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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Iraq is ruling on terms for gay sex has turned into “Woke” ideology. They will rue the day that they have catered to the Leftist deviants.
I was about to type that anther invasion is coming up.
Except they very often use the same terms for adults under the age of 35 , for the same reasons as you state: to hide identifying characteristics that would not advance their political agenda.
Can’t say I disagree, at least in spirit if not legally.
Not good with their restriction, but good with the insistence on calling a spade a spade.
Not saying spades are homos, of course.
Well some homos are spades.
Those words are certainly interchangeable
Fag would be easier.
Ground zero in the battle against the devil begins at the level of language. Anyone that uses fake words like “gay” or “transgender” has lost the war before the first shot fired. Iraq gets it.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
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