Video: SNL’s Inevitable Gay Mahmoud Skit
“You can deny the Holocaust all you want, but you can’t deny there’s something between us…”
UPDATE at 9/30/07 12:59:09 pm:
History professor Richard Bulliet was the go-between for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Columbia University, and he says Mahmoud’s gay denial is actually “academically respectable” these days.
Prof. BULLIET: But that was a kind of a shocking thing. No one had ever heard him ask that question. Never heard him reply to that question. The irony is that one of the most controversial professors at Columbia, Professor Joseph Massad, has recently written a book called “Desiring Arabs” in which he says exactly the same thing, that homosexuals of the sort you have in America, that is to say where you have movies about homosexuality, you have queer theory, you have a gay rights movement and so forth.
DeDAPPER: There’s an open gay culture, yeah.
Prof. BULLIET: Yeah. An open gay culture. He says that isn’t what you have in the Arab world or in the Middle East. You have a long history of same sex relations that takes a variety of forms. Is not defined as gay or not gay. And Massad would say that the whole notion that gay culture is the same the world wide is an imposition of Western cultural imperialism. But people haven’t read Massad’s book yet, and so they aren’t quite aware that that sort of gay denial of that type actually is academically respectable. Certainly, Ahmadinejad has not read that book.
