Techie hunts Iraqi gays
By Techgirl

Like many journalists, I have always believed that Governments have absolutely no role in the private lives of consenting adults.  I welcomed the Delhi High Court ruling which read down section 377 effectively decriminalized gay sex in Delhi. Apart from the clarity in law, it sent a message to the local police to not bother bringing such cases to court.  One battle won, but many more to be fought before gays in India get their rightful place in our society.

Some countries and societies are still living in the dark ages.  The Guardian is reporting how a Computer Science graduate in Iraq is using his technical skills to make contact with local homosexuals and then tortures and murders them

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Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and holding an old notebook, Abu Hamizi, 22, spends at least six hours a day searching internet chatrooms linked to gay websites. He is not looking for new friends, but for victims.

"It is the easiest way to find those people who are destroying Islam and who want to dirty the reputation we took centuries to build up," he said. When he finds them, Hamizi arranges for them to be attacked and sometimes killed.

Hamizi, a computer science graduate, is at the cutting edge of a new wave of violence against gay men in Iraq. Made up of hardline extremists, Hamizi's group and others like it are believed to be responsible for the deaths of more than 130 gay Iraqi men since the beginning of the year alone.
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Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog http://techgirltalk.blogspot.com