Yep, gays. The Iraqi people have been watching nightly confessions on TV for a while now. But the latest criminal has truly shocked the nation...not just by the beheading of children but by the even worse crime of kissing other men.
Nadia Mohamad, 49, a government employee who was watching the program with her husband and children while having dinner at the Sky Cafe in downtown Erbil on Thursday night, said the beheading of a terrified youth on the first program - shown before the sex scenes began appearing - had literally sickened her.Some people are so upset, they want to believe the videos are doctored rather than that a Kurd could do such a thing (the kissing, mind you -- no one finds the beheading hard to accept). Nice to know that even when you're being terrorized by suicide bombings that everyone can agree on one thing: gays are worse.
"The first time I saw it, I vomited, because I couldn't control myself," Mrs. Mohamad said.
But then, she said, she was almost equally shocked when the men started stripping and fondling each other before the scene cut away to Sheik Zana and about half a dozen of his underlings giving confessions against blank backdrops. "Sex is something sacred for us," Mrs. Mohamad said. "But when we saw them doing that, it becomes humiliating."
It was hard to find anyone who did not express outrage at the sex scenes when asked about the programs this week. "The homosexual part - that's the worst thing," said Arkan Hamza, 27, who was having lunch with a friend at the Abu Shahab Restaurant on Wednesday.
