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IRAQI Teenagers Stoned To Death For EMBRACING “Western” Haircuts (With Video)
At least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after an inflammatory interior ministry statement dubbed it “devil worshiping”, activists said.
Iraq’s Moral Police released a chilling statement on the interior ministry’s website condemning the “emo phenomenon” among Iraqi youth, disturbingly declaring its intent to “eliminate” the trend.
“The ‘Emo phenomenon’ or devil worshiping 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,” it continued.
Religious extremists caught onto the interior ministry statement, and 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.
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 expressed alarm 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.
Below is the full Al-Sharqiya report in Arabic:
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 criticized the stoning of the young men as “an act of terrorism.”
Below is the full English translation of the Iraqi interior ministry’s inflammatory statement.
The Director of the Moral Police of the Interior Ministry released a statement, saying “The ‘Emo phenomenon’ or devil worshiping 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.”
‘Emo’ comes from the English word ‘emotional’ and the phenomenon is popular among teenagers not only in Iraq, but in most societies. They use their appearances and movements as a method to express their emotions and embody their will and their view of life in their behavior.
Colonel Mushtaq Taleb al-Mahemdawi said: “The Emo Phenomenon was discovered a while back by members of our force in Baghdad. A report has been made and given to the Ministry of Interior to receive an approval to carry on with the investigation and to know how to eliminate the phenomenon.”
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.”
“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.”
al-akhbar
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on March 12, 2012. Filed under INTERNATIONAL NEWS.
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Man Elah. Kzu.
March 12, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Too bad for tht boy but Shading blood can not be justfied.
shaik
March 12, 2012 at 5:08 pm
He deserved to die, this is not america
Miss G
March 12, 2012 at 5:20 pm
If christains cud b tht true 2 their religon n denounce o attempts 2 corrupt thier morals,GOD wud hav ored cum by nw. We as a “christain” nation embrace o sorts of thngs-indecent n imoral dressing, wierd pratices like coruption, murder, homosexuality, prostitution ,adultery, voilence n child abuse! O ths z happenin n we kip silent abt it n ko it normal. I dnt beliv in murder bt i lyk th way they r vigilant in kiping wat they blive in.
Mujahideen
March 12, 2012 at 5:35 pm
This is how religious nations should uphold their religious values and resist funny western culture e.g Gayism and Lesbianism. I wish the same can be applied to the gay folks in Zambia now
Ziman
March 12, 2012 at 6:48 pm
@Mujahaaden if U read the Word/Jesus (Holy Bible)1st Jesus is Love and he summarised the 10 commandments into 3 one of it is to love thy neighbour in 1 Cor 13 v 4 explains it all. A big Qst: There a lots of excutions in the Islamic states for drug pushers. Taliban a ruthless but most of the heroin to the USA and Europe comes from Taliban territory. So has the harshness helped them reduce the supply since U say they embrace islamic law.
Sibbaweh mohammad
March 12, 2012 at 8:04 pm
To start with,i condenm the killing of youths because the sharia law does allow punishin youths b4 they reach pubert and such kind of crimes in sharia law does nt atract a death penalt. Am there is better way of sughtin the poblem out.
@Ziman jesus been love does nt mean that we shud live in a cmmunity which is nt upright.In islam we believ that we must live the way God wants us to liv and I do nt think the God of christianity want u to live in a community that embraces bad vices(gayism,indicent drassing fornication etc).
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ichipampa
March 12, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Wake up Zambia other countries do not entertain nousense why are we wasting time discussing guy in a christian nation. What is happening in Iraqi is just an eye opener for Zambia we love God help us
Tekinon
March 12, 2012 at 10:09 pm
U do nt solve mistake wit onother mistake.so dats wy in arab countries there is no peace
diana
March 13, 2012 at 7:29 am
that was wrong, really wrong.i pitty the boy.its just a hair style and moreover he was just a teen ager and acting like one.lord have mercy.kill the people responcible.justice should prevail.
AHMADINEJAD
March 13, 2012 at 9:27 am
Abash Western culture.Long live Islam
gaga
March 13, 2012 at 10:43 am
let them cut their hair. nichani kansi imwe bantu. some of you have got bad useless habits in your hearts that even stoning you is not good enough, yet you are stoning someone with just a different western hairstyle. so lame. remove that crazy hatred log in your eye, together with your capability to kill, before you remove a hairstyle and life from this earth. WHOEVER IS WITHOUT SIN SHOULD CAST A FIRST STONE. why is there not anything like advising the youths about hairstyle first and talking to them. its true, my people will perish for lack of wisdom. hairstyle sure?! and its just a phase, they are just teenagers.
mutototo
March 13, 2012 at 11:59 am
some hair cuts of dis genration are too damn weird!! u cant distinguish btween humans & chikens (ba mukolwe)…….absolute nonsense!!!
ben bwalya
March 13, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Zambian pipo beaware,efyakopakopa haircuts n dresin westrn life eletonaula!!!
Zedpretty
March 13, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Yes how awesome! People should refrain from following white people’s bullshit. How i wish zambia was a muslim country too
Drewman
March 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm
This is a very good development for two reasons; 1- All the time the USA has spent in Iraq has now been seen as a waste because things are back to the Saddam days,good. 2- premptive measures like killing those little rats will keep the homos underground and keep the country morally clean, we Zambians can learn from this.
gumu gumu
March 13, 2012 at 2:45 pm
may he that kills by the sword die by the sword. i hope those brutes get stonned to death too. punishment is necessary, but how do you kill someone over a ****** haircut, take away that life that God himself gave and loves so much. they deserve a special place in hell, hotter than the usual
Warren k
March 13, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Country men and women we nid to learn somthn frm dz idol worshipers..if truly thoz wu do nt kno de true nd living God can do anythn pozibo to preserv their belief then christians ar sinking down wit dz kyd of dresin,paintin,raping teenagers,unfaithfunes even to their own bodies awe mwandini tupepeshe..i feel 4an innocent youngman.
biboman
March 13, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Just a hair style.thou shall not judge
Salt
March 13, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Why killing ze young man after all , you guys you have been shaving your pubic hair into a chima lorry.
Ichitala camwaume
March 13, 2012 at 9:12 pm
we cipampa, amashiwi wasosa muli amano apakalamba. There no way we could waisting time puting such programmes on tv to be debeted on. Cimo noku tantinka amakala pa maliketi. Natotela.
Tonga Bull
March 13, 2012 at 10:26 pm
viva islam, good job guys. we should do the same to those women who like wearing skimpy outfits in public.
Gód
March 14, 2012 at 9:07 am
@ tonga bull….. your daughters must be given the same treatment, leave the others out of this madness
Tjai
March 14, 2012 at 9:14 am
Tumfweko mustanyozi where are my comments
The Equalizer
March 14, 2012 at 9:16 am
There is always one ***** who says we should reject western values and maintain our religious principles, when the religion itself is a western import. Christian fundamentalism pa Zed is becoming christian idiotism.
kABOVA
March 14, 2012 at 12:21 pm
IF YOU HAVE NEVER SINNED BE THE FIRST TO THROWN THE STONE. KILLING A FOLLOWER OF A RELIGION OR CULT DOES NOT NECESSARY EXTINGUSH THE PRACTICE, THE POINT IS, SUCH IDEAS ARE IN THE MINDS OF PIPO. THE BEST WAY IS TO START TALKING TO THOSE PIPO BY TELLING THEM THE EVILS THEY ARE FOLLOWING AND THAT THEY SHOLUD REPENT AND SEEK SALVATION. THATS WHAT WE DO AS CHRISTIANS. ITS LIKE CASTING A DEMON WITH OUT FILLING THAT MIND WITH THE RIGHT WORD..THE DEMON GOES ROUND AND COMES BACK WITH SEVEN MORE .SUCH A PERSON WILL BE WORSE THAN BEFORE. EFYO BALANDILE BAYESU. OUR COUNTRY ZAMBIA HAS ALL THE POTENTIAL TO GET BACK ON TRACK. THE SECRET IS ALL IN RESPECTING THE FAMILY UNIT. REMEMBER THOSE OF YOU LIKE ME WHO GREW UP IN MINE TOWNSHIP, IT WAS NOT COMMON TO HEAR A GIRL WITH A CHILD OUT OF WED LOCK. THE FAMILY UNIT WAS INTACT IN THOSE TIMES BUT NOMBA CHALITWALA BONSE YALIZANDA.
bilken
March 14, 2012 at 10:46 pm
first its sharia law then muslim exremists with crazy beliefs,is this religion worth following?