Friday, April 10, 2009

The illusion of the newly democratic Iraq

I read this report about how the newly open gays in Iraq face danger , you know after the murder of open gay Iraqis in Sadr city it seems that the world began to wake up that people are getting killed in Iraq , sorry not any people but gays are being killed !!
Those millions who have fled the country and those thousands who have been killed in the relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq do not count !! Seriously gay people are really lucky !!
The report in the NY Times with my all due respect to those who wrote it and contribute in it full of nonsense starting with the first phrase "The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq"
What democracy they are speaking about and why I have the feeling that some American reporters believe that Iraq lived in the stone age before the invasion !! The invasion that brought nothing except total destruction to one biggest countries in the Arab world !!!
Now concerning those poor gays who can't live as they want in Iraq because of the narrow minded people who are considered the majority of the Iraqi population, well to kill someone in this way is horrible crime but it is not that it happens only in Muslim Arab countries , I do not need to mention here other western countries with other incidents.
You must understand that homosexuality is not acceptable whether religiously or socially by all means in Iraq like the rest of the Arab world "I know that homosexuality was always there in Iraq and no one needs to lecture me about ِAbu Nuwas and Arabian nights ".
It is strange thing that they speak about homosexuality in Iraq in this way and it is against the Iraqi law which is put by the Iraqi parliament of that newly democratic Iraq , that Iraqi parliament is representing the Iraqi majority , this is the new democracy America has brought so do you see a Contradiction here ??
Gays can't be protected in Iraq because they are doing something against the law and they can't impose that thing on the society especially if it is a conservative society heading towards radicalism otherwise it won't be a democracy. Yes majority rules and minority has rights ,but this is a minority refused by all the society.
If they want the American forces along other invasion forces to protect them and help them to be recognized by force then they are dreaming because they will be another reason for the rest of the Iraqi people to hate and even to kill them.
Already I do not think that rejecting homosexuality is only an Arab or Islamic thing but it is rejected almost in all societies and is banned in most religions.
I do not know why the people were not shocked in the same way when scientists were killed in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq or when the Iraqi monuments were destroyed deliberately , of course I do not need to speak about the war crimes done by the coalition forces in Iraq.
Related Debate in the Arabic blogosphere
Lately there was a lot of debate in the Arabic blogosphere about gays and homosexuality starting from Lebanon and Syria , mainly from Syria where a group of bloggers decided to launch a campaign against homosexuality for one week and it really caused a lot of stir for sure more than anything I saw concerning that classical debate about homosexuality. Famous Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Hamdy wrote an interesting view rejecting homosexuality last month, his examples he used to explain his point of view were interesting for sure, Hamdy is liberal by the way and you can check from his blog.
For me God created Adam and Eve in the first place , the world or rather the Universe is made on opposite pairs : Water/Fire,Yin/Yang ,Night /day,Winter/Summer and Man/Woman, it is like a balance that meant to be.
Look rejecting homosexuality does not mean you are radical and retarded nor accepting it means that you are liberal and progressive. If you believe in diversity then you must accept both points of views, already I see some pro-homosexuals who are not as radical as those who are anti-homosexuals.

9 comments:

  1. Homophobia is GAY! =)
    I don't mean to pick on u, but it is called "out" as there is nothing called "open" gay lol

    Anyway I disagree with gay guys who public display their gayness, people don't have 2 know what u enjoy on bed!! So they just have 2 keep their orientation 4 themselves and stop dreaming of gay rights as it will take a light year 4 Arabs 2 digest/tolerate such a thing =)

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  2. Hi Z,

    This is a good post even though I don't agree with everything you said.

    btw it's "illusion", hurry up and change it before anyone else notices and starts picking on your spelling ;)

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  3. Hello from San Francisco. You have very interesting views and I like your essay.

    May we agree that the USA forces must leave and that gays should not be killed just for being gay? And I mean that not just in Iraq, but in all countries.

    We organized a speak out here about the gay Iraqi murders and you can read it at my blog:

    http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/

    On Friday, there is a protest at the NYC location of the Iraqi Mission to the UN. We will not be silent about the war and the gay killings too.

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  4. by talking this ways about gays, you show how Muslims are tolerant toward different people, bravo, keep it up please cuz i want non muslins see how ugly r u guys!!

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  5. I'm an Iraqi who is been living in Baghdad for 35 years and I can testify that yes Iraq was living in a "stone" age during Saddam..and despite the post war choas, things are much better now in Baghdad and they continue to improve.

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  6. Actually, I think that water and fire cannot be very intimate together (Power relations), but water and water can better mingle together. It's a different philosophy, but it's there, and it has to be accepted and respected. What is needed is tolerance towards differences.

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  7. I say thanks to the Iraqi who has lived in Baghdad for 35 years. He is much better informed than you appear to be. Saddam was a sadistic murderer and brooked no opposition. Iraqis are far better off today than they were.

    War is a terrible thing and many innocents die but it is not the U.S. that bombs civilian marketplaces,hotels,busses etc. It is the terrorists who do not value human life.

    I would say that there is actually more democracy (defined as a freely elected government)in Iraq today than there is in most of the Middle East. America is not the bad guy!

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  8. misrscribe,

    Do you seriously consider the US-backed puppet government in Iraq to be a "freely elected government"?

    I wonder if the Anonymous who lived 35 years in Baghdad works for FOX or abc. Sure things are much better now in Baghdad, with over a million dead civilians due to a failed war plan.

    I heard the US government's continuous search for WMD's is improving as well. America isn't the bad guy you know, regardless of what the liberals say. Thou shall not lie UNLESS it helps you politically!

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  9. Yes of course it is freely elected.. Perfect it is not but it is far better than the alternatives. Apparently Iraq forever believes only what he/she wants to believe. Unless it fits his/her preconceived naive perceptions it can't possibly be true. Sad!

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