Iraq cleric: Eradicate homosexuality

[ccharles000]

(Baghdad) A radical Shiite cleric has called for the “depravity” of homosexuality to be eradicated but his spokesperson later said that that the remark should not be taken as a fatwa to kill gays.

Moqtada Sadr made the call on Thursday during a seminar of clerics, police and tribal leaders.

There has been growing anti-gay violence in Iraq. Last month another Shiite cleric, Sattar al-Battat, repeatedly condemned homosexuality during Friday prayers, saying Islam prohibits homosexuality. Homosexual acts are punishable by up to seven years in prison in Iraq.

The following week, the bodies of two gay men were found in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City. Several days later, a third man was found dead on the outskirts of Sadr City. By the end of the month, another three bodies were found and police said four other men were found tortured but alive.

Amnesty International said that in addition to the violence in Sadr City, 25 suspected gays had been killed in recent months in Baghdad.

A group calling itself “Brigades of the Righteous” has posted signs around Sadr City listing the names of alleged homosexuals and threatening to kill them.

http://www.365gay.com/news/iraq-cleric-eradicate-homosexuality/

[NMMNG]

1. Murder is so righteous

A group calling itself “Brigades of the Righteous” has posted signs around Sadr City listing the names of alleged homosexuals and threatening to kill them.

Though of course when they're doing it in the name of their "deeply held religious beliefs" anything they do is righteous. :eyes:

[FiveGoodMen]

2. self delete

(Why bother)

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. islam and the sharia at their finest

I seem to remember the the USSR did about the same to their gays

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. My my my.... what would Saddam say??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iraq


Homosexuality was legal in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and remains so. In late 2001 when seeking the support of religious conservatives the sentence for non consensual acts of sodomy and indecent assault was decreed by Revolutionary Command Council Resolution 234 of 1991 to be the death penalty. This law has been inaccurately reported as 'criminalising homosexuality' - it did not. Despite the change in law there where no known cases in which the death penalty was applied for the offence by Iraqi Courts. Hussein had previously refused to criminalise homosexuality, as it went against the secular and socialist beliefs of the Ba'ath Party.

The Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003 ordered that the 1969 Penal Code revert to the 1984 3rd edition.

Homosexuality is not de jure illegal but remains taboo. As of 2009, some Iraqi militias have been known to seek out and kill homosexuals and transgender Iraqis.

[votingupstart]

5. go to love that state/religion combo

sarcasm - by the way

i guess the iraqi shiites are following the Iranian (Shiite) clerics lead >thinking back to ajmeddenijads (spelling?) comments on Homosexuals in iran<

[Ron Green]

6. The Right Wing is the Right Wing, everywhere you go.

[cboy4]

7. That's surprising. I've always considered the Muslim world

as extremely tolerant of women and teh gays

[pscot]

8. Better yet

Eradicate Iraqi clerics.

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Theocracy is so dark age....

People with bronze age dogma and invisible friends are the scourge of the earth!! religion breeds hate and that is what needs 'eradicated' from the earth.

FUCK YOU, you piece of shit fascist!!!