The lady doth protest too much, methinks…
According to the Jerusalem Post, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian wrote social-media: “Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.”
The paper adds that “Tabrizian has a history of derogatory opinions about Western medicine. Last year, a video showed him burning Harrison’s Manual of Medicine and saying that “Islamic medicine” had made such books “irrelevant”.
Who is Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian?
"Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian is an Iranian Shia cleric who lives in the religious city of Qom. He is known for his radicalism against western medicine and has made several claims on the same.
In January 2020, he even shared a video of him burning an American scientific textbook, claiming that Islamic medicine made such books ‘irrelevant’.
According to Peter Tatchell, an LGBTQ+ and human-rights campaigner, “Ayatollah Tabrizian combines scientific ignorance with a crude appeal to homophobia.”