Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian, an Iranian cleric, says COVID-19
vaccine turns people into homosexuals.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the cleric took to his
Telegram account — where he has about 210,000 followers — to make the claim.
He, however, did not provide any proof to substantiate his
claim.
“Don’t go near those who have had the COVID-19 vaccine. They
have become homosexuals,” he was said to have written.
The cleric is said to have a history of making derogatory
remarks about western medicine.
He had reportedly burnt a copy of Harrison’s Manual of
Medicine, which provides insight into over 600 topics on internal medicine, for
being “anti-Islamic” and “irrelevant” last year.
His latest remark has been greeted by criticisms, with many
accusing him of attempting to “scare people away from being vaccinated.”
Sheina Vojoudi, an Iranian dissident, who fled her country
for fear of being victimised, said Tabrizian’s comment was symptomatic of the
ignorance holding sway among many clerics in Iran.
“Like other clerics in the regime, also Tabrizian relates
all the shortages [shortcomings] to sexuality. The clerics in Iran are
suffering from lack of knowledge and humanity,” she was quoted as saying.
“Actually, his goal of spreading nonsense is to try to scare
people [out] of getting vaccinated, while the leader of the regime and other
officials got Pfizer, and they don’t provide it for the people with the excuse
that they don’t trust the West.”
Also speaking, Peter Tatchell, LGBTQ+ and human-rights
campaigner, accused the cleric of combining “scientific ignorance with a crude
appeal to homophobia.”
“He’s demonizing both
the vaccination program and LGBT+ people without a shred of evidence. By
seeking to scare the public into not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, he is
fueling the pandemic and putting lives at risk,” he was also quoted as saying.
“Typical of many Iranian religious and political leaders,
his bizarre, irrational claims scapegoat LGBTs and put theological prejudice
before scientific knowledge.”
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