Gays flee as religious militias sentence them all to death
Daniel McGrory, TimesOnline
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. What scares the city’s residents is how the fanatics’ list of enemies is growing. It includes girls who refuse to cover their hair, boys who wear theirs too long, booksellers, liberal professors and prostitutes. Three shops known to sell alcohol were bombed yesterday in the Karrada shopping district (...) Mr Hili claims that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most revered spiritual figure in Iraq, provoked the murders by saying on his website in April last year that homosexuals should be killed in the "worst, most severe way" (...) He said: "We could never envisage this happening when Saddam was overthrown. I had no love for the former President, but his regime never persecuted the gay community"...
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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. What scares the city’s residents is how the fanatics’ list of enemies is growing. It includes girls who refuse to cover their hair, boys who wear theirs too long, booksellers, liberal professors and prostitutes. Three shops known to sell alcohol were bombed yesterday in the Karrada shopping district (...) Mr Hili claims that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most revered spiritual figure in Iraq, provoked the murders by saying on his website in April last year that homosexuals should be killed in the "worst, most severe way" (...) He said: "We could never envisage this happening when Saddam was overthrown. I had no love for the former President, but his regime never persecuted the gay community"...
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posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 12:05 AM
2 Comments:
Cursing W is NOT enough.
At the risk of sounding like a neocon, I'll make this clear: Islam itself is as evil as religion gets.
From the harsh Shari'a laws, to the honor killings, to being in heaven with 72 maidens (what a sick fantasy, btw) for martyrs, I've never come across a sicker belief system than this. Seriously, name ONE Islamic country that even tolerates (not accepts, but merely tolerates) gays or feminism. There is NONE. Not even "secular" Turkey, which btw should NEVER be allowed to join the European Union.
And remember that it's the Muslims who are testing the tolerance of Europe's live-and-let-live societies, by introducing their sick and deadly brand of intolerance, from homophobia to honor killings.
And this is where I break with the neocons: feeding the bastards like the Saudis, through our oil hunger, is what made Islam such a powerful force - and a sickening, deadly one at that. And as we all know, W is a Saudi puppet.
The sad thing is, fundamentalist American Christianity is not all that far behind Islam in its sickness and death.
You are right on there Rachel Fundamentalist Christians are not far behind actually, I think that they are there in many ways.
When I see the crazies you have over their preaching to the choir, I think these Asshole Bigets, could only be believed in America
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