Iran, Yemen among untri where beg gay is punishable by ath

Contents:

• INSI LOOK AT ISIS' BTAL PERSECUTN OF GAYS
• ISIS KILLERS HUG MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY BEFORE STONG THEM ATH
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• BNEI ENACTS ISLAMIC LAWS TO PUNISH GAY SEX WH STONG TO ATH — HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• STONG GAY PEOPLE TO DEATH BNEI IS AN OUTRAGE AND NOT MY DEFN OF ISLAM

INSI LOOK AT ISIS' BTAL PERSECUTN OF GAYS

REYHANLI, Turkey -- Before a crowd of men on a street the Syrian cy of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) judge read out the sentence agast the two men nvicted of homosexualy: They would be thrown to their aths om the roof of the nearby Wael asked one of the men if he was satisfied wh the sentence. The fear of a horrific ath among gay men unr ISIS le is further pound by their isolatn a eply nservative society that largely shuns Mlims nsir homosexualy to be sful. Gay men are hnted nstantly by the possibily that someone, perhaps even a relative, will betray them to the ants - whether to curry favor wh ISIS or simply out of hatred for their sexual orientatn.

ISIS KILLERS HUG MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY BEFORE STONG THEM ATH

A 26-year-old Syrian gay man told the AP that even two years after fleeg to Turkey, he wak up shaken by nightmar that he is about to be hurled om a buildg. "Subhi Nahas, a 28-year-old gay Syrian who now liv San Francis, said he fled bee he feared his own father might turn him to al Qaeda's affiliate, the Nra Front, which also has targeted his father learned he was gay, Nahas said he lled him a shame to the fay and beat him.

Around the same time, late 2013, Nra fighters lnched a crackdown on spected gays Nahas' hometown of Maaret al-Numan, tag 25 men and announcg through mosque loudspeakers that they would cleanse the town of homosexuals. Fearful that he wouldn't be safe even Turkey, he legally rettled to the Uned Stat Augt, Nahas and a gay Iraqi man spoke about the sufferg of homosexuals their untri at the first-ever U.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

Secury Council ssn spotlightg vlence and discrimatn agast lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr stigma surroundg homosexualy mak difficult to document ISIS killgs and intify victims, rights groups say. Gays unr ISIS le are terrified to speak, and most who flee abroad go to ' own announcements are the ma source of rmatn, but the group often do not name the victims, perhaps ference to their fai, who uld lash out anger at havg their nam publicly lked to homosexuals.

BNEI ENACTS ISLAMIC LAWS TO PUNISH GAY SEX WH STONG TO ATH — HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The acunts differ on the method of killg, and some acunts give lser penalti some bas s punishment on one acunt which Muhammad reportedly says gays "should be thrown om tremendo height then stoned. Durg their le Afghanistan the 1990s, the Taliban had their own method: The victim would be put a p and a stone wall would be toppled on top of morate Mlim clerics ignore the ath penalty provisns, even as they fiercely nounce homosexualy. Across the Arab world, homosexuals have been arrted and sentenced to prison on charg lked to "bchery" - and sometim lashed Iran and Sdi, the man who watched the killgs Palmyra, said he remas shaken.

The crime of homosexualy is one of the greatt of crim, the worst of ss and the most abhorrent of eds, and Allah punished those who did a way that He did not punish other natns. “Bee the evil nsequenc of homosexualy are among the worst of evil nsequenc, so s punishment is one of the most severe of punishments this world and the Hereafter. Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, Khalid ibn al-Walid, ‘Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, ‘Abd-Allah ibn ‘Abbas, Malik, Ishaq ibn Rahawayh, Imam Ahmad acrdg to the more sound of the two reports om him and al-Shafi’i acrdg to one of his opns, were of the view that the punishment for homosexualy should be more severe than the punishment for za, and the punishment is executn all s, whether the person is married or not.

STONG GAY PEOPLE TO DEATH BNEI IS AN OUTRAGE AND NOT MY DEFN OF ISLAM

Al-Shafi`i, acrdg to the well-known view of his madhhab, and Imam Ahmad acrdg to the other report narrated om him, were of the view that the punishment for the homosexual should be the same as the punishment for the adulterer. Imam Abu Hanifah was of the view that the punishment for the homosexual should be ls severe than the punishment for the adulterer, and is a punishment to be termed by the judge (ta’zir). Those who favoured the first view, who are the majory of the ummah – and more than one scholar narrated that there was nsens among the Companns on this pot – said that there is no s that brgs worse nsequenc than homosexualy, and they are send only to the evil nsequenc of ku, and they may be worse than the nsequenc of murr, as we shall see below sha Allah.

E., that the evil nsequenc of homosexualy are worse than those of murr) is the fact that the se of murr, Allah giv the next of k the choice: if he wish he may have him executed and if he wish he may let him off, but He enjoed executg the homosexual as a hadd punishment, as the Companns of the Msenger of Allah were unanimoly agreed, and as is clearly dited by the Sunnah of the Msenger of Allah (peace and blsgs of Allah be upon him) and there is no evince to the ntrary; rather this is what his Companns and the Rightly-Guid Caliphs (may Allah be pleased wh them all) did.