Gays Tortured and Murdered in Iraq

August 18th, 2009

Posted by Bossip Staff

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The gay people in Iraq are being put through far worse conditions than American gays:

Reporting from Baghdad – In January, a video began circulating on cellphones in Baghdad showing men dancing provocatively with one another at a party. At the time, many Iraqis considered the video a sign of how much life in Iraq had normalized, an indication of new freedoms. But activists and some gays in Baghdad say the video instead served as a trigger for a systematic campaign of persecution and killings of gays by Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias.

The Iraqi LGBT, a London-based group that supports lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders in Iraq, says it has documented 87 killings in Iraq so far this year related to anti-gay sentiments, including six in the last two weeks. And in a report released Monday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch says the number of Iraqis killed in the last few years because they were gay or suspected of being gay could run into the “hundreds.” It says the government isn’t doing enough to protect the rights of gays in Iraq. “Murders are committed with impunity . . . with corpses dumped in garbage or hung as warnings on the street,” the Human Rights Watch report says. “The killers invade the privacy of homes, abducting sons or brothers, leaving their mutilated bodies in the neighborhood the next day.”

Among the tortures described to Human Rights Watch researchers by gays and doctors, is the practice of injecting glue into men’s anuses. Human Rights Watch says that according to the gays its researchers interviewed, the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr, “bears primary responsibility and launched the killing in early 2009.” Human Rights Watch does not specifically attribute the recent rise in killings to the circulation of the dancing video, but gays in Baghdad said that’s when they noticed a sharp change in how they were being treated. At checkpoints, police began stopping men who looked effeminate and comparing their faces with those in the video, activists said. Shiite clerics began preaching against gays during Friday sermons in the mosques. Lists of names of men believed to be gay were posted on the streets in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, warning that they would be killed. “The party was the spark. The whole campaign began because of this,” said a gay activist who requested that his name not be used because he feared for his safety. A man who gave his name as Hamid told Human Rights Watch how his partner was seized at his parents’ home in April by four masked, armed men dressed in black. “He was found in the neighborhood the day after,” the report quotes him as saying. “They had thrown his corpse in the garbage. His genitals were cut off and a piece of his throat was ripped out.” The calmer conditions over the last two years had encouraged many gays to become more open about their orientation, activists said, and that appears to have provoked a backlash by religious extremists.

Although homosexuality was frowned upon during Saddam Hussein’s rule, there were gay bars and parties, and those who were stopped by police “could pay a few dinars and it would be all right,” said another gay Iraqi interviewed in Baghdad. Many gays have now fled to neighboring countries, and Human Rights Watch urges that they should be given priority by the U.N. among Iraqi refugees seeking resettlement. Those who remain have gone back into the shadows, too fearful even to stray far from their homes, let alone hold parties, said one of the men who referred to the backlash by religious extremists. He said he had been rejected by his family and lived in one of a number of safe houses provided for gays by the Iraqi LGBT. “I could have left, but I love my country and I didn’t,” he said. “I was stupid.”

The Iraqi people are trying to keep that stuff out of their community, openly representing. In a new government… they feel they must “put it down” now and make sure they send a message. They don’t tolerate gayness in the Middle East at-all. SMH.

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86 Responses to “Gays Tortured and Murdered in Iraq”

I AM LEGEND ( Raiders Will Make The Playoffs This Year)

8/18/09, 08:38:am

They should be

TASTY

8/18/09, 08:38:am

NO ONE DESERVES DEATH

GGooDie

8/18/09, 08:39:am

Jeez. 87 killings this year alone.

I know that being gay is not considered right, but killing these men and women is not the way to go.

I AM LEGEND ( Raiders Will Make The Playoffs This Year)

8/18/09, 08:39:am

TASTY

NO ONE DESERVES DEATH
____________
Except these 3 guys who have a bikini tan line…

$moK.E.Y.

8/18/09, 08:41:am

i can’t even focus on the article because of this

picture with these 3 queens posing like they

working next issue’s cover of Vogue magazine

NOPHACE THE GREAT

8/18/09, 08:42:am

LIKE SHORTY UP TOP SAID *****ODY DESERVES DEATH BUT THESE FOOLS JUST GOT GOT THEIR EARLY TICKET TO HELL

tb

8/18/09, 08:45:am

They nasty *****es deserve that *****. Nasty for no reason. They aren’t born like that. That ***** is nasty.

Nique

8/18/09, 08:47:am

When u live in a country where religion plays a major role in government-what do u expect?? Its not right but there are alot of other important things going on in that region than where you’re going to get the next ***** in ur booty. When women there are not raped/starved by their husbands anymore-I might-just might give a ***** about some booty bandits.

Alrighty Then...

8/18/09, 08:50:am

First off, I don’t think anyone should be murdered for their lifestyle choices.
Secondly, WHY??? Do punks act so EXTRA??? (the photo up top, for example) I have no problem with knowing gay MEN (or women for that matter), but PUNKS and *****S (flamers) make me ill, I’m sorry…

leslie arnelle

8/18/09, 08:55:am

(((lol))) this is def no laughing matter but Nique just about took the words right out of my mouth but I wasn’t going to take it there…(((lol)))!

On a more serious note…that is very disturbing…I mean we can debate all day about the being born gay or if it’s by choice and all that but…(((sigh))) I’m just gonna leave it alone.

I just feel like our attention as a whole should be focused on other more important things than someone being gay.

Hannibals Dad

8/18/09, 08:56:am

THE NEW GROUP H.I.V !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. HAROLD
2. IVAN
3. VICTOR

Doc

8/18/09, 08:57:am

Well at time you promote that too bossip. you always bashing gay people.

Reality Check

8/18/09, 09:13:am

These boys here are sweeter than saccharin.
Chi Chi man to the extreme … they have their ***** turned up to a million.

But on the serious side, I can’t condone killing anyone. If you cannot make a life who the ***** gives you the right to take a life …

So let them do what they do, it cost me nothing so I pay them no mind…

Lucheria

8/18/09, 09:17:am

Bossip,you really late.this been going on over there since the 90’s-at least 2000 gays have been killed

holla

8/18/09, 09:17:am

is like boom bye bye inna batty boy head, we doh promote no battyman dem haffi dead. Easy pon d mic DJ Buju Banton…boom dont promote de *****s as one said, i dont care if you’re gay but those that are extra and wanna be doing all that extra stuff…Murder dem bumboclaat!!!! Nah im wildin but cant say i feel sorry for them either, i dont think its right but i cant say they would be missed from my view

Bob B

8/18/09, 09:22:am

To Bossip…far worse conditions..then american gays …WTF ? ? ?

breeee.

8/18/09, 09:23:am

how can you say they deserved that? thats somebodys son. somebody out here loved them despite their orientation. *****ody deserves to die in that manner, gay or straight.

Hannibal

8/18/09, 09:35:am

LOOKS LIKE BARACK AND HIS COUSINS

sev

8/18/09, 09:36:am

YOU KNOW I DONT CARE ABOUT THEM BEING GAY. BUT KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME THIS GAY STUFF HAS GONE TOO FAR U CANT EVEN GO INTO A GYM OR PUBLIC BATHROOM WITHOUT ONE OF THEM HITTING ON U. I SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE KNOCKING THEM OUT BUT I DONT WANNA GO TO JAIL SO ITS NOT WORTH IT. WITH ALL THAT SAID BEING GAY IS A SIN BUT KILLING IS A FAR WORSE SIN.

Angee

8/18/09, 09:38:am

They don’t deserve this.

Hannibal

8/18/09, 09:42:am

GAYS AREN’T PEOPLE, WE MUST EXTERMINATE THESE HOMOS BEFORE THEY TAKE OVER OUR PLANET! EVERYONE CARRY A MAGAZINE WITH A NAKED LADY ON THE COVER, AND SHOW IT TO A HOMO IF U SEE ONE!

Ms. Brilly

8/18/09, 09:48:am

This is really sad. No one deserves to be killed or tortured because of their sexual orientation. What a shame.

Peaches20nash

8/18/09, 09:50:am

Oh Dont think for a minute That us americans have gotten away with this we still have ours coming

chaka1

8/18/09, 09:52:am

God does not give you the right to kill. That’s his job to judge.

JilliMilliUSAF

8/18/09, 09:55:am

Only insecure closet gays freak out about open gays. if you’re with yourself and you nkow you’re straight than someone elses lifestyle choice should not affect you and only ignorant *****ing *****gots would say its ok to murder another human being because they’re not like you. all those in favor of death to gays are pretty much going to burn in hell and get butt rapped by the devil.

Lisa Lisa

8/18/09, 09:56:am

@holla

“cant say i feel sorry for them either, i dont think its right but i cant say they would be missed from my view”

When your mother ends up getting raped and murdered by an escaped convict, I’m going to say the exact same thing. You won’t care, right?

JB ($80 for his jersey? There goes my electric bill!!)

8/18/09, 09:57:am

I am trying to figure out how long they were in the sun and where they hell were they to get these tans. ST. Tropez oil does wonders

JilliMilliUSAF

8/18/09, 09:59:am

they do have great tans…

Freaks On My*****e

8/18/09, 10:09:am

ummm, I can’t think of anything nice to say…..oh wait, they don’t deserve to be killed and tortured. Just ship their gay a*sses to Iran.

bubbagus

8/18/09, 10:14:am

i have no problem w/ gay people but that pic 2 headline the story is beyond disturbing

Its6amHoGetOut

8/18/09, 10:15:am

I think gluing a mans ***** shut is horrible, just horrible, maybe they should do it the Wu-Tang way; Sew up a *****s *****hole and keep feeding and feeding him! yeah thats better!

Jade Silver

8/18/09, 10:15:am

It’s sad but the world is coming to an end.

Its6amHoGetOut

8/18/09, 10:15:am

Or cut off his eyelids and feed him sleeping pills!

MySoulIsFull

8/18/09, 10:17:am

they look a hot mess

F*ck Perez Hilton

8/18/09, 10:28:am

homosexuality is deviant!!

NEXT!!

Jade Silver

8/18/09, 10:49:am

Those 3 in that picture need to get shot for those tans. LOL.

Aunt Viv

8/18/09, 10:55:am

Wow…

angelina jolie

8/18/09, 10:59:am

why does man love to ***** other man
what do they get from putting their
*****s in some *****ty *****, and sucking
each other *****, its the single most
digusting act there is….what is this
world comming to.

KocaKola

8/18/09, 11:07:am

Very sad, I do not agree with homsexuality God says these are unatural relations and an abomination. One of the many ways to go to Hell. The Middle East has always combined religion and law and use this to justify torturing and killing those they find to be sinful. The West ignores God’s Law while the Middle East uses God’s Law to sin. God punishes nations with war and ironically the Middle East and the West are headed for WW3.

God is coming soon…are you ready?

Money First

8/18/09, 11:37:am

Hey you didn’t have to kill them but they could try sending them to their own Island where they can go and live out the rest of their “happy *****” days ‘This would be a better solution.

princedonte

8/18/09, 11:38:am

people are so evil your no worser than the *****s slave owners and the rebels in Africa you all will burn in hell far before the gays i can’t wait until we get our chance to torture all the people who done us wrong the gays will rise and rule the earth

TM30

8/18/09, 11:44:am

Just because things are different, it doesn’t mean the people have changed. The picture above, as well as the video mentioned do nothing to help their cause. How do expect to be take seriously when you portray yourself like a fool. This is like Iraqi women taking bootie shots and giving lap dances then expecting to be treated as equals. They have their culture and ways of living so if you want them to accept your cause, you have to be careful about what gets out and how you portray yourself. It’s not right but unfortunately it is the way it is. We have seen the end results when people don’t think about the consequences.

eveinthegarden

8/18/09, 11:59:am

Muslims dont get down with that ish. You live in that society, you deal with the consequences.

eveinthegarden

8/18/09, 12:03:pm

i can’t wait until we get our chance to torture all the people who done us wrong the gays will rise and rule the earth
*************************************
So….you are saying you are going to rise up against God and rule the earth? That is exactly what satan professes…do you realize that?

Scorpio

8/18/09, 12:04:pm

This world is such a mess…….so sad to see men looking like this….the world is coming to and end real soon……………

marcus a

8/18/09, 12:12:pm

@JilliMilliUSAF
I am so tired of this “your a bigot crap.” Not everything is a “go” we have moral and law. Every decision has consequences.

Twinkle

8/18/09, 12:25:pm

They seem to be more concerned with tans and each other and forgetting to eat!!!

LBCER

8/18/09, 12:25:pm

HOMOSEXUALITY HAS NEVER BEEN ACCEPTED IN IRAQ. THIS IS A BOGUS STORY.

We "Blacks" Are The REAL Hebrew Israelites

8/18/09, 12:35:pm

I may not agree with the homosexual lifestyle but I’m not exactly righteous either. If everyone were killed according to sin, the world would be barren of hue-man beings.

No one should be murdered. Ship them off, if it’s really all that serious Iraq. One way ticket to West Hollywood. But to torture and kill people? Naaah. The 10 commandments say something about murder, but not homosexuality. That should tell you something. Poor guys.

Phrapp

8/18/09, 12:51:pm

gay is not a choice people, read about it! educate yourself so you dont say things like “i dont agree w it, w the lifestyle choice.” its called hormones, they determine your sex and sexuality.

educate youself and tolerate all people, for gods sake! if god made us like that, THEN WHY WOULD IT BE WRONG, HELLO!

Chitown

8/18/09, 12:52:pm

God is the only one that should determine when your life should end. Lucifer was cast down from heaven because he wanted to play God. Too many people try to play God. They don’t realize that they are working for Satan. Jesus hung out with the lowest of the low during his time on Earth. Don’t get sucked into Satans ways by hating and harshly judging others live your life like Jesus.

ridin so high i can slap down a pigeon

8/18/09, 13:08:pm

***** i thought they was in Atlanta…lmao

*****CATFUN

8/18/09, 13:19:pm

OK….IRAQ HAVE BEEN KILLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE AROUND THAT COUNTRY SINCE BEFORE CHRIST WALKED THE EARTH……SO THESE GAY MEN ALREADY KNEW THEY WERE *****IN’ WITH FIRE WHEN THEY DECIDED TO HAVE A “RAINBOW” PARTY IN A “DEATH” COUNTRY…!

dahveed

8/18/09, 13:26:pm

you right they dont deserve to be tortured. just executed in public by a firing squad.

Island BadBoy

8/18/09, 13:34:pm

Do the gay martyrs still get their virgins when they enter islamic heaven. xD

Unbought_and_Unafraid

8/18/09, 13:43:pm

Saddam would have fried their sweet *****es;
Be careful what you wish for, you just might

Unbought_and_Unafraid

8/18/09, 13:44:pm

… GET IT !!!!

Unbought_and_Unafraid

8/18/09, 13:45:pm

@Island BadBoy
+++++++++++++++

You bet!!! 72 nice, tight butt holes.

Big Nut

8/18/09, 13:47:pm

The same should happen to these *****s in the U.S. and all around the world.

what that?

8/18/09, 14:01:pm

what the hell…

tg

8/18/09, 14:16:pm

No surprise here. They don’t respect women – what makes you think they would respect gays. But I betcha they got a “on the DL” too. Any body see the Kite runner? They wanted to kill the REAL actors just for portraying a man raping a boy scene. And that was even REAL – it was just for the movies.

olsweet*****willie

8/18/09, 14:19:pm

Gay is the way…..You all shall see in the end..

olsweet*****willie

8/18/09, 14:24:pm

@angeline jolie,, stfu, you ignorant *****… Its about love, men can love each other just as male/female.. its all about companionship…

Alrighty Then...

8/18/09, 14:26:pm

@We “Blacks” Are The REAL Hebrew Israelites – Are you seriously suggesting they ship them HERE? To the US? How would that be beneficial? They need to keep their *****es over there and figure it out! SSSHHHHIIIDDDD….

NIKKI

8/18/09, 14:37:pm

I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT GAYS SHOULD BE KILLED OFF. JUST SENT TO THEIR OWN PLANET, ‘CAUSE I DON’T WANT TO SEE THAT ***** OVER HERE.

NIKKI

8/18/09, 14:42:pm

DO YALL SEE THIS ***** IN THE PIC? THESE MOTHER*****ERS POSING AND *****. OK…GO PUT ON A WIG AND A DRESS ALREADY, IF YOU’RE GONNA DO THE DAMN THING. BUT THEN I CANNOT STAND TO SEE CHICKS LOOKING LIKE MEN..I GUESS I WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WITH THIS GAY BULL*****..ILL

Phrapp

8/18/09, 15:01:pm

intolerance is not the way

haha

8/18/09, 15:27:pm

Brazilian gays. Got to love them!

turkishjamaican

8/18/09, 15:33:pm

kill battiman dem…

Moreaces

8/18/09, 16:18:pm

I AM LEGEND ( Raiders Will Make The Playoffs This Year)

They should be

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When Whites was hanging blacks by the neck on tree limbs, they thought you deserved it too,, I feel more sorry for you than I do for those poor men in Iraq

the truth is

8/18/09, 16:30:pm

these sand *****s have bikini top tans.
those a-rabs is gonna burn them *****s in the public plaza by the end of the week once they hear about this site

Moreaces

8/18/09, 16:33:pm

angelina jolie

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They are gay men, and therefore attracted to other men,, they get the same pleasure as you get when you suck your man.. smh

Moreaces

8/18/09, 16:35:pm

princedonte

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Go somewhere and set down with that foolish talk.

Moreaces

8/18/09, 16:39:pm

Chitown

Leo

8/18/09, 17:11:pm

Well, considering the pic above is meant to illicit negative comments, Bossip knew there wouldn’t be much support from this group. Coming from minorities it’s really sad. There are people in this world that would love nothing more than start hanging your black *****es again. To each his own, I hope you can justify your hatred on judgement day.

The Bear

8/18/09, 17:27:pm

At least the Iraqis got SOMETHING right.

melo

8/18/09, 17:45:pm

Good for Iraq…The US could learn a thing or two…

AceDoorSlave

8/18/09, 18:32:pm

I say kill them. It is not right. They don’t deserver rights, and they damnsure should not EVER adopt kids. Everywhere they throw a gay in your face, from comic relief on films and tv, to the stink *****s parading through cities for gay pride. It is not natural, if gays were meant to be then two of the same sex would be able to reproduce.

Bonnie

8/18/09, 19:53:pm

Bossip you all are going to hell for getting all the ignorant folks worked up, when they know damn well ain’t *****ody gay checking for their *****es anyway. lol.

Nasir

8/18/09, 19:55:pm

Not all gays are as flamboyant as the pic above people. Get a grip.

We "Blacks" Are The REAL Hebrew Israelites

8/18/09, 20:08:pm

LOL@Alrighty then.

I don’t know. They might come to a club and end up turning a glory hole into a fox hole.

Too much Western debauchery overload.

cw

8/18/09, 21:37:pm

and here we have yet another portayal of human ignorance. it’s interesting that anyone, especially an entire country can dictate what you can and cannot do behind closed doors between two (or more whatever floats your boat) consenting adults. the gov’t should only be able to dictate behavior towards another human being or animal against their will. no one has the divine right to harm another person intentionally. you do however have a divine right to protect yourself and your offspring. do not get the two confused. the problem with countries that govern based solely on religion is that the two are related, but only to an extent. most religions do speak on certain behaviors and prejudices against one another being unacceptable. and to have an effective government, people must feel safe and free to live as they choose as long as it doesn’t directly affect the life of someone else. but when one is more emphasized over the other, when beliefs begin to outweigh what is just and fair, you have this situation. a country that feels according to religion, that homosexuality should be punishable by death, but being homesexual doesn’t directly endanger anyone else’s life or safety except the homesexual himself. thus, he/she should be free to express themselves as long as they don’t attempt to infringe on anyone else’s beliefs or lives.

memchee

8/18/09, 21:57:pm

seems like there should be more tolerance….at the end of the day these guys are human.

Looks like they’re having fun in the pic.

NoooooooBoo

8/20/09, 00:31:am

@ I AM LEGEND ( Raiders Will Make The Playoffs This Year…and every other ignorant ***** in here,

You kill me always trying to put yourself above folks. Carefuol what you put out i the universe, because it will most *****uredly give it back. Hopefully you’ll have a little tolerance for the gay son or daughter your bound to have. I don’t agree with a lot of *****, but I would never wish death on anyone for that. Like I said, the universe has a way with dumb *****holes like you.

and before I forget, when was the last time you were in heaven? Apparently your sin free and feel you can p***** the ultimate judgement!

And what?

guerrillalegal

8/21/09, 09:52:am

Don’t kill them… All you’ll do is make them “Martyrs” for there twisted, sick perverse pro-homosexual “causes”. Just civilly, and without violence remind them that they are sick twisted freaks that need to change. Non-violence is much more effective than violence. Right will triumph over this homosexual evil.