Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison
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”.
Transgender people will also be sentenced to three years in jail under the amendments to a 1988 anti-prostitution law, which were adopted during a session attended by 170 out of 329 lawmakers on Saturday.
A previous draft had proposed capital punishment for same-sex relations, in what campaigners had called a “dangerous” escalation. The new amendments enable courts to sentence people to between 10 and 15 years in prison, according to the document seen by AFP, in a country where gay and transgender people already face frequent attacks and discrimination.
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.
It looks to me like this would’ve happened anyways, it was just a matter of time.
Did you think they were going to stop “attempting to maintain legitimacy with conservative Islamic fundamentalists” at any point?
Yes, I quoted that part. It came after the part I bolded that said “In the years following the 1991 Gulf War,” which makes me think you didn’t actually read much of it.
The 1991 Gulf War was when the U.S. invaded Iraq the first time. It was, again, America’s fault.
1991 takes place after 1990, which is when Saddam “brought in anti-woman legislation, such as the 1990 presidential decree granting immunity to men who had committed honour crimes.”
They started “attempting to maintain legitimacy with conservative Islamic fundamentalists” before the 1991 Gulf War, yet you think the 1991 Gulf War is what caused them to "maintain legitimacy with conservative Islamic fundamentalists”?
You also think that if it wasn’t for a war that took place after they started "attempting to maintain legitimacy with conservative Islamic fundamentalists” that they would’ve magically stopped "attempting to maintain legitimacy with conservative Islamic fundamentalists.”
Interesting.
1990? You mean when America started threatening to Invade and Saddam sought the aid of the fundamentalists to stay in power, going against his own party?
Yes, I agree, Saddam was a terrible dictator.
That doesn’t change the fact that homosexuality was legal when he was in charge and illegal now.
I re-iterate my previous point of “it looks to me like this would’ve happened anyways, it was just a matter of time.”
“Did you think they were going to stop ‘attempting to maintain legitimacy with conservative Islamic fundamentalists’ at any point?”
And I re-iterate my previous point that it wouldn’t have happened anyway if America hadn’t stuck its nose in.
Saddam didn’t reach out to the Islamists while at war with Iran. He certainly could have.