90 'emos' killed by militants in Iraq

[Lozzer]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l#comments

[Animavore]

At last. Someone had the guts to stand up to the Emo menace.


But seriously. it sounds like bullshit.

[Lozzer]

At last. Someone had the guts to stand up to the Emo menace.


But seriously. it sounds like bullshit.

Reuters reported it first

[Atheist-Lite]

Sorry state in Iraq but I got distracted by the David Essex story. That's one lucky life he's lived.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Great, now I have "99 Luftballoons" earwigging away.

[Animavore]

Word on the street is that the story is bullshit.

[Lozzer]

Sauce?

[Animavore]

Rashid told me. I met him in the shop when I was buying milk and bread.

[klr]

Also reported by the BBC, so I guess that makes it kosher:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17333275

Iraqi 'emo' youths reportedly killed by conservative militias

Dozens of Iraqi teenagers have been killed in recent months by militias who consider them to be devil worshippers, human rights activists claim.

The young people are described as "emos", a term used in the West to refer to youths who listen to rock music and wear alternative clothing.

Reports say that up to 58 teenagers have been beaten to death or shot in the last month, most of them men.

Iraq's interior ministry recently described emos as devil worshippers.

In Iraq, the term emo is also conflated with homosexuality, which although legal is socially and religiously taboo.

'Threatened'

Militias in Baghdad's conservative Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City have distributed leaflets with the names of 20 young people they say should be punished.

In a statement on his website, Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr described emo youths as "crazy and fools", but said they should be dealt with within the law.

"They are a plague on Muslim society, and those responsible should eliminate them through legal means," he said.

Mustafa, a young Iraqi, told the BBC he feels "threatened" when he wears black clothing.

"The Iraqi people look at you in a bad way," he said. "It is even worse when the Iraqi security for example arrest those in black or in the emo groups."

The interior ministry said it had not recorded any anti-gay or anti-emo killings, but said recent murders in Baghdad could be attributed to "revenge, or social, criminal, political or cultural reasons".

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, based in New York, told Agence France Presse that nearly 40 people have been kidnapped, tortured or killed in Iraq since February in a "new surge of anti-gay violence".

[Bella Fortuna]

There are scores of Middle Eastern students at my uni who look like that...

[Pappa]

There are scores of Middle Eastern students at my uni who look like that...

You should execute them.

[Bella Fortuna]

There are scores of Middle Eastern students at my uni who look like that...

You should execute them.

Don't think the thought hadn't occurred...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There are scores of Middle Eastern students at my uni who look like that...

You should execute them.

Don't think the thought hadn't occurred...

Be cruel, let them live. :twisted:

[Bella Fortuna]

There are scores of Middle Eastern students at my uni who look like that...

You should execute them.

Don't think the thought hadn't occurred...

Be cruel, let them live. :twisted:

They all hang out around my building due to the type of courses it houses, and they're forever smoking like chimneys in packs outside the exits, leaving a mess in their wake.

[amused]

Still, it's a fucked up society that uses religion to justify murder based on how a person cuts their hair. Just the sort of thing that Santorum and his type would love here in the US.