Sexual cleansing in Iraq
Islamist deaths squads are hunting down gay Iraqis and summarily executing them
Peter Tatchell
Thursday September 25 2008 07:00 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/25/iraq.humanrightsSome 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".
