Posted on 5/28/2009, 7:56:30 PM by NativeNewYorker
BAGHDAD, May 28 (UPI) -- About 30 people have been killed in Iraq in the past three months because they were homosexual or believed to be gay, a U.N. agency says.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Rights made its estimate after several men were killed in Baghdad and two others survived torture and mutilation, ABC News reports. Amnesty International wrote Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asking him to take "urgent and concerted action" to protect homosexuals from violence.
A government source said Asaieb al-Haq, a little-known Shiite militia that appeared after the Mahdi Army declared a cease-fire, issued a call to kill homosexuals. At least six men were killed in the next 10 days, two of them in Sadr City, the Shiite area in Baghdad dominated by the Mahdi Army.
But an Army officer, who did not want to be identified, suggested the deaths were the work of tribal vigilantes.
"Two young men were killed Thursday. They were sexual deviants," he said.
"Their tribes killed them to restore their family honor."
Must be those homophobic Prop 8 Christians at it again.
Huh? Killing Queers in an Islamic country?? You know the Sun also rises in the East.
Isn’t killing gays a HATE CRIME in the Middle East??? /sarcasm
And gays think they have it bad here in the US...
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Iraqis watching what is going on here in the US makes them even more committed to “stamp out” the problem before they are forced to accept it.
The unholy alliance of Democrats pushing gay & lesbian rights and Muslims in America is bizarre, until you realize it is the enemy of my enemy is my friend syndrome.
No S.F. Gay Day parades in Baghdad I assume?....
If only the Iranian government would allow them to wed everything would be honky-Dorey!
probably they were showing there anger about Prop. 8 decision and the police is enforcing the courts ruling. But I don’t know, that’s just me
You see what Bush did? That never happened under Saddam!
(sarc)
This is a good time for Obama to come out of the closet and embrace his homosexuality to help stop these brutal killings. The Iraqis will listen to their muslim (sic) brother Buttcrack, I mean Barack.
I would comment on this but my comment would probably end up being quoted on Bill O’Reilly’s show.
Happens wherever religious nuts are in charge...
“Amnesty International wrote Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki”
And, he wrote back.
Dear Amnesty International,
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Signed,
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Considering some of the stories about what has been done to homosexual boys and men in Iraq, it makes one appreciate the relative mercy of hacking a head off, despite the fact that it’s not an swift execution style chop with a fine Damsacene sword, but rather a long, brutal process while you cut through the victim’s larynx, major arteries and veins, and finally through to the crunchy spinal cord.
Hey Perez Hilton, Iraq is nice this time of year...
Damn...nobody told me about this. Get me outta here!
I don't think The One is a closet queer, more likely a mere metrosexual. However, Michelle does have a manly quality about her. So you never know.
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