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• THE SECRET, HYPOCRIL GAY WORLD OF ISISKILLERSISIS MURRED A 15-YEAR-OLD ACCED OF BEG GAY BUT SPARED THE LIFE OF HIS ‘RAPIST,’ A SENR JIHADI MANR. WHAT LI BEHD THE BTAL DOUBLE STANDARD?TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 06, 2016 12:01AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTTHE MURR OF A 15-YEAR-OLD TEENAGER, THROWN TO HIS ATH BY ISIS FOR BEG GAY, NOT ONLY REVEALS—YET AGA—THE TERROR GROUP’S MURRO HOMOPHOBIA, BUT ALSO THE HYPOCRISY THAT EXISTS ALONGSI .A SENR MANR OF THE SO-LLED ISLAMIC STATE, NAMED REPORTS AS ABU ZAID AL-JAZRAWI, WAS HAVG SOME KD OF RELATNSHIP WH THIS AS-YET-NAMELS 15-YEAR-OLD, BUT THE MORE SENR MAN WAS NOT KILLED.INSTEAD, AL-JAZRAWI WAS REPORTEDLY FLOGGED, AND FORCED TO LEAVE SYRIA AND JO THE FIGHTG ONTS NORTHWTERN IRAQ.THE BOY, KILLED DEIR EZ-ZOR, SYRIA’S SEVENTH-LARGT CY, IS NOT THE FIRST TO BE MURRED SUCH A MANNER: THE IMAG OF MEN, ACCED AND SPECTED OF BEG GAY, BEG THROWN TO THEIR ATHS OM TALL BUILDGS HAS BEE BTALLY FAIAR. ON TUDAY, THE U.K.-BASED SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, TOLD THE INPENNT THAT AT LEAST 25 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISIS FOR BEG GAY: SIX STONED, THREE SHOT THE HEAD, AND 16 THROWN OM HIGH-RISE BUILDGS.OF THE 15-YEAR-OLD’S KILLG, “THE HORRIFIC EXECUTN TOOK PLACE ONT OF A LARGE CROWD,” A LOL MEDIA ACTIVIST AND AN EYEWNS TOLD SYRIAN NEWS AGENCY ARA NEWS.“THE BOY WAS ACCED OF BEG ENGAGED A HOMOSEXUAL RELATN WH THE PROMENT ISIS OFFICER ABU ZAID AL-JAZRAWI,” MEDIA ACTIVIST SARAI AL-D TOLD THE AGENCY. THE SHARIA COURT DEIR EZ-ZOR REPORTEDLY SAID THAT ABU ZAID SHOULD, LIKE THE BOY, DIE FOR BEG GAY, BUT ISIS MANRS MAND HE BE SENT TO FIGHT IRAQ STEAD.SUBHI NAHAS, A GAY SYRIAN WHO PED THE UNTRY FEARG FOR HIS LIFE, AND WHO A HISTORY-MAKG SPEECH ADDRSED THE UNED NATNS LAST YEAR ABOUT LGBT PERSECUTN SYRIA, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THERE WERE POSSIBLE CULTURAL REASONS BEHD THE MURR OF ONE YOUNG MAN AND THE REPRIEVE OF HIS OLR SEXUAL PARTNER, SCRIBED AS THE TEEN’S “RAPIST” SOME REPORTS.“A TRADN WHICH ADULT MAL ENGAGED SEXUAL PLEASURE WH PRE-PUBCENT BOYS--GHELMAN--CLUDG HERMAPHRODIC BOYS, HAS EXISTED BEFORE THE CREATN OF ISLAM," NAHAS SAID. "BEE THE ENUNTERS DIDN'T RULT PREGNANCI, THEY BEME MORE MONPLACE AFTER ISLAM HAD TAKEN ROOT."THE SCRIPTNS OF THE 15-YEAR-OLD’S RELATNSHIP WH THE MANR ARE NTRADICTORY: IT HAS BEEN VARLY SCRIBED AS A “SEXUAL RELATN” AND “RAPE.” HOW NSENSUAL OR ERCIVE THE RELATNSHIP WAS IS UNCLEAR, AS IS THE NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE OLR AND YOUNGER MAN. “CULTURALLY, POST THE FORMATN OF ISLAM, PEOPLE RELATED HOMOSEXUALY TO PEDOPHILIA,” SAID NAHAS, NOW AN ACTIVIST WH THE ORGANIZATN FOR REFUGE, ASYLUM & MIGRATN (ORAM). “NO DISTCTN IS DRAWN BETWEEN THE TWO. IF SOMEBODY RAPED A BOY THEY LLED HIM A HOMOSEXUAL, NOT A PEDOPHILE. MAYBE THIS MANR HAD A KD OF WAIVER GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS PEERS. THEY THK, ‘HE DO GREAT THGS FOR PEOPLE. WE NNOT KILL HIM, BUT WE NEED A SPEGOAT, THE BOY.’“THEY DON’T LL THIS RELATNSHIP OR [THE] MEN ‘GAY,’” SAID NAHAS. “IF A MAN HAS SEX WH ANOTHER MAN, THE TWO PARTI ARE THE RECEPTIVE ONE AND THE ‘SERTER.’ IF YOU’RE THE RECEPTIVE PARTY, YOU’RE DOOMED. YOU’RE SEEN AS SODOMIZED, SOMEONE HAS DONE THIS TO YOU, YOU’RE THE ABOMATN. IF YOU’RE THE SERTER, YOU ARE NTROL, YOU’RE FUNCTNAL, YOU N REPRODUCE.”NAHAS SAID THE SE WAS ALSO PUZZLG: HE HAD HEARD THAT WHILE ISIS WAS SPARG EFFEMATE GAY MEN “FOR THE PLEASURE OF OLR MEN,” THE “MASCULE” MEN SPECTED OF BEG GAY WERE BEG KILLED.IN THIS SE, APPEARED TO NAHAS THAT THE ISIS MANR’S SENRY POSSIBLY PROTECTED HIM. “THEY NEED A SPEGOAT, THEY NEED A BOY TO KILL. THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER PART TO THIS STORY, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLG YET TO GIVE ANY RMATN BEE ’S VERY SENSIVE.”MICHAEL LUONGO, EDOR OF GAY TRAVELS THE MLIM WORLD, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE MURR OF THE 15-YEAR-OLD SHOWED ISIS’S HYPOCRISY. “IT GO TO THE IA THAT SOME PARTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND OTHER CULTUR BEG THE PERATOR IS OK ‎BEE THAT IS NOT UNMANLY.”LUONGO ADD, “IF THE SEX WAS WH A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY I WOULD BE CERTA HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS PERATED, WHO WAS RAPED. THE HYPOCRISY WOULD ALSO BE ADD TO THAT WOULD BE STARTED BY THE SIR OF THE GUY WHO WAS NOT HARSHLY PUNISHED, BY THE MANR.“WE HAVE SEEN THIS TYPE OF HYPOCRISY OTHER SO-LLED RELIG GROUPS SUCH AS THE TALIBAN. THE HORROR IS ADD TO BY THE SENSE THE 15-YEAR-OLD WAS SENTIALLY RAPED AND THEN MURRED FOR HIS HAVG BEEN RAPED.”NAHAS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT GAY MEN JOED ISIS TO PROTECT THEMSELV AND THEIR FAI, SOMETIM REPORTG ON FELLOW GAYS TO NCEAL THEMSELV MORE EFFECTIVELY. “SOME NEW RECS REPORT IENDS THEY ED TO HAVE SEX WH, BEE THEY BELIEVE ’S THE RIGHT THG TO DO.”NAHAS SAID THAT ORAM WAS STILL TRYG TO TABLISH THE VERACY OF A WEBSE THAT APPEARED LAST YEAR THAT PURPORTED TO SHOW MEMBERS OF ISIS ENGAGED GAY SEXUAL ACTS AND POS.THE SE, NAHAS SAID, WAS TABLISHED BY AN ASYLUM SEEKER NOW EUROPE, AND WHILE SOME OF THE PHOTOS HAD BEEN PHOTOSHOPPED, OTHER TAILS—MEN WEARG A CERTA KD OF MOUFLAGE AND WH ISIS FLAGS THE BACKGROUND—SUGGTED SOME OF THE PICTUR WERE REAL, “BUT PEOPLE NNOT NFIRM THIS BEE THEY ARE AAID. WE DO KNOW OF REPORTS THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE ISIS, OR HAVG SEX WH MEMBERS OF THE IA.“IN DOG SO, THEY SECURE PROTECTN FOR THEMSELV, AND A SAFE HAVEN FOR THEIR FAI AND—IF THEY HAVE THEM—THEIR CHILDREN. AT THE SAME TIME THEY N HAVE SEX THE BACKGROUND. THEY KNOW THEY ARE PROTECTED. THEY ARE NOT VTIGATED. NOW THE MSAGE OF THIS LATT CINT IS, ‘IF YOU ARE SENR ENOUGH WH AND HAVG GAY SEX, YOU WILL NOT BE EXECUTED.’”SPEAKG FOR ORAM—FOUND 2008 AS “THE ONLY TERNATNAL ANIZATN VOTED SOLELY TO ADVOTG FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND TERSEX (LGBTI) REFUGE FLEEG BTALIZATN DUE TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY”—NAHAS SAID SYRIA REMAED “VERY DANGERO” FOR GAYS.“WE HEAR OM PEOPLE WH SYRIA LOOKG FOR ANY WAY THEY N GET OUT, OR FD A WAY TO GET RETTLED. THEY ARE TOO AAID TO REPORT WHAT IS GOG ON. LOTS ARE BEG KIDNAPPED, LOTS ARE BEG KILLED. THEY ARE EHER SRED FOR THEIR LIFE, OR HAVE NO IA WHAT TO DO TO PE AND HOW TO DO .”NAHAS EMPHASIZED THAT THE DANGER TO LGBT PEOPLE SYRIA DID NOT JT E OM ISIS, BUT OM THE ERNMENT, AND OTHER GROUPS—EXTREME AND NOT.ANOTHER ANT ISLAMIC GROUP, AHRAR ASH-SHAM, ALSO TARGETED GAYS—AND A THIRD GROUP, WHICH NAHAS LLED THE JUDICIAL COURT ALEPPO, EXECUTED SEVEN PEOPLE ACCED OF BEG GAY AND OF BEG DG ERS, BY SHOOTG THEM THEIR HEADS. THE GROUP ALSO KILLED A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY, ACCED OF BEG GAY.“THE TARGETG OF GAY PEOPLE SYRIA IS LATG, EVEN BY GROUPS WHO SAY THEY ARE SECULAR,” SAID NAHAS. “THEY BELIEVE THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE ONE OF THE MA REASONS THERE IS WAR SYRIA, AND THEY NEED TO BE KILLED SO THE WAR N BE WON.”JT AS THE 15-YEAR-OLD THE MOST RECENT KILLG MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SPEGOAT, SO ARE LGBTS BEG TREATED AS SUCH MORE GENERALLY.NAHAS SAID HE KNEW OF BETWEEN 100 AND 125 LGBT SYRIANS TURKEY, AWAG RETTLEMENT ABROAD, AS HE HIMSELF EVENTUALLY SECURED LAST YEAR AFTER A PERILO AND TERRIFYG PE OM SYRIA.OF WATCHG THE UNFOLDG EVENTS FOR LGBT PEOPLE HIS HOME UNTRY, NAHAS, WHO NOW LIV THE U.S., SAID, “IT’S VASTATG. YOU FEEL PARALYZED. YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NNOT DO ANYTHG. AND YOU FEEL LIKE, ‘HOW AND WHY IS THIS HAPPENG AND WHAT LED TO ?’ YOU NNOT DO ANYTHG ABOUT , AND I NEED TO DO SOMETHG AND WANT TO DO SOMETHG, BUT THERE’S NOTHG I N DO.“I ALWAYS PUT MYSELF THEIR SHO AND ALWAYS THK, ‘THAT ULD BE ME, THAT ULD HAVE BEEN ME AT ANY MOMENT.’ THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ROURC, AND GAYS ARE AAID AND SRED, AND THEY’RE BEG TARGETED AND KILLED.” NAHAS PSED. “IT’S JT TOO MUCH.” TIM TEEMAN
• UNR ISIS: WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHED BY DEATH
• A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
• ISIS ARE RAPG GAY MEN AND TRANSGENR WOMEN
• THE ISLAMIC STATE’S SHOCKG WAR ON GAYS
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

THE SECRET, HYPOCRIL GAY WORLD OF ISISKILLERSISIS MURRED A 15-YEAR-OLD ACCED OF BEG GAY BUT SPARED THE LIFE OF HIS ‘RAPIST,’ A SENR JIHADI MANR. WHAT LI BEHD THE BTAL DOUBLE STANDARD?TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 06, 2016 12:01AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTTHE MURR OF A 15-YEAR-OLD TEENAGER, THROWN TO HIS ATH BY ISIS FOR BEG GAY, NOT ONLY REVEALS—YET AGA—THE TERROR GROUP’S MURRO HOMOPHOBIA, BUT ALSO THE HYPOCRISY THAT EXISTS ALONGSI .A SENR MANR OF THE SO-LLED ISLAMIC STATE, NAMED REPORTS AS ABU ZAID AL-JAZRAWI, WAS HAVG SOME KD OF RELATNSHIP WH THIS AS-YET-NAMELS 15-YEAR-OLD, BUT THE MORE SENR MAN WAS NOT KILLED.INSTEAD, AL-JAZRAWI WAS REPORTEDLY FLOGGED, AND FORCED TO LEAVE SYRIA AND JO THE FIGHTG ONTS NORTHWTERN IRAQ.THE BOY, KILLED DEIR EZ-ZOR, SYRIA’S SEVENTH-LARGT CY, IS NOT THE FIRST TO BE MURRED SUCH A MANNER: THE IMAG OF MEN, ACCED AND SPECTED OF BEG GAY, BEG THROWN TO THEIR ATHS OM TALL BUILDGS HAS BEE BTALLY FAIAR. ON TUDAY, THE U.K.-BASED SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, TOLD THE INPENNT THAT AT LEAST 25 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ISIS FOR BEG GAY: SIX STONED, THREE SHOT THE HEAD, AND 16 THROWN OM HIGH-RISE BUILDGS.OF THE 15-YEAR-OLD’S KILLG, “THE HORRIFIC EXECUTN TOOK PLACE ONT OF A LARGE CROWD,” A LOL MEDIA ACTIVIST AND AN EYEWNS TOLD SYRIAN NEWS AGENCY ARA NEWS.“THE BOY WAS ACCED OF BEG ENGAGED A HOMOSEXUAL RELATN WH THE PROMENT ISIS OFFICER ABU ZAID AL-JAZRAWI,” MEDIA ACTIVIST SARAI AL-D TOLD THE AGENCY. THE SHARIA COURT DEIR EZ-ZOR REPORTEDLY SAID THAT ABU ZAID SHOULD, LIKE THE BOY, DIE FOR BEG GAY, BUT ISIS MANRS MAND HE BE SENT TO FIGHT IRAQ STEAD.SUBHI NAHAS, A GAY SYRIAN WHO PED THE UNTRY FEARG FOR HIS LIFE, AND WHO A HISTORY-MAKG SPEECH ADDRSED THE UNED NATNS LAST YEAR ABOUT LGBT PERSECUTN SYRIA, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THERE WERE POSSIBLE CULTURAL REASONS BEHD THE MURR OF ONE YOUNG MAN AND THE REPRIEVE OF HIS OLR SEXUAL PARTNER, SCRIBED AS THE TEEN’S “RAPIST” SOME REPORTS.“A TRADN WHICH ADULT MAL ENGAGED SEXUAL PLEASURE WH PRE-PUBCENT BOYS--GHELMAN--CLUDG HERMAPHRODIC BOYS, HAS EXISTED BEFORE THE CREATN OF ISLAM," NAHAS SAID. "BEE THE ENUNTERS DIDN'T RULT PREGNANCI, THEY BEME MORE MONPLACE AFTER ISLAM HAD TAKEN ROOT."THE SCRIPTNS OF THE 15-YEAR-OLD’S RELATNSHIP WH THE MANR ARE NTRADICTORY: IT HAS BEEN VARLY SCRIBED AS A “SEXUAL RELATN” AND “RAPE.” HOW NSENSUAL OR ERCIVE THE RELATNSHIP WAS IS UNCLEAR, AS IS THE NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE OLR AND YOUNGER MAN. “CULTURALLY, POST THE FORMATN OF ISLAM, PEOPLE RELATED HOMOSEXUALY TO PEDOPHILIA,” SAID NAHAS, NOW AN ACTIVIST WH THE ORGANIZATN FOR REFUGE, ASYLUM & MIGRATN (ORAM). “NO DISTCTN IS DRAWN BETWEEN THE TWO. IF SOMEBODY RAPED A BOY THEY LLED HIM A HOMOSEXUAL, NOT A PEDOPHILE. MAYBE THIS MANR HAD A KD OF WAIVER GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS PEERS. THEY THK, ‘HE DO GREAT THGS FOR PEOPLE. WE NNOT KILL HIM, BUT WE NEED A SPEGOAT, THE BOY.’“THEY DON’T LL THIS RELATNSHIP OR [THE] MEN ‘GAY,’” SAID NAHAS. “IF A MAN HAS SEX WH ANOTHER MAN, THE TWO PARTI ARE THE RECEPTIVE ONE AND THE ‘SERTER.’ IF YOU’RE THE RECEPTIVE PARTY, YOU’RE DOOMED. YOU’RE SEEN AS SODOMIZED, SOMEONE HAS DONE THIS TO YOU, YOU’RE THE ABOMATN. IF YOU’RE THE SERTER, YOU ARE NTROL, YOU’RE FUNCTNAL, YOU N REPRODUCE.”NAHAS SAID THE SE WAS ALSO PUZZLG: HE HAD HEARD THAT WHILE ISIS WAS SPARG EFFEMATE GAY MEN “FOR THE PLEASURE OF OLR MEN,” THE “MASCULE” MEN SPECTED OF BEG GAY WERE BEG KILLED.IN THIS SE, APPEARED TO NAHAS THAT THE ISIS MANR’S SENRY POSSIBLY PROTECTED HIM. “THEY NEED A SPEGOAT, THEY NEED A BOY TO KILL. THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER PART TO THIS STORY, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLG YET TO GIVE ANY RMATN BEE ’S VERY SENSIVE.”MICHAEL LUONGO, EDOR OF GAY TRAVELS THE MLIM WORLD, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THE MURR OF THE 15-YEAR-OLD SHOWED ISIS’S HYPOCRISY. “IT GO TO THE IA THAT SOME PARTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND OTHER CULTUR BEG THE PERATOR IS OK ‎BEE THAT IS NOT UNMANLY.”LUONGO ADD, “IF THE SEX WAS WH A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY I WOULD BE CERTA HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS PERATED, WHO WAS RAPED. THE HYPOCRISY WOULD ALSO BE ADD TO THAT WOULD BE STARTED BY THE SIR OF THE GUY WHO WAS NOT HARSHLY PUNISHED, BY THE MANR.“WE HAVE SEEN THIS TYPE OF HYPOCRISY OTHER SO-LLED RELIG GROUPS SUCH AS THE TALIBAN. THE HORROR IS ADD TO BY THE SENSE THE 15-YEAR-OLD WAS SENTIALLY RAPED AND THEN MURRED FOR HIS HAVG BEEN RAPED.”NAHAS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT GAY MEN JOED ISIS TO PROTECT THEMSELV AND THEIR FAI, SOMETIM REPORTG ON FELLOW GAYS TO NCEAL THEMSELV MORE EFFECTIVELY. “SOME NEW RECS REPORT IENDS THEY ED TO HAVE SEX WH, BEE THEY BELIEVE ’S THE RIGHT THG TO DO.”NAHAS SAID THAT ORAM WAS STILL TRYG TO TABLISH THE VERACY OF A WEBSE THAT APPEARED LAST YEAR THAT PURPORTED TO SHOW MEMBERS OF ISIS ENGAGED GAY SEXUAL ACTS AND POS.THE SE, NAHAS SAID, WAS TABLISHED BY AN ASYLUM SEEKER NOW EUROPE, AND WHILE SOME OF THE PHOTOS HAD BEEN PHOTOSHOPPED, OTHER TAILS—MEN WEARG A CERTA KD OF MOUFLAGE AND WH ISIS FLAGS THE BACKGROUND—SUGGTED SOME OF THE PICTUR WERE REAL, “BUT PEOPLE NNOT NFIRM THIS BEE THEY ARE AAID. WE DO KNOW OF REPORTS THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE ISIS, OR HAVG SEX WH MEMBERS OF THE IA.“IN DOG SO, THEY SECURE PROTECTN FOR THEMSELV, AND A SAFE HAVEN FOR THEIR FAI AND—IF THEY HAVE THEM—THEIR CHILDREN. AT THE SAME TIME THEY N HAVE SEX THE BACKGROUND. THEY KNOW THEY ARE PROTECTED. THEY ARE NOT VTIGATED. NOW THE MSAGE OF THIS LATT CINT IS, ‘IF YOU ARE SENR ENOUGH WH AND HAVG GAY SEX, YOU WILL NOT BE EXECUTED.’”SPEAKG FOR ORAM—FOUND 2008 AS “THE ONLY TERNATNAL ANIZATN VOTED SOLELY TO ADVOTG FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND TERSEX (LGBTI) REFUGE FLEEG BTALIZATN DUE TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY”—NAHAS SAID SYRIA REMAED “VERY DANGERO” FOR GAYS.“WE HEAR OM PEOPLE WH SYRIA LOOKG FOR ANY WAY THEY N GET OUT, OR FD A WAY TO GET RETTLED. THEY ARE TOO AAID TO REPORT WHAT IS GOG ON. LOTS ARE BEG KIDNAPPED, LOTS ARE BEG KILLED. THEY ARE EHER SRED FOR THEIR LIFE, OR HAVE NO IA WHAT TO DO TO PE AND HOW TO DO .”NAHAS EMPHASIZED THAT THE DANGER TO LGBT PEOPLE SYRIA DID NOT JT E OM ISIS, BUT OM THE ERNMENT, AND OTHER GROUPS—EXTREME AND NOT.ANOTHER ANT ISLAMIC GROUP, AHRAR ASH-SHAM, ALSO TARGETED GAYS—AND A THIRD GROUP, WHICH NAHAS LLED THE JUDICIAL COURT ALEPPO, EXECUTED SEVEN PEOPLE ACCED OF BEG GAY AND OF BEG DG ERS, BY SHOOTG THEM THEIR HEADS. THE GROUP ALSO KILLED A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY, ACCED OF BEG GAY.“THE TARGETG OF GAY PEOPLE SYRIA IS LATG, EVEN BY GROUPS WHO SAY THEY ARE SECULAR,” SAID NAHAS. “THEY BELIEVE THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE ONE OF THE MA REASONS THERE IS WAR SYRIA, AND THEY NEED TO BE KILLED SO THE WAR N BE WON.”JT AS THE 15-YEAR-OLD THE MOST RECENT KILLG MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SPEGOAT, SO ARE LGBTS BEG TREATED AS SUCH MORE GENERALLY.NAHAS SAID HE KNEW OF BETWEEN 100 AND 125 LGBT SYRIANS TURKEY, AWAG RETTLEMENT ABROAD, AS HE HIMSELF EVENTUALLY SECURED LAST YEAR AFTER A PERILO AND TERRIFYG PE OM SYRIA.OF WATCHG THE UNFOLDG EVENTS FOR LGBT PEOPLE HIS HOME UNTRY, NAHAS, WHO NOW LIV THE U.S., SAID, “IT’S VASTATG. YOU FEEL PARALYZED. YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NNOT DO ANYTHG. AND YOU FEEL LIKE, ‘HOW AND WHY IS THIS HAPPENG AND WHAT LED TO ?’ YOU NNOT DO ANYTHG ABOUT , AND I NEED TO DO SOMETHG AND WANT TO DO SOMETHG, BUT THERE’S NOTHG I N DO.“I ALWAYS PUT MYSELF THEIR SHO AND ALWAYS THK, ‘THAT ULD BE ME, THAT ULD HAVE BEEN ME AT ANY MOMENT.’ THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ROURC, AND GAYS ARE AAID AND SRED, AND THEY’RE BEG TARGETED AND KILLED.” NAHAS PSED. “IT’S JT TOO MUCH.” TIM TEEMAN

The murr of a 15-year-old teenager, thrown to his ath by ISIS for beg gay, not only reveals—yet aga—the terror group’s murro homophobia, but also the hypocrisy that exists alongsi . Instead, al-Jazrawi was reportedly flogged, and forced to leave Syria and jo the fightg onts northwtern boy, killed Deir ez-Zor, Syria’s seventh-largt cy, is not the first to be murred such a manner: the imag of men, acced and spected of beg gay, beg thrown to their aths om tall buildgs has bee btally Tuday, the U. -based Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, told The Inpennt that at least 25 people have been killed by ISIS for beg gay: six stoned, three shot the head, and 16 thrown om high-rise the 15-year-old’s killg, “The horrific executn took place ont of a large crowd, ” a lol media activist and an eyewns told Syrian news agency ARA News.

“The boy was acced of beg engaged a homosexual relatn wh the proment ISIS officer Abu Zaid al-Jazrawi, ” media activist Sarai al-D told the agency. The Sharia Court Deir ez-Zor reportedly said that Abu Zaid should, like the boy, die for beg gay, but ISIS manrs mand he be sent to fight Iraq Nahas, a gay Syrian who ped the untry fearg for his life, and who a history-makg speech addrsed the Uned Natns last year about LGBT persecutn Syria, told The Daily Beast that there were possible cultural reasons behd the murr of one young man and the reprieve of his olr sexual partner, scribed as the teen’s “rapist” some reports. “Culturally, post the formatn of Islam, people related homosexualy to pedophilia, ” said Nahas, now an activist wh the Organizatn For Refuge, Asylum & Migratn (ORAM).

UNR ISIS: WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHED BY DEATH

If somebody raped a boy they lled him a homosexual, not a pedophile. ’“They don’t ll this relatnship or [the] men ‘gay, ’” said Nahas.

”Nahas said the se was also puzzlg: He had heard that while ISIS was sparg effemate gay men “for the pleasure of olr men, ” the “mascule” men spected of beg gay were beg this se, appeared to Nahas that the ISIS manr’s senry possibly protected him. ”Michael Luongo, edor of Gay Travels the Mlim World, told The Daily Beast that the murr of the 15-year-old showed ISIS’s hypocrisy.

A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’

”Nahas told The Daily Beast that gay men joed ISIS to protect themselv and their fai, sometim reportg on fellow gays to nceal themselv more effectively.

”Nahas said that ORAM was still tryg to tablish the veracy of a webse that appeared last year that purported to show members of ISIS engaged gay sexual acts and se, Nahas said, was tablished by an asylum seeker now Europe, and while some of the photos had been Photoshopped, other tails—men wearg a certa kd of mouflage and wh ISIS flags the background—suggted some of the pictur were real, “but people nnot nfirm this bee they are aaid. We do know of reports that gay people are ISIS, or havg sex wh members of the ia.

ISIS ARE RAPG GAY MEN AND TRANSGENR WOMEN

Now the msage of this latt cint is, ‘If you are senr enough wh and havg gay sex, you will not be executed. ’”Speakg for ORAM—found 2008 as “the only ternatnal anizatn voted solely to advotg for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) refuge fleeg btalizatn due to sexual orientatn or genr inty”—Nahas said Syria remaed “very dangero” for gays.

THE ISLAMIC STATE’S SHOCKG WAR ON GAYS

Another ant Islamic group, Ahrar ash-Sham, also targeted gays—and a third group, which Nahas lled the Judicial Court Aleppo, executed seven people acced of beg gay and of beg dg ers, by shootg them their heads.

“The targetg of gay people Syria is latg, even by groups who say they are secular, ” said Nahas. “They believe that gay people are one of the ma reasons there is war Syria, and they need to be killed so the war n be won.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

’ There are not enough rourc, and gays are aaid and sred, and they’re beg targeted and killed. — -- About half an hour after Omar Mateen opened fire on a popular gay Orlando nightclub, eventually killg 49 people, he lled 911 and pledged his allegiance to the Islamist terror anizatn vtigators are still tryg to terme why he chose to target the Pulse nightclub and whether Mateen actually had any nnectn to ISIS, the targetg of the LGBT muny li squarely wh the terror group’s extremist group follows a strict terpretatn of Sharia law and believ homosexualy is punishable by ISIS has taken over swaths of terrory Iraq and Syria, untls LGBT and spected LGBT people have been slghtered, acrdg to ternatnal rights groups –- shot, behead, stoned, and thrown om the tops of atroci are often advertised ISIS propaganda vios onle.

OutRight Internatnal, formerly known as the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn, says has documented dozens of aths perpetrated by ISIS Iraq and anizatn reports published by ISIS, regnals news media, NGOs, and others to track the killgs. Jsi Stern, the Executive Director of OutRight, told ABC News that ISIS’s executn of gays is jt part of a “ntuum of vlence” perpetrat agast dividuals who don’t ply wh s world said the group sometim don’t even need proof of so-lled wrongdog.