U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell “has drawn a parallel between the brutal violence perpetrated by the Islamic State terror group and that of Iran.” Grenell (who is gay) indicated that Iran’s ongoing policy of executing its citizens for the “crime” of being gay is similar to the atrocities committed by the Islamic State. The recent hanging of a 31-year-old man for being gay in Iran, Grenell said, should serve as “a wake-up call for anyone who supports basic human rights.” But such atrocities are not happening only in the Islamic State and Iran.
It has become a common tactic of mainstream Islamic groups in West to disassociate themselves, and Islam, from the Islamic State, referencing to ISIS as an aberration of Islam, but the truth is that the Islamic State routinely backed up its actions using verses of the Quran and passages from the Hadith, as well as those tenets of Islamic law. Death for apostasy, death for homosexual activity, death for blaspheming Islam and a range of barbaric practices are routine in Sharia states, so they are not as much of an aberration as many in the West would have the naive populace believe.
“U.S. Envoy Richard Grenell: Iran’s Anti-Gay Brutality Similiar to that of Islamic State,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, February 5, 2019:
TEL AVIV – The U.S. Ambassador to Germany has drawn a parallel between the brutal violence perpetrated by the Islamic State terror group and that of Iran.
Richard Grenell, arguably the most high-profile American envoy in Europe, wrote in Germany’s largest paper, BILD, that Iran’s ongoing policy of executing its citizens for the “crime” of being gay is similar to the atrocities committed by IS.
The recent hanging of a 31-year-old man for being gay in Iran, Grenell said, should serve as “a wake-up call for anyone who supports basic human rights. Politicians, the UN, democratic governments, diplomats, and good people everywhere should speak up – and loudly,” according to remarks translated by The Jerusalem Post.
“Iran’s horrific actions are on par with the brutality and savagery regularly demonstrated by IS,” he added.
The Islamic State has been known to publicly execute gay men, including throwing them from buildings. LGBT rights organization OutRight Action International documented 90 executions of gay people by the Islamic State between 2014 and 2016.
The Jerusalem Post pointed to a 2008 British Wikileaks dispatch which found that Iran had executed “between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians” since the 1979 revolution.
In his article in BILD, Grenell noted:
This is not the first time the Iranian regime has put a gay man to death with the usual outrageous claims of prostitution, kidnapping, or even pedophilia. And it sadly won’t be the last time they do it either. Barbaric public executions are all too common in a country where consensual homosexual relationships are criminalized and punishable by flogging and death. In Iran, where children as young as nine can be sentenced to death, gay teenagers are publicly hanged in order to terrify and intimidate others from coming out.
Being gay is a death sentence in eight countries and criminalized in 70 more. LGBT status or conduct means arrest, imprisonment, and violence for people who are simply dating or falling in love. Governments that are members of the United Nations have an obligation to protect, respect, and uphold the dignity and fundamental freedoms of their people….
Steve says
The Sunnis and the Shia are simpatico when it comes to killing homosexuals.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
David Stephenson says
Thank you for posting. I missed this article in Breitbart.
A sad state of affairs that the majority of organizations supporting gay rights embrace islamic front groups and illogically keep welcoming the ideology into the West.
Rosie Barnes says
“Being gay is a death sentence in eight countries and criminalized in 70 more”. And where are those 78 countries? In black Africa and the Muslim world, the two most backward and violent cultures on Earth. And the two cultures making up the vast majority of the migrants/refugees/asylum seekers queuing up to get into the civilised world in order to be subsidised indefinitely by the very people they scorn and despise for their liberal views.
Indiana Tom says
Iran Islam and Islamic State Islam are joined at the hip.
b.a. freeman says
well … kinda, sorta, Indiana.
iran is shia, and IS was/is sunni, so each considers the other to be apostate, and therefore worthy of death. OTOH, with the “the enemy of my enemy is my friend … for now” strategy, and because both believe most of the same things, they are more than willing to work together to murder kuffar. so long as anybody kuffar remains and is powerful, they will *indeed* be “joined at the hip.”
gravenimage says
American envoy Richard Grenell compares Iran’s “anti-gay brutality” to that of the Islamic State
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Yes–they may have been opposed when it came to power-grabs, but they both hate anyone accused of being gay.
When will christianblood be along to laud Iran for this?
Kristian Jonholt says
One thing both the left and the right today agree on, is gloryfing homosexuality.
We dont kill people who live in sin, we give them the good news of the way to freedom in Jesus.
Moral decay is the fundamental reason that we in the west has got into the mess we are in today. ” Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness ” Ezekiel 7:11
infidel says
The hatred of the Khafir for both these two different Islamic beasts… Shia and Sunni is the same and they often vie with each other to show who can hate the Khafir more and do more horrific acts of rape and mass murder….. But of course, they also turn on each other like blood thirsty fiends when the Khafir is unavailable for these gory games…
patriotliz says
Amb. Grenell, among other brainwashed Westerner leaders, seem to be relatively naive and/or very reticent about criticizing Islam in general for their ideological inhumane teachings and atrocities since the inception of Islam. Islam is a “WMD” in the minds of its followers.
News from Islamic Chechnya: https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/community/118273/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-chechnyas-gay-purge/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link. Yes–Chechnya also murders those they suspect of being gay. *Ugh*.