Graphic photos obtained from Baghdad sources too frightened to identify themselves as having known a gay man, and seen by the Observer, show other gay Iraqis who have been executed. One shows two men, suspected of having a relationship, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs - guns at the ready behind their heads - awaiting execution. Another picture captured on a mobile phone shows a gay man being beaten to death. Yet another shows a corpse being dragged through the streets after his execution.From the Guardian:
One photograph is of the mutilated, burnt body of 38-year-old Karar Oda from Sadr City. He was kidnapped by the Badr Brigade in mid-June. They work with the Ministry of Interior and are the informal armed wing of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, who make up the largest Shia bloc in the Iraq parliament. Oda's family were given an arrest warrant signed by the Ministry of Interior which said their son deserved to be arrested and killed for immorality as a homosexual. His body was found ten days later.
I can't imagine how horrifying it must be to live in Iraq now. I wonder if it's even possible to get the hell out?
This is yet another example of why religion must be destroyed. Left to their own devices, Christians in America would do the same thing. The difference is, if they came for me, I wouldn't go very quietly at all..
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Yes, it's all the same. There are a bunch of people who think Christianity is just and Islam is evil.. that's the lastest salvo in the holy war.. They are all equally nuts and dangerous.
But really.. if people wanted to be religious and didn't feel the need to share it, that would be one thing.. but all the ills in the world today are connected in one way or another to religion. It's really evil.
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