Disgusting

This latest rumor, flogged by the National Review Online (no way I give them a link) and David Frum, that the comatose Yassir Arafat probably has AIDS because there are unconfirmed rumors that he's gay, are the worst kind of racism and bigotry. I'm no fan of Arafat, the man who's singularly responsible for terror as a tactic. But simply to tar him with a gay brush (a sign of dishonor in the patriarchal Muslim world) based on nothing (well, we can't pinpoint what's wrong with him, so it must be AIDS, right?) is sickening. It also assumes, 20 years after the spread of AIDS, that's it's still merely a gay disease.

The "intellectual" conservatives pushing this story can combine all of their hatreds into one; gay Islamic terrorists are trying to kill us! Arafat must also believe in abortions and amnesty for illegal immigrants, too.

This is shameful.