16 March, 2006

Gays Join Rushdie in Fatwa Club

It's times like these that make me glad that I'm straight. It's bad enough that politicians are trying to enshrine discrimination against gays in our state constitution, but now the Iraqi cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is calling for the deaths of queer folk.

On his Web site, used to communicate with Shiite masses throughout the country, Sistani this week issued a fatwa against Sunnis and gays.

He urges followers to kill homosexuals in the "worst, most severe way".


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