Iraq: HIV-positive couple murdered

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/96e8e9e98ccd132a2b496a792d27c80d.htm

IRAQ: HIV-positive couple murdered

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Two days later, 42-year-old Abbas, who had been HIV-positive for nine years, was gunned down on the street.

"Witnesses said that while the man was shooting him from the window of a car, he was shouting loudly, 'Death to all people who carry diseases acquired from indecent methods against Islamic beliefs'," said Abbas's sister, who asked that her name not be used, for security reasons.

That was not the end of the tragedy. On 30 July, Abbas's wife Hania Omar, 38, who also was HIV-positive, was leaving home to pick up their 11-year-old son from school when another drive-by assailant shot her dead.

The man dropped a letter which said, "This is the price to pay for a Muslim woman who is willing to sleep with a dirty man whose blood is infected with the devil's impurity." The police shrugged off the deaths as "sectarian violence".

Abbas and his wife were both hemophiliacs, and were infected with HIV from contaminated blood in the late 1980s.

[CottonBear]

1. I'm speechless. That is so very tragic.

Iraq is devolving back to the middle ages. :(

[unda cova brutha]

6. we cah thank * for that

[rodeodance]

8. This 'extremis' in Islam is what must be separated from the rest of

the violence. NOT lumped in with it.

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[Karenina]

3. Your assessment is shallow

and sucks slime.

[Hoping4Change]

4. That's unadulterated prejudice.

[krkaufman]

7. Iraqis are no different than any other people.

It's the situation they're in that makes the difference. Hell, you have fundamentalists killing doctors and bombing hospitals and clinics in this country, and that's with a very stable country and peaceful streets. I'm sure our fundies would kick the violence it up a notch if they felt they could do so with impunity.

[LisaM]

5. Tainted blood - THANKS, Reagan

God, that asshole. Still causing death.

[Barkley]

9. Iraq's penal code protects murder when people act against Islam

Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target
Section 111 of Iraq's penal code lays out protections
for murder when people are acting against Islam.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1838222,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

[JackNewtown]

10. Sickening, freedom is on the march, yeah right nt

[JackNewtown]

11. Radical Islamism is the biggest threat to progressive values

This yet another example of how evil that ideology is. It is this century's version of Nazism.

[bronxiteforever]

12. How many tears shed for average Iraqis-

gunned down, tortured and poverty striken. It is time to have a government of humanity in this country. We Dems must change our policy now-we are the party of hope-let them call of left wing, and all the cartoon labels they employ. This war policy of the GOP effects real people and causes real pain. Its past time to banish it from our national character and enter GOP Rehab.