Religion of Pieces hard at work…
The Iraqi Aid Association (IAA), a Baghdad-based non-governmental organisation working with displacement, children and youth issues, says dozens of Iraqis have been killed after using the internet to access erotic sites.
Fatah Ahmed, spokesperson for the IAA, said: "We have received information from many sources that militants are operating spies inside internet cafes just to find out who is browsing sites they have deemed offensive to Islam."
Ahmed said most of the killings or abductions happen directly after the victims leave the internet cafes.
"It is very serious because in an Islamic country in which violence is spreading on daily basis, people search for some entertainment and it is found today only on the internet," he said.
"There are no places to go so young people are making friends via chatrooms which are now also being condemned by Islamic extremists."
Torture, beatings
Ibraheem Abdel-Qahar is a university student who gave up meeting friends and going to restaurants because of the violence and lack of security in
. Baghdad
Spending most of his free time alone, he turned to browsing the internet and soon began surfing online pornography. But that is a decision he now bitterly regrets.
Late in May, Abdel-Qahar was kidnapped after leaving an internet cafe. He was blindfolded and taken to a house he believes to be on the outskirts of the capital.
"Someone was sitting near me at the internet cafe and probably was an extremist spy. He saw when I was watching some erotic movies and when I left the place I was immediately taken in a car with three men," the 23-year-old engineering student said.
He recalled that he was beaten with an iron bar and belt and forced to drink chicken blood and his own urine.
"They told me to take off all my clothes and handcuffed me. They started to beat me and use cigarettes to burn my legs.
"I was desperate and was shouting asking why they were doing that with me and after three hours of continuous torture they told me that it was because I was watching non-Muslim sites on the internet," he said.
After enduring six days of torture, Abdel-Qahar says he was dropped near his house and warned that if he was found browsing internet pornography again he would be killed.
He was also advised to seek salvation in the local mosque.
The IAA has reported many cases like Abdel-Qahar‘s and have called on the government to protect victims by forcing internet cafes to guarantee privacy for their customers.







































