Minorities Killing Minorities: the Confronting Reality of Islamic Violence Upon Homosexuals

Omar Mateen has killed 49[1] and wounded 53 at the Pulse nightclub in what is being called the “Orlando shooting”[2], or the “Orlando massacre.”[3] There has been a resulting debate on who was targeted, what the attack actually was, and what it should be called. At Sky News the journalist Owen Jones was badgered and dismissed for calling the massacre “an intentional, attack, upon LGBT people.”[4] As a result, he walked off in disgust, and subsequently wrote an important piece: beginning with the words “Orlando was both a terrorist attack and a homophobic attack on LGBT people.”[5] The truth of this can not, and should not be avoided. Homosexuals were clearly targeted for extermination via massacre. This is not the first time homosexuals have been marked for death by Muslim radicals[6] [7] [8] [9], nor is it the first time gays were hunted like dogs by firearm-wielding terrorists.[10] Not for the first time there is an Islamic connection to violence against homosexuals.

In the Muslim world homosexuality is widely banned with severe punishments. It can and does carry a death sentence in multiple countries[11]. In Islamic countries that execute homosexuals, the governments can kill because of the open and widespread hatred of homosexuals and legal backing for executing homosexuals in Islamic law[12] [13]. With this open cross-country hatred in the Islamic world, the connection becomes clear when a gay-hating Muslim massacres a group of people considered hated enemies in the Islamic world. When Islamists like Omar carry out anti-homosexual attacks they are following a sickening trend we need to recognise.

It is not only terrorists killing homosexuals, crimes against homosexuals have increased in Europe[14] [15] [16], as those that keep their ears to the ground and their eyes not clouded by ignorance know. Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart[17] [18] has honestly wrote on the threats to gay people by Muslims (and as we see it goes far beyond mere threats), and Bruce Bawer on the threats to the gay community posed by not just jihadists for Islam, not just the most radical terrorist fringe, but by any group of Muslim gay-hating zealots that act according to the laws of Islam:

“Islamic law, after all, is crystal clear on homosexuality, though the various schools of sharia prescribe a range of penalties: one calls for death by stoning; another demands that the transgressor be thrown from a high place; a third says to drop a building on him. In Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, as well as in parts of Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and Iraq, homosexuality is indeed punishable by death.”[19] Thus is becomes apparent that lone jihadist gunmen are not the only ones that can kill homosexuals.

Omar was not some lone radical divorced from the Islamic tradition. The problem and threat is real: Orlando is a wake-up call to reality. Omar consumed jihadist/Islamist propaganda, but where do such ideas come from? Look to these Islamic preachers and see how they support the execution of homosexuals and dehumanisation:

Sheikh Khalid Yasin: “God is very straightforward about this — not we Muslims, not subjective, the Sharia is very clear about it, the punishment for homosexuality, bestiality or anything like that is death. We don’t make any excuses about that, it’s not our law — it’s the Koran.”[20]

Farrokh Sekaleshfar. At a lecture in 2013, when asked about homosexuality the Sheik said: "Death is the sentence. There's nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence. We have to have that compassion for people. With homosexuals, it's the same. Out of compassion, let's get rid of them now."[21]

“Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an Islamic scholar based in Iran's holy city of Qom, said in a speech among his followers that homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs”[22]

One could go on for days, searching for every Islamic cleric that openly supports getting rid of homosexuals.


For those who know their 20th century history, this may sound familiar. Except it is couched in religious language, Islamic jurisprudence, and it is so widespread throughout the Islamic world and Islamic communities it extends far beyond the hopes and dreams of the Nazis that wanted to execute homosexuals as undesirables. Here, attacking and suppressing gays is cast as a religious duty, not for the state, but for the good of the religious community.

Abhorrently, Muslims of Islam have been suppressing homosexuals openly for years. The Islamic state, not to be overshadowed by Iran’s executions killed nine gay men and a boy in one day in September last year.[23] Yet Orlando is far from ISIS strongholds, and Omar managed to far exceed that day in September. Plainly, clearly, undeniably the true extent of the problem that these two minority communities cannot co-exist without Islamic minorities trying to kill and suppress the other with its most radical members. The truth of this comes to the fore and is now public knowledge. What also becomes clear is that there are those in the media that are prepared to outright lie about the targeting of gays by Muslims. Coupled with these frequent attacks on homosexuals are the recent acknowledgement of the genocides of the Christians[24] [25] in the Middle East, along with the Yazidis[26] and Kurds[27]. Finally, this is getting out after far too long.

Make no mistake, the crimes of Islamic jihadists and those that kill gays due to sharia law are growing not decreasing. The situation is getting worse, not going away. As jihadism and Islamisation grows in France and Jews flee, we see another minority escaping from violence, attacks by Muslims, and massacres.[28] [29] What has been observed and reported is that this “the largest wave of Jewish immigration from western Europe to Israel since 1948”. That is how serious this is.

If the terrorist attacks against homosexuals continue, expect to see gay flight follow Jewish flight. It will not be a parade, it will not be done proudly, it will be a fearful withdrawal done quickly to save their lives. As jihadism and radical Islamisation[30] including its highly questionable sharia courts[31] [32] grow[33], gay flight and further massacres only draw closer as the climate of fear grows, and as a gay man said to me, as the jihadists for Islam become more “confident”. Omar was confident, and look what he did.

The solution is plainly clear: de-Islamisation. The radicals cannot be trusted to peacefully co-exist when Islamic minorities kill gay minorities. Government crackdowns upon jihadism are required, including all sharia law proponents and especially those clerics that sully their names by supporting the rounding up and killing of homosexuals. If these jihadists, terrorists-in-training and manipulative clerics resist, the legal authorities meant for the protection and security of Western democratic countries should break them.

Now is not the time to hide and pretend nothing is wrong. Now is not the time to let brazen jihadists kill minorities. Now is the time to make the jihadists and gay-hating clerics hide in fear, and to be hesitant to even consider killing a single homosexual, or of touching the hair on the head of anyone from a minority or majority group that Islamic regimes deem acceptable to kill. Now this needs to happen, well before the next Orlando or Bataclan-like massacre.


[1] http://www.nytimes.com/live/orlando-nightclub-shooting-live-updates/

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/13/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/index.html

[3] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/orlando-massacre-what-we-know-about-victims-n591141

[4] http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/british-journalist-storms-off-tv-set-during-conversation-about-motives-behind-orlando-massacre/news-story/42a41624083271fc3345acd50fac1e66

[5] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/13/sky-news-homophobia-orlando-sexuality

[6] http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-islamic-state-anti-gay-violence-20160613-snap-story.html

[7] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/being-gay-in-the-islamic-state-men-reveal-chilling-truth-about-homosexuality-under-isis-10470894.html

[8] http://heavy.com/news/2015/08/new-isis-islamic-state-video-but-who-is-better-than-god-in-judgment-establishing-a-limit-upon-the-people-homs-syria-gay-homosexual-man-executed-executed-uncensored-full-youtube-video/

[9] http://www.news.com.au/world/islamic-state-group-targets-gays-with-brutal-public-killings/news-story/3b55d4e061e005aa8418ca2debc90e92

[10] https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/australia-muslim-shooting-outside-sydney-gay-club/

[11] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death-2/

[12] http://www.wsj.com/articles/islams-punitive-line-on-homosexuality-1465859532

[13] https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/florida-muslim-speaker-says-killing-gays-is-act-of-compassion

[14] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/figures-reveal-a-shocking-rise-in-homophobic-hate-crimes-a6692991.html

[15] http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/17/eu-poll-reveals-levels-of-violent-homophobia

[16] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/26/rise-violent-homophobic-crimes-reported-police

[17] http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/16/im-a-gay-man-and-mass-muslim-immigration-terrifies-me/

[18] http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/06/12/left-chose-islam-gays-now-100-people-killed-maimed-orlando/

[19] http://www.city-journal.org/html/brutal-realities-14573.html

[20] https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/florida-muslim-speaker-says-killing-gays-is-act-of-compassion

[21] http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/orlando-shooting-gay-death-cleric-preaching-austra/3044486/

[22] https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2012/apr/18/iran-cleric-condemns-homosexuality

[23] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3244736/ISIS-executes-nine-public-homosexual-including-boy-aged-15.html

[24] http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433100/christian-genocide-isis-martyrs-and-heroes-middle-east

[25] http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=67867

[26] http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/03/the-yazidi-genocide

[27] http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/friend-flees-horror-isis

[28] https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/jews-fleeing-paris-suburbs-because-of-islamic-anti-semitism

[29] http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/22/middleeast/france-israel-jews-immigration/

[30] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/10/world/are-european-fears-of-the-islamization-grounded-in-reality/#.V1-mKrt97IU

[31] http://realfactsmedia.com/17-signs-sharia-law-taking-over-europe/

[32] http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7562/sharia-law

[33] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16522447