CLERIC CALLS FOR HOMOSEXUALITY TO BE ERADICATED
During a seminar attended by Iraqi clerics, police and tribal leaders, radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for the “depravity” of homosexuality to be eradicated.
“The purpose of the meetings is to fight the depravity and to urge the community to reject this phenomenon,” said Sadr’s spokesperson Sheikh Wadea al-Atabi.
However, according to al-Atabi, Sadr does not condone violence against homosexuals. “The only remedy to stop it is through preaching and guidance. There is no other way to put an end to it,” he said, stressing that the movement could not resort to violence.
“Al-Sadr rejects this type of violence … and anyone who commits violence (against gays) will not be considered as being one of us,” Atabi said.
Anti-gay violence has been escalating in Iraq since last month’s condemnation of homosexuality by another Shiite cleric, Sattar al-Battat. The bodies of six gay men have been found in and around Baghdad since then, while police said four other gay men were also tortured.
In a letter to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Amnesty International claimed that as many as 25 boys and men had been killed in Baghdad alone because they were either gay or believed to be. Homosexual acts are punishable by up to seven years in prison in Iraq.
…… Can there also be an end to idiots like him who are deprived of all sense of rationality and are brainwashed by their twisted religion? I for one certainly do not want his “preaching and guidance” for his idea of such things is persecution & torture. I feel sorry for those gay men and women trapped in a society that is dominated by men who are too afraid, too cowardly, too sick in the head to face the real truth that they themselves (and their idea of a religion) are the problem, not homosexuality.
the alternative. Here’s a better headline: Homosexuals call for cleric’s to be eradicated. Now that’s a world I dream of ….