More than 90 people dead after Iraq wedding erupts in fire

It's like that Station Nightclub fire. Horrible.

A little too ironic.

At the first hint of trouble, get the fuck out. Don't give a shit what people think and don't waste time on a group decision, it could cost you your life if you do.

Arrogant narcissists killed their relatives because they needed fireworks going off around them to remind them how special they are.

Heterosexuality is an illness.

Horrifying

[quote]At the first hint of trouble, get the fuck out. Don't give a shit what people think and don't waste time on a group decision, it could cost you your life if you do.

The setting in this case makes self-preservation look different for everyone. Some people would probably rather die than know that they saved themselves while their closest family burned.

Indoor pyrotechnics. Always a fine idea.

NGL if we had won all those people would still be alive and safe in their burqas.

R1, I was coming to post the exact same thing. 90 people dead. What a horrible story.

This is terribly sad. However, one must wonder why the venue didn't have a fire sprinkler system, since that would be relatively cheap to install and would have prevented many problem's for the wedding venue's owners. Also, don't the authorities make frequent inspections to make sure that these establishments have the required security measures in place?

Anyway, I hope that the victims' families receive a hefty compensation, even if that won't ever make up for the loss of their loved ones.

Well at least the bride and groom won’t have to live with the guilt because they died too.

But did they have a cash bar?

r11 The wedding couple survived.

"At least 94 people were killed and 100 others were injured in the fire, which broke out during the first dance of the bride and groom. Civil defence officials told BBC News Arabic that the couple survived, though initial reports said they had perished. "

This marriage is not off to a good start.

Imagine always remembering that tragedy on your wedding day.

“Should we give back the presents to the families of the guests who died?”

I guess the bride and groom won't forget their wedding in a hurry. I wonder if they'll stay together? That's a lot of pressure and baggage to enter a marriage with.

[quote] Imagine always remembering that tragedy on your wedding day.

I doubt anyone who lost a loved one in the fire, will ever let them forget it.

Similar to the couple who killed Ruth Bader Ginsburg by getting her to officiate their wedding at the height of Covid.

I guess they never made it to the chicken dance.

The toll went up to over 100.

Only three exits and the fire spread quickly.

It seems the owners of the wedding venue were negligent, and 10 people were arrested.

Those canned sparklers (gerbs) are evidently a horrible idea indoors and they look cheap and stupid anyway.

R19 say what?

You ain't seen nothing yet - wait ll the baby reveal party!

r20 They did, but it was a Fried-chicken dance

Indoor Fireworks - can still burn your fingers.

no indoor fireworks why do people repeat the same mistakes again and again and again ?

The heterosexuals love their fireworks.

It's not a real wedding or gender reveal party until multiple things blow up loudly (and forests and innocent bystanders catch fire).

Yayyyy!

R28 the groom looks gay. Lots of Iraq married men are closeted

Fireworks indoors?! Sigh.

Using indoor pyrotechnics is not uncommon in some countries. I always worry when I visit my family overseas and they start the fire party to celebrate.

That bride and groom are gonna be sued by the families. Horrible tragedy all around but totally preventable.

Shit like that happens a lot over there.

The gay groom's side piece told him to die in a grease fire before he flounced out of the venue in his flamboyant caftan. He manifested this!

Yes it looks just like the Station!! Same pyrotechnics. Like watching a horrible flashback.

Well at least it wasn't a gay wedding.

Great. Now I'm going have to have at least 150 dead at mine.

Has anyone heard of a mass death accident happening at a LGBT wedding?

Americans of European stock seem so stoic around death than some other cultures. I can’t imagine any of my relatives or friends waving a deceased loved ones clothing around and collapsing, or wailing in the streets and/or throwing themselves on a casket. It’s interesting.

^ R40 They probably didn't have cable growing up.

R16 No.

Reports are saying that it was a Christian wedding & not a Muslim one.

any pics of the groom?

Thanks r43, I was wondering why an Iraqi couple in a remote town (this town is near the northern border with Turkey) appeared to be having such a westernized reception, replete with flowers, a white wedding gown and western-style bridal dance.

It is eerily remiscent of the Station nightclub fire in RI many years back.

[quote] Iraqi couple in a remote town

I read that it was in Mosul which has 1.6 million people.

[quote] the groom looks gay

Who was the guy with his arms wrapped around the groom, in the video at R21?

The boyfriend?

He was holding on tight.

The groom looks like he's smelling cookies. I'm surprised there is no what was on their iPod entry..... disco in ferno - too soon? it is tragic, but it's difficult for me to have sympathy when someone is so stupid. The venue forbid the use of pyrotechnics inside and outside...... oh well.

A friend was at the wedding of her niece. At one point, she tossed her cloth napkin (polyester) on one of the table candles (not on purpose) and it instantly ignited. There was a bit of a drama as people rushed to try to put it out. Luckily the situation didn't end like this one. Ever since then, I'm not even a fan of indoor candles at events like these.

[quote] Need the death toll to hit 102 so I can win the office pool.

Jesus. Fuck off and die you disgusting troll. NINETY PEOPLE DIED. Your joke is sick and not even close to approaching funny.

Indoor firework? Genius. Was it at the same time a gender reveal? Their anniversary parties should be fun.

Gay Allah is punishing them for being infidels.

It probably was a Christian wedding. They even interviewed the nun who lives next door.

[quote] It probably was a Christian wedding.

Islam, Christian -- they both suck dick, and not in a good way!

The homophobia in your church or religion or communities you grew up really did a number on some of you sick fucks.

The sky was so blue that day.🔆 🔥🚒⚰️

Why not Sausi

Bless your heart, R55.

And some of you idiots are clamoring for gay marriage.

A better statement would be: and some of these idiots are defending homophobic religions?

[quote] one must wonder why the venue didn't have a fire sprinkler system

It was a cheaply constructed structure using highly flammable materials like that London apartment building that killed so many a few years ago. Sprinklers would have been the last thing they'd have spent money to install.

If the fire hadn't happened today it was highly probbale to occur another.

Cuz it is shithole country

r45 this year was actually the 20th anniversary of the Station Nightclub fire.

I wonder if this was also a case of people trying to get out one single entrance they came in, instead of all exits being used. This hall looked pretty spacious too, way more so than the small nightclub. The roof must've collapsed onto people very quickly.

[quote]Jesus. Fuck off and die you disgusting troll. NINETY PEOPLE DIED. Your joke is sick and not even close to approaching funny.

Sweet Pea, you might want to go back outside and read the sign on the front door. This isn't Feelgood Farm.

R10 [quote]one must wonder why the venue didn't have a fire sprinkler system,........ don't the authorities make frequent inspections to make sure that these establishments have the required security measures in place?

R10 looks like he's never been outside the U.S. Take a trip to Mexico or most of the 3rd world and they would laugh at the idea of "inspectors" and paying a little extra for safety features. Why do you think all those cities are devastated with a quake as small as 6.0 on the Richter scale?

Ban marriages

It's a nice day for a white wedding

Indoor pyrotechnics are a bad idea, even if they are done by professionals.

[quote] Ban marriages

^ ^ ^ r66 This. Thank you.

And start with the "gay" ones. Why the hell are we signing on to this bullshit?

Who thought having 4 towers of fire shoot up from floor to the roof was a good idea?

It was so sad. It almost ruined the wedding.

[quote]And start with the "gay" ones. Why the hell are we signing on to this bullshit?

Because dipshit, straight people get a lot of legal and financial benefits like a spouses social security that you can only get with a legal marriage.

r72 Uh no, heteronormative wannabe, all that can be achieved by domestic partnership legislation, which you Log Cabin Republicans have consistently opposed.

R73, I’m not r72 but I agree with them. SOME of those benefits can be achieved with domestic partner legislation, but we don’t have a national domestic partner registration law. We have a patchwork of local laws that all offer different things and none of the local laws would cover SS benefits or any national befits related to taxes or anything else. If what you’re proposing is a national domestic partner registration that had all the same benefits of marriage, it would just be marriage. I’m not a conservative or a Log Cabin Republican. I’m a batshit crazy lefty communist. But what you are asking for is something we already have. You just want a name change. What would be the point?

Told you I was hardcore.

Look at it this way, kid, it’s all uphill from here!

We believed you, fire. Now please stop killing people at Great White concerts and weddings.

You want to know something amazing?

This wedding fire killed nearly as many people as died in the Lahaina fire on Maui!!

That's just crazy.

In my day the Hokey Pokey was the main attraction at a wedding reception

I was addicted to hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.

[quote]heteronormative wannabe, all that can be achieved by domestic partnership legislation,

Who says I want to be "heteronormative"? That's your hang up. Domestic partnerships do NOT allow you the same rights as a legal marriage. For example, when a spouse dies, the other half is allowed to collect their Social Security. It's a federal benefit not a state one. Domestic Partnership is DENIED that right.

If you are going to have a wedding with a bang, outside is much safer. For the bride at least.

Now this is a huge wedding day wipe out.

R40

Ululate

Richard Spencer joined the chat at R40.

This is worse than Amanda’s wedding on “Dynasty” and Rob Stark’s wedding on “Game of Thrones!!”

R10 the wedding was in Mosul, not Minneapolis.

Have you... have you ever left the place you grew up?

Do you know what a passport is?

[quote] I’m not [R72] but I agree with them. SOME of those benefits can be achieved with domestic partner legislation, but we don’t have a national domestic partner registration law. We have a patchwork of local laws that all offer different things and none of the local laws would cover SS benefits or any national befits related to taxes or anything else. If what you’re proposing is a national domestic partner registration that had all the same benefits of marriage, it would just be marriage. I’m not a conservative or a Log Cabin Republican. I’m a batshit crazy lefty communist. But what you are asking for is something we already have. You just want a name change. What would be the point?

r74 Okay, I'm a leftist as well. The whole point of the gay and lesbian rights movement was to change society on our terms, not theirs. I was being a bit cynical by calling you a "Log Cabin Republican" because the same-sex marriage movement began among gay conservatives like Andrew Sullivan. And its purpose was to curb gay male promiscuity and promote monogamy in the gay community.

So yeah, same-sex marriage is really an attempt to force us to conform to a heteronormative standard.

Do we really want to be just like them? Marriage law also carries with it a stipulation, based on Judeo-Christian morality, that sex with more than one person is a "sin". Now, I am fine being faithful to my partner. But do I want the government in my bedroom telling me that if I'm not monogamous, my partner can sue for divorce and seize half my assets?

So you can call it "equality", but it's basically the heterosexual majority telling us we must conform to their pseudo-religious view of sex.

Domestic partnership legislation would give us all the necessary protections. But it would allow us to maintain independence from the stifling conformity of the majority.

I'm queer. They need to get used to it. But on my terms, not theirs.

[quote] Who says I want to be "heteronormative"? That's your hang up. Domestic partnerships do NOT allow you the same rights as a legal marriage. For example, when a spouse dies, the other half is allowed to collect their Social Security. It's a federal benefit not a state one. Domestic Partnership is DENIED that right.

r81 Marriage law requires that we be monogamous. That's mine and my partner's business, not the state's.

And yes, if the movement would stop trying to imitate breeders, we could demand that civil unions give us all the rights of married heterosexual couples.

And it would still not be this heterosexist tripe called marriage. Marriage was devised by the church. Keep it in the church. I want no part of it.

[quote]Arrogant narcissists killed their relatives because they needed fireworks going off around them to remind them how special they are.

Still preferable to the Iraqi wedding tradition involving a suicide bomber.

[quote]And some of you idiots are clamoring for gay marriage.

What is that even supposed to mean R59?

The Iraqis being pumped full of pain drugs in their burn units agree gay marriage for Americans is the true story here.

r92 Huh? Who said it was?

But the needless pomp and excess of this pseudo-religious farce is rather apparent.

Horrific. Since it was a wedding, you know that entire families were killed or had multiple members killed.

I am going to be standing by the exit next time I'm indoors and some fool decides that pyrotechnics are a good idea.

[quote]Do we really want to be just like them? Marriage law also carries with it a stipulation, based on Judeo-Christian morality, that sex with more than one person is a "sin". Now, I am fine being faithful to my partner. But do I want the government in my bedroom telling me that if I'm not monogamous, my partner can sue for divorce and seize half my assets?

R88, first, you didn’t call me a Log Cabin Republican, you called r72 one. I was r74. I was just saying that what you want in terms of FEDERAL protections in a domestic partnership would be exactly the same as what we already have in the form of marriage.

But you seem very confused about what marriage laws are and why we wanted them in the first place.

It wasn’t to make relationships between gay couple heteronormative and it wasn’t a plan of conservative gays to turn us into clones of straight people. It was to give us protections to see our dying partners in the hospital when “family only” policies were keeping us out. It was to ensure that if one partner died, their shared assets went to the surviving partner and not straight the deceased partner’s family.

Federal marriage laws have NOTHING to do with monogamy or infidelity. That is also decided by states. There are 17 no-fault divorce states where infidelity alone can not be grounds for alimony. Additionally, I think every state domestic partnership law also provides that alimony can be awarded at the dissolution, just like a marriage. You’ve probably also never heard of “palimony”? There are many states where you can sue for financial support even if you were never legally married OR in a domestic partnership.

In a nutshell, the federal government has NO law protecting you from an alimony suit or a requirement that you be monogamous. It just doesn’t involve that at all. And all of the things you want are either available in some states or not available in some states. Plus-you can literally write almost ANYTHING into a prenuptial agreement. And even with a pre-nuptial or pre-domestic partnership agreement, you still have no guarantee that it can’t be turned over by a court.

Basically, you just ordered a bacon double cheeseburger with a side of fries and then asked them to make it a lettuce wrap, hold the bacon, hold the cheese, no burger patties and you want to substitute the fries for carrot sticks with a side of ranch instead of ketchup. You say you want a burger but you just made a salad.

You don’t want a domestic partnership. You want a marriage on your terms.

Well you already have that right. So I’m not sure why you want them to hold the bacon.

R58 Thank you. I am a versatile top however, cunt. God bless.

R63 I watched an hour long documentary about that fire this past weekend. Very captivating. It’s amazing how fast fires spread and destroy. And the cynic in me started to think was this a ritualistic Illuminati or satanic sacrifice. There are theories out there.

It was a Christian wedding in a community that had already been overran by al Qaeda so my first through tthis was further terrorism.

But the video speaks for itself. They brought in the fireworks that set the shabby structure afire. They carelessly did it to themselves.

[quote]But do I want the government in my bedroom telling me that if I'm not monogamous, my partner can sue for divorce and seize half my assets?

Wrong.

[quote]Marriage law requires that we be monogamous. That's mine and my partner's business, not the state's.

Wrong again. Legal marriages does NOT require monogamy, it's not a law, it's a tradition. Otherwise, someone better tall those millions of hetero swingers who wife swap they are going to jail.

What country are you from? In the U.S. marriages is a legal contract, no a religious one. The religious part is just ceremonial. In fact you can be a cold hard atheist and get married without question. You just go to a courthouse instead of a church like my parents did 50 years ago. Millions more do it today more than ever.

Can you marriage mongers take your shit to another thread? good lord.

I want to know if its custom there to married on a weekday? That's a lot of people to turn out to a wedding in the middle of the week!

They are dramatic so a wedding there is a big deal. Didnt you see the guy waving his dead mother clothes like the Virgin Mary herself was just murdered? People in the US or UK or even China would never think of doing that if they were in the same situation.

God’s Plan

Even Italians with their entire families including everybody's in-laws and third and fourth cousins and long lost relatives and friends from the town in Italy from which they immigrated don't have weddings that big.

Why 900 people? Is that entire towns? Is it some kind of tradition?

Who knows 900 people? Or is it all their Facebook "friends"?

[quote] Can you marriage mongers take your shit to another thread? good lord.

r100 Who gives a fuck if damn Muslims get married on weekdays? They hang homosexuals every day of the week.

It's a marriage thread and we're discussing same-sex marriage, you vapid queen.

r104, its a wedding disaster thread, NOT a marriage thread, Cuntface. Take that shit somewhere else.

Also, these people are (or were before the died) Christians, as has been mentioned over and over. NOT Muslims. Fuck off and learn to read, bitch.

Revan's eyebrows, though. Were they done specifically for his big day?

Iraq wedding fire: Bride and groom can't live in their community after blaze kills more than 100

[quote] its a wedding disaster thread

r105 All weddings are disasters, shit-for-brains. And Christians are just as homophobic. Read Leviticus.

And last I checked your sorry ass is not a mod so kindly STFU and mind your own business.

The bride actually lost her mom and her brother, according to the video at R107.

Poor woman looks like she's in total shock.

[quote]That bride and groom are gonna be sued by the families.

They'll be hanged first.

The bride is catatonic.

The groom said that he does not believe the fireworks were the cause of the fire.

Talk about delusional nonsense.

With their luck I think I will be skipping their anniversary party next year.

The groom is hot.

That’s all I have to add.

[quote] The groom is hot.

Damn, you'll fuck anything.

[quote] The bride is catatonic.

What an awful situation for the bride and groom.

I feel terrible for them and all the people who died in this fire.

Hey conservative nutbars, this is what you get with small government and lack of regulations.

Huzzah for large government and bookshelves of regulations.