By Tim Teeman
ISIS murdered a 15-year-old
accused of being gay but spared the life of his ‘rapist,’ a senior
jihadi commander. What lies behind the brutal double standard?
The
murder of a 15-year-old teenager, thrown to his death by ISIS for being
gay, not only reveals—yet again—the terror group’s murderous
homophobia, but also the hypocrisy that exists alongside it.
A
senior commander of the so-called Islamic State, named in reports as Abu
Zaid al-Jazrawi, was having some kind of relationship with this
as-yet-nameless 15-year-old, but the more senior man was not killed.
Instead, he was reportedly flogged, and forced to leave Syria and join the fighting fronts in northwestern Iraq.
The
boy, killed in Deir ez-Zor, Syria’s seventh largest city, is not the
first to be murdered in such a manner: the images of men, accused and
suspected of being gay, being thrown to their deaths from tall buildings
has become brutally familiar.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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