LGBT and other minorities fighting against Islamophobia are like a flock of chickens fighting against foxophobia.

Speaking of a conspiracy of silence, and the dark shadow of the applied politics of the trumpenfuhrer why not check out the essay by Lee Camp titled Trump's Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes and No One Is Talking About It. Especially the "conservative" or right wing media and all of the dreadfully sane "conservative" commentariat

The trumpenfuhrer is of course just extending the actions of his predatory predecessors, as explained in the essay by Lee Camp. And of applied USA foreign policy beginning with the invasion of the Philippines.

Nobody should be killed for being a homosexual, just so that's clear. But I don't know how anyone could get the idea that the Left – media, politicians and odds and sods nut jobs – care what happens to homosexuals or anything that might happen to them. Homosexuals, the poor silly things, were being used by the Left to wreck the family, which is something they had no control over. They have succeeded in doing this, and they have no more use for homosexuals. They are on their own.

Hard to comment on something one has never heard about!

So ISIS is killing folk for being gay or different or nonconforming? So, what else is new and what if anything? Do you expect the rest of humanity to do about any of it?

If the murderous thugs are hell-bent on wiping out all local popular resistance and succeeding?

Whose fault is that? Our's or the gutless victims? Who have just two choices, die on your knees begging for mercy or on your feet fighting for your life and liberty.

I remember when a madman with a gun, Bryant started firing into a crowded Hobart restaurant while his victims lay there screaming, waiting their turn to be butchered.

When just one pot of boiling coffee flung in the killer's face could have prevented most of the killing! And could have been followed by the then captured weapon being turned on its owner, with the same mercy he'd just shown his victims.

And what needs to happen there! No boiling coffee? Try a handful of sand!

Kind words and empathy won't help, just embolden the perpetrators.
Alan B.

Nice to see that diver dan’s post was completely removed. To suggest (in response to ttbn’s obvious qualification) that homosexuals be killed for just being who they are is utterly horrifying and evil.

diver dan,

Another post like that and I will report you to the police. Your posting history is already chockers with homicidal sentiments towards gay people as it is; there's plenty there to potentially have you at least put on a watchlist. Don’t think your pseudonym hides your identity, either. You still have an IP address.

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For many on the left of the political spectrum, the problem of Islam is a credibility-destroying blind spot. There appears to be a hierarchy of priorities for much of the left that goes a little something like this:

1. Diversity and ethnic/religious minorities
2. LGBT issues
3. Women’s issues
4. etc., etc…

Therefore, if a Muslim says or does something homophobic or sexist, they cannot comment on it or even acknowledge it, as protecting ethnic/religious minorities must supersede the protection of LGBT minorities and women.

“I’m a gay man. I’d love to have gay marriage approved by the Catholic Church. You know, they’re not going to. Meantime, I really, really wish that people would reserve their ire for the people who don’t just want to stop me marrying but want to throw me off a cliff.” - Douglas Murray

http://youtu.be/5CcudUk7620?list=FL3coCh6UfkfLwAZG-30un5w&t=806
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'd wager that a contributor to this silence among the left has to do with suporting anything that has become an issue they support. In politics and in debates, I see people minimize current events, or ignore them outright if they can weaken their causes. Even fight against the outcry that occurs in the aftermath of horrible current events, because it can be used to fight against the greater good they've worked for with one cause or another.

So if the politics of the left culture harmonize with Islam and tolerance towards it, then this silence shouldn't be a surprise. For me though it is surprising. How widespread Islamic reaction to homosexuals is is a giant red flag to other issues around Islam, and Islam itself. It is also a giant red flag to activists and left leaning politics.

Russell Grenning, thank you for the spotlight on this matter.