Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

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Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

 

Reuters

Tue, 8 August 2023 at 11:58 am GMT-7·1-min read

 

 

 

FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna

(Reuters) - 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," the regulator said.

The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) said in a statement 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.

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

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(Reporting by Timour Azhari in Iraq and Omar Abdel-Razek in Cairo; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

 

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[horsesoldier]

Wow ! No room for doubt on where they stand on this issue !!!

[dinarham]

they will shoot themselves in the foot over that one.

[BETTYBOOP]

This just shows how backward and in the dark ages they really are 

[3n1]

who cares iraqi official media regulator stop the word games , get off the american dollar and get on with moving the country forward with a international bankable real purchasing power iqd 

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de·vi·ance

/ˈdēvēəns/

noun

 

1. the fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.

   "a study of crime and deviance"