Gay men Afghanistan say life unr Taliban 'nightmare,' uld be killed on the spot | Fox News

Contents:

• TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
• THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
• AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN BURNED BY TALIBAN SAYS TERNATNAL LGBT+ MUNY HAS ‘FOT ABOUT ’
• MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
• GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT

TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS

A gay Afghan man was kidnapped and shot to ath by the Taliban, acrdg to activists who knew him, Pk News was the first to Sabouri of Kabul, Afghanistan, died on Augt 5, activists said. In a statement to Insir, Nemat Sadat, Roshaniya's executive director, said: "Hamed Sabouri was a gay man wh big dreams that have now been shattered. "Sadat said Sabouri, who had wanted to be a doctor, had "endured discrimatn his whole life for beg gay and his life me to an abpt end wh no one there to help him.

"Bahar (his nickname, ed to protect his inty), a gay Afghan man a relatnship wh Sabouri, was one of the recipients of the vio. Bahar scribed his former boyiend as a "very kd boy" who was "btally killed" bee of his said he thought Sabouri was jokg when he told him July that the Taliban was targetg him and was " danger" for beg gay. The Taliban raped and beat a gay man after dupg him to meetg them, a report om ITV outlet said that Hanan, a psdonym given to protect his inty, had been speakg to a man on social media who promised to help him fd a safe way out of LGBTQ people have been sperately tryg to flee the untry followg the Taliban agreed to meet the man Kabul after speakg for three weeks onle, who unbeknownst to him were actually Taliban men.

Insir recently spoke to men om Afghanistan's secret gay muny, who said they are livg through a "nightmare" and fear of their futur unr Taliban le. In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a Taliban judge vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or beg cshed by a ne-foot activists told Insir that gay men would be lured to their aths through social media even durg the prev ernments. "Social media was basilly ed by the ernment to create honey traps to ba gay and bisexual men, " LGBTQ activist Nemat Sadat told Insir.

THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT

This was unr Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, " he Zaher, an Afghan thor and gay rights activist, told Insir that gay people would often vanish after meetg up wh men they met on social media, who turned out to be ernment officials warned that the Taliban were likely to e the same tactics. He is gay, a nvert to Christiany and a member of the Hazara ethnic mory – three groups that have been historilly persecuted by the Taliban. In public statements July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a toppled wall.

“He was threateng to jump off a buildg bee he thought would be a ls paful way to die than gettg ught and behead by the Taliban as a gay man. “The Taliban is well known to have executed many LGBTQ people when was power and there have been reports of gay men beg murred sce took over Augt this year, ” said Aws Jubair, director of the Aman Project, a Turkey-based group that advot for the LGBTQ muny the Middle East. Report by ITV News digal journalist Jocelyn Evans"Two people raped him, they beat him, and then mand his father's number so they uld tell him his son was gay.

"In Taliban-ntrolled Afghanistan, this is the realy for LGBT+ people livg the victim, we'll ll Hanan to protect his inty, had been talkg to a man on social media for three weeks before agreeg to meet, a gay man terrified sce the Taliban took ntrol of the untry, had been promised a safe way out of the was ceived - two members of the Taliban met him and rried out their btal survived but is livg silence, shock, and shame unr a regime tent on not jt nyg, but extguishg the existence of him and we who are like him.

AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG

Image source, Getty ImagBefore the Taliban uprisg Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangero. If he'd spoken about his sexualy to the wrong person then, Abdul uld have been arrted and taken to urt for his sexualy, unr Afghan sce the Taliban seized ntrol of major ci Afghanistan last week, Abdul tells Rad 1 Newsbeat his sexualy beg revealed would now have him "killed on the spot" Taliban are a ary group who have taken ntrol of the untry, and are known to enforce extreme Islamic the Taliban's terpretatn of Sharia Law, homosexualy is strictly prohibed and punishable by last time they were power Afghanistan, between the late 90s and 2001, 21-year-old Abdul hadn't been born.

Details magaze discsed the homosocial standards of much of Islamic culture, based on separatn of the genrs, and reviewed Trolley Prs’ 2003 book “Taliban, ” which photographer Thomas Dworzak prented imag of effemate Taliban warrrs that he unearthed.

” I wanted to go to Kandahar bee s homosexual reputatn seemed most pronounced, and Mohammed’s stori about the cy volved relatnships between grown men, rather than a man wh a youth, as seemed more mon elsewhere.

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

At the pool, when I qutned the swimmers through my translator about the Taliban’s notns about body image, several ma a joke of the qutn, claimg that the old regime was ma up of gay men––Kandahar “playboys” as they lled them––who loved to see naked, even as Afghan men joked about the Taliban beg gay, they did not seem terribly put off by the subject of homosexualy. The owner Wais, an Afghan Amerin om New Jersey now back his homeland, knew I was vtigatg Kabul’s gay si, but I was not out to his staff.

He played wh the mcl on my arms, parg them to his own, his other hand bbg his was when the 20-year-old man simply blurted out, “Munir said you like to do homosexual thgs.

I don’t thk I’ll fet those nights Munir’s hoe, but provid I thk only a ht at what homosocial and homosexual behavr means Afghanistan. A gay man was executed Afghanistan by members of the Taliban recently, who then sent vio of the horrific murr to the man's fay. "Life is hell for every LGBT Afghan, " Bahar, a gay man and member of Behht Collective, told the outlet, also addg that, "Taliban terrorists are worse than wild animals.

GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

Some gay men the untry have been scbbg or even letg their social media acunts, as the Taliban will regularly search for profil wh LGBTQ+ ntent.

"Sadat, an activist who helps gay men flee across the borr to neighborg Pakistan, said he has chosen to stay the untry and help others pe the year, a gay man g the psdonym Gabir reported his boyiend had been seized by the Taliban. Earlier this year, a gay nonbary person reported they felt "alone" after the Taliban tortured and stabbed them 18 tim wh a knife.

AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN BURNED BY TALIBAN SAYS TERNATNAL LGBT+ MUNY HAS ‘FOT ABOUT ’

"The ath of Hamed Sabouri is further proof that the Taliban will not stop until they eradite all gay people om Afghanistan, " Sadat said. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Two more siar stori about the recurrence of Pashtun homosexualy, om the New York Tim (Febary 2002) and Tim of London (January 2002), n be found the Afghanistan News & Reports 2002-04. From the wtern shor of ancient Moroc across thoands of sandy Islamic to the far eastern islands of Indonia, almost half the distance of our known world, homosexual behavr is pronounced anathema to the fahful.

But simple and superst scrib of the fahs have wrten reams of florid, passnate and volnic vers that embrace an artificial dichotomy of homo-and-hetero sexual and emotnal orientatn. Bis s natural occurrence our gen and nrons, another reason homosexual behavr and sire has not been stamped out by every nceivable type of secular cure and sacred persecutn is that homosexualy serv both relign and culture well.

GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT

It is perhaps one of the great anthropologil paradox (if not hypocrisi) that the history and behavr of homosexualy has been rried down through fifteen centuri by genr-segregated Mlim cultur and, as well, by male Christian monastic nferatns.

A thoughtful rear who engag cross-cultural studi will not get far before they disver what many wtern lbigay people already know about the digeno and hidn homosexual tradn practiced, lol varieti, by untls unmarried and married men Arab/Mlim untri. In the cultur, homosexual activy serv as a temporary (yet valid and important) proxy stage of growth between puberty and marriage. (6) The great Mlim emphasis on fay life renrs homosexualy far ls threateng to Mlim societi than to Wtern on (Mlim men seekg formally to marry each other remas unimagable).

In most morn Islamic ‘cultural’ (premaral) homosexual behavr there is a mute unrstandg that sex is mutually nsensual, temporary and that ’s a form of pannship, if not affectn, among peers. Whether the activy is mutual or forceful, there is an almost universal attu the eastern cultur that such sexual dulgence is not ‘gay’, that is, ’s not sex or love between two men who intify as homosexuals. ) Rather, a llective mental shell game the meang of sex is re-amed: heterosexual men engage homosexual behavr which the younger guy is not a ‘fem’ but obedient and passive and the olr one is not a ‘butch queer’ but assertive and active.