BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 14 youths have been stoned to death in Baghdad in the past three weeks inwhat appears to be a campaign by Shi'ite militants against youths wearing Western-style "emo" clothes and haircuts, security and hospital sources say.
Militants in Shi'ite neighborhoods where the stonings have taken place circulated lists on Saturday naming more youths targeted to be killed if they do notchange the way they dress.
The killings have taken place since Iraq's interior ministry drew attention to the"emo" subculture last month, labelingit "Satanism" and ordering a community police force to stamp it out.
"Emo" is a form of punk music developed in the United States. Fans are known for theirdistinctive dress, often including tight jeans, T-shirts with logos and distinctive long or spiky haircuts.
At least 14 bodies of youths have been brought to three hospitals in eastern Baghdad bearing signs of having been beatento death with rocks or bricks, security and hospital sources told Reuters under condition they not be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Nine bodies were brought to hospitals in Sadr City, a vast, poor Shi'ite neighborhood, three were broughtto East Baghdad's main al-Kindi hospital and two were brought to the central morgue,medical sources said.
Six other young people, including two girls, were wounded in beatings intended as warnings, the security sources said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/6559026/Emo-killings-raise-alarms-in-Iraq
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8290CY20120310?irpc=932
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9137051/Iraq-religious-militias-target-emo-youths.html

I thought about that but, I find ridiculing them to be more fun.

Barbarians

This is very disturbing and so very sad. Teenagers go through phases while they're trying to find themselves. It's disgusting that a society feels that it's okay to kill their own children.

It can happen here if Islam has it's way.