الصفحة الرئيسية - الجنس الثالث في العراق يتعرض للاضطهاد / عبد الكريم الجزائري - أرشيف التعليقات - Perpetrators of such crimes should receive the harshest sent - Talal Alrubaie

Perpetrators of such crimes should receive the harshest sent - Talal Alrubaie

- Perpetrators of such crimes should receive the harshest sent

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Talal Alrubaie

2009 / 4 / 17 - 01:46
التحكم: الحوار المتمدن

Thank you for this article which exposes the cruel behavior of some sections of our society towards people of third gender or third sex. These crimes are despicable and contemptible. This is the first time we hear that people of third gender are treated in this barbarous way.
People of third gender are present all over the world, and called for example in India alhijra.
In Mesopotamian or old Iraq, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to types of people who are not men and not women. In a Sumerian creation myth found on a stone tablet from the second millennium BC, the goddess Ninmah fashions a being -with no male organ and no female organ-, for whom Enki finds a position in society: -to stand before the king-. In the Akkadian myth of Atra-Hasis (ca. 1700 BC), Enki instructs Nintu, the goddess of birth, to establish a “third category among the people” in addition to men and women. In Babylonia, Sumer and Assyria, certain types of individuals who performed religious duties in the service of Inanna/Ishtar have been described as a third gender.The

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