Ethics

More Anti-Gay Violence in Iraq

By Ed Brayton

The Guardian has a really appalling article about a group of Islamist hardliners in Iraq targeting and killing gays in that country.

Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for victims...

Hamizi, a computer science graduate, is at the cutting edge of a new wave of violence against gay men in Iraq. Made up of hardline extremists, Hamizi's group and others like it are believed to be responsible for the deaths of more than 130 gay Iraqi men since the beginning of the year alone.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).