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U.S. pushes for world outrage at ISIS targeting gays
Washington Examiner ^ | 8/24/15 | Paul Bedard

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
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To: savagesusie

Bump post 36.


61 posted on 08/24/2015 11:20:56 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: AIL

Absolutely, and there are still children with bloated stomachs from starvation but the UN does not give a crap


62 posted on 08/24/2015 11:22:52 AM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust ( CRUZ OR LOSE...BACKUP PLAN TRUMP)
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To: Alberta's Child

It is terrible that they are throwing them off tall buildings, why dont they just stop their homosexual behaviour ...it is a sin against a Holy God, totally unacceptable lifestyle

Yes throwing them off buildings is terrible, but so is the lifestyle.

I was horrified for the poor homosexuals being thrown off buildings...no buts about it

The homosexual lifestyle is unacceptable. It harms children for starters, Jesus said anybody that harms one of these little ones, better to have a millstone around their neck and cast in to the sea.

Anybody that votes Liberal or Democrat has blood on their hands


63 posted on 08/24/2015 11:31:58 AM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust ( CRUZ OR LOSE...BACKUP PLAN TRUMP)
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To: markomalley

Wow...just wow...


64 posted on 08/24/2015 11:33:52 AM PDT by EBH (There's a sucker born every minute)
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust

“There is absolutely no such thing as a gay Christian”

which is probably why Obama doesn’t care.


65 posted on 08/24/2015 12:05:54 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: markomalley

May God have MERCY on America!


66 posted on 08/24/2015 12:46:24 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: shadeaud
Wonder how many aborted babies were gay?

Not one.

67 posted on 08/24/2015 1:38:22 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: odawg
It is not the country doing that, it is the Obama administration doing that.

The people who voted him into power, are not innocent in this.

68 posted on 08/24/2015 1:40:24 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: Uversabound
Most Americans are just the kindest people ever. I run into it all the time and of all races....just the nicest.

How many of them voted for Obama?

69 posted on 08/24/2015 1:45:12 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot

He did not run on that platform either time; he changed after his last election.


70 posted on 08/24/2015 2:16:19 PM PDT by odawg
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To: markomalley

Oh, He will... He will... I think it’s begun, frankly...


71 posted on 08/24/2015 4:34:48 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: itsahoot

You are correct.


72 posted on 08/24/2015 4:35:13 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: grania

*Is Obama saying that as long as ISIS leaves gays alone, it’s okay to behead people and bulldoze civilization?*

Yes!


73 posted on 08/24/2015 5:24:05 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: markomalley

there should be outrage for the CHRISTIANS that are being slaughtered.....


74 posted on 08/24/2015 5:38:58 PM PDT by cherry
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To: markomalley

Outrage for gays, but not historical (Christian) monuments dating back almost a couple of millennia?

Can we send Barry back on vacation for the rest of his term? It will be less costly to us, not to mention the rest of the world.

The man is a failure with a capital F.


75 posted on 08/24/2015 5:45:30 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: markomalley; John Semmens

For this to be the way Obama is makes for science fiction. But it’s the way he is.

I don’t think the great John Semmens can improve on this.

John?


76 posted on 08/24/2015 7:26:17 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: markomalley
May God strike this country down.

I don't think you will have to wait for God...I think the people will do it by themselves..

77 posted on 08/24/2015 7:28:22 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: markomalley

This may get more than interesting when they discover that the rest of the world doesn’t really give a crap about being “politically correct.”


78 posted on 08/24/2015 7:45:51 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: markomalley

Oh yeah - not one effing word of protest from asshat Odingo the O-Hole about the genocidal slaughter of Christians, or the destruction of irreplaceable priceless works of history ... But let a few sodomites get snuffed and the fag infested government of the United Sodomites of America get a raging hard-on.

We all know that O-butterbutt is a raging queen, known for giving BJs to the numerous limousine queers of Foggy Bottom - this story only removes all doubt.


79 posted on 08/24/2015 8:38:00 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: AmericanCheeseFood

Odingo is ypset because he was so hoping to give ‘em all a going away BJ - and the damn Muzzie radicals took away his boy-toy fun.


80 posted on 08/24/2015 8:40:06 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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