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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-16-06 08:51 PM
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"These people are taking Iraq back to the Dark Ages"
Religious militias slaughtering gays in Iraq -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2183948,00.html

THE death threat was delivered to Karazan’s father early in the morning by a masked man wearing a police uniform.

The scribbled note was brief. Karazan had to die because he was gay. In the new Baghdad, his sexuality warranted execution by the religious militias.

The father was told that if he did not hand his son over, other family members would be killed.

What scares the city’s residents is how the fanatics’ list of enemies is growing. It includes girls who refuse to cover their hair, boys who wear theirs too long, booksellers, liberal professors and prostitutes. Three shops known to sell alcohol were bombed yesterday in the Karrada shopping district.

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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-16-06 08:54 PM
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1. As Iraq goes, so goes our nation. nt
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-16-06 09:19 PM
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2. Medievalist born again xtians, dark ages,,, make sense to me..
BuschCO and their half-witted, brain-dead minions are all too happy to facilitate the second coming of the dark ages.
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