Iraq bans the media from using the term ‘homosexuality’.

foobarijk , 10 months ago

If you don’t say it, they don’t exist.

Nioxic , 10 months ago

Ah so they are just close friends

foiledAgain , 10 months ago

THAT’S what will fix our country! That was the missing piece! It’s all rainbo… I mean, prosperity from here on in. /s

eran_morad , 10 months ago

Backward degenerates.

MaxPower , 10 months ago

They can’t seem to think about anything else than sex and homosexuality. Must be exhausting.

cupcakezealot , 10 months ago

Why do strict religious governments in the Middle East resemble Republican and Conservative governments in the west so much?

HootinNHollerin , 10 months ago

Because they’re both religious extremists

Poob , 10 months ago

Because religious conservatism looks the same, regardless of where it happens

Moonrise2473 , 10 months ago

I will never understand the mind of religious nuts. Stealing, killing, cheating, crimes that are explicitly written in stone as commandments: “ah that’s ok it’s human nature”. Kissing someone you like: “noooooooooo”

Zoboomafoo , 10 months ago

Bible: “Don’t gangrape strangers to town just because they’re pretty”

Nuts: “Clearly this means that dudes loving dudes is a sin”

foobarijk , 10 months ago

So they’re fine with cheating with someone’s wife, but without kissing?

electrogamerman , 10 months ago

Their mind is: whatever is done to extend religion, YES!

P1r4nha , 10 months ago

The only allowed expression from now on is “fabulous”.

Furball , 10 months ago

“Zesty”

SpunkyBarnes , 10 months ago

So banning the word will eliminate the behavior?

That’s some epic magnitude magical thinking there, for damn sure.

cupcakezealot , 10 months ago

Ron DeSantis: I choose to believe

goforliftoff , 10 months ago

It’s like when some places in the US stopped testing for COVID - no tests = no positive results = no COVID. Flawless logic.

whataboutshutup , 10 months ago

They don’t want to eliminate anything. That’s just an easy win in the hearts of fanatics and one more layer of oppression. Like if there are lack of them: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iraq What’s more there to add?

Although, eradicating homosexuality as a possible thing from a public speech has weight. Mixing them with whatever-you-can-think-of too.

If someone less brainwashed could’ve had some compassion for a ‘misguided’, ‘ill-informed’ person, now they’d not even know if they were charged for being gay (or a sin of sodomy, yup) when this state hangs them. In the media, they would be not unlike a serial child rapist. And gay people just don’t exist anymore, yeah, just deviants.

Also, their ‘honor’ thingie. Their families and quiet supporters ‘enablers’ would be even more publicly embarassed and looked down than before, if not treated as complicit in their ‘crime’. It may increase the lasting damage on their lives.

Imagine being a parent of a hanged ‘sexual deviant’ in Iraq. You aren’t even a failure, you created a monster. And you are, probs, a monster yourself. Lets add some mob justice to spice things up!

I have a pretty shakey understanding of their national mentality, but I think it is bigger and more dangerous than a kek on them, silly undoers of the Big Gay in one stroke of a pen.

be_excellent_to_each_other , 10 months ago

In other news, Ron DeSantis seen taking notes while learning of this development.

zefiax , 10 months ago

Ronald, not Ron. No nicknames in Florida until he gets a signed form from his mom permitting him to use Ron.

kemsat , 10 months ago

https://i.imgur.com/LFTOZPP.jpg

kemsat , 10 months ago

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Yuki , 10 months ago

How closeted can you be… They kiss each other in the cheek, sometimes lips, but using a word is too much?

FuglyDuck , 10 months ago

That’s not really closeted. For them that’s just a greeting.

Its like telling a football player that slapping another dude’s ass in tights is gay. (Not to mention chasing other dudes in said tights…)

Just a different culture.

It’s still a very closeted and homophobic culture, but that’s not why.

Bunnylux , 10 months ago

I see what you’re saying, but football gay as hell

FuglyDuck , 10 months ago

Yes, I was that nerd at the state fair cheering for the robotics teams the first time the held state finals at the fair… even though I don’t have a kid, or know any of them.

I wish I had that when I was in school. Give me battlebots any day of the week.

Yuki , 10 months ago

Still sounds pretty gay to me and I’m not even a guy