article_snippet: (CNN)The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is making headlines again.
article_snippet: And The scene's meant to be, because ISIS is not only killing individuals
article_snippet: This latest execution is the eighth that ISIS has claimed This latest execution carried out for sodomy.
article_snippet: In addition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has reported the murders of four more men, also accused of sodomy, who were killed in similar style by ISIS in Syria.
article_snippet: ISIS is allegedly also responsible for stoning at least three women in Syria accused of adultery.
article_snippet: In the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) social media postings about the executions, ISIS shows victims being brought to a city center, with militants purporting to read from a self-styled "court" ruling before conducting the execution in front of a crowd.
article_snippet: Still, whatever the uncertainties in these individual cases, as IGLHRC and the women's rights organization MADRE have asserted, the public and gruesome nature of the executions, and ISIS's previous threats against those who commit what IGLHRC and the women's rights organization MADRE have  deem to be "sodomy," raise concerns for anyone in Iraq or Syria who does not conform to traditional ideas about "proper" women and men.
article_snippet: And the reality is that these most recent executions are certain to heighten alarm and psychological suffering among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals -- and indeed terrorize the population generally -- in the areas under ISIS's control.
article_snippet: For Iraqi individuals who are perceived to deviate from prevailing gender norms, living under the rule of ISIS means living with the constant shadow of a potential death sentence, as pointed out in our report with MADRE and the Baghdad-based Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
article_snippet: There are no shortcuts or easy answers to stopping the violence of ISIS.
article_snippet: We cannot sit idly by while ISIS commits wanton violence in the name of protecting "morality.