Gays Subject to "Sexual Cleansing" in Iraq

[babylonsister]

But it's A-OK to rape them before they're murdered? Twisted.

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2377

Gays Subject to "Sexual Cleansing" in Iraq
Rights NGOs Say Homosexuals Targeted for Kidnapping, Torture


BAGHDAD, 16 April 2007 (IRIN) - BAGHDAD, 16 April 2007 (IRIN) - The Iraqi lesbian and gay community and NGOs dealing with gay issues have called for urgent action to protect gays and lesbians in the country.

The groups say that the number of victims of "sexual cleansing" is growing on a daily basis.

"In the past three months, more than 30 gays have been executed in Baghdad. The bodies have been found tortured, mutilated - sometimes with signs of rape," said Mustafa Salim, spokesman for the Rainbow for Life Organisation (RLO), a Baghdad-based gay rights NGO.

"Notes were found near some of the bodies with messages saying that this is going to be the fate for any Muslim who denies the Islamic religion," Salim added.

RLO was set up in 2005, and Salim claims that since then they have recorded more than 230 cases of abuses against gays and lesbians, including more than 64 deaths - with the last three months being the most bloody.

"The gay community continues to be subjected to systematic terror by Shia militias, especially the Mahdy Army controlled by the religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr. The government of Iraq is refusing to offer protection," he added.

In an interview, one member of the Mahdy Army, Ali Hassany, said that the militia will target Iraq's gays and lesbians. "They deserve death. Those people are an embarrassment to our society. Killing such people is a job for their families, but if they cannot do so by their own hands, we will do it," Hassany said.

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[LeftHander]

1. Operation Iraqi Freedom! - nt

[icymist]

2. 'Sexual Cleansing'! What a term!

Just as much a genocide as 'Ethnic Cleansing'.

[Forkboy]

3. This world just makes me sadder and sadder by the day.

I truly don't get any of it.