilization, yet I haven’t figured out what they stand to gain. Is the fear of being labeled racist so strong that they won’t even stand up for their basic human rights and freedoms? They are either clever and evil or extremely stupid.

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