Sunday, March 8, 2015

Fear of ISIS persecution for gay people in Syria

According to this article, ISIS released some photographs of its persecutions for gay people in March 2015. The photographs show ISIS throws a guy off a building, and people are just watching what is happening from the ground. The guy was killed because he was gay. Citizens are just watching what is going on, and they are not doing anything, just watching. In the article, also gay Syrians talk about their experience of being abused when they were in Syria. Now they are in Turkey and they says they will never return to Syria.
I think it is just awful. I cannot understand why people are killed because of their sexuality. Is it such a huge issue for ISIS? Gay people do not cause trouble to them at all. Also I cannot understand why citizens could be just watching when ISIS kills gay people. Probably it is because being gay is awful and wrong for Syrian people, but gay people are same human beings like non-gay people. I cannot believe not only these persecutions caused by ISIS but also it seems like citizens do not care about it so much. The value of life should be same in all human beings and we should not overlook these awful issues. It should not happen that the only choice is to move from their home country or be abused because of their sexuality, it is really sad.

Ryota Taniguchi

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/middleeast/isis-lgbt-persecution/index.html

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