This is so disturbing I debated posting it. You've been forewarned.

[cali]

this is a kos diary. I suggest reading the entire diary- if you can- including the comments, because there's a lot more information there.

Iraq: Gay Men Killed by Anal Glue Torture
by dedmonds
Share this on Twitter - Iraq: Gay Men Killed by Anal Glue Torture Mon Apr 20, 2009 at 07:42:37 PM PDT
This horrifying report comes from Towleroad.com. I honestly don't even know what to say; if true, this is one of the sickest things I've ever heard.

The report, a translation of a story from the UAE news organization Alarabiya, claims that gay men in Iraq are being killed by... honestly, I can't even type it. Follow me below the jump if you want to read the description; frankly I don't blame you if you don't want to.

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"A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using 'Iranian gum.' ... Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, 'Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.' According to her, the new substance 'is known as the American hum, which is an Iranian-manufactured glue that if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery. After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the diarrhea causes death. Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile cellphones in Iraq.' According to this human rights activist, for the past 3 weeks a crackdown on homosexuals has been going on based on a religious decree that demands their death; dozens have been targeted. She says that the persecution of homosexuals is not confined to the Shiite clerics. Some Sunni leaders have also declared the death penalty for sodomy on satellite channels."


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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/20/722514/-Iraq:-Gay-Men-Killed-by-Anal-Glue-Torture

[FLAprogressive]

1. Absolutely sickening, horrifying, and disgusting

:scared:

[cali]

3. yeah, it's really, really horrifying and difficult to read.

I've never debated posting something like I debated posting this. And if people are pissed that I did, I can understand that.

[canetoad]

2. It is no surprise

that humankind can invent a new barbarity. There is no such thing as 'ideals' when one reads of such treatment. The perpetrators are thugs who have been invested with power.

This unfortunately, is the result of every war, every occupation, every revolution. The pyshical damage is inflicted by the thugs.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Absolutley vile...those religious fucks are sick bastards..nt

[Philosoraptor]

5. Finally, we've brought democracy to Iraq!

[cali]

6. Do you even care about this alleged horrendous practice

and its victims, or is everything simply an opportunity for you to try and make a political point?

[Fumesucker]

11. The point is that the US is directly responsible for turning Iraq into a hellhole..

Without the invasion this would never have happened, we should never be allowed to forget that for a second.

Yes, it's a horrible thing but we bear ultimate responsibility above and beyond that of the people who actually perform this barbaric deed..

[Fumesucker]

7. Gee, who unleashed the fundies in Iraq?

Iraq was the most secular nation in the Middle East in 2002, what happened to turn it into fundie playground hellhole?

Funny how a 5-4 vote has unforeseen consequences.

The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley, eh?

[Joanne98]

8. The unspoken truth is both Iraq and Afghanistan will end up with Sharia law.

They've already cut a deal with Washington. We'll ignore the gross human rights abuses if you keep in place the "free-market capitalism" polices. The two-headed monster, Washington/WallStreet, doesn't give a fuck about anything but MONEY! They've made a practical choice. They don't think they can hold the territories unless they cave to the Clerics so they're caving.

Good luck trying to prove this. If we try we may turn up a memo 5 years from now...

"Let them torture the people, the money is more important"

END GAME!

If this report is true we should push to get the Iraqi government to pay us back for the invasion and occupation. What a waste of time, blood and treasure. They are worse than Saddam! REALLY!

[FLAprogressive]

9. "The two-headed monster, Washington/WallStreet, doesn't give a fuck about anything but MONEY! "

Ain't that the truth.

Notice that Obama hasn't said ANYTHING about the persecution of GLBT people in Iraq?

I guess it's just not that important to him.

[Joanne98]

12. And he won't. That's why we need to demand Iraq pays us back.

What a total waste of taxpayers dollars!

[conspirator]

10. When you think humans cannot get any lower, a new record is broken. We deserve extincton nt

[Joanne98]

13. It's not all of us. Just the fundies. If I had my why I'd round them up, put them in cages

and drop them into live volcanos. They're ruining the whole Earth.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. And this is just one of the many atrocities from that part of the world

The way women are treated is barbarious. The way Christians are treated is equally awful. Gays are simply killed.

I just keep asking myself what the hell we are even doing over there. What are we doing spending out taxpayer money to support and rebuild this government.

Its completely crazy.

[Dorian Gray]

15. Oh my god!

That is so evil and horrible.

I can't believe that this is true! It's reprehensible!

[JI7]

16. in this bbc article it said the Shia areas is where it's getting really bad

<The phenomenon seems mainly to be affecting Shia neighbourhoods, where a number of clerics have given sermons seen as homophobic incitement.>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8005420.stm

[Joanne98]

17. They're forcing Sharia law on Pakistan too. Fundies with nukes anyone?

Once a popular destination for honeymooners and holidaymakers, the "Switzerland of Pakistan" is now an area riven by conflict.

Since 2007, militants have gradually consolidated their hold over Swat, in the northern parts of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), just 100 miles from the capital Islamabad.

The government agreed to Sharia law in February this year, in return for an end to the Taleban insurgency. Hundreds of schools have been destroyed and women now have to wear the burka.

Flogging has also been used as a form of punishment for men and women.

The armed insurgency means that thousands of people have fled the area and are now living in refugee camps or with relatives and friends elsewhere in Pakistan.

And many British Asians of Pakistani origin, who have family connections to Swat, have been affected too.

UK-Pakistan
747,285 people in UK of Pakistani origin
1.3% of UK population of Pakistani origin
People of Pakistani origin UK's second largest minority group
In August last year, 27-year-old Sikander Rashid from Southampton was driving back to his family's ancestral village in the Swat valley when the Taleban ambushed him and his friends from a nearby cornfield.

He was shot seven times in both legs. One of his Pakistani friends was killed.

His father, Ahmed Sher, flew from Britain to be at his son's bedside in a hospital in the north-west frontier city of Peshawar.

While Mr Sher was there, he received a phone call that the Taleban were laying down mines in his family's and extended family's home.

They were looted of everything before being blown up. In all, the families lost six properties.

“ I'm supporting my family here plus the ones who lost everything in Swat ”
Shahid

Mr Sher believes that he was targeted because the family is influential - some members are involved in politics. Their grandfather and great-grandfather have all now been put on a Taleban hit-list warning them not to return to Pakistan or they will be killed.

The threat includes the extended family.

"We were like the elders of the village and because they wanted us to obey their laws, all their laws - we are Muslim we are bound to Sharia laws - but their Sharia laws are extreme laws," Mr Sher says.

"We were targeted because of the influence we had in the village and in the area."

Some say that there are those in the community in Britain who are informers, and tell the Taleban in Pakistan what is happening.

Correspondents in the region say that the Taleban are using intimidation as a technique and exploiting class divisions in society there.

The Taleban has published a hit-list of 43 prominent names in Swat, which includes politicians and landlords.

Sikander Rashid is now recovering at home. He says he has made a ''50%'' recovery, but is haunted by ''bad dreams'' and is ''scared all the time''.

Shahid - not his real name - still has family in Swat and is concerned about their security. He lost two houses, and other members of his extended family are now living in different cities in Pakistan.

He is now the main breadwinner for his family in Britain and in Pakistan.

"I'm supporting my family here plus the ones who lost everything in Swat. So I've got two things to do at the same time, so it's really depressing at the moment and financially I'm stuck," he says.

With the Taleban restricting women's movements in Swat he's worried about his female relatives living there. "They can't go out anymore and they have to wear a burka, their daughters can't go to school anymore."

The Taleban have shot a video of his destroyed home, which is now circulating in the markets in Swat as a warning to people.

Naheeda Rashid, 31, says because they can longer go back to Swat, her children are missing out on learning their mother tongue.

She says the TV is always switched to the news on a Pakistani channel as its it way of keeping in touch and finding out all the latest developments.

She says: "I think we're all in a state of depression...it's heartbreaking."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8008000/8008297.stm

[zbdent]

18. great ... now you've given Reichies new ideas ...