A terrible story out of Iraq:

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from UN Dispatch: http://www.undispatch.com/node/8032

Boys Murdered in Iraq to "Get the Beggars and Homosexuals Off the Street"

posted by Peter Daou - April 8, 2009

A terrible story out of Iraq: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/middleeast/08gay.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

In the past two months, the bodies of as many as 25 boys and men suspected of being gay have turned up in the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City, the police and friends of the dead say. Most have been shot, some multiple times. Several have been found with the word “pervert” in Arabic on notes attached to their bodies, the police said.

“Three of my closest friends have been killed during the past two weeks alone,” said Basim, 23, a hairdresser. “They had been planning to go to a cafe away from Sadr City because we don’t feel safe here, but they killed them on the way. I had planned to go with them, but fortunately I didn’t.”

“Homosexuality is against the law,” said Lt. Muthana Shaad, at a police station in the Karada district, a neighborhood that has become popular with gay men. “And it’s disgusting.”

For the past four months, he said, officers have been engaged in a “campaign to clean up the streets and get the beggars and homosexuals off them.”

This kind of hate isn't confined to Iraq.

read story in NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/middleeast/08gay.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

[bdamomma]

1. how sick, homosexuality is against the law??

homosexuality is not a choice..........oh nevermind.

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2. they're as bad as Afghanistan, maybe?

. . . or the Taliban?

[theoldman]

3. I wonder how many Americans agree with what is being done in Iraq.

I have always felt that we would have a lot more killing of gay people if people thought they could get away with it.

[lonestarnot]

4. creepy murdering fuckers!