Gay Iraqis targeted by extremist Islamic clerics

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Why is the American Gay rights lobby not up in arms about this? Gay men are being killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran for nothing else but their sexual orientation. Isn't this an issue of human rights?

- The Angryindian

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From Direland:

Iraqi LGBT
-- the London-based group with a network of members and supporters
inside Iraq that documents anti-gay violence -- last week released
details on the latest series of murders of Iraqi gays by fanatical
Islamist death squads. At the same time, the group says lack of money
will force it to close two of the five safe houses it maintains in Iraq
for gay Iraqis who have been threatened with death and forced to flee
their homes. And the group’s coordinator has himself been targeted for
death by an anti-gay fatwa.

“I received a death fatwa sent to my personal e-mail address last
month,” Ali Hili, the 33-year-old gay Iraqi exile who is the full-time
volunteer coordinator of Iraqi LGBT,
told me by telephone from London. “It came from the official
headquarters of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Qum, Iran, and was stamped
with his signature.”