Afghan desperate gay men are reportedly living in terror and begging for the release of the Taliban government’s “nightmare”.
“As soon as the Taliban know I’m gay, they’ll kill me without even thinking about it,” Sayed, 36, told Business Insider Saturday.
In less than a week, he said, the mood of Afghanistan’s clandestine gay community shifted from clandestine freedom to absolute panic.
“We can’t leave because we are only afraid of our lives,” said “Ghulam,” 21, who dropped out of college and has been locked up at home amid the Taliban acquisition.
Homosexuality has been technically illegal in Afghanistan for years, but has not been prosecuted since the U.S. and its NATO allies ousted the Taliban from power in 2001.
But according to the terrorist group’s brutal interpretation of Sharia law, gay sex carries a death sentence. According to a report released by the Australian government, his previous regime killed at least a dozen gay men by crushing them under stone walls demolished by tanks or excavators.
“It’s not hyperbolic to say that gays will be eliminated and exterminated by the Taliban, just as the Nazis did,” said Nemat Sadat, a former professor at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul who fled Los Angeles in 2013 after receiving death threats. .
“People send me a message saying here is my passport, here is all my information, please get me out of this country, I’m going to die.”
