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The Secret, Hypocritical Gay World of ISIS

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ISIS murdered a 15-year-old accused of being gay but spared the life of his ‘rapist,’ a senior jihadi commander. What lies behind the brutal double standard?

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The murder of a 15-year-old teenager, thrown to his death by ISIS for being gay, not only reveals—yet again—the terror group’s murderous homophobia, but also the hypocrisy that exists alongside it.

A senior commander of the so-called Islamic State, named in reports as Abu Zaid al-Jazrawi, was having some kind of...

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