MURDERED: A prisoner being thrown from a roof by ISIS (Daily Star)
The Advocate reported, via Religion of Peace:
Militants with the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have reportedly thrown a 15-year-old boy from the roof of a building in the northern Syrian city of Deir ez-Sor, reports ARA News.
Friday’s execution is the latest report of deadly violence targeting those believed to be (or accused of being) gay in the Middle Eastern regions controlled by the the terrorist group also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh.
As with other antigay executions, the young man’s murder was conducted in front of a large crowd, who watched as militants bound and blindfolded the 15-year-old, before throwing him off the roof to his death. In similar incidents over the past year, victims who have survived the fall have been stoned to death by militants and residents waiting on the ground. Other executions have contained beheadings of people thought to be LGBT or otherwise at odds with the group’s radical interpretation of Islam.
ARA News reports that the young boy was allegedly arrested “in the house of an ISIS leader” on Thursday. That leader, identified by the news site as Abu Zaid al-Jazrawi, was also sentenced to death by a Sharia court, but militants convinced leaders to strip al-Jazrawi of his position, and send him to fight on the front lines in Iraq.
According to the militants’ interpretation of Islam — which many Muslim clerics have denounced as wholly un-Islamic — Sharia law requires those convicted of the “crime” of homosexuality to be thrown from the tallest building in the city where the victim was arrested.
ISIS publicly executed at least 30 gay men in 2015.
ISIS fighters typically read out loud the charges to the crowd before the execution.
Then they blindfold the men and toss them off a roof.
#Syria – #ISIS threw 2 gay men from the roof of a building in #Palmyra then stoned them. pic.twitter.com/gLxWUOXSS4
— IraqiSuryani (@IraqiSuryani) July 23, 2015