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Title: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: Shana A on July 14, 2009, 10:22:23 PM
Post by: Shana A on July 14, 2009, 10:22:23 PM
Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
By Tiare Rath | The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/story/71711.html (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/story/71711.html)
BAGHDAD — Iraqi gays are being targeted and killed in what some human-rights organizations call the most brutal attacks against homosexuals in recent years.
At least 68 gay and transgendered men have been killed over the last four months, according to the London-based rights advocacy group Iraqi LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender). At least 678 people have been killed because of their sexual orientation since 2004, according to the group.
By Tiare Rath | The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/story/71711.html (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/story/71711.html)
BAGHDAD — Iraqi gays are being targeted and killed in what some human-rights organizations call the most brutal attacks against homosexuals in recent years.
At least 68 gay and transgendered men have been killed over the last four months, according to the London-based rights advocacy group Iraqi LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender). At least 678 people have been killed because of their sexual orientation since 2004, according to the group.
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: tekla on July 14, 2009, 11:30:31 PM
Post by: tekla on July 14, 2009, 11:30:31 PM
Aren't they targeting everyone? Isn't that what chaos and anarchy is? Isn't that what we wanted?
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: Mister on July 15, 2009, 01:17:43 AM
Post by: Mister on July 15, 2009, 01:17:43 AM
No, we wanted another puppet 'Democracy.'
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: V M on July 15, 2009, 01:42:43 AM
Post by: V M on July 15, 2009, 01:42:43 AM
Wow!!! You both should be happy. We have a puppet democracy and terrorists running around :P
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: Mister on July 15, 2009, 01:43:38 AM
Post by: Mister on July 15, 2009, 01:43:38 AM
Quote from: Virginia Marie on July 15, 2009, 01:42:43 AM
Wow!!! You both should be happy. We have a puppet democracy and terrorist running around :P
Only one? That's disappointing.
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: V M on July 15, 2009, 01:47:25 AM
Post by: V M on July 15, 2009, 01:47:25 AM
:P The spelling :police: got me again :P
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: tekla on July 15, 2009, 07:41:19 AM
Post by: tekla on July 15, 2009, 07:41:19 AM
Before we engaged in regime change Iraq had no terrorists, though it was a police state. It was also the only secular government in the region, and I take it this kind of persecution has its roots in, ahem, religious values.
Title: Re: Commentary: Terrorists target Iraqi gays
Post by: Mister on July 15, 2009, 10:07:33 AM
Post by: Mister on July 15, 2009, 10:07:33 AM
Quote from: tekla on July 15, 2009, 07:41:19 AM
Before we engaged in regime change Iraq had no terrorists, though it was a police state. It was also the only secular government in the region, and I take it this kind of persecution has its roots in, ahem, religious values.
Wait, are you trying to say that our Evangelical former President might've been anti-Muslim? Say it isn't so!