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06 Aug 2006 02:20 pm
Anti-Gay Pogroms in Iraq
The brutal Islamist war on gay people is proceeding apace in Iraq:
Graphic photos obtained from Baghdad sources too frightened to identify themselves as having known a gay man, and seen by the Observer, show other gay Iraqis who have been executed. One shows two men, suspected of having a relationship, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs - guns at the ready behind their heads - awaiting execution. Another picture captured on a mobile phone shows a gay man being beaten to death. Yet another shows a corpse being dragged through the streets after his execution.
One photograph is of the mutilated, burnt body of 38-year-old Karar Oda from Sadr City. He was kidnapped by the Badr Brigade in mid-June. They work with the Ministry of Interior and are the informal armed wing of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, who make up the largest Shia bloc in the Iraq parliament. Oda's family were given an arrest warrant signed by the Ministry of Interior which said their son deserved to be arrested and killed for immorality as a homosexual. His body was found ten days later.
We liberated a country for this?
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A bad sign -- if true
Excerpt: I don't know how true this story is or whether it has been independently confirmed, but if it is true, Iraq is rapidly becoming like Iran in its treatment of gays. Homosexuality is seen as so immoral that it qualifies...
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'We liberated a country for this?'
Excerpt: A few weeks ago, More4 News aired a report on the targeted killings of homosexuals in Iraq. Somewhat surprisingly, it generated hundreds of weblog stories in the US, as well as several hits in different languages, including Spanish and German.
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