The Telegraph reports that IS have apparently taken literally the injunction to throw the children of Lot (you know what they got up to, nudge) off a high place. There are photos.
Photographs have emerged that appear to show members of the Islamic State group in Iraq throwing a man from a building in punishment for being gay.
The graphic images, seemingly taken in the northern Isil controlled city of Mosul, show a man being pushed to his death before a large crowd that had gathered in the main square below.
One photograph, taken from the top of the building, shows the man from behind, blindfolded and with his hands tied across his back, being pushed to the ledge by his executioner.
In another photo, a jihadist, his face covered with a balaclava, is shown reading out the apparent sentence that was ruled in the extremists’ “Sharia court”.
There’s that stupid word again – “extremists.” They’re not “extremists,” they’re murderers, criminals, fascist murdering theocrats. Calling them “extremists” is euphemistic.
A caption for another photo says the man had been convicted of the practices of the “people of lot”, a euphemism for sodomy.
I suppose they also say “thank you for flying with us” right before they cut off people’s heads.
INB4 someone turning up shrieking “ISLAMOPHOBIA” for daring to be critical of this.
(Yes, I am aware some people take their attacks on Islam and Islamic culture to the point of blanket hatred and xenophobia. But I think there is also truth to the charge that the word has been used very loosely, to silence all criticisms of Islam, in the name of “respecting diversity” and such.)
Yup. We’ve been seeing a lot of that lately.
Wait, is there another story about Lot’s children? Because the only one I know is when Lot offered to let a mob rape his two virgin daughters so they wouldn’t instead rape a pair of angels that were visiting him. (Why the angels couldn’t take of themselves wasn’t explained, though in other stories angels were impressive enough that they had to start conversations with “don’t be scared” instead of “hello.”)
Robert B, it was obscure to me, too.
I looked.
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Out of the 1.6 billion Muslims around the world you’d expect quite a few hundred million moderates would speak out against the killers, but so far; not that many.
Are you kidding, grumpyoldfart? Are you blind? Muslims all over the work have been repudiating the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and every violent murder of ISIS. And they also don’t owe you shit. I don’t see every single Westerner shouting for forgiveness every time a white person kills someone =/
@ grumpyoldfart: Not to mention the Muslim police officer who was killed trying to stop the attack, which as objections go is much more emphatic than just “speaking out.” If we take the terrorists as somehow representatives of Muslims as a group, we need to also and equally take that police officer as representative.
So sayeth Faux Noise.
I would think that the “practices of Lot” would be daughters deliberately getting pregnant by their fathers.
As others have noted, moderate Muslims speak out against this sort of thing ALL THE TIME.
Then add to them all those millions of moderate or apostate Muslims who would love to speak out but they CAN’T because they’re living in fucking totalitarian Islamic states and if they spoke out they’d very shortly be in line to be murdered.
e.g. Raif Badawi.
grumpyoldfart, can you kindly link us to all of your condemnations of every crime perpetrated by whatever ethnic, racial, or religious group you belong to? Specifically, the condemnations should be of the form ‘as a white/black/indian man/woman/trans/gay person who also believes [religious belief here], I condemn the actions of my fellow [insert all necessary qualifiers].’
Please try not to let the first word after that condemnation be ‘but’.
TIA