Iraqi Insurgency Targets Sexual Minorities. U.S. Authority in Iraq Sits By In Silent Complicity.
New Page 1
Systematic Killing of GLBT Iraqis Slides Under Mainstream Media Radar
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest ranking Shia Cleric in Iraq, issued a fatwa (In the Shi'ite context this would be roughly equivalent to a papal decree) in October of 2005 stating that “people involved” in homosexuality “should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.” And a new guard of Shia theocrats, burgeoned by the fall of the Ba'athist secular government and conflagrated by U.S. abuses, is answering the call--in epic proportions.
In his March 23rd interview with Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!, Ali Hili, a gay, Muslim Iraqi exiled in Great Britain since 2004 stated, "We were much better off in the Saddam time, although he's a tyrant. He is the worst thing that ever happened to Iraq, maybe, until we saw these religious mullahs who were brought to the government to lead this country."
Check out the fully story at Gay City News.
Props on breaking this story to the incomparable Doug Ireland. Ireland will discuss the topic on Air America Radio's Mike Malloy Show This Evening (10:00PM-1:00AM Eastern time on most affiliates)
Systematic Killing of GLBT Iraqis Slides Under Mainstream Media Radar
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest ranking Shia Cleric in Iraq, issued a fatwa (In the Shi'ite context this would be roughly equivalent to a papal decree) in October of 2005 stating that “people involved” in homosexuality “should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.” And a new guard of Shia theocrats, burgeoned by the fall of the Ba'athist secular government and conflagrated by U.S. abuses, is answering the call--in epic proportions.
In his March 23rd interview with Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!, Ali Hili, a gay, Muslim Iraqi exiled in Great Britain since 2004 stated, "We were much better off in the Saddam time, although he's a tyrant. He is the worst thing that ever happened to Iraq, maybe, until we saw these religious mullahs who were brought to the government to lead this country."
Check out the fully story at Gay City News.
Props on breaking this story to the incomparable Doug Ireland. Ireland will discuss the topic on Air America Radio's Mike Malloy Show This Evening (10:00PM-1:00AM Eastern time on most affiliates)