article_snippet: (CNN)The photographs released by ISIS in ISIS stronghold of Raqqa are dated March 2015.  
article_snippet: There are at least half a dozen documented cases of men being similarly killed by ISIS.
article_snippet: Article 520 of the Syrian Penal Code of 1949 states: "Any unnatural sexual intercourse shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of up to three years.
article_snippet: his left Syria in 2012, before ISIS took over huge swaths of his country, after seeing a video of two men being beheaded.
article_snippet: According to the voice on the clip, ISIS took over huge swaths of the country, after seeing a video of two men being beheaded are accused of being spies.  
article_snippet: The pictures released by ISIS and other videos refer to gay men as the tribe of Lot, who, according to readings of the Quran and the hadith, or prophetic traditions, sinned by refusing Prophet Lot's call to cease gay men homosexual activity and led to the destruction of Sodom.
article_snippet: On its website, the group states, "What is clear is the Islamic State's intent -- to spread terror among an already persecuted population in the region and to warn against any kind of 'moral' transgression.
article_snippet: gay men say gay men will never return to Syria.
article_snippet: Opinion: ISIS's warped take on morality .