ISIS executes gay men by throwing them from a rooftop in Syria
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
15 AUG 2015 AT 19:31 ET
August 15, 2015
Erica Pishdadian
Posted with permission from International Business Times
The Islamic State group (ISIS) released a new video Friday showing the execution of two men suspected of being gay. The men were thrown from a roof and then stoned to death by a crowd waiting below.
The video, which reportedly takes place in Homs, Syria, is more than six minutes long. It shows a masked ISIS militant reading the “charges” against the two men to an audience lining the street, before the two men are led blindfolded across the roof. The video then shows the men being tossed from it — ISIS’ regular method of execution for those suspected or proven to be homosexual. Although the moment of impact is not included, the crowd is shown surging forward to stone the men after they hit the ground.
The bodies are then removed and washed in accordance with Islamic burial traditions, before being wrapped in white shrouds and placed in unmarked graves.
The title of the video is “But Who Is Better Than God In Judgement: Establishing a Limit Upon the People of Lut – Wilayat Homs,” or “State of Homs,” according to Heavy.com.
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I've learned on DU that all Muslims are perfectly tolerant and understanding human beings, and if there is the impossible chance that some may have committed crimes against homosexuals and women, those crimes are legitimized by the fact that Christians and Jews have committed those same crimes a thousand fold. If you do not believe in this, you must be a racist, conservative bigot.
Certain people are expendable.
Damn, man. 
I try to give everyone the BOTD but..... maybe I'm just too nice, giving em too much credit. 
Sometimes BOTD is a good thing, but there are times when people really lay it on the line. It is telling the difference which is a chore. Thankfully, you niceness balances my suspicions. 
Are exhibiting classic signs of mental illness, personally.
And.... I dont really care what the friend's name is supposed to be, or what language he speaks.
That said, no, no amount of bullshit by christian fundies can be floated to somehow excuse this sort of shit. Conversely, the fact that these people are clearly way worse, doesn't let christian fundies off the hook for their right wing fuckhattery, either.
It'd be great, to my mind, to examime the larger contexts that some of this stuff occurs in - like, religious mania versus skeptical, critical thinking, for starts- but I'm also perfectly happy to call this out simply for what it is, a despicable human rights atrocity driven by a massively fucked up ideology.
I'm not interested in telling people what to think- beyond, say, okay, if what someone thinks means they have to toss gay people off buildings, yes, there is a problematic conflict between their personal beliefs and the interest of humanity at large. Or to put it another way, they're making the shit inside their head become other peoples' problem.
I am interested in the idea of helping people be better at thinking, in general- critical thinking skills, like I said, as well as an element of questioning all deeply held notions (even the notion that deeply held notions should be questioned) acknowledging that belief is a tool which can be used to achieve certain mental states or personal ends but at the same time not making the mistake of attaching the notion of permanent, transcendent, objective "reality" to any transitory thought-constructs or abstract ideas, as useful (or not) as they may be temporarily, or in passing.
If you think about computers and software- fuck, anyone trying to run windows 95 on a modern machine would run into problems (and no, I don't want to debate linux vs. M$FT vs Apple OS, etc ) ... right? Okay, but with religion- particularly in its more rigid, dogmatic interpretations, you're talking about people running "software" on their brains that is 1500, 2000 years old, etc. And..... trying to use that code to function in our modern world.
(Certainly, I believe there are more flexible, open-ended ideas encoded in some older belief systems; a few in the western monotheisms, but really to my mind it is stuff like elements of Buddhist thought, Zen Koans and the like or even moreso the Tao Te Ching-- which hold up because they are open-ended to interpretation, like a poem or a song, instead of a rigidly defined set of rules and incomprehensible, often contradictory moral codes and stories.)
So anyway, no, people trying to run millennia-old scripts are gonna have a fuckton of trouble existing in modern reality. And these sorts of belief systems themselves may have historically gone through a natural aging process. I've long thought that one problem Fundamentalist Islam has is, age-wise Islam is just about 1400 years old, right? Which puts it smack dab at "Spanish Inquisition" age. The parallels are pretty stark, in terms of the rigidity, the dogma, the oppression, etc.
But no, I'm not interested in converting everyone to my brand of hippie-mystical taoist Atheism. If they get there on their own, great, but really I'd just be happy if those so inclined to dogmatic religious fundamentalism could leave other, unwilling participants out of their own private god-dramas.
