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Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’
Reuters ^ | August 9, 20238:23 AM UTC | Timour Azharii and Omar Abdel-Razek

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. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; iraq; sexualdeviance
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1 posted on 08/09/2023 7:17:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Well.
Iraq is as restrictive on free-speech as the US is.


2 posted on 08/09/2023 7:20:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback on Covid & no trial jailed Jan 6 protesters.)
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>> to target members of the LGBT community.

the community


3 posted on 08/09/2023 7:21:42 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Olog-hai

Who uses the word “homosexuality” any more?


4 posted on 08/09/2023 7:21:51 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

Can Donald Trump be indicted for this?


5 posted on 08/09/2023 7:22:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

NOW we are finally getting to Woke!


6 posted on 08/09/2023 7:24:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Steely Tom

That was originally the “liberal” term for sodomy, coined by journalist Karl-Maria Kertbeny.


7 posted on 08/09/2023 7:24:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


8 posted on 08/09/2023 7:24:58 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Steely Tom
Can Donald Trump be indicted for this?

Not really.

It's a climate change thing.
9 posted on 08/09/2023 7:26:02 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Steely Tom

I do, when I’m trying to be not overly nasty.


10 posted on 08/09/2023 7:29:21 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Steely Tom

I do. When I am trying to be polite. Otherwise I call them perverts.


11 posted on 08/09/2023 7:35:06 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: NoLibZone

Good for the Iraqis.


12 posted on 08/09/2023 7:45:15 PM PDT by nwrep
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Good for Iraq


13 posted on 08/09/2023 7:49:08 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Olog-hai
Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

Gee, I wonder where they/them got that idea?

14 posted on 08/09/2023 7:58:03 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: nwrep

Now, if only the rest of the planet could follow suit.


15 posted on 08/09/2023 8:01:49 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: escapefromboston

Very good.


16 posted on 08/09/2023 8:02:00 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Olog-hai

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.


17 posted on 08/09/2023 8:21:43 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: Olog-hai

“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


18 posted on 08/09/2023 8:34:47 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

The invasion of Iraq was clearly not successful by present DC standards


19 posted on 08/09/2023 8:37:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: LegendHasIt

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.


20 posted on 08/09/2023 8:44:45 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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