ISIS Barbarians Throw Two Gay Men to Their Deaths

ISIS continues to underscore the toxicity of religion and fundamentalist religion in particular as it murders two more gays, all to uphold the writings of Mohammad who claimed the angel Gabriel dictated the Koran to him.  Nowadays someone like Mohammed would be residing in a mental institution, yet a billion plus Muslims continue to allow their lives to be controlled by the writings of a likely deranged madman.  Blogger friend John Becker has the horrible details at The Bilerico Project.  Here are highlights:

The jihadist barbarians of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have executed two more gay men -- this time in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, located in the Nineveh province.

And unlike two earlier executions, where a total of three men were stoned to death by ISIS militants in Syria for alleged homosexuality, these latest killings were carried out by throwing the victims off the roof of a tall building. Graphic photos of the executions were then uploaded to Twitter.
Radio Free Europe reports:

The Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq has published photographs that appear to show a man being thrown from the roof of a tall building apparently in Mosul, as punishment for being gay...

One photograph, taken from the top of the building from where the man was apparently pushed to his death, shows a large crowd gathered in the public square below.

Another image shows a man with his face covered by a black balaclava, reading out the sentence imposed on the man under the IS group's version of Shari'a law. The caption to the photograph says that the verdict was issued by a Shari'a court in "Wilayat Nineveh," IS's name for Mosul and its environs.

A graphic image shows the man being pushed to his death. Another image shows what appears to be the man's body on the ground.

The Daily Beast puts the images in context:

Death is shown in high resolution--the killing carefully composed inside the frame. These images belong to a deliberate social media and information strategy. Like all good Internet propaganda the images are made to be readily "shareable" and appear to have been released with the intent that they travel to a broader audience. It worked. Obscene and merciless, it's a reflection of the state of life under ISIS rule.

The situation for LGBT people living in areas controlled by ISIS extremists could not be more bleak: international human rights groups say they are "at imminent risk of death."

The next time someone tells you how offensive images depicting the prophet Muhammad are, show them these images instead.

Religion is an evil that needs to be eradicated.