Yesterday’s Washington Times featured a piece, titled “‘Baghdad Blogger’ says lives of homosexuals worse now,” about Salam Pax’s (the Internet name of the “Baghdad Blogger”) concerns over the decision to adopt Islamic Shariah law in the draft Iraqi constitution.

WASHINGTON — The decision to adopt Islamic Shariah law in the draft Iraqi constitution has left the so-called “Baghdad Blogger” — a homosexual Web logger in Iraq — worried about his rights.

The blogger, who uses “Salam Pax” as his Internet name, says the position of homosexuals in Iraq has deteriorated since the establishment of the new government.

Salam Pax earned widespread online readership with his acerbic and blunt commentary about life in Iraq during the war. The 32-year-old architect has worked as an interpreter for an American journalist and lives in Baghdad and continues to write his blog, or Internet commentary.

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Most frightening part:

“In Iraq, the majority of religious scholars are of the Ja’fari School, and in their interpretation of the Shariah law, anyone married or unmarried found to have same-sex intercourse should be punished as an adulterer — that’s stoned to death,” Salman Pax said.

You think they would give us Salam Pax’s blog address. NO. But no worries… This is what Google is for.