Those cheeky chappies from ISIS certainly know what to do with those who do not conform to normal standards of behaviour. Just last Friday, in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, they threw a 15 year old boy from a rooftop for the very serious crime of being gay. It’s really not normal, is it? And a rational response to homosexuality? Why, the sickest kind of capital punishment imaginable.
What makes it even more bizarre is the fact that the young boy allegedly had a gay relationship with an ISIS commander who goes by the name of Abu Zaid al-Jazrawi. Presumably, old Abu is probably gay as well, and from all accounts a paedophile, so you can imagine what happened to him, can’t you? He was shipped off to Iraq to fight over there instead. What?
Some strange morals at play, here. A young boy is alleged to have a relationship with a grown up man and the ISIS leadership decides that only the boy should be punished. Punished for what exactly? I do not see what he has done wrong, although I would suggest that the boy was wronged. I can only imagine that Abu has been excused because he is one of the leaders of this frighteningly sick and totally mad organisation. I mean, his friends in the upper echelons of ISIS must know Abu is gay because they have put his alleged sexual partner to death, not that a full trial was actually held. Someone probably said something and these madmen thought it would be a good laugh to entertain the large crowd that turned up to see the boy plunge, blindfolded, to a terrible death. At least ISIS have some compassion. They always say that if, somehow, the “criminal” survives the fall, they’ll kick him to death. What a relief that must be!
We cannot claim in this country to be whiter than white on this score. It wasn’t that long ago when homosexuality was illegal, where gay people were “chemically castrated” and locked up in prison. And even today, in these enlightened times, there are still those who hate gays. In fact, many people of “faith” feel that way, believing that “god hates gays”. (Actually, they use worse words than gays, but let’s not encourage them.) My argument is simply that you can always prove that gay people exist, something that is much more tricky with the god character.
I have no time for anyone who attacks gays whether that is in Syria or at home. But I am very grateful that most people will be as appalled as I am by the latest atrocities occurring in Syria and if I was Abu, I’d be very careful. He might be an ISIS commander but he is gay and one day those madmen might take him to the highest building.
