Islamic State group targets gays with brutal public killings

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/islamic-state-group-targets-gays-with-brutal-public-killings/ar-AAfVhvb?li=BBnb7Kz

REYHANLI, Turkey — Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: They would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel.

He asked one of the men if he was satisfied with the sentence. Death, the judge told him, would help cleanse him of his sin.

"I'd prefer it if you shoot me in the head," 32-year-old Hawas Mallah replied helplessly. The second man, 21-year-old Mohammed Salameh, pleaded for a chance to repent, promising never to have sex with a man again, according to a witness among the onlookers that sunny July morning who gave The Associated Press a rare first-hand account.

"Take them and throw them off," the judge ordered. Other masked extremists tied the men's hands behind their backs and blindfolded them. They led them to the roof of the four-story hotel, according to the witness, who spoke in the Turkish city of Reyhanli on condition he be identified only by his first name, Omar, for fear of reprisals.

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Cowardly, murderous bullies.

[randys1]

1. And not that far off from what this GOP supporter believes, in fact this GOP supporter

agrees


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/anti-gay-pastor-event-hosts-3-gop-candidates-563178051820

And we know that those who attended his event agree too, dont we.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Yeah

Good thing we have laws in this country, not ones that empower and deify these murderous, hateful bullies.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. And yet this is about two actual people who were actually killed by specific others

It is sometimes a custom to mourn the dead without insisting that somehow their demise is similar to our own continued living. They murdered them. Can it be about us later?

[Yorktown]

3. They are applying the Sharia

Bukhari (72 : 774) - "The Prophet cursed effeminate men (those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, 'Turn them out of your houses .' The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and 'Umar turned out such-and-such woman."

al-Tirmidhi, Sunan 1:152 - [Muhammad said] "Whoever is found conducting himself in the manner of the people of Lot, kill the doer and the receiver."

The Sharia and freedom of choice are not really compatible.

Don't even mention marriage equality..