Amnesty International Condemns Iraqi President

It is a sad state of affairs that the Obama administration and the U. S. State Department appear to be utterly indifferent to the unrestrained murder of gay Iraqis that are taking place at present. Both seem unwilling to demand that their Iraqi puppets take action and stop the travesty. Thus, it is good to see that Amnesty International is calling attention to the blatant murders that are taking place and going after Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki personally for allowing the bloodshed. Candidly, I find Maliki and his government to be pretty worthless and content to suck off the tit of the American taxpayers. It is a damning situation when gays had better protections under Saddam Hussein than they do now. Here are highlights from Pink News:

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Amnesty International has taken the unusual step of writing to Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to demand "urgent and concerted action" by his government to stop the killings of gay men in the country. Although confusion has led to conflicted reports over the numbers being killed, Amnesty believes the murders have been carried out by militiamen and relatives of the victims, after being incited by religious leaders.

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According to the Independent, Amnesty's letter to Mr Al-Maliki accuses his government of failing to condemn the killings publicly or to investigate the murders. It also suggested that evidence shows police are encouraged to target gay men and calls for officers who incite homophobic attacks to be "held to account and either prosecuted or disciplined and removed from office".

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Amnesty International is calling on Nouri al-Maliki to condemn all attacks on members of the gay community, publicly, unreservedly and in the strongest terms possible." Writing for PinkNews.co.uk in February, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell claimed: "Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, homophobia and the terrorisation of LGBT people has got much worse.

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"The western invasion of Iraq in 2003 ended the tyrannical Baathist dictatorship. But it also destroyed a secular state, created chaos and lawlessness and allowed the flourishing of religious fundamentalism. The result has been an Islamist-inspired homophobic terror campaign against LGBT Iraqis." "Queers are being shot dead in their homes, streets and workplaces," he added.

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"Even suspected gay children are being murdered. They killers claim to be doing these assassinations at the behest of the 'democratic' Iraqi government, in order to eradicate what they see as immoral, un-Islamic behaviour."

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Once again, religious fundamentalism of all stripes and cowardly politicians are proving to be a main force of evil in the world.