In 1939, that ship carried 936 Jews, primarily German, across the Atlantic Ocean, seeking refuge from the imminent Holocaust. Having been turned away by Cuba, Canada and the United States, the ship headed back to Europe.

28 of the ship's passengers stayed in Havana, Cuba, and 288 disembarked in England. The remainder of the passengers would end up in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, where they would be safe until Hitler invaded.

Kazemi arrived in the United Kingdom on a student visa in September of 2005. His boyfriend back home in Iran was then tortured by authorities into admitting his homosexuality, and divulging Kazemi's identity, before being executed in 2006. Fearing a similar fate, Kazemi sought asylum in the UK. When that bid was rejected, he ultimately ended up in the Netherlands, who likewise denied asylum, and ordered Kazemi be returned to the UK, which could then deport him to Iran, having doubted his story.

As of March 14, 2008, as Kazemi remains in a Dutch detention center, the British government has agreed to review the case again, on a 46-2 vote by the EU Parliament.

"I can't for the life of me figure out why this young man is having his humanity stripped three times," says Irshad Manji, senior fellow of the European Foundation for Democracy, and author of The Trouble with Islam Today. "First, by being persecuted in Iran simply for being gay. Second, by being turned away at the border...in the Netherlands."

"And why," Manji asks, "is he turned away at border of the Netherlands? Simply because they can't figure out why the UK turned him away."

"Do we really need to be treating asylum seekers in open societies of the West," she continues, "in the same way that they are treated in theocratic regimes In Iran -- namely as dehumanized, faceless entities?"

Host Beck suggests that anti-Muslim sentiment may be behind the ruling, however Ms. Manji contends that it's more a "paperwork issue." Manji then cites an e-mail campaign, directed towards the first openly gay British lord Waheed Alli, to encourage him to lead the charge to secure Mehdi Kazemi's place as a legal refugee, especially given that places like the UK and the Netherlands hold themselves up as "havens of multiculturalism."

The entire exchange, as broadcast on CNN Headline News on March 13, 2008, is available to view below.