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Iraq's official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term "homosexuality" and instead to say "sexual deviance," a government spokesperson said and a document from the regulator shows.

The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) document said that the use of the term "gender" was also banned. It prohibited all phone and internet companies licensed by it from using the terms in any of their mobile applications.

A government official later said that the decision still required final approval.

The regulator "directs media organisations ... not to use the term 'homosexuality' and to use the correct term 'sexual deviance'," the Arabic-language statement said.

A government spokesperson said a penalty for violating the rule had not yet been set but could include a fine.

Iraq does not explicitly criminalise gay sex but loosely defined morality clauses in its penal code have been used to target members of the LGBT community.

Major Iraqi parties have in the past two months stepped up criticism of LGBT rights, with rainbow flags frequently being burned in protests by Shi'ite Muslim factions opposed to recent Koran burnings in Sweden and Denmark.

More than 60 countries criminalise gay sex, while same-sex sexual acts are legal in more than 130 countries, according to Our World in Data.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

A reminder that before 9/11 the US was funding these groups to defeat the 'evil commies' in the area. So yeah, maybe fascism isn't the lesser of two evils?

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago
[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago
[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

That’s my wholesome werthers original chungus, respected Republican

Where did all of the decorum in politics go?

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

i-told-you-dog i warned you about destabilising iraq bro i told you dog

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna deviate your dad's dick

[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

biden god could dad deviate a dick

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

The opposite of burning a Koran is burning a gay pride flag? What, they couldn't find any Gay Bibles?

[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Considering Islam is everything in most middle eastern countries, burning the Quran is seen as an attack on their very being, so the retaliation is burning gay flags because it’s seen as an attack on the west’s core identity which is funny because that’s far from what the west values

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember in the late 90s some guy wrote a play where Jesus and his disciples were gay. You can imagine how conservatives felt about this.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jesus was, supposedly, an unmarried 30-something rabbi, which was highly unusually for Jewish society at the time. He was a carpenter (worked with wood) and his friends were shepherds and sailors (historically gay professions). The signs have always been there.

It's that or he was married to Mary Magdalene.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

worked with wood

data-laughing

[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Isn’t Magdalene said to be Jesus’ most loyal follower who wasn’t a disciple and understood his teachings more than any of them, while Jesus was constantly frustrated with the disciples screw ups and misunderstandings? Feel like it would be more realistic for him to get it in with her than with the men who irritate him

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Canonically, there is very little said about Mary Magdalene in the Bible, other than that she was one of Jesus' earliest followers and witnessed his crucifixion and resurrection. The stuff you are talking about comes from "heretical" texts.

[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I like how all the heretical texts are 100% more interesting while the canonical shit is just so boring it drives me to sleep. Like, I could read about the nephelim, Judas being part of Jesus’ plan, and all that weird shit about angels and demons.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, they freaked out from The Last Temptation of Christ which said that Jesus was straight

Gotta say, they're really not good at the whole "sex is normal and good" thing

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah their views on sex are so... toxic. It must be exhausting.

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

wp to rainbow imperialism, gay rights have been spread by force just as all the nafo memes say they do!

[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The US’ mission to spread democracy and human rights in the Middle East have been a success

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