Tag: ISIS

President Trump met with human rights activist Nadia Murad, an Iraqi who was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for speaking out about her rape and torture while in Islamic State captivity, for several minutes in the Oval Office on Wednesday, reports the Washington Post. Murad implored the president to help her Yazidi ethnic minority return to Iraq while standing beside a seated Trump, who “mostly avoided eye contact with Murad.” Murad, who now lives in Germany, explained that the...

This is exactly what it's like to be LGBTI under ISIS Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, fell to ISIS in June 2014. Everyone was affected, but so-called Islamic State targeted gay people in particular. It took nine months of intense military operations from Iraqi forces and their allies to recapture Mosul in July 2017. But for those three years, ISIS executed LGBTI people by blindfolding them and throwing them off rooftops, as well as stoning them. Daesh (ISIS) also enforced strict clothing limitations....

But there are no plans to build a memorial to LGBTI victims of Islamic State Iraq authorities are bulldozing a building that was home to hundreds of Islamic State (IS) homophobic crimes. Many men accused of being gay were thrown off the seven-storey building that was once home to the National Insurance Company in Mosul. The building, ravaged by the battle to end IS rule, will be removed. IS were finally removed from Mosul in the summer of 2017. A new government building will...

Amer Alhaggagi was a young, aspiring terrorist in Oakland, California with dreams of blowing up a San Francisco gay bar, selling cocaine mixed with strychnine (rat poison), starting a massive hill fire to destroy homes and blowing up the UC Berkley dorms with backpack bombs. “I’d like to kill the students,” he says to an undercover FBI agent on a recently released tape. “I’ve been so excited about it. I’ve been hyped up.” Then he laughs. In July, the 23-year-old pleaded...

Abu Omer, known as "White Beard," was arrested in Mosul. An infamous ISIS leader reported to have overseen the executions of civilians suspected of being gay has been captured by Iraqi security forces. Abu Omer, known as “White Beard” because of his long facial hair, was arrested on January 1 after locals in Mosul reported he was in the city. The Islamic State has taken credit for murdering dozens of men accused of homosexuality in Iraq and Syria. Often the victims are...

‘To love whoever you want is worth the struggle!’ A group of guerrilla fighters in ISIS-ravaged Raqqa, Syria have posted a message of support to Stockholm Pride. The festival takes place in the Swedish capital this weekend. The photo and message was posted on the Facebook page ‘The Women’s Revolution in Rojava’. The page represents Kurdish women fighting against ISIS/Daesh in in the Rojava region of Syria. TQILA and IRPGF The image follows social media postings last week by The Queer Insurrection and...

The International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), which describes itself as “a militant armed self-organized and horizontal collective working to defend social revolutions around the world, to directly confront capital and the state, and advance the cause of anarchism,” raised the LGBTQ Pride flag in Raqqa, Syria, according to a tweet posted on Monday. https://twitter.com/IRPGF/status/889445690656608256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.towleroad.com%2F2017%2F07%2Frainbow-flag-syria%2F Tweeted the group with a photo of group members holding up the rainbow flag and a flag of an assault rifle: “These Faggots Kill Fascists! We shoot...

Gay people, according to ISIS, are the 'worst of creatures' ISIS have murdered another supposed gay man in its vile campaign to rid the world of homosexuality. But in new photos released by Islamic State, religious police carried out an execution of a man they claim to be gay in pictures released on terrorism channels on 9 January. It shows the ‘hisbah’, or religious police, carrying out an execution of a man accused of gay sex, in Mosul, Iraq. An accompanying summary of...

In what's becoming a horrifying pattern in Mosul — Iraq's second-largest city and one controlled by the radical Islamist group — the men were pushed off a tall building, falling to their deaths. Four men accused of homosexuality and sodomy have been executed in Mosul, the northern Iraqi city under ISIS control. The men were pushed off a shuttered central Mosul office building Saturday, according to a report in Iraqi News, which also noted that two of the men were ISIS...

Once again we find out about there are some societies around the Globe with an actual disregard towards basic human rights and values. This is an attitude that ISIS has constantly shown ever since it entered in conflict with the civilized world. Another innocent died on Friday after ISIS members threw it off the roof of a building. In these cases, the executions always take place publicly in the front of a crowd. There are two reasons for that....

In the Syrian city of Palmyra, 2 gay men are sentenced to death. The masked member of the Islamic State reads out the sentence, adding that death would cleanse them of sin. 32 yr old Hawas Mallah asked to be shot in the head, while 21 year old Muhammed Salameh asked for a chance to repent, promising to never have intercourse with a man again. Their hands were tied, before they were dropped head first from the roof. IS is...

In the news of late, there is no mistaking the presence of ISIS. They are making their statements in brutal, terrifying fashion around every turn. Unfortunately, the people of Paris know better than any others right now what the terrorism really does to you. The capacity of men to target stadiums, and theaters, places of peace and joy, and kill innocents intentionally is horrific. No question the attacks were orchestrated, and the people were not the specific targets, they...