No place for fashion monkeys:
Iraq: “Morality police” stone to death at least 90 young men for “emo” appearance
Update: video thanks to TT
The number of dead and the brutality of their deaths are staggering, and almost beyond belief. But the report has been picked up by major news organizations, including the Daily Mail.
One of the starkest differences between the values we defend and the sort of society which Islamic supremacists would inflict on us is in the value of human life. On dismal display here is how cheap human life is once it has forfeited its access to protection on incredibly flimsy pretexts: apparently human life has value until it steps out of line. Then, all bets are off.
Sharia consistently fails to perform as it is advertised to Western audiences on the protection of human rights. “Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for ‘emo’ haircuts: activists,” from Al Arabiya, March 10 (thanks to Atlas Shrugs):
Iraqi activists said this picture belongs to a teenager who was brutally killed by religious police for having an “emo” hairstyle.
Iraq: “Morality police” stone to death at least 90 young men for “emo” appearance
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 what government officials call ‘Western appearances’ in Iraq.