Take Action: Islamic State Terror Campaign Targets LGBTI
This is a call to action for both individuals and groups from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) re-published here to widen the reach of this important campaign. We urge our readers to take action.
Take Action: Islamic State Terror Campaign Targets Vulnerable LGBTI People in Iraq and Syria
Urge the UN and key governments to expedite and expand protection for LGBTI people and all those vulnerable to persecution by the Islamic State in Iraq in Syria.
Urge the United Nations and the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States to Urgently Protect Marginalized and Persecuted Minorities
The Urgent Concern
Since June 2014, the Islamic State has proudly documented the brutal murders of five men accused of having same-sex relations in Iraq. In recent months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported killings by the Islamic State of four men also accused of “sodomy.” These cruel acts add to the Islamic State’s countless other well-publicized murders of individuals apparently because of their faith, their demeanor, their dress, or because they were accused of adultery or other “transgressions.”
Even before these executions, the Islamic State, on its website, had sworn its intent to punish homosexual acts with death. While no precise details are available as to the victims’ identities or circumstances, the gruesome public spectacles are clearly intended to instill terror among the region’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and gender non-confirming population, long marginalized and persecuted.
The international community must confront the latest onslaught–photos that show men being thrown from tall buildings, and details on some being stoned and shot to death before assembled crowds.
We cannot look away from these atrocities.
There are steps that can be taken to protect LGBTI people and others fleeing the violence. ILGHRC urges you to join their call to the United Nations and governments engaged in the region to help protect our community.
Sign the letter to officials »
Read the timeline of these brutal killings »
and the more we in the west watch and protest , the more people they will kill, they already know they have our attention, they also know they have an audience, why feed into their desires ?
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Horrific…
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