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.
what he cares about is feeling good about himself.
I just cannot relate.....I find this all around me but cannot relate.
Service to others first right?
Yep somewhat of a jaw dropper but I just cannot wrap my mind about making everything about me.
Not in my make up. When my Mom died my work neighbor made it about her. Yeah Really.
This regime continues to amaze me, day after day. Just when you think they can’t possibly stick another thumb in our eye...
Most Americans(not including illegals) are not.
Me again( i hate to post twice like that!)
Most Americans are just the kindest people ever. I run into it all the time and of all races....just the nicest.
God Bless You All!
Well, he's beheaded the Constitution and has done his utmost to bulldoze America and also her allies, especially Israel.
“Most Americans are just the kindest people ever. I run into it all the time and of all races....just the nicest.”
I HAVE TRAVELED THE WORLD, AND NO OTHER COUNTRY COMES CLOSE.
THANK YOU.
Oh, yeah, the world is outraged that the coprophiles and lesbians are under attack. Perhaps we can wave a pink hanky out the window.
Not really, though. I don't really give a sh!t what you think about anything I've ever posted on FR.
You live in a pagan nation, and if you haven't figured that out yet then I really can't help you.
None? DNA and every cell of your body simply do not allow it. Your brain however......
Gays are specifically targeted by the people 0bama has been helping (ISIS).
I really could not care less. Let liberals go over there and fight 0bama’s friends.
Okay. Must be Canadian, which is one of the harshest countries against anything “intolerant.”
ISIS can behead Christian toddlers with impunity. But when their terror is directed at gays, well now... it’s a whole new matter.
You’d sure hope that gay people in this country would start to get a clue. We Christians may not approve of your lifestyle or your “marriage”, but we are not going to be tossing you off of roofs or feeding you into wood chippers.
The REAL ENEMY is OVER THERE!
For every gay ISIS kills, that’s one Christian that wasn’t for that day.
Such ill will and language from my FReeper paragon of virtue....
At a birthday party this weekend, a series of questions by kids on history led to someone pointing out that we had slavery 150 years ago, which is why some people are in bad situations now. I asked the kids, “Who here knows that ISIS in Iraq and Syria has slaves today? That they attacked a bunch of Yazidi non-Muslims last year and made them slaves?”
Aside from my son, no one knew that.
“Why are we saying some people are bad today for slaves 150 years ago? If we want to make up for slavery, why aren’t we talking about freeing slaves today? And does anyone remember save our girls hash tag last year?” Couple of hands went up. “That was because Boko Haram, black Africans, took black Christian girls slaves. They were sold to men as wives or slaves to do work. That’s slavery today. If you want to talk about rights and wrongs of black slavery, let’s talk about THAT, not stuff no one here every did or suffered from. I want to free the slaves, but today, that’s freeing slaves from the evils of Islam, not what we fought over in the Civil War.”
I had one parent privately criticize me for calling Islam evil, but no one else was even aware of the topic or cared.
I hate how we’re browbeaten on black oppression 50 years ago to justify discrimination against whites today, but no one talks about slavery in Islam of women, non-Muslims and darker skinned people (think Phillipeno maids in Saudi Arabia, ISIS generating complaints that dark skinned people are sent to clean toilets while lighter ones get prestigious suicide missions).
No ill will is intended, though I confess to ill language!
You’d be wrong about that one.
YOU are responsible for what goes on in YOUR Nation, just because of its alleged form or governance. When are people going to spill into the streets demanding mass resignations?
There is absolutely no such thing as a gay Christian
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