Author Topic: 'Sexual Cleansing' In Iraq (Read 7378 times)

Dachshund · « **on:** April 16, 2007, 02:59:21 pm »

And so the march to the democratization of Iraq continues. I wish I wasn't an atheist so I could believe in that special place in hell they have reserved for George Bush.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/sexual-cleansing-in-iraq/

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #1 on:** April 16, 2007, 03:08:17 pm »

Yeah, I just read that myself. Ain't FREEDOM grand?

Bucko · « **Reply #2 on:** April 16, 2007, 03:25:26 pm »

Islamic countries are a terrible place to be either a gay man or a woman, perhaps even as horrible as Tennessee.

Brent
(Who wouldn't choose either place to live)

thunter34 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2007, 03:28:27 pm »

The article won't show for me, dammit!

milker · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2007, 03:30:33 pm »

Remove trackback/ from the url

Milker.

thunter34 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 16, 2007, 03:41:54 pm »

Thanks, but I went ahead and looked it up on my own.

It's always astounding to me how many people will jump on the wagon decrying the horrible theocracies abroad that we must help liberate the people from...yet somehow don't see the same attempts at theocracy promoted here.

Dachshund · « **Reply #6 on:** April 16, 2007, 04:46:58 pm »

Quote from: Bucko on April 16, 2007, 03:25:26 pm

Islamic countries are a terrible place to be either a gay man or a woman, perhaps even as horrible as Tennessee.

Brent
(Who wouldn't choose either place to live)

My, my, my, the Florida pot calling the Tennessee kettle taupe.

Bucko · « **Reply #7 on:** April 16, 2007, 04:49:59 pm »

As a newly-baptised southerner I can indulge in such things, AD.

In Boston it would have been too obvious to merit my typing it.

Brent
(Who loves his AD only too much)

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #8 on:** April 16, 2007, 05:10:51 pm »

Ft. Lauderdale the South? pft... The South starts north of there.

thunter34 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 16, 2007, 05:30:16 pm »

Quote from: philly267 on April 16, 2007, 05:10:51 pm

Ft. Lauderdale the South? pft... The South starts north of there.

I heard that stuff over and over in ftl. Check a map. If you are south of Georgia, you're still the south, whether one cares to acknowledge it or not.

Dachshund · « **Reply #10 on:** April 16, 2007, 05:45:34 pm »

Ladies, we will discuss geography later...right now shia death squads are hunting down and killing homosexuals in the newly liberated democratic republic of Iraq.

Peter6836 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:15:27 pm »

This is happening in Iran as well.

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Miss Philicia · « **Reply #12 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:18:14 pm »

Quote from: thunter34 on April 16, 2007, 05:30:16 pm

I heard that stuff over and over in ftl. Check a map. If you are south of Georgia, you're still the south, whether one cares to acknowledge it or not.

Broward County is part of Israel isn't it? Definitely not part of the South.

Dachshund · « **Reply #13 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:21:55 pm »

Quote from: philly267 on April 16, 2007, 06:18:14 pm

Broward County is part of Israel isn't it? Definitely not part of the South.

Gee, thanks for your cooperation.

frenchpat · « **Reply #14 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:28:44 pm »

Quote from: Bucko on April 16, 2007, 03:25:26 pm

Islamic countries are a terrible place to be either a gay man or a woman, perhaps even as horrible as Tennessee.
Brent
(Who wouldn't choose either place to live)

I've had serious offers in hammams before when traveling in Morrocco. If you consider living an openly gay life "à la western countries" yes. But then it is true for other, non-muslim (I take it that is what you mean by "islamic") countries, like Mexico and some south american countries where homophobia is very strong too. And why was it that all those western writers with a penchant for men ended up in Tangiers and other cities of northern Africa not so long ago??

Pat

Peter6836 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:38:36 pm »

By the way this is the caption that goes along with the pictures that I posted earlier.

The two teenagers shown here were executed after a religious court found them guilty of homosexuality on July 19, 2005, in Mashhad. Under the Iranian penal code, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 can be hanged.

Bucko · « **Reply #16 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:48:20 pm »

Quote from: philly267 on April 16, 2007, 06:18:14 pm

Broward County is part of Israel isn't it? Definitely not part of the South.

No darling, that's Palm Beach County (Boca, Boynton, Lake Worth, etc). Broward's a swamp drained at the behest of white southerners and accomplished by a largely African-American workforce. The reason why it's considered more "livable" than Dade is because it's totally Anglo and one needn't learn another language to pick up a pack of smokes. Not a problem for me, but then again I'm fluent in two languages and can can cruise in many others.

I personally wanted to move to Miami, but my ex would have none of it. In his own words, he wanted to "stay in America".

Brent
(Quien habla un pocito de espagnol)

jack · « **Reply #17 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:53:00 pm »

what does GW have to do with Muslims going after gays? They were doing this long before the Iraq war. The ignorance here is astounding.

Dachshund · « **Reply #18 on:** April 16, 2007, 06:53:44 pm »

I give up.

Bucko · « **Reply #19 on:** April 16, 2007, 07:02:54 pm »

Quote from: jack on April 16, 2007, 06:53:00 pm

what does GW have to do with Muslims going after gays? They were doing this long before the Iraq war. The ignorance here is astounding.

Jakie-

The issue here is that we were supposed to "liberate" Iraq, and that one of the main justifications for starting this bloody war was to bring "western style" democracy and values to the region. Unless "western values" refers to Casper, Wyoming then we've fallen far short.

Brent
(Who returns to topic)

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #20 on:** April 16, 2007, 07:07:49 pm »

Quote from: Bucko on April 16, 2007, 06:48:20 pm

No darling, that's Palm Beach County (Boca, Boynton, Lake Worth, etc). Broward's a swamp drained at the behest of white southerners and accomplished by a largely African-American workforce.

Uh, no darling. Palm Beach is only marginably more Jewish (14.8%) compared with Broward (13.1%)

Live it; learn it

Dachshund · « **Reply #21 on:** April 16, 2007, 07:17:53 pm »

Philly, feel free to start your own thread on the racial and religious make-up of South Florida and I promise I won't hijack it.

Thank you

Lisa · « **Reply #22 on:** April 16, 2007, 07:34:19 pm »

I have to agree with the person who made the fifth comment....
Bad enough that they were tortured, and mutilated, but RAPED?
Hooray for democracy.

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