Posted on 08/09/2023 7:17:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance,” a government spokesperson said and a document from the regulator shows.
The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) document said that the use of the term “gender” was also banned. It prohibited all phone and internet companies licensed by it from using the terms in any of their mobile applications.
A government official later said that the decision still required final approval. […]
Iraq does not explicitly criminalize gay sex, but loosely-defined morality clauses in its penal code have been used to target members of the LGBT community. …
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Well.
Iraq is as restrictive on free-speech as the US is.
>> to target members of the LGBT community.
the community
Who uses the word “homosexuality” any more?
Can Donald Trump be indicted for this?
NOW we are finally getting to Woke!
That was originally the “liberal” term for sodomy, coined by journalist Karl-Maria Kertbeny.
Well, OK.... Although that seems kind of non-descriptive, since there are about a thousand other kinds of sexual deviance out there these days.
Kind of like the overly general “Youths” or “Teens” that our media uses to ‘describe’ without describing a particular kind of people.
I do, when I’m trying to be not overly nasty.
I do. When I am trying to be polite. Otherwise I call them perverts.
Good for the Iraqis.
Good for Iraq
Gee, I wonder where they/them got that idea?
Now, if only the rest of the planet could follow suit.
Very good.
A distinction without a difference. Faggotry is flat out contrary to God and nature. Always has been. Always will be. Even a child knows as much. Not playing their game. Not compromising. Will respect my neighbors who may be afficted with this weakness, but will in no way celebrate and endorse it.
“Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’”
In a related story, Iraqi officials have added a golden platform to a city square office building roof for the cerimonial chucking of blindfolded and bound “sexual deviants” to their deaths.
god pleased. good guys win. /s
The invasion of Iraq was clearly not successful by present DC standards
No, youths and teens is designed to keep their names out of the news, as if they’re underage, the press usually doesn’t mention their names.
Why would they do this? Because they usually have very ethnic names, and one could determine the race from just the name.
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