SFist: Iraqi Gays Scheduled for Execution This Week

WillfromSF

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:18:55 -0800

This is horrendous. The world community must stop this. Why are we pissing away any more lives and billions of dollars in this or any country that supports this Dark Ages behavior? Obama must stop this and then get our troops out.

RobInSF

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:31:34 -0800

Interesting. Now SfGate is quoting SFist for news. The whole world done gone crazy.

dubious07

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:26:20 -0800

Unbelievable. What is really sickening is that some poster on the sfgate website claimed that Iraqi gays are doing much better now than before the American invasion in 2003 (this poster claimed the difference was between night and day for gay Iraqis). This poster's sole defense of the Iraqi debacle now is because the liberation of gay people was worth it. And to read this. Makes me sick about the whole thing.

debeq

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:16:01 -0800

I am incredulous that there are people in SanFran who are apparently unaware of the plight of homosexuals in the Islamic nations. It is no secret and has been happening for decades.

Just Jennifer

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:02:24 -0800

I am curious... Is there any confirmation of this from an actual news source? I am more inclined to believe the UK Gay Press than Pam's House Blend, which is notoriously sensationalistic. I hope this story is not true, though it is certainly possible. But I have seen nothing in the mainstream media, which I find odd...

Brock Keeling

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:58:35 -0800

stockton is much worse.

FR415

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:58:35 -0800

So much for the religion of peace Bull SH**! The armpit of the world!

FR415

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:56:10 -0800

So much for the religion of peace Bull SH**! The armpit of the world!

debeq

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:45:17 -0800

////Michael Petrelis has posted things about gays being executed in Iran & I'm sure he will say something about this, when he learns of it.///uh, it's Iraq, not Iran and if MPetrelis doesn't already know how life sucks for gays and lesbians in islamic nations then he is not a very good activist.

periqueblend

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:36:37 -0800

For realz.

bluecanary

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:34:56 -0800

Yes. I'm shocked, shocked, to hear of American tax dollars supporting such things.

megang

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:13 -0800

I hear you fugaziaboutit! I wonder if all those Free Palestine people would be all for freeing Palestine if they knew what kinda "rights" came along with that "freedom"? Kinda like Code Pink showing up an NRA rally...

aleph1

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:12:58 -0800

That is what is called a false dichotomy. You can be both critical of Israeli behavior and Iraqi/Arab/Muslim behavior. The moral value of the actions of one does not make automatically make the moral value of the other its opposite.

RinconHillSF

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:32:40 -0800

Great, American tax dollars indirectly (?) supporting human rights abuses.

Wagnerian V.02

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:03:25 -0800

A great resource for international news about gay human rights struggle around the world including Eastern Europe, Iraq and Iran is David Ireland's Blog: http://direland.typepad.com/

sf_bikebike

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:10:51 -0800

damn, thats mean.

alphabetagaga87

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:41 -0800

I'm sure our troops who are there to preserve justice will deal with the situation.

fugaziaboutit

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:58:38 -0800

Keep this in mind the next time there’s some Israel bashing block party in the near future. If you’re gay, you live and work in Israel. If you’re gay and you live in Hamas run state, expect to be gathered up an executed just like in Iran. Put that in your “We are Oscar Grant” crack pipe and smoke it.

antfaber

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:39:37 -0800

Michael Petrelis has posted things about gays being executed in Iran & I'm sure he will say something about this, when he learns of it.