U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell “has drawn a parallel between the brutal violence perpetrated by the Islamic State terror group and that of Iran.” Grenell (who is gay) indicated that Iran’s ongoing policy of executing its citizens for the “crime” of being gay is similar to the atrocities committed by the Islamic State. The recent hanging of a 31-year-old man for being gay in Iran, Grenell said, should serve as “a wake-up call for anyone who supports basic human rights.” But such atrocities are not happening only in the Islamic State and Iran.

It has become a common tactic of mainstream Islamic groups in West to disassociate themselves, and Islam, from the Islamic State, referencing to ISIS as an aberration of Islam, but the truth is that the Islamic State routinely backed up its actions using verses of the Quran and passages from the Hadith, as well as those tenets of Islamic law. Death for apostasy, death for homosexual activity, death for blaspheming Islam and a range of barbaric practices are routine in Sharia states, so they are not as much of an aberration as many in the West would have the naive populace believe.

“U.S. Envoy Richard Grenell: Iran’s Anti-Gay Brutality Similiar to that of Islamic State,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, February 5, 2019: