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Fearless

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11. Iraq has been discriminating against and killing LGBT people since well before American influence.

Reply to TheMadMonk (Reply #10)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 01:11 AM

Mar 2012

Equal rights must be fought for from within?

Tell that to the Jews.
Tell that to Darfur.
Tell that to Rawanda.

Things like this should certainly not be intervened on... http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/04/21/37716/iraq-militias-glue/

Give me a break. We are ever more an international society and that kind of blind-eye will not be turned.

People who kill LGBT people ARE evil. People who kill people for personal gain (true or perceived) are evil.

This has nothing to do with what we have done in Iraq. Us being there has not caused these actions. It existed before it and will exist after. In Iraq and many other countries.

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"Emo" and gay kids targeted, killed in Iraq (warning graphic content). [View all] William769 Mar 2012 OP

This is what happens in a theocracy. It's Rick Santorums wet dream. Lint Head Mar 2012 #1

NO! This is what happens when outsiders attempt to impose their own values. TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #3

"Quranic greeting that extolls God as merciful and compassionate." Rampant theocracy. Lint Head Mar 2012 #4

NO! Theocray is just a convenient fucking excuse. TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #5

+ 1. n/t truedelphi Mar 2012 #7

Excuse me a second... Fearless Mar 2012 #8

Keep YOUR filthy words out of MY mouth. Force feeding isn't fighting. TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #10

Iraq has been discriminating against and killing LGBT people since well before American influence. Fearless Mar 2012 #11

Yes from within. TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #13

What is evil is a person who thinks they are educated William769 Mar 2012 #14

I AM NOT FUCKING DEFENDING ANYONE! I am telling you that the World... TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #15

The world would never have changed its mind if it weren't for brave people Fearless Mar 2012 #16

They all stood up and changed THEIR OWN PART OF THE WORLD. TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #17

Tell the Jews that they should have just stood up for themselves. Fearless Mar 2012 #18

And thankyou for making my point for me. TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #19

That is a gross oversimplification of why the Jews were targeted in WWII. Fearless Mar 2012 #20

I said nothing about WHY it was done. And while a simplification of HOW... TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #21

Led by what foreign power? Fearless Mar 2012 #22

religion strikes again nt msongs Mar 2012 #2

The way they are being stoned to death is horrific Broderick Mar 2012 #6

Now I live openly and freely in Mississippi, a cesspool of bigotry and hatred, but Iraq is different Rowdyboy Mar 2012 #9

I think that the only answer is that there is strength in numbers. n.t Fearless Mar 2012 #12