Iran Exports Anti-Gay Pogrom to Iraq

Shiite death squads in Iraq are carrying out a campaign that targets gay men for murder. This so-called “sexual cleansing” is happening under the nose of the U.S. military—but American authorities in the Green Zone have refused to do anything about it.

The highly organized campaign of beatings, kidnappings and murders of Iraqi gays follows a death-to-gays fatwa issued last October by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the 77-year-old Iranian who is supreme spiritual leader of all Shia Muslims in Iraq. The fatwa, available on Sistani’s official Web site, puts it this way, “The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.”

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he'll think it's a model for US gay policy.

even hating gays, through don't ask don't tell.

Even though I think it's disgusting our soldiers are said to be letting this happen, I'm equally disgusted with the barbaric ways human beings are treated in the MIddle East.

I'm talking about everything from hanging gay children in Iran to the way women are treated in general.


Two gay Iranian teenagers -- one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed for the "crime" of homosexuality, on July 19. The two youths -- identified only by their initials as M.A. and A.M., were hanged on July 19 in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran, on the orders of Court No. 19.