Lunchtime O'Booze
October 2nd, 2008, 17:11
gay activist Peter Tachell ( a thoroughly nice bloke) tells a distrubing tale of death squads hunting down gays & lesbians in Iraq and executing them-and it would seem with the participation of Iraqi police. Welcome to freedom !!!!
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Sexual cleansing in Iraq
Islamist deaths squads are hunting down gay Iraqis and summarily executing them
Peter Tatchell guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 25 2008 07:00
some of the links in this article will take you to sites containing images of violence which you may find disturbing
The "improved" security situation in Iraq is not benefiting all Iraqis, especially not those who are gay. Islamist death squads are engaged in a homophobic killing spree with the active encouragement of leading Muslim clerics, such as Moqtada al-Sadr, as Newsweek recently revealed.
One of these clerics, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a fatwa urging the killing of lesbians and gays in the "most severe way possible".
The short film, Queer Fear тАУ Gay Life, Gay Death in Iraq, produced by David Grey for Village Film, documents the tragic fates of a several individual gay Iraqis. You can view it here. Watch and weep. It is a truly poignant and moving documentary about the terrorisation and murder of Iraqi lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Since this film was made, the killings have continued and, many say, got worse. For gay Iraqis there is little evidence of the transition to democracy. They don't experience any newfound respect for human rights. Life for them is even worse than under the tyrant Saddam Hussein.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... umanrights (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/25/iraq.humanrights)
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Sexual cleansing in Iraq
Islamist deaths squads are hunting down gay Iraqis and summarily executing them
Peter Tatchell guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 25 2008 07:00
some of the links in this article will take you to sites containing images of violence which you may find disturbing
The "improved" security situation in Iraq is not benefiting all Iraqis, especially not those who are gay. Islamist death squads are engaged in a homophobic killing spree with the active encouragement of leading Muslim clerics, such as Moqtada al-Sadr, as Newsweek recently revealed.
One of these clerics, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a fatwa urging the killing of lesbians and gays in the "most severe way possible".
The short film, Queer Fear тАУ Gay Life, Gay Death in Iraq, produced by David Grey for Village Film, documents the tragic fates of a several individual gay Iraqis. You can view it here. Watch and weep. It is a truly poignant and moving documentary about the terrorisation and murder of Iraqi lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Since this film was made, the killings have continued and, many say, got worse. For gay Iraqis there is little evidence of the transition to democracy. They don't experience any newfound respect for human rights. Life for them is even worse than under the tyrant Saddam Hussein.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... umanrights (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/25/iraq.humanrights)