Yea?!
Well, Iraq is not having that.
Since 2003 when western culture has been leaking into Iraq from all US's efforts to detain WMDs, tho whole Emo subculture has dispersed.
These influences brought a whole new lifestyle to some of the youth out there. This, as in most cases, has been closely associated with being Gay, and the cops are not having it. It still isn't clear who is giving the straight orders in maintaining these alternative lifestyle cats to ground beef, but it is definitely being enforced. It is very much against Muslim beliefs that gays are acceptable.
In turn, there have been lists created of these suspicious folks by giving their names or nicknames and home addresses. These selected few are then being found and beat to death, bludgeoned with concrete bricks until they are no longer recognizable.
About 750 suspects have killed since 2006.
They do have limited solutions for this and are definitely getting outside help from other countries that have established safe houses for these kinds situations. However, this isn't stopping the local law enforcement not to weed them out and publicly humiliate and murder them. Everyone is scared to say something because the reprecussions it may have on them or their family.
So, please... being that you are in the states, be grateful for the freedoms you have.
You can't even look semi-gay without being harassed or possibly killed over in Iraq, but I wonder what the hip hop game would look like if they applied the same overbearing rules.
Hmmmm.... peace.
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