{"id":964123,"date":"2021-11-03T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964123"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:28:53","slug":"report-taliban-making-kill-list-of-gay-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-taliban-making-kill-list-of-gay-afghans\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Taliban Making &#039;Kill List&#039; of Gay Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-taliban-making-kill-list-of-gay-afghans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The executive director of an organization dedicated to helping LGBT individuals in dangerous states told France24 in an interview published Tuesday that the Taliban had organized a \u201ckill list\u201d of suspected LGBT people in Afghanistan and is widely distributing it among its jihadis in an attempt to execute all those identified.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban is a radical Sunni Islamist organization that considers gay identity&nbsp;<em>haram<\/em>, or an affront to its interpretation of Islam. Jihadists in nearly all terrorist organizations have engaged in brutal killings of people suspected of being gay or lesbian; some jihadists support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/03\/06\/report-iran-forcing-gay-people-to-choose-sexual-reassignment-surgery-or-death\/\">forcing<\/a> gay people into gender reassignment surgery, essentially imposing a transgender identity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While extremely hostile to LGBT people, Afghanistan has been typically permissive of a traditional practice known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/bacha-bazi-afghan-subculture-of-child-sex-slaves\/\"><em>bacha bazi<\/em><\/a>, in which tribesman rape young boys. The practice was common enough under the previous Afghan government that Taliban jihadists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/06\/17\/report-taliban-exploiting-pervasive-paedophilic-boy-play-kill-afghan-police\/\">used<\/a> small children as bait to attract and then kill Afghan security officers. The Afghan government\u2019s acceptance of&nbsp;<em>bacha bazi<\/em> did not stop widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/11\/11\/afghanistan-pedophilia-culturally-sanctioned-lgbt-adults-fear-lives\/\">persecution<\/a> of LGBT individuals, particularly gay and lesbian people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7164977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2l8pf2q.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7164977 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2l8pf2q.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"768\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photograph, taken on October 31, 2016, shows an Afghan boy, who was held as a child sex slave, sitting at a restaurant in an unidentified location in Afghanistan. (Aref Karimi\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Taliban took over Afghanistan following President Joe Biden\u2019s extension of the Afghan War in August and have since established itself as the unchallenged regime controlling the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Leading Taliban jihadists have insisted for months that they aspire to run an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/18\/martel-the-world-is-falling-talibans-inclusive-language-hoax\/\">inclusive<\/a>\u201d government and respect the human rights of women, which they rampantly violated while in power prior to America\u2019s 2001 invasion of the country. Spokesmen for the terrorist group have specified that they have no intention, however, of respecting the human rights of people they believe to be homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLGBT \u2026 That\u2019s against our Sharia law,\u201d Taliban \u201cfinance ministry\u201d spokesman&nbsp;Ahmad Wali Haqmal <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20211029082858-jijlg\">told<\/a> Reuters last week in an interview in which he mostly demanded Taliban access to Afghan government money and international investment in the jihadist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Kimahli Powell, who runs the Canadian NGO&nbsp;Rainbow Railroad, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/asia-pacific\/20211102-the-taliban-has-a-kill-list-for-the-afghan-lgbt-community-ngo-says\">France24<\/a> that the organization has evidence that suggests the Taliban used requests from foreign organizations asking to evacuate Afghan citizens in the immediate aftermath of the group seizing Kabul to draft lists of suspected gay people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now know for sure the Taliban has a \u2018kill list\u2019 circulating, identifying LBTQI+ persons,\u201d Powell asserted. The director appeared to suggest that Rainbow Road was among the organizations whose attempts to help imperiled Afghans escape the Taliban was used to persecute LGBT people. The organization confirmed it had received 700 evacuation requests from Afghanistan this year, most of them, presumably, after the Afghan government fell.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18122194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/yahya-gay-conforming-person-feared-life-worse-day-by-day-taliban-afp-e1635978214962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18122194 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/yahya-gay-conforming-person-feared-life-worse-day-by-day-taliban-afp-e1635978214962.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yahya, an Afghan who identifies as gay and a non-conforming person, speaks during an interview at an undisclosed location on September 28, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c[Some] individuals who have reached out to us have told us about how they\u2019ve received a mystery email from someone claiming to be connected with Rainbow Railroad asking for their information and passport,\u201d Powell explained. \u201cThat\u2019s how we know the information has been leaked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taliban jihadists have attacked the homes of some of these individuals. In one instance, Powell detailed, a person seeking aid from Rainbow Road received a visit from individuals suspected to be Taliban jihadists who proceeded to beat the person and burn their passport, making their departure from Afghanistan \u201cinfinitely harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Similar reports of attacks and threats to LGBT people in Afghanistan emerged nearly immediately following the Taliban\u2019s return to power. In August, a gay man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/27\/gay-man-kabul-taliban\/\">told<\/a> the&nbsp;<em>Daily Mail<\/em> anonymously that the Taliban is \u201chunting us \u2026 they kill us very brutally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot like the others who they kill with a gun or a bullet.&nbsp;They will use fire, or they will behead or stone us, and they will enjoy it \u2013 it\u2019s acceptable to them,\u201d the man detailed, adding that a friend had committed suicide.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18267010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235671411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18267010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235671411.jpg\" alt=\"Taliban officials and commanders attend an open-air rally in a field on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021, as the Taliban supporters and senior figures held their first mass rally in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi \/ AFP) (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taliban officials and commanders attend an open-air rally in a field on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021, as the Taliban supporters and senior figures held their first mass rally in a show of strength as they consolidated their rule of Afghanistan. (Hoshang Hashimi\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The same week of that report, ITV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/30\/taliban-rape-beat-gay-man-kabul\/\">reported<\/a> an incident in which Taliban jihadists tricked a gay man in Afghanistan by contacting him on social media and setting up a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo people raped him, they beat him, and then demanded his father\u2019s number so they could tell him his son was gay,\u201d ITV detailed.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Advocate<\/em> reported on a separate gruesome incident in Kabul in which the Taliban killed a 24-year-old gay man. The man\u2019s boyfriend shared the story under a pseudonym.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go to my home and he went to his. He said they found him. Two cars came, with Taliban in it. They said, \u2018Where is his home?\u2019 and beat him so much,\u201d the man said. \u201cThey took him away \u2013 nobody knows where \u2013 and then they kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfterwards they said they brought the body and cut his body into pieces to show the people that this is what we do with gay people,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636019389350000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtfQVS7MSjhuWWzChyUFf-ttYktg\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636019389350000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFv8xGuHUMF5TORm_SHrLDmB8I3fQ\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of an organization dedicated to helping LGBT individuals in dangerous states told France24 in an interview published Tuesday that the Taliban had organized a \u201ckill list\u201d of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}