Posted on 08/24/2015 9:43:57 AM PDT by markomalley
Top representatives from the United States and Chile hosted a United Nation's Security Council briefing Monday on the plight gays face from Islamic State fighters in hopes of generating world outrage at the LGBT persecution.
It was the first-ever security council meeting on gay rights and included testimony from those targeted by ISIS. It was hosted by U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and Chile's U.N. Ambassador Cristian Barros Melet.
"I'm receiving messages daily from my friends who are terrified and feeling alone because of ISIL's constant attacks, murders, and infiltration and shutting off of the one escape route to safety in Turkey," said Subhi Nahas, an openly gay Syrian refugee and representative of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration.
According to reports, ISIS has thrown gays off high buildings.
In a statement, Nahas also discussed with the group gay persecution in other nations like Turkey, where he lived for three years before coming to the U.S. to work for the San Francisco-based ORAM.
"Turkey is not a safe place either," he said. "My friends there have sent me pictures of their wounds from police rubber bullets at Istanbul Pride in June. In July, a gay activist was raped in his own home and my friends report that attacks against LGBT people are escalating by two vigilante militant groups who are posting banners calling to 'Kill gay people' in Ankara and Istanbul."
ORAM's founder and executive director, Neil Grungras, said the U.N. meeting was key to bringing attention to the issue.
"It's particularly important that this event is hosted by the U.N. Security Council. Of the millions of LGBT people who face human rights abuses each year, only a handful manage to escape and become refugees. It is up to the nations of conscience represented here today to open their doors and give these refugees the safety they need," said Grungras.
God forbid the Administration muster outrage for murdered Christians and sex slaves—NOPE. Gotta get mad because of ISIS treatment of gays.
Our Administration sucks donkey cocks.
What ISIS does to homosexuals is barbaric. No one deserves to be killed or tortured for being gay. But ISIS is barbaric to everyone, and has been for a long time. The administration is a little late to the party, as usual.
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