Iraqi police: 2 gay men killed in Baghdad slum

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

By SAMEER N. YACOUB – 49 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi police say the bodies of two gay men have been found in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City after a leading cleric repeatedly condemned homosexuality.

A police official says the two men were believed killed Thursday by relatives who were shamed by their behavior.

The killings come after Shiite cleric Sattar al-Battat repeatedly condemned homosexuality during prayers, saying Islam prohibits homosexuality.

The official says no family members have claimed the bodies or demanded an investigation.


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[msongs]

1. coming soon to a community near you nt

[BR_Parkway]

2. Funny how our "clerics" get excused, theirs get blamed

[sarcasmo]

14. A world with no Religion would be a beautiful thing.

[rfranklin]

3. I don't expect that the Muslim clerics are getting blamed...

any differently than clerics in this country because their congregations subscribe to the same beliefs. That is one of the failings of the human race--the need to condemn those that are different, the "other."

[ruggerson]

4. but, hey, it's a "democracy"

[biopowertoday]

6. yeah, and here folks like Warren get a national stage blessed by

our President.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Proving that just as here in America

religious based hate speech leads to violence and death.

[pattmarty]

7. I have come to the sorry conclusion that religion leads to.......................

..........."violence and death".

[SkyDaddy7]

8. Without violence & death...

What do religions have to offer besides Bronze Age myths?

And people think Richard Dawkins is to harsh...Go figure.

[doctor jazz]

12. Science vs. religion

[pattmarty]

13. Great!!!! That pretty much says it all.

[cliffordu]

11. Yep. Exactly

[mitchtv]

9. Someone needs to put a hurtin on this mullah

and the family

[ohio2007]

10. but Mookie al Sadr no longer controls events in Sadr city

his influence has waned since he was punked in Basra






http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4600140

now his followers beat up the weak in the taliban fashion.

The future of the world is theirs for the taking some say.

[mitchtv]

15. well they can start with

Sattar al-Battat the guiding scumbag in this case

[MetaTrope]

16. With nearly a thousand violent civilian deaths still occurring in Iraq every month

It's nice to be told of two of them.