March 26, 2007
Iraqi sexual cleansing continues
Perhaps it should be no surprise that 2 years after Ayatollah Al-Sistani issued his fatwa calling for the death of gays and lesbians, that nothing has changed. The United States does not seem to have moved on this issue at all, and General Pace's recent public airing of his sentiments on homosexuality may indicate why the U.S. turns a blind eye to the Iraqi pogrom against gays and lesbians (or those assumed to be).
The evidence indicates that both the Iraqi government as well as the militias have taken the sexual cleansing of Iraq to heart. I have seen nothing that indicates the United States is taking any kind of a stand on this. In fact, it seems that U.S. troops have been told to look the other way.
Why is it that the lives of gays and lesbians, the lives of minorities, the lives of women are not seen as important? Why do pogroms against certain groups seem to fall under some issue of sovereignty?
What is happening in Iraq with both government and death squads targeting gays and lesbians should be more than a political base argument in the United States. Do our elected representatives feel that homophobia is politically powerful enough that intervening in the systematic murder of people would lose them votes and support? Why the silence?
We have learned over and over again that "silence is death." It is past time for the United States - who has gays and lesbians on the ground in Iraq - end its silence on this pogrom.
(Oh yeah, the military has its own silence rule doesn't it - "Don't ask don't tell?"
1/11/07 Iraqi LGBT, Sexual cleansing in Iraq
2/21/07 Mirza, Gay.com, Iraq's "systematic sexual cleansing"
2/19/07 Pink News, Homophobia conference told of Iraq "sexual cleansing"
3/13/07 Laguache, uurknet, It's those homos again
Taylor, 5/26/06, Independent, Iraqi police 'killed 14-year-old boy for being homosexual'
3/28/06, Chronicles of the Beast, Sexual cleansing in Iraq
Posted by rowan at March 26, 2007 8:24 AM | [eMail this article!] |
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Posted by: bill at March 27, 2007 10:33 AM