ISIS the Islamic State (or ISIS) have posted pictures that depict two gay men thrown from the roof of a building as a crowd watches them fall to their deaths, and carrying out public executions before an audience in Iraq’s Nineveh province.
. In another photo, woman accused of being an adulterer is stoned to death, and two men charged with thievery are bound to crucifixes. Victims are commonly crucified, sometimes after they have been killed, in ISIS public executions.
Via the Daily Beast:
ISIS-affiliated social media feeds began spreading the images Thursday. Those accounts linked to a justpasteit.com file attributed to the “Information Office of the mandate of Nineveh,” an apparent propaganda arm tied to Islamic state press releases. The public executions appear to have taken place in Mosul, the capital of the Islamic State and Iraq’s second largest city sits in Nineveh province.
Public executions in ISIS controlled areas enforce the group’s version of Sharia Law and serve to terrorize locals into strict obedience. Elsewhere, ISIS has used the tactic to intimidate its rivals.
Another example of human beings using religion to justify their hatred, bigotry and contempt. Murder is murder no matter what excuse you choose to justify your actions.
I am sick. ISIS and religious murder are sick. I am beside myself with grief for the unknown victims of these monsters, especially our gay brothers. Beside myself.
It’s so very hard to wrap my mind around this, for the horror of it all. It’s beyond religion, it’s just psychotic.
Reminds me of the Republican Party……a little straw, tells which way the wind blows.