Iraq: Islamic Supremacists Kill 25 Gay Men and Boys in Recent Weeks
April 8, 2009 – UPI: Iraq Gays in Iraq face killings, cop crackdowns
– “slayings of as many as 25 gay men and boys in Iraq in recent weeks”
– April 8, 2009 – NY Times: Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
– April 5, 2009 – Iraq: Gay Men Murdered by Islamic Supremacists in So-Called “Honor Killing”
– See Also:
– September 25, 2008: ‘Sexual cleansing’ rampant in Iraq
— “Revered cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Tatchell notes, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for the killing of homosexuals in the ‘most severe way possible.’”
– May 17, 2006: Iraqi militants sentence all gays to death
Note:
Thursday April 16, 2009 Rally in London
– to highlight “the execution and murder of Iraqi LGBT over the last several days and equally those still imprisoned and facing execution/murder as now”
– Urgent petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals sentenced to death in Iraq
Other Islamic Supremacist Anti-Gay “Honor Killings”
– July 21, 2008: Man flees Turkey after “honour killing” of his gay activist boyfriend
– July 19, 2008: Was Ahmet Yildiz the victim of Turkey’s first gay honour killing?
– July 18, 2008: A Gay Honor Killing?
– Ahmet Yildiz is my family
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