[NYer]

Homosexuality is seen as so immoral that it qualifies as an 'honour killing' to murder someone who is gay - and the perpetrator can escape punishment. Section 111 of Iraq's penal code lays out protections for murder when people are acting against Islam.

Graphic photos obtained from Baghdad sources too frightened to identify themselves as having known a gay man, and seen by the Observer, show other gay Iraqis who have been executed. One shows two men, suspected of having a relationship, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs - guns at the ready behind their heads - awaiting execution. Another picture captured on a mobile phone shows a gay man being beaten to death. Yet another shows a corpse being dragged through the streets after his execution.

One photograph is of the mutilated, burnt body of 38-year-old Karar Oda from Sadr City. He was kidnapped by the Badr Brigade in mid-June. They work with the Ministry of Interior and are the informal armed wing of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, who make up the largest Shia bloc in the Iraq parliament. Oda's family were given an arrest warrant signed by the Ministry of Interior which said their son deserved to be arrested and killed for immorality as a homosexual. His body was found ten days later.

[Gay State Conservative]

Leftists throughout the western world will,once they see this,understand how important it is to create a pluralistic democracy in Iraq. (end sarcasm)

[prairiebreeze]

and children who have been sold to criminal gangs to be sexually abused.

Just one question...wouldn't it be more beneficial to hunt down the members of the criminal gangs who were doing the abusing?

Or is this too logical for muslims? Talk about killing the messenger..

[ridesthemiles]

Certainly will cut down the number of future "suicide" bombers, won't it?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I thought men having sex with boys was a way of life in the mideast - which is why they all grow up so concerned about "humiliation" - they were "humiliated" systematically when they were kids. I'll bet all those sheikhs, imams and mullahs are some of the worst offenders. Strange people.

[top 2 toe red]

The threat has led to a rapid increase in the numbers of Iraqi homosexuals now seeking asylum in the UK...

Perhaps I'm being paranoid...but, a new way to get sleeper cells into the west quickly?

[layman]

One shows two men, suspected of having a relationship, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs - guns at the ready behind their heads - awaiting execution.

This Guardian reporter is to be commended. He/She was shown a photograph originating in the Mideast and reported as fact not only the photograph but also the 'fact' that these men were soon to be executed. How inept can MSM get?

[airborne]

At last!

An issue the left can get behind! ;^)

[SmithL]

It makes for kind of a low turnout for the Baghdad Gay Pride Festival, huh?

[SE Mom]

See- this is what makes it so hard. One day you think it's the Shia that are nuts..next day you turn around and see that it's the Sunni.

Tough call who's more depraved.

[mrsmith]

It's Bush's Fault! _{TM Media Issue of The Day Inc.( a division of the Democrat Party)}

I believe everything in the media- for as long as they tell me to believe it.

Then I believe the next thing.

And the next...

[Delta 21]

So is the requested asylum being granted? The last paragraph makes it sound unlikely.(?)

I didnt know if being persecuted because you were a sodomite was grounds for admition into the UK? (Hopefully not. and that goes double for the U.S.!!)

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

Ali Hili runs the Iraqi LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) group out of London. He used to have 40 volunteers in Iraq but says after recent raids by militia in Najaf, Karbala and Basra he has lost contact with half of them. They move to different safe houses to protect their identities, but their work is incredibly dangerous.

I would say incredibly dangerous is an understatement, if AIDS don't get them bullets do.

[pillut48]

"Queers Die for the Muslim Guys"--but the liberals here wouldn't defend the gays there--Bush lied about everything and the WOT is a waste of time. /sarc off

[kpp_kpp]

i have never been able to figure out why liberal won't stand up for the women and gays of the middle east -- they see them as an entirely different class of people that don't deserve the benefits they themselves have.

[A. Pole]

Ali Hili runs the Iraqi LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) group out of London.

I don't know. Somehow I cannot muster much sympathy.

[crghill]

PFLR

[donmeaker]

It is also important to note that after the cute boy gets hair, he is of little interest to the older molesters.

He is told that he is unclean, and fit only to be murdered, but there is a way out: to go become a jihadi.

Yassar Arafat, born in Cairo, was caught "in the act" and was told that he would be stoned to death, or he could go be a terrorist. Since he did have some rudimentary skill in accounting, he agreed to become a terrorist paymaster. As such, he could get a ready supply of young boys for his delectation, and when he tired of them, he could enlist them into the fedayeen, into Al Fatah, into The martyrs brigades, or what ever was the latest name for these poor abused children.

Islamic child molestation is the breeding ground for Islamic suicide bombers.

[firebrand]

This is interesting, as there was a gay-lesbian-transgender-community speaker at the Hezbollah-lovers rally in Times Square on Saturday. He actually said that his community was being asked to support Israel and the West because they are tolerant and the Arabs are not, but he declared that to be A LIE! Didn't get his name but it doesn't really matter. Hezbollah-lovers will say anything to advance the killing of Jews.