Gays flee as religious militias sentence them all to death

[ECH1969]

THE death threat was delivered to Karazan’s father early in the morning by a masked man wearing a police uniform.

The scribbled note was brief. Karazan had to die because he was gay. In the new Baghdad, his sexuality warranted execution by the religious militias. The father was told that if he did not hand his son over, other family members would be killed.

Haydar Faiek, 40, a transsexual, was beaten and burnt to death last September in Karrada’s main street.

The Interior Ministry says that it is investigating a claim by gay activists that a 14-year-old male prostitute was killed in al-Dura last month by men in police uniforms. The gunmen told the boy’s father that he was executed for “corrupting the community”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2183948,00.html

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Democracy is on the march. Freedom is spreading across the Middle East.

Why do you hate America?


:sarcasm:

[AndyA]

2. Bush must be so proud of the progress in Iraq...

:eyes:

It couldn't be going any better if he'd planned it himself!

[YankeyMCC]

4. I'm sure he is

I'm sure this pleases many of his backers in the religious right.

[uppityperson]

5. that made me laugh

"if he'd planned it himself", ironically laughed that is.

[ShortnFiery]

8. Even more proof that we should get the hell out of Iraq ...

It will be a bloody Civil War but that's the only way things can even begin to be sorted out. As long as we stay there, nothing improves. :cry: :thumbsdown:

[Julius Civitatus]

19. Freedom's on the march....

... on the march to lynching some homosexuals, that is.

:eyes:

[saigon68]

22. Imagine the happy faces at a gay lynching.

Judge this one from amerika's violent past. Note the smiles on the faces of the rustics

As they admire their victims twisting in the wind.

The "darkies" were disciplined.





Lynching 1930

A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jail house doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl; the girl’s uncle saved the life of a third by proclaiming the man’s innocence. Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of “Judge Lynch.”) Some lynching photos were made into postcards designed to boost white supremacy,

link: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm18.html

[ruggerson]

3. See, the plan is if they're dead, they can't marry n/t

[AnnieBW]

6. They'll Do It Here Next

First Baghdad, then San Francisco. :(

[katinmn]

7. That could be us if the right-wing is given any more power

We have to stamp out the coming theocracy.

Those crazies whose only mission is to pass the gay marraige amendment have made too many inroads.

Here's one:
http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12984.asp

[Occulus]

13. My question is what they intend after that, if they're successful.

We aren't going anywhere. Ever.

They want us to go away. Permenantly.

Something is going to give, because it has to. It's only a matter of time.

[Kurovski]

9. Hypocrites.

[Canuckistanian]

10. That headline scared me

I thought this was about Georgia.

[KAZ]

11. I'm sure you understand...

..that there is a good 15% of our population who feel the same fate should befall the gays living in the freedom-giving US of A.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Oh, yes

The death sentence for gays, just like it says in the Holy Book.

Funny, though, they say nothing about death to farmers who grow two crops in the same field.

[KAZ]

15. "Two crops"? :) I love Canadians. n/t

n/t

[Canuckistanian]

16. Me too.

But seriously, look it up in the Book of Romans. It is literally forbidden to grow two crops.

[KAZ]

18. I know. That's why I loved your reply!!! n/t

n/t

[LostinVA]

25. There is no death sentence for gays in the body

There is one against men who have sex with male temple prostitutes, but that's it. And, the same punishment stands for lots of stuff even the most pious Christians do every day. And, nothing at all about homosexuality -- anything that is quoted as such are bastard translations. And, not a thing about women. So, lesbians are the most blessed amongst God's people....

[Kailassa]

21. It's not so long ago that gays were killed pretty well every week

in Melbourne, Australia. And the police would never investigate, because they hated gays every bit as much as the killers did. The guys had just attacked themselves and thrown themselves off St Kilda Pier. It was too common to make the news, and people just shrugged it off.

So it could easily happen again, anywhere.

[atreides1]

14. Falwell would be right at home here

And all of the other Christian Taliban as well.

[saigon68]

23. Falwell would masturbate at the thoughts of amerika being cleaned up

[IndianaGreen]

17. Women and LGBTs did better under Saddam

than they do now. Thank you Amerika!

[951-Riverside]

20. We built a school.... somewhere!

...damn you libberalls always forcussing on hte bad

[me b zola]

24. I'm on outrage overload

gwb->>> spreading fear & repression, death & destruction to a town near you.