Anti-Gay Gangs Terrorize Iraq

[Jamastiene]

Militias are targeting gay men in a killing campaign, ignored by police and prosecutors, that belies promises of security

by Scott Long, Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Division
August 19, 2009

Who rules Iraq? If you ask Baghdad officials or the Obama administration's proconsuls, they will tell you: a democratically elected Iraqi government, a triumphant product of the "purple revolution" that reflects the will of Iraq's people.

If you ask Mashal, a shopkeeper from Baghdad's al-Sha'ab neighbourhood, he has a different answer.

"Four men came into the shop," he told us about one awful evening in April. "They pulled out guns. They were the Mahdi army.

"The place they took me to was very close to a mosque or actually in the courtyard - I could hear the call to prayer very clearly. When they hauled me out of the car, they beat me unconscious.

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http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/08/19/anti-gay-gangs-terrorise-iraq

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[TexasObserver]

1. Recommend

[ccharles000]

2. k/r

[NMMNG]

3. What atrocities people commit in the name of their

"deeply held religious beliefs". :puke:

[sui generis]

4. Nobody's riding in to rescue us - we better learn how to fight.

It's a tough cruel world, with no place in it for starry eyed idealists, in most third world countries. Why won't those four Mahdi army motherfuckers walk into a business in the U.S. and try that?

Because they're chickenshit and only willing to work as a gang, and only willing to take on the hopelessly outnumbered and weak.

They're a bunch of lilly livered sissy ass motherfuckers who wouldn't be anybody if they didn't have a cause and a gun - and a waste of perfectly useless piss poor protoplasm.