Stoned to death for being an emo: NINETY Iraqi students killed for having 'strange hair and tight clothes'

• Number of deaths could be even higher
• Cleric calls the stonings 'an act of terrorism'
• Ministry of Interior 'complicit' in the killings

By PAUL MILLIGAN

More than 90 Iraqi students have been stoned to death for their Emo haircuts by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after Iraq's interior ministry dubbed it 'devil worshipping'.

Iraq's Moral Police released a statement on the interior ministry's website condemning the 'emo phenomenon' among Iraqi youth, declaring its intent to 'eliminate' the trend.

The move is part of a wider clampdown on young people taking on whatgovernment officials call 'Western appearances' in Iraq.

'The Emo phenomenon or devil worshipping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate (the phenomenon) as soon as possible since it's detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger,' the statement read.

'They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities.'

Since the statement was published religious extremists have been harassing and killing teenagers with 'strange' or 'emo' appearances.

A group of armed men dressed in civilian clothing led dozens of teenagers to secluded areas a few days ago, stoned them to death, and then disposed their bodies in garbage dumpsters across the capital, according to activists,activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar website.

The armed men are said to belong to 'one of the most extremist religious groups' in Iraq.

'First they throw concrete blocks at the boy's arms, then at his legs, then the final blow is to his head, and if he is not dead then, they start all over again,' one person who managed to escape told Al-Akhbar.

Iraq's moral police was granted approval by the Ministry of Education to enter Baghdad schools and pinpoint students with such appearances, according to the interior ministry's statement.

The exact death toll remains unclear, but Hana al-Bayaty of Brussels Tribunal, an NGO dealing with Iraqi issues, said the current figure ranges 'between 90 and 100.'

'What's most disturbing about this is that they're so young,' she said.

Al-Bayaty said the killings appear to have been carried out by extremist Shia militias in mostly poor Shia neighborhoods and said she suspected 'there's complicity of the Ministry of Interior in the killings.'

Photos of the victims were released on Facebook, causing panic and fear among Iraqi students.

A young man with long hair was among those fearful at the government-ordained harassment of teenagers with Western appearances.

'I have long hair but that doesn't mean I'm an Emo. I'm not less of a man if I have long hair. Let's not say that if I have long hair, I'm a homosexual, but I have long hair because this is my style, this is me,' he told Iraq's Al-Sharqiya television network.

Safiyyah al-Suhail, an MP, said on Thursday that 'some students have been recently arrested because they were wearing American jeans or had Western haircuts.'

The interior ministry has not disclosed the number of teenage victims, but released a follow-up statement on Thursday warning extremists 'not to step on public freedom of Iraqis.'

News of the gruesome deaths drew a stern reaction from Iraq's prominent Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who criticised the stoning of the young men as 'an act of terrorism.'

He added: 'The Ministry of Interior took this situation very seriously and received an approval from the Ministry of Education to set a plan under my full supervision and to allow us to enter schools in the capital.'

'There are some cases of the spread of this phenomenon specifically among schools in Baghdad, but we are facing great difficulty in the lack of women on the force who would allow us to carry the investigation more accurately since the phenomenon is more popular among girls between the ages of 14 and 18.'

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Originaly Posted: in Politics & Religion

We're not perfect here in the States and we also have our share of loony toons too but I'm glad I live here.

vainandy said:

We're not perfect here in the States and we also have our share of loony toons too but I'm glad I live here.

in otherwords... we don't want to know we have our own problems

are all you Americans as compasionate as this?

[Edited 3/10/12 16:02pm]

this is when i think religion should b banned!!!!!!

so sad for the boys and their families

i wonder if those ppl that threw stones would throw any on their own kids????

and yes a lot of us live in different countries, and we are lucky ~ but it is one world and we need to figure out a way to stop these things from happening

this is so fucking distressing.....can you all stop and imagine what these kids went through?.

One minute there on their iPhones looking all cool and shit.... the next, there being stoned by these barbaric bastards...I find the image of that boy so upsetting.

funkmunki said:

this is so fucking distressing.....can you all stop and imagine what these kids went through?.

One minute there on their iPhones looking all cool and shit.... the next, there being stoned by these barbaric bastards...I find the image of that boy so upsetting.

when i saw it i had to leave the room - then i came back and posted!!!! it is upsetting and sad

i said a prayer for them, and i hope one day soon things will improve in that region.....

and if there is something i can do on a personal level i would ~ i just dont know what

but you know what the most scary thing is?????? that these extreme fanatics do these things, and they have no fear, and they dont care who it is, even their own are not safe, so what hope do we have in changing and fixing things over there????

if this were a one off you could say that those involved maybe got carried away and shit...but ninty plus is on the realms of all that Nazi shit

ThisOne said:

funkmunki said:

this is so fucking distressing.....can you all stop and imagine what these kids went through?.

One minute there on their iPhones looking all cool and shit.... the next, there being stoned by these barbaric bastards...I find the image of that boy so upsetting.

when i saw it i had to leave the room - then i came back and posted!!!! it is upsetting and sad

i said a prayer for them, and i hope one day soon things will improve in that region.....

and if there is something i can do on a personal level i would ~ i just dont know what

but you know what the most scary thing is?????? that these extreme fanatics do these things, and they have no fear, and they dont care who it is, even their own are not safe, so what hope do we have in changing and fixing things over there????

im so glad im not the only one. This time next week it will all be forgotten i just wanted to share and maybe throw a few fucks into that hideous regime......Did you notice he was wearing the same vneck green tshirt

badjoke,,,

"turn 'em around, and one fall down,

89 bottles of beer on the wall"

shame on them for doin that to those kids.

and shame on those kids for not knowin

that bein americanized ain't the thing to do...

KingBAD said:

badjoke,,,

"turn 'em around, and one fall down,

89 bottles of beer on the wall"

shame on them for doin that to those kids.

and shame on those kids for not knowin

that bein americanized ain't the thing to do...

but you have to feel for them, and hope they rise as a nation against these bastards

funkmunki said:

KingBAD said:

badjoke,,,

"turn 'em around, and one fall down,

89 bottles of beer on the wall"

shame on them for doin that to those kids.

and shame on those kids for not knowin

that bein americanized ain't the thing to do...

but you have to feel for them, and hope they rise as a nation against these bastards

true that, but then too

we like to think the the u.s. is all cool

cause we live here and get away with hella shit.

but most folks have to agree, the more

freedoms we have, the worse we become

(i.e. treatment of ourselves and others)

until western culture hit them they were

basically peaceful people wwith simple rules.

KingBAD said:

funkmunki said:

but you have to feel for them, and hope they rise as a nation against these bastards

true that, but then too

we like to think the the u.s. is all cool

cause we live here and get away with hella shit.

but most folks have to agree, the more

freedoms we have, the worse we become

(i.e. treatment of ourselves and others)

until western culture hit them they were

basically peaceful people wwith simple rules.

hmmmm no!..they were never peacefull people. Their plight suerly deserves our attention now!....to ignore this situation and fob it off as they wouldn't have had fuck all if it wasn't for us is just ridiculous.

funkmunki said:

KingBAD said:

true that, but then too

we like to think the the u.s. is all cool

cause we live here and get away with hella shit.

but most folks have to agree, the more

freedoms we have, the worse we become

(i.e. treatment of ourselves and others)

until western culture hit them they were

basically peaceful people wwith simple rules.

hmmmm no!..they were never peacefull people. Their plight suerly deserves our attention now!....to ignore this situation and fob it off as they wouldn't have had fuck all if it wasn't for us is just ridiculous.

oooo, that's right!!!

those filthy heathen savages

were just like these fuckin indians

over here before they learned

the righteous fear of god and jesus

so let's fuck 'em up!!!

where the fuck is john wayne

and ronald regan when you need

some qwikkk prollem solvin...

WTF???

funkmunki said:

ThisOne said:

when i saw it i had to leave the room - then i came back and posted!!!! it is upsetting and sad

i said a prayer for them, and i hope one day soon things will improve in that region.....

and if there is something i can do on a personal level i would ~ i just dont know what

but you know what the most scary thing is?????? that these extreme fanatics do these things, and they have no fear, and they dont care who it is, even their own are not safe, so what hope do we have in changing and fixing things over there????

im so glad im not the only one. This time next week it will all be forgotten i just wanted to share and maybe throw a few fucks into that hideous regime......Did you notice he was wearing the same vneck green tshirt

yes i saw that ~ imagine his parents finding out this way 2, and not being able to do anything about it because of fear

and KingBad 4 hundred of years they have been fighting and at war and killing, they find killing to be the answer to everything!!! NO they have never been peaceful, there is always something like this happening in that part pf the world.....

they dont capture ppl and lock them away or take them to court, they kill them on the spot and walk away like human life is meaningless.

unfortunately its a minority but the majority are 2 scared to speak up or rebel, it would be a horrible way to live and die!!!!

This is what happens when you want to control other people.

This is what happens when you are holier than thou.

This is what happens when you fear what you don't understand.

This is what happens when you have no real empathy for everyone.

This is what happens to the few, the many, and all those in between.

This is what should not happen.

ThisOne said:

funkmunki said:

im so glad im not the only one. This time next week it will all be forgotten i just wanted to share and maybe throw a few fucks into that hideous regime......Did you notice he was wearing the same vneck green tshirt

yes i saw that ~ imagine his parents finding out this way 2, and not being able to do anything about it because of fear

and KingBad 4 hundred of years they have been fighting and at war and killing, they find killing to be the answer to everything!!! NO they have never been peaceful, there is always something like this happening in that part pf the world.....

they dont capture ppl and lock them away or take them to court, they kill them on the spot and walk away like human life is meaningless.

unfortunately its a minority but the majority are 2 scared to speak up or rebel, it would be a horrible way to live and die!!!!

let me say this,

in a world were there is nothin but sand

with the elements out to kill you, and the

jesus people tryin to take whuts yours

and tryin to protct your tribe from merauders

of other tribes. peaceful is whut you are

when that's whut you can be.

native american tribes did the same thing

BUT they were peaceful people

as were the myans

egyptians

and most of the other nations

NOT TOUCHED by christiandom.

in the streets of america violence

is a way of life for some and it

isn't viewed as a crime.

so i'm sayin

violence and peace is in the eye

of the beholder.

that don't make whut was done right

but some places ain't about bein westernized.

Wrong forum.

See http://prince.org/msg/105/377500