ISIS beheads 15-year-old boy for listening to pop music

ISIS believes pop music is responsible for 'debauchery' and 'promoting homosexuality'

Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse, Islamic extremists have beheaded a young boy for listening to pop music.
Ayham Hussein, just 15, was found listening to his portable compact disc player in a shop owned by his father in an open-air market in western Mosul, Iraq.
He was taken by the members of the jihadist group and was beaten.
Ayham was tried at a local sharia court, where he was found guilty for the ‘crime’ of listening to Western pop music.
ISIS, or Da’esh, believes pop music is responsible for making people depraved, evil and gay. The extremists believe gay people are the ‘worst of creatures’.
According to a source, who told Kurdish media, the boy was ‘executed by beheading in a town square in the center of the city’.
It is believed the execution angered people living in Mosul, with some holding a vigil at the home of the victim’s family. It is unlikely, given the power the group holds over large swathes of Iraq and Syria, that this will end or even change their reign of terror.

Sunderland lecturer calls for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history to be taught in schools

A Wearside lecturer claims teachers are afraid to tackle lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues.
Andrew Dalton, a lecturer in social sciences at the University of Sunderland is calling for more to be done in schools to address prejudice and stigma, coinciding with LGBT History Month held nationally in February each year.
He said: “It is rare that LGBT history education is tackled in schools or put into the mainstream curriculum.
“LGBT history is a shared history with all others, and so it is vital that the lives of LGBT people are recognised if we are going to do anything to tackle homophobia within school environments.
“Some teachers hold onto echoes of Section 28, where homosexuality was not allowed to be taught in schools, and so are afraid to tackle it.”

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The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) has announced yesterday that it has come up with a set of new stamps in a bid to promote LGBT equality worldwide – the first time it has done so.
The set of six commemorative stamps constitutes as part of the UN Free & Equal, a global UN campaign for LGBT equality launched and led by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN’s principal human rights official. Available in English, French and German, the series aim to ‘celebrate the diversity of the LGBT community’.
‘We live in a world where even though (developed) nations have embraced marriage equality (and) LBGT equality, we still have a far, far, far way to go,’ explained Sergio Baradat, the artist who designed these stamps.
He added: ‘There are some countries in the world right now where not only are we not celebrated or respected, but we are beaten and killed. And I thought that it would be a wonderful opportunity using art, to use postage stamps as a vehicle – using art to change hearts and minds.’
Baradat, who is of Cuban background, also shared that his style stems from his appreciation for French Art Deco and growing up in Miami, Florida. Part of his influence also comes from art from the first quarter of the 20th century. He firmly believes that LGBT rights are human rights and that all individuals deserve to be treated equally and fairly under the law.
The series is co-sponsored by the permanent missions of Argentina, Australia, Chile, El Salvador, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay, the delegation of the European Union, in addition to OHCHR and UNPA.
The stamps are available for sale at the UN Headquarters in New York, Geneva and Vienna. Interested buyers can also purchase them online.