So what's new? Muslims are killing people because they're gay or at least are stigmatized as gays
Gay Syrian man beheaded and mutilated in Turkey
Cagil Kasapoglu of the BBC Turkish Service says hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Turkey mostly go unreported.
Under the heading "hate crimes" the organisation recorded five murders, 32 attacks and three suicides in Turkey last year.
It believes the number of such murders over the past six years is more than 50.
Syrian gay refugees in Turkey suffer even more, as their legal status is precarious - they are usually undocumented and most are reluctant to report assaults to police, our reporter says.
Assaults on LGBT people in Turkey have mostly been blamed on ultra-conservative Muslims and an ultra-nationalist youth group, the Alperen Hearths.
The harassment is also related to a rise in homophobic rhetoric in conservative media and social media, Cagil Kasapoglu says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36973314
You know this does disturb me a lot. There are people who say "So what, I'm not gay what do I have to be afraid of?" Yeah right. Where does it say you're gay or not? On your forehead? When it's opened season on gays it's easy for someone that doesn't like you to declare you gay to an angry mob, because you know it as I do homophobia doesn't just hit gay people.
Gay Syrian man beheaded and mutilated in Turkey
Cagil Kasapoglu of the BBC Turkish Service says hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Turkey mostly go unreported.
Under the heading "hate crimes" the organisation recorded five murders, 32 attacks and three suicides in Turkey last year.
It believes the number of such murders over the past six years is more than 50.
Syrian gay refugees in Turkey suffer even more, as their legal status is precarious - they are usually undocumented and most are reluctant to report assaults to police, our reporter says.
Assaults on LGBT people in Turkey have mostly been blamed on ultra-conservative Muslims and an ultra-nationalist youth group, the Alperen Hearths.
The harassment is also related to a rise in homophobic rhetoric in conservative media and social media, Cagil Kasapoglu says.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36973314
You know this does disturb me a lot. There are people who say "So what, I'm not gay what do I have to be afraid of?" Yeah right. Where does it say you're gay or not? On your forehead? When it's opened season on gays it's easy for someone that doesn't like you to declare you gay to an angry mob, because you know it as I do homophobia doesn't just hit gay people.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"