If you execute someone, do they cease to exist?

Today, while speaking at Columbia University, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was asked about recent executions of homosexuals in his country. His answer:

“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have this.”

-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

There's so much I could say about this, but Canada's CBC News has a video from earlier this year that says it better.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE CBC REPORT

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

-Isaac Bashevis Singer