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| Iraq |
| Iraqi militants sentence gays and booksellers to death |
| 2006-05-18 |
| BAGHDAD -- Hardline Shia militias in Baghdad have issued a blanket death sentence for homosexuals, lesbians, prostitutes, liberal professors and booksellers. Ali Hili, who ran a gay nightclub in Baghdad but fled to Britain this year after receiving death threats, told The Times of London that he knows of more than 40 men killed in recent months. Hili claims that Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, the most revered spiritual figure in Iraq, provoked the slayings by saying on his Website in April last year that homosexuals should be killed in the "worst, most severe way". "We could never envisage this happening when Saddam [Hussein] was overthrown," the 33-year-old Hili said. "I had no love for the former president, but his regime never persecuted the gay community." Elsewhere in the city, a 34-year-old theater actor, who would only give his name as Bashar, said that he has gone into hiding after a death threat. Two close members of his family have been killed by militants, who say that they will carry on killing his relatives until he turns himself in. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #9 Was this queen also sentenced? |
| Posted by: Thrown Off Course 2006-05-18 21:55 |
| #8 first they came for the liberal professors, and I was Ok with that.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-18 20:20 |
| #7 All the liberal gays and booksellers need to read this article and decide which side of the fence that they are on. Of course they won't, hanging around on the banks of DeNial. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-05-18 19:24 |
| #6 Nope. First they kill the Jack Russell. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-18 19:12 |
| #5 What about gay liberal book-selling professors? Quadruple death? |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-18 18:45 |
| #4 the name of the club was the Marble-bag[hdad] is this thing on? |
| Posted by: ordu 2006-05-18 09:32 |
| #3 liberal professors? Tempting, tempting. |
| Posted by: tipper 2006-05-18 09:26 |
| #2 If they keep boinking the farm animals, they'll by chimps by next February. I expect the avaian flu will wipe them out. It will be God's gift to civilization. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-18 08:37 |
| #1 It says it all about the Islamonazi mentality, that when, freed from oppression, the rapidity with which they regress toward the primordial soup is astonishing - evolution in reverse... give them a few million years and they'll be chimps again.. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-05-18 07:54 |
