Report: Islamic State Stones Two Men For Being Gay

Members of the Islamic State terrorist group have reportedly stoned two men to death for being gay, a human rights monitoring group has said.

The Great Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement that two young men were reportedly killed in two separate cities, allegedly for their homosexuality. One man, a 20-year-old, was stoned to death in the city of Mayadeen, near Syria's border with Iraq, on Tuesday. The terrorists reportedly committed the horrific act after finding images on the man's phone that showed him participating in homosexual acts.

"The ISIS today stoned to death a man that it said was gay," the monitoring group said in a statement, as reported by the AFP, adding that the militants reportedly found images on the victim's phone that showed him "practicing indecent acts with males."

The monitoring group also reports that a second man, 18-years-old, was stoned in the city of Deir Ezzor, also on Tuesday, for allegedly practicing homosexual acts.

The Islamic State terrorist group has vowed to kill and destroy any practice that does not honor strict Shariah law teaching. When the Islamic State began invading Iraqi towns earlier this year, it forced some shopkeepers to cover their mannequins with veils to respect the female bodily form.

Recently, the Islamic State posted a video online that showed the decapitated head of Peter Kassig, an American aid worker who was kidnapped in Syria last year. President Barack Obama described the gruesome act as "pure evil" and has vowed to continue fighting the Islamic State.