Teens killed for 'emo' haircuts

[DrLeftover]

At least 90 Iraqi teenagers with emo appearances have been stoned to death by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after an inflammatory interior ministry statement dubbed it devil worshiping, activists said.

Iraq's Moral Police released a chilling statement on the interior ministry's website condemning the emo phenomenon among Iraqi youth, disturbingly declaring its intent to eliminate the trend.

The 'Emo phenomenon' or devil worshiping is being followed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible since it's detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger, the statement read.

They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationary that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities, it continued.

http://m.english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraqi-teenagers-stoned-death-emo-haircuts

 

[Fatal Dawn]

It's reading stuff like this that makes me thankful for being an American.

 

[Bluezone777]

I wonder when people will figure out that you can't kill an idea/lifestyle/etc.. You can kill the holders of the idea/lifestyle/etc.but the idea/lifestyle/etc. itself can live on no matter how many are put to death. Of course it's no surprise the people doing the killing do it because they can't make sense of what's going on so they just kill anything they don't understand instead of exerting the effort to understand others instead of removing them all from society instead.