Its weird republicans hate middle eastern people so much. These guys are enacting the laws they wish they had.
They only hate them because they ain't them.
Well that and their racism
It's a movie reference
And wrong religion
Do you remember the Dave Chappel skit where a blind black man was a white supremacist and joined the KKK?
He did not understand why they wanted to kill him because he thought he was just like them.
that KKK also had a gay man at their meeting. his head exploded
Made me think of this video by darkmatter2525 (beware, it's kindof offensive, but also funny)
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Not to me. People can agree and not like each other. For example both me and another man can agree that X belongs to someone, X is very desirable to have, and that X's ownership is in dispute between me and someone else.
Christians and Muslims agree on many things that doesn't mean less conflict it means more.
Coming soon to a red state near you!
Including them being talked down from the death penalty.
Florida is already there. They've been trying to:
Stop believing in skydaddy and save the life of a LGBT person
they're proposing to lock same-sex partners together for 15 years? why not just let them live together by themselves -- they save 15 years' worth of taxpayer money per person!
It’s just really extreme marriage counseling
Wow. Two stories in one day about how America brought freedom to Iraq.
Must be time to bomb them back into compliance with western values.
The sad thing is a significant chunk of Lemmy seems to have either forgotten America's role in shaping Iraq into the way it is today or aren't aware of it at all. Satayana would be shaking his head.
whoosh
Do please tell me what I'm missing. Is the person I was replying to who I was essentially agreeing with also missing the same thing?
Your original reply seemed like you were talking about the comment, not agreeing with it
Just to be clear I was joking. I don’t want to bomb anyone ever.
Yeah, and the other commenter got it, but the other other one thought that that other commenter thought you were serious. But the other other commenter was wrong; that other commenter knew you were joking. And so did I.
Man, this is getting confusing. But everyone understood your comment, at least! Lol
Iran has been shaping them into what they are now though.
Iran didn't "guide" them into creating a constitution that was deferential to Islam. In fact, the Ba'ath party, which was gotten rid of when Saddam was defeated, was secular. It was the U.S. that did that.
Bombing isn't really in the Iraq playbook yet.
Maybe it can be added after the latest section on insurrection sand we'll see about next time.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”.
They also set a minimum seven-year prison term for “promoting” same-sex relations and a sentence ranging from one to three years for men who “intentionally” act like women.
The amended law makes “biological sex change based on personal desire and inclination” a crime and punishes trans people and doctors who perform gender reassignment surgery with up to three years in prison.
Lawmaker Raed al-Maliki, who advanced the amendments, told AFP that “the law serves as a preventive measure to protect society from such acts”.
He said passing the new amendment was postponed until after Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s visit to the United States earlier this month.
LGBTQ+ Iraqis have been forced into the shadows, often targeted with “kidnappings, rapes, torture and murders” that go unpunished, according to a 2022 report by Human Rights Watch and the IraQueer non-governmental organisation.
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