The death penalty for gay acts is derived from people’s interpretations of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, and the Hadith, or the accounts of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. On June 14, , the House of Commons of Canada voted – against a Conservative parliamentary motion to recognize the atrocities targeting Yazidis, Christians, Shia Muslims, other ethnic and religious groups, and gays and lesbians to be defined as genocide.
[17] The U.S. Department of State 's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for for the countries of Iraq and Syria stated. Similarly, an October Wilayat Halab picture essay showing the execution of gay men, titled "God's Law Regarding Whoever Committed the 'Act of the People of Lot,'" uses this argument about the need to apply Islamic law as a means of justifying the stoning of gay men.
Such arguments about killing homosexuals appear throughout IS propaganda. Iran has reportedly "engaged in mass killing of gays and lesbians," with the Post previously reporting that up to 6, LGBTQ people have been executed since the Islamic Revolution. In these countries, homosexuality or same-sex relations are illegal and punishable with the death penalty. Rights organisations are fighting for change.
Homosexuality is wrong, I believe … I have a gay neighbour and he lives with his partner. But, after our friend's death, I said goodbye to them online and blocked them, for their own safety. In our society, being gay means death. In a democratic country you are encouraged to feel everything and to have any opinion , but you can not express all your aversions disrespectfully or violently.
From there, I went to Sulaymaniyah. Homosexuality or nonconformant gender expression can also be punished by corporal punishment, flogging, imprisonment or forced 'conversion' therapy. Discussion of concrete daily manners and respect. It's a disaster. Mauritania In Mauritania, which follows a Sharia-based criminal code, sexual acts between people of the same sex are criminalised and may be punished with death.
She's cultured, respectful - very bright. Edition: Europe. In I got into a fight with a fellow student, Omar - who later joined Isis - about hanging out with Christians. He was a great man - a very kind person. I want him out of my life. A more free interpretation of the Quran is that Allah gives people their own responsibility to lead a good life. They generally claim that homosexuality is banned by the Quran.
Human rights lawyers from the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project have helped me get refugee status and are working on getting me resettled in another country, where I want to continue my studies.
She loves me and when she was trying to smuggle me out, we never discussed my homosexuality. If you are a Muslim yourself, you have a different position than if you have a different belief or no religion. According to Statistica Research Department , as of , homosexuality is criminalised in 64 countries globally, with most of these nations situated in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Homosexuality is rejected in a number of places in the Koran.
Dialogue about behavior 3. Violence and hate crimes are un-Islamic. They often avoid talking about the Quran, because it is so sensitive these days. Theological and legal condemnations of homosexuality can engender perceptions at a social level that homosexuality is wrong and that it should not be permitted.
Iran Homosexuality is illegal in Iran and carries severe punishment under the country's Islamic penal code. It was devastating to see him go in that brutal way. Will they be lucky enough to survive? I don't know how he was outed because he was very careful - but maybe through a text or online message.
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