Quran should be taught in high school so that issis coruption of the Quran can be countered and stop the radicalization of the youth.
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ISIS forces 'apostates' to kneel on buried explosives in latest gruesome execution video
Postmedia Network First posted: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:22 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:34 PM EDT
Depraved terror group ISIS has found yet another inhuman way to kill their enemies.
The latest video from the thugs shows a group of "apostates" forced to kneel on freshly dug earth, each atop a freshly planted explosive.
The video is circulating on jihadi social media accounts.
Like other ISIS propaganda films that have proudly displayed varied horrific execution methods -- that have included captured soldiers and innocents being beheaded, crushed by gravel, drowned in cages, and burned alive -- this latest is also expertly produced, and features a soundtrack.
Music plays as ISIS militants in black robes, but wearing stylish running shoes, ride in on horseback through a misty background. They dismount, and the blindfolded prisoners are led across a stretch of hills.
**Editor's note: Viewer discretion is advised**
There is no indication where the video was shot.
Other militants can be seen burying explosives under a couple of inches of soil.
The 10 prisoners are then made to kneel on the line of 10 buried explosives.
A couple of remaining ISIS guards then sprint away from the doomed men just before the explosives are detonated, killing them.
(YouTube screengrab)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHmJ2nfrBXY
ISIS forces 'apostates' to kneel on buried explosives in latest gruesome executi
Postmedia Network First posted: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:22 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:34 PM EDT
Depraved terror group ISIS has found yet another inhuman way to kill their enemies.
The latest video from the thugs shows a group of "apostates" forced to kneel on freshly dug earth, each atop a freshly planted explosive.
The video is circulating on jihadi social media accounts.
Like other ISIS propaganda films that have proudly displayed varied horrific execution methods -- that have included captured soldiers and innocents being beheaded, crushed by gravel, drowned in cages, and burned alive -- this latest is also expertly produced, and features a soundtrack.
Music plays as ISIS militants in black robes, but wearing stylish running shoes, ride in on horseback through a misty background. They dismount, and the blindfolded prisoners are led across a stretch of hills.
**Editor's note: Viewer discretion is advised**
There is no indication where the video was shot.
Other militants can be seen burying explosives under a couple of inches of soil.
The 10 prisoners are then made to kneel on the line of 10 buried explosives.
A couple of remaining ISIS guards then sprint away from the doomed men just before the explosives are detonated, killing them.
(YouTube screengrab)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHmJ2nfrBXY
ISIS forces 'apostates' to kneel on buried explosives in latest gruesome executi
Islamic State Egypt affiliate claims to have beheaded Croatian hostage: Report
Omar Fahmy, REUTERS First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:46 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:54 AM EDT
CAIRO - Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate published a photograph it said showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday.
Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the picture, which carried a caption that said: "killing of the Croatian hostage, due to his country's participation in the war against Islamic State, after the deadline expired ... ".
If confirmed, it would be the first known beheading of a Western hostage held by Sinai Province, the Egyptian group which changed its name from Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis after it pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
A spokesman at the Egyptian Interior Ministry's press office said: "We have seen this news on line but are currently making our own checks. If we confirm that it is indeed true, we will inform the media through a statement."
The Croatian embassy and foreign ministry declined to comment. Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic was due to hold an extraordinary news conference at 5 p.m. (1500 GMT).
The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of Sinai Province supporters, shows a man's severed head placed on his body, with a knife driven into sand next to it and the black Islamic State flag in the background.
Next to the picture are screenshots of Arabic language news articles with the headlines: "Croatia confirms its support for Egypt in efforts to fight terrorism and extremism" and "Croatia affirms its continued support for the Kurdistan region."
Last week, an online video purportedly from Sinai Province showed a man who identified himself as Tomislav Salopek who said the group would kill him in 48 hours if Muslim women in Egyptian jails were not freed.
Ardiseis Egypt, a unit of French oil and gas geology company CGG, confirmed the video showed one of its employees who was kidnapped on July 22 while travelling to Cairo.
A spokesman for CGG could not confirm this, adding the firm had no information other than what was circulating on the Internet and was trying to find out more from Croatian and Egyptian authorities.
The spokesman said the hostage was an expert contractor rather than employee of its subsidiary.
Last December, Sinai Province said it was behind the killing of an American petroleum engineer whose body was found in a car in a desert region almost four months earlier.
Sinai Province is at the forefront of an Islamist militant insurgency in Egypt that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police in the two years since the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi after protests against his rule in 2013.
In July, the group was involved in the deadliest fighting there in the lawless Sinai Peninsula in years, in which more than 100 militants and 17 soldiers were killed, following simultaneous assaults on military checkpoints in North Sinai.
Islamic State, which has captured vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, has over the past year beheaded an unknown number of hostages, both Western prisoners and Middle Easterners ranging from soldiers fighting it to Muslims who reject its hardline version of Islam.
Islamic State Egypt affiliate claims to have beheaded Croatian hostage: Report |
Omar Fahmy, REUTERS First posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:46 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:54 AM EDT
CAIRO - Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate published a photograph it said showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday.
Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the picture, which carried a caption that said: "killing of the Croatian hostage, due to his country's participation in the war against Islamic State, after the deadline expired ... ".
If confirmed, it would be the first known beheading of a Western hostage held by Sinai Province, the Egyptian group which changed its name from Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis after it pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
A spokesman at the Egyptian Interior Ministry's press office said: "We have seen this news on line but are currently making our own checks. If we confirm that it is indeed true, we will inform the media through a statement."
The Croatian embassy and foreign ministry declined to comment. Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic was due to hold an extraordinary news conference at 5 p.m. (1500 GMT).
The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of Sinai Province supporters, shows a man's severed head placed on his body, with a knife driven into sand next to it and the black Islamic State flag in the background.
Next to the picture are screenshots of Arabic language news articles with the headlines: "Croatia confirms its support for Egypt in efforts to fight terrorism and extremism" and "Croatia affirms its continued support for the Kurdistan region."
Last week, an online video purportedly from Sinai Province showed a man who identified himself as Tomislav Salopek who said the group would kill him in 48 hours if Muslim women in Egyptian jails were not freed.
Ardiseis Egypt, a unit of French oil and gas geology company CGG, confirmed the video showed one of its employees who was kidnapped on July 22 while travelling to Cairo.
A spokesman for CGG could not confirm this, adding the firm had no information other than what was circulating on the Internet and was trying to find out more from Croatian and Egyptian authorities.
The spokesman said the hostage was an expert contractor rather than employee of its subsidiary.
Last December, Sinai Province said it was behind the killing of an American petroleum engineer whose body was found in a car in a desert region almost four months earlier.
Sinai Province is at the forefront of an Islamist militant insurgency in Egypt that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police in the two years since the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi after protests against his rule in 2013.
In July, the group was involved in the deadliest fighting there in the lawless Sinai Peninsula in years, in which more than 100 militants and 17 soldiers were killed, following simultaneous assaults on military checkpoints in North Sinai.
Islamic State, which has captured vast swathes of Iraq and Syria, has over the past year beheaded an unknown number of hostages, both Western prisoners and Middle Easterners ranging from soldiers fighting it to Muslims who reject its hardline version of Islam.
Islamic State Egypt affiliate claims to have beheaded Croatian hostage: Report |
ISIS uses rape as form of worship: Report
Postmedia Network
First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:29 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:41 PM EDT
A horrifying story in The New York Times reveals details of how ISIS has turned the rape of captured women into a recruiting tool, and worse, a form of worship.
Stories of ISIS abductions and sex slaves aren't new, but detailed accounts from survivors are rare. In interviewing 21 escaped girls and women, The Times was able to piece together how the terror group not only encourages the rape of "unbelievers," but uses it as a powerful way to recruit Muslim fighters and made it part of its warped sense of religious devotion.
The trade in captured women -- stolen, then put up for auction, raped and resold -- has become such an industry, there's an entire network of warehouses, complete with viewing rooms, as well as bus fleets and detailed price lists and contracts to keep up with the supply and demand, The Times reports.
Most sickening, however, were the accounts of rape as a religious tenant within the barbaric group.
"Every time that he came to rape me, he would pray," a 15-year-old survivor told the newspaper. "He kept telling me this is ibadah," an Islamic term for worship. "He said that raping me is his prayer to God."
The women spoke of how they were separated from the men when ISIS rolled into their villages. The boys were told to lift their shirts. All men and boys with body hair, showing signs of puberty, were killed immediately.
The women were taken away in trucks to the auction block.
ISIS uses rape as form of worship: Report | World | News | Toronto Sun
Postmedia Network
First posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:29 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015 02:41 PM EDT
A horrifying story in The New York Times reveals details of how ISIS has turned the rape of captured women into a recruiting tool, and worse, a form of worship.
Stories of ISIS abductions and sex slaves aren't new, but detailed accounts from survivors are rare. In interviewing 21 escaped girls and women, The Times was able to piece together how the terror group not only encourages the rape of "unbelievers," but uses it as a powerful way to recruit Muslim fighters and made it part of its warped sense of religious devotion.
The trade in captured women -- stolen, then put up for auction, raped and resold -- has become such an industry, there's an entire network of warehouses, complete with viewing rooms, as well as bus fleets and detailed price lists and contracts to keep up with the supply and demand, The Times reports.
Most sickening, however, were the accounts of rape as a religious tenant within the barbaric group.
"Every time that he came to rape me, he would pray," a 15-year-old survivor told the newspaper. "He kept telling me this is ibadah," an Islamic term for worship. "He said that raping me is his prayer to God."
The women spoke of how they were separated from the men when ISIS rolled into their villages. The boys were told to lift their shirts. All men and boys with body hair, showing signs of puberty, were killed immediately.
The women were taken away in trucks to the auction block.
ISIS uses rape as form of worship: Report | World | News | Toronto Sun
ISIS leader raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller, who was later killed: Witnesses
Ken Dilanian, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 04:04 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 14, 2015 07:57 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials.
Mueller, whose death was reported in February, was held for a time by Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf and his wife, known as Umm Sayyaf. Al-Baghdadi took Mueller as a "wife," repeatedly raping her when he visited, according to a Yazidi teenager who was held with Mueller and escaped. The 14-year-old talked to U.S. officials, who corroborated her account with other intelligence and passed it on to her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, in June, according to a family spokeswoman, Emily Lenzner.
RELATED:
A U.S. official confirmed the account, first reported by London's Independent newspaper. The official was not authorized to be quoted by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Abu Sayyaf was killed in a Delta Force raid of his Syrian compound in June, which resulted in a treasure trove of intelligence about the Islamic State group. Umm Sayyaf gave extensive information to American interrogators and has been turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial.
The Muellers have been told she can be expected to serve a long prison sentence, Lenzner said.
In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. The parents of the late American hostage Kayla Mueller say they were told by American officials that their daughter was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener )
ISIS leader raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller, who was later killed: Witnesses |
ISIS executions show a progression of depravity
By Ted Rath, Postmedia Network First posted: Saturday, August 15, 2015 07:00 AM EDT
There seems to be no end to the sick imaginations of ISIS executioners.
What began as a fear campaign to scare a conquered populace through beheadings has, in the last year, become a worldwide campaign to display the cruelty of the terrorist group.
Every few days, the ISIS propaganda machine releases a new stomach-churning execution video, often showing off a new and depraved way to end someone's life.
Here's a recap of some of those executions, highlighting the group's vile evolution:
July 2014 -- The viciousness of ISIS was put on display right from the group's beginning. Photos emerged on social media of the beheadings of captured Syrian soldiers. Reports said as many as 75 were killed and their heads and bodies left on the streets of a nearby town as a warning.
Aug. 2014 -- The world really took notice after an Australian man went overseas to fight for ISIS and brought his seven-year-old son along, and photos surfaced of the boy holding a man's decapitated head.
Also this month, the beheading of American freelance journalist James Wright Foley raised the ire of the U.S. A video was posted of Foley in an orange jumpsuit, on his knees as an ISIS militant cuts off his head.
Autumn 2014 -- By this time, ISIS appeared to recognize the impact its executions were having beyond instilling fear in the local townsfolk. Videos -- far more slickly produced than the early ones -- started showing up more frequently on jihadi social media sites. And beheadings were no longer of one or two victims, but done en mass -- sometimes 10 or more at a time.
February 2015 -- ISIS posted a video that shows Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage. He's doused in accelerant and fire is thrown in. After he slowly burns to death, a bulldozer is seen covering the cage with rubble. The style of execution is intended to mimic the deaths of ISIS terrorists by western airstrikes.
June 2015 -- While beheadings still appear to be ISIS' preferred method of execution, a new video shows the group's descent into new horrific ways of killing people. The slickly produced video shows the execution of 16 prisoners -- five drown in a metal cage, four others are blown up when a rocket is fired at a car they were locked inside, and seven die from an explosive-filled rope tied around their necks. The video rewinds to repeatedly show the men's heads being blown off their bodies for chilling effect.
Also this month, reports from behind the front lines suggested the group crucified at least two children for not fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. ISIS had previously issued its own reports of crucifixions, but the victims appeared to have been killed beforehand and then tied to poles or stakes to instil fear.
July 2015 -- A new video shows child soldiers forced to execute a group of more than 25 Syrian soldiers. The footage was shot on the stage of an ancient amphitheatre in the historical city of Palmyra, which ISIS had recently overrun. The children march the solders on stage, force them to kneel, then shoot them all in the back of the head -- every child soldier killing the man in front of him. ISIS is known for indoctrinating child soldiers -- "caliphate cubs," they call them.
Days later, the group releases a video of a child soldier -- no older than 12 years old -- beheading a Syrian prisoner and placing his head on his back.
August 2015 -- The latest video, complete with musical track, shows 10 "apostates" forced to kneel on freshly dug earth, each atop a freshly buried explosive. As the remaining guards run from the line of blindfolded prisoners, the explosives are detonated.
ISIS facts:
Conservative:
The government condemns the actions of ISIS every chance it gets. Last fall it voted to send jet fighters and soldier trainers overseas to assist in the fight against the group. In the spring, the mission was expanded to include sorties in Syria.
Stephen Harper: "We will deal with it for as long as it is there and we will not stop dealing with it before that."
Liberal:
The Liberals opposed airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq, though many members weren't in lockstep. The party suggests soldiers sent to train Iraqis and more humanitarian aid would better serve Canada's interests.
Justin Trudeau: "Ten years ago we learned through the first Iraq war what happens when western troops get involved in combat. They don't necessarily, whether it's Libya, whether it's Iraq, it doesn't lead to the outcomes that people would responsibly like to see."
New Democrats:
The NDP also opposes the government's mission in Iraq and Syria. The party argues there has never been a clear UN mandate that gives Canada permission for the international mission. New Democrats have also been highly critical of what they see as the expansion of the mission -- reports of soldiers joining in combat on the ground -- without taking the issue back to Canadians first.
Tom Mulcair: "It's clear that this government has no plan and no long-term strategy, yet they're asking our women and men in uniform to shoulder the burden of their improvisation...The fact is, airstrikes will not work. You can't bomb (ISIS) and its ideology into oblivion. It doesn't work."
A scene from the latest ISIS video showing the execution of 10 prisoners by having them kneel above buried bombs that were then detonated. (Handout/Postmedia Network)
ISIS executions show a progression of depravity | World | News | Toronto Sun
Ken Dilanian, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 04:04 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, August 14, 2015 07:57 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials.
Mueller, whose death was reported in February, was held for a time by Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf and his wife, known as Umm Sayyaf. Al-Baghdadi took Mueller as a "wife," repeatedly raping her when he visited, according to a Yazidi teenager who was held with Mueller and escaped. The 14-year-old talked to U.S. officials, who corroborated her account with other intelligence and passed it on to her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, in June, according to a family spokeswoman, Emily Lenzner.
RELATED:
A U.S. official confirmed the account, first reported by London's Independent newspaper. The official was not authorized to be quoted by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Abu Sayyaf was killed in a Delta Force raid of his Syrian compound in June, which resulted in a treasure trove of intelligence about the Islamic State group. Umm Sayyaf gave extensive information to American interrogators and has been turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial.
The Muellers have been told she can be expected to serve a long prison sentence, Lenzner said.
In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. The parents of the late American hostage Kayla Mueller say they were told by American officials that their daughter was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener )
ISIS leader raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller, who was later killed: Witnesses |
ISIS executions show a progression of depravity
By Ted Rath, Postmedia Network First posted: Saturday, August 15, 2015 07:00 AM EDT
There seems to be no end to the sick imaginations of ISIS executioners.
What began as a fear campaign to scare a conquered populace through beheadings has, in the last year, become a worldwide campaign to display the cruelty of the terrorist group.
Every few days, the ISIS propaganda machine releases a new stomach-churning execution video, often showing off a new and depraved way to end someone's life.
Here's a recap of some of those executions, highlighting the group's vile evolution:
July 2014 -- The viciousness of ISIS was put on display right from the group's beginning. Photos emerged on social media of the beheadings of captured Syrian soldiers. Reports said as many as 75 were killed and their heads and bodies left on the streets of a nearby town as a warning.
Aug. 2014 -- The world really took notice after an Australian man went overseas to fight for ISIS and brought his seven-year-old son along, and photos surfaced of the boy holding a man's decapitated head.
Also this month, the beheading of American freelance journalist James Wright Foley raised the ire of the U.S. A video was posted of Foley in an orange jumpsuit, on his knees as an ISIS militant cuts off his head.
Autumn 2014 -- By this time, ISIS appeared to recognize the impact its executions were having beyond instilling fear in the local townsfolk. Videos -- far more slickly produced than the early ones -- started showing up more frequently on jihadi social media sites. And beheadings were no longer of one or two victims, but done en mass -- sometimes 10 or more at a time.
February 2015 -- ISIS posted a video that shows Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage. He's doused in accelerant and fire is thrown in. After he slowly burns to death, a bulldozer is seen covering the cage with rubble. The style of execution is intended to mimic the deaths of ISIS terrorists by western airstrikes.
June 2015 -- While beheadings still appear to be ISIS' preferred method of execution, a new video shows the group's descent into new horrific ways of killing people. The slickly produced video shows the execution of 16 prisoners -- five drown in a metal cage, four others are blown up when a rocket is fired at a car they were locked inside, and seven die from an explosive-filled rope tied around their necks. The video rewinds to repeatedly show the men's heads being blown off their bodies for chilling effect.
Also this month, reports from behind the front lines suggested the group crucified at least two children for not fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. ISIS had previously issued its own reports of crucifixions, but the victims appeared to have been killed beforehand and then tied to poles or stakes to instil fear.
July 2015 -- A new video shows child soldiers forced to execute a group of more than 25 Syrian soldiers. The footage was shot on the stage of an ancient amphitheatre in the historical city of Palmyra, which ISIS had recently overrun. The children march the solders on stage, force them to kneel, then shoot them all in the back of the head -- every child soldier killing the man in front of him. ISIS is known for indoctrinating child soldiers -- "caliphate cubs," they call them.
Days later, the group releases a video of a child soldier -- no older than 12 years old -- beheading a Syrian prisoner and placing his head on his back.
August 2015 -- The latest video, complete with musical track, shows 10 "apostates" forced to kneel on freshly dug earth, each atop a freshly buried explosive. As the remaining guards run from the line of blindfolded prisoners, the explosives are detonated.
ISIS facts:
- 60 countries are directly or indirectly waging war against ISIS
- Despite starting out as an al-Qaida splinter group, the Taliban and al-Qaida have both since condemned ISIS and its savagery
- ISIS has recruited as many as 20,000 terrorist soldiers from around the world, including Canada
- Through extortion, theft, selling looted historic artifacts and donations, ISIS has hauled in billions of dollars to fund its reign of terror
- It controls hundreds of square kilometres -- an area bigger than many countries
Conservative:
The government condemns the actions of ISIS every chance it gets. Last fall it voted to send jet fighters and soldier trainers overseas to assist in the fight against the group. In the spring, the mission was expanded to include sorties in Syria.
Stephen Harper: "We will deal with it for as long as it is there and we will not stop dealing with it before that."
Liberal:
The Liberals opposed airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq, though many members weren't in lockstep. The party suggests soldiers sent to train Iraqis and more humanitarian aid would better serve Canada's interests.
Justin Trudeau: "Ten years ago we learned through the first Iraq war what happens when western troops get involved in combat. They don't necessarily, whether it's Libya, whether it's Iraq, it doesn't lead to the outcomes that people would responsibly like to see."
New Democrats:
The NDP also opposes the government's mission in Iraq and Syria. The party argues there has never been a clear UN mandate that gives Canada permission for the international mission. New Democrats have also been highly critical of what they see as the expansion of the mission -- reports of soldiers joining in combat on the ground -- without taking the issue back to Canadians first.
Tom Mulcair: "It's clear that this government has no plan and no long-term strategy, yet they're asking our women and men in uniform to shoulder the burden of their improvisation...The fact is, airstrikes will not work. You can't bomb (ISIS) and its ideology into oblivion. It doesn't work."
A scene from the latest ISIS video showing the execution of 10 prisoners by having them kneel above buried bombs that were then detonated. (Handout/Postmedia Network)
ISIS executions show a progression of depravity | World | News | Toronto Sun
ISIS burns 4 hog-tied men alive in new video
Postmedia Network
First posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:19 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:37 PM EDT
ISIS set four captured Iraqi men on fire by hog-tying them upside down, hanging them from a pole, then burning them alive.
Once again, the savage execution was captured on video and shared on social media accounts friendly with the terror group as part of its propaganda and fear campaign.
The four men in orange jumpsuits introduce themselves on camera and are made to watch videos of other ISIS executions before they’re marched out to the desert, with chains around their wrists and ankles, to their fate.
After a man wearing camouflage and a mask explains how the men must be “punished with an equivalent of that with which you were harmed,” in accordance with the Qur’an, the men are next seen hanging, hog-tied from a pole.
A line of fuel leading to the men is lit on fire. It slowly makes its way to a line of fuel-soaked straw under the hanging men, setting the four alight to die agonizing deaths.
The latest ISIS video comes just two days after a similar brutal video was released by Shi’a militants.
The militants who are fighting ISIS filmed the brutal fighter known as Abu Azrael — the Angel of Death — hacking the flesh off an executed ISIS militant, who was also apparently burnt to death.
Swinging a sword at the charred body, the hulking, bald fighter says to the camera:
“ISIS, this will be your fate. We will cut you like shawarma.”
According to reports, the footage was taken in the Iraqi city of Baiji.
(Video screenshot)
ISIS burns 4 hog-tied men alive in new video | World | News | Toronto Sun
Postmedia Network
First posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:19 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:37 PM EDT
ISIS set four captured Iraqi men on fire by hog-tying them upside down, hanging them from a pole, then burning them alive.
Once again, the savage execution was captured on video and shared on social media accounts friendly with the terror group as part of its propaganda and fear campaign.
The four men in orange jumpsuits introduce themselves on camera and are made to watch videos of other ISIS executions before they’re marched out to the desert, with chains around their wrists and ankles, to their fate.
After a man wearing camouflage and a mask explains how the men must be “punished with an equivalent of that with which you were harmed,” in accordance with the Qur’an, the men are next seen hanging, hog-tied from a pole.
A line of fuel leading to the men is lit on fire. It slowly makes its way to a line of fuel-soaked straw under the hanging men, setting the four alight to die agonizing deaths.
The latest ISIS video comes just two days after a similar brutal video was released by Shi’a militants.
The militants who are fighting ISIS filmed the brutal fighter known as Abu Azrael — the Angel of Death — hacking the flesh off an executed ISIS militant, who was also apparently burnt to death.
Swinging a sword at the charred body, the hulking, bald fighter says to the camera:
“ISIS, this will be your fate. We will cut you like shawarma.”
According to reports, the footage was taken in the Iraqi city of Baiji.
(Video screenshot)
ISIS burns 4 hog-tied men alive in new video | World | News | Toronto Sun
CPC Debate Verified account @cpcdebate Canada’s humanitarian support for those affected by ISIS #elxn42 #munkdebate
Obviously it is easier for some people to follow bureaucratic idiocies, er I mean idiosyncrasies, than actually use their heads to think with. Might as well use a machine or a robot with two rubber stamps, one saying "yes" and the other "no".
Personally, I think the way that we should treat wingnut fanatics like ISIS members is just as nasty or nastier than they treat people: no courts, no laws, no mercy, etc.
John Groves @jfgroves John Groves Retweeted Josh Kraushaar
"Someone else will get rid of ISIS". Sound familiar, Canadians?
Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh Obama, on 60 Minutes: "The community of nations" over time will "get rid of" ISIS
When you do that I just don't bother going there anymore
Just because it centers around a theme does not mean
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Just because it centers around a theme does not mean
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Meanwhile back at the ranch.
In the wake of US-Russian discussions on preventing accidental collisions between each others' aircraft while operating in the sky over Syria, the American side issued a special rule, prohibiting US jets from closely approaching Russian planes.
Then there is the update on operation 'Canary',
Iraq Joint Operation Center Confirms ISIL Leader Injured in Airstrike
In the wake of US-Russian discussions on preventing accidental collisions between each others' aircraft while operating in the sky over Syria, the American side issued a special rule, prohibiting US jets from closely approaching Russian planes.
Then there is the update on operation 'Canary',
Iraq Joint Operation Center Confirms ISIL Leader Injured in Airstrike
Even the New York Times can't look the other way any longer. America's "grey lady," put it on the record today.
Saudi Arabia is no ally to the West. It is, by contrast, the greatest "state sponsor of terrorism" on the planet and the radical Islamist outfits it backs are the same murderous gangs we're fighting - al Qaeda, al Nusra, ISIS and their affiliates who are sowing chaos through the Muslim world, Europe and even in North America.
If you need more details you can check out this trip down Memory Lane from Foreign Policy in Focus.
It's not just the Saudis either. It's the Kuwaitis too. Apparently this is how they express their gratitude for our war to drive Saddam Hussein out of their homeland. And it's the Qataris and, it seems, our NATO ally, the Turks. Oh well you know all the players from that dossier Putin handed to all at The G20 last week.
What's so infuriating is that Putin didn't let any cats out of the bag. We also know full well many of those countries backing ISIS and we haven't done a damn thing about it. We would rather wage wars of gestures, dropping bombs on pickup trucks out in the desert.
Update: I thought I'd cruise the mainstream media sites for their accounts of Putin's G20 presentation. Can't find it. Ain't there. Putin outs G20 members and two score of nations in total that are facilitating the flow of under the table money to ISIS and our editors spike the story. Hmm, I wonder why that is?
Could it be that we'd rather not dwell on those Gulf State sheikhs and princes propping up murderous Sunni Muslim extremists?
Could it be that we're afraid of opening a political can of worms by observing ISIS is being commanded by a number of ex-Iraqi army generals the Americans threw out of their jobs?
Do we have some reason for not interdicting truck convoys by which ISIS exports their stolen oil?
We've been very patient. For the last 12 hours we've been constantly refreshing Google News for just one — one — western article about Putin's bombshell comments at the G20 summit in Antalya. You would think that the Russian President stating publicly that ISIS is receiving money from 40 different countries, including G20 members, would be “newsworthy”. Right?
But the western media has defied even our worst expectations: Not a single mainstream western outlet reported on Putin's comments. Typically, at least the Daily Beast has the common courtesy to distort or misrepresent the most recent Putin press conference. But in this instance, there is literally no written western record of Putin saying anything about who finances ISIS during the G20 summit in Turkey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihKTN4QLfA&feature=player_embedded
Saudi Arabia is no ally to the West. It is, by contrast, the greatest "state sponsor of terrorism" on the planet and the radical Islamist outfits it backs are the same murderous gangs we're fighting - al Qaeda, al Nusra, ISIS and their affiliates who are sowing chaos through the Muslim world, Europe and even in North America.
If you need more details you can check out this trip down Memory Lane from Foreign Policy in Focus.
It's not just the Saudis either. It's the Kuwaitis too. Apparently this is how they express their gratitude for our war to drive Saddam Hussein out of their homeland. And it's the Qataris and, it seems, our NATO ally, the Turks. Oh well you know all the players from that dossier Putin handed to all at The G20 last week.
What's so infuriating is that Putin didn't let any cats out of the bag. We also know full well many of those countries backing ISIS and we haven't done a damn thing about it. We would rather wage wars of gestures, dropping bombs on pickup trucks out in the desert.
Update: I thought I'd cruise the mainstream media sites for their accounts of Putin's G20 presentation. Can't find it. Ain't there. Putin outs G20 members and two score of nations in total that are facilitating the flow of under the table money to ISIS and our editors spike the story. Hmm, I wonder why that is?
Could it be that we'd rather not dwell on those Gulf State sheikhs and princes propping up murderous Sunni Muslim extremists?
Could it be that we're afraid of opening a political can of worms by observing ISIS is being commanded by a number of ex-Iraqi army generals the Americans threw out of their jobs?
Do we have some reason for not interdicting truck convoys by which ISIS exports their stolen oil?
We've been very patient. For the last 12 hours we've been constantly refreshing Google News for just one — one — western article about Putin's bombshell comments at the G20 summit in Antalya. You would think that the Russian President stating publicly that ISIS is receiving money from 40 different countries, including G20 members, would be “newsworthy”. Right?
But the western media has defied even our worst expectations: Not a single mainstream western outlet reported on Putin's comments. Typically, at least the Daily Beast has the common courtesy to distort or misrepresent the most recent Putin press conference. But in this instance, there is literally no written western record of Putin saying anything about who finances ISIS during the G20 summit in Turkey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihKTN4QLfA&feature=player_embedded
The Kurdish Women Battling ISIS
https://vimeo.com/129935570
In the dry and desolate land along Syria’s northeastern border, thousands of young Kurdish women have taken up arms to protect their people against attacks from Bashar Assad’s government, ISIS militants and the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Some 7,000 volunteer soldiers have joined the Women’s Protection Unit, or YPJ, which grew out of the wider Kurdish resistance movement.
The group is strongly associated with the PKK, an organization fighting for the rights of Kurds in neighboring Turkey that has been designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department. Alongside Kurdish Peshmerga forces, the YPJ has been battling against Islamic militants who have seized large areas of Iraq and Syria and declared a cross-border caliphate.
Young YPJ recruits participate in drills at dawn near Derek City in Rojava, the Kurdish area of Syria. The schedule is demanding and requires discipline: new soldiers in training get about 6 hours of sleep a night and wake up at 4 a.m; their day consists of a full schedule of drills and classroom lessons. Before joining the YPJ, many of the girls had never participated in physical activity or sports.
Most of the YPJ soldiers are unmarried and have chosen to dedicate themselves to the struggle, adopting practices of discipline, training, austerity, charity and, most importantly, "Haval," their motto, which means "friendship" in the Kurdish language. Those who fight range in age from 18 to 24, but there are recruits as young as 12 who cook, do chores and train alongside their elders.
https://vimeo.com/129935570
In the dry and desolate land along Syria’s northeastern border, thousands of young Kurdish women have taken up arms to protect their people against attacks from Bashar Assad’s government, ISIS militants and the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Some 7,000 volunteer soldiers have joined the Women’s Protection Unit, or YPJ, which grew out of the wider Kurdish resistance movement.
The group is strongly associated with the PKK, an organization fighting for the rights of Kurds in neighboring Turkey that has been designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department. Alongside Kurdish Peshmerga forces, the YPJ has been battling against Islamic militants who have seized large areas of Iraq and Syria and declared a cross-border caliphate.
Young YPJ recruits participate in drills at dawn near Derek City in Rojava, the Kurdish area of Syria. The schedule is demanding and requires discipline: new soldiers in training get about 6 hours of sleep a night and wake up at 4 a.m; their day consists of a full schedule of drills and classroom lessons. Before joining the YPJ, many of the girls had never participated in physical activity or sports.
Most of the YPJ soldiers are unmarried and have chosen to dedicate themselves to the struggle, adopting practices of discipline, training, austerity, charity and, most importantly, "Haval," their motto, which means "friendship" in the Kurdish language. Those who fight range in age from 18 to 24, but there are recruits as young as 12 who cook, do chores and train alongside their elders.
ISIS fatwa lays out rules for raping sex slaves
Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart, REUTERS
First posted: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 09:56 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:52 AM EST
WASHINGTON - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.
The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
The fatwa was among a huge trove of documents captured by U.S. Special Operations Forces during a raid targeting a top Islamic State official in Syria in May. Reuters has reviewed the document, which has not been previously published, but couldn't independently confirm its authenticity.
Among the fatwa's injunctions are bans on a father and son having sex with the same female slave; and the owner of a mother and daughter having sex with both. Joint owners of a female captive are similarly enjoined from intercourse because she is viewed as "part of a joint ownership."
The United Nations and human rights groups have accused the Islamic State of the systematic abduction and rape of thousands of women and girls as young as 12, especially members of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq. Many have been given to fighters as a reward or sold as sex slaves.
Far from trying to conceal the practice, Islamic State has boasted about it and established a department of "war spoils" to manage slavery. Reuters reported on the existence of the department on Monday.
In an April report, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 female escapees who recounted how Islamic State fighters separated young women and girls from men and boys and older women. They were moved "in an organized and methodical fashion to various places in Iraq and Syria." They were then sold or given as gifts and repeatedly raped or subjected to sexual violence.
DOS AND DON'TS
Fatwa No. 64, dated Jan. 29, 2015, and issued by Islamic State's Committee of Research and Fatwas, appears to codify sexual relations between IS fighters and their female captives for the first time, going further than a pamphlet issued by the group in 2014 on how to treat slaves.
The fatwa starts with a question: "Some of the brothers have committed violations in the matter of the treatment of the female slaves. These violations are not permitted by Sharia law because these rules have not been dealt with in ages. Are there any warnings pertaining to this matter?"
It then lists 15 injunctions, which in some instances go into explicit detail. For example:
"If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter suitable for intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter, he is not permitted to have intercourse with her mother and she is permanently off limits to him. Should he have intercourse with her mother then he is not permitted to have intercourse with her daughter and she is to be off limits to him."
Islamic State's rape of female captives has been well documented, but a leading IS expert at Princeton University, Cole Bunzel, who has reviewed many of the group's writings, said the fatwa went beyond what has previously been published by the militants on how to treat female slaves.
"It reveals the actual concerns of IS slave owners," he said in an email.
Still, he cautioned that not "everything dealt with in the fatwa is indicative of a relevant violation. It doesn't mean father and son were necessarily sharing a girl. They're at least being 'warned' not to. But I bet some of these violations were being committed."
The fatwa also instructs owners of female slaves to "show compassion towards her, be kind to her, not humiliate her, and not assign her work she is unable to perform." An owner should also not sell her to an individual whom he knows will mistreat her.
Professor Abdel Fattah Alawari, dean of Islamic Theology at Al-Azhar University, a 1,000-year-old Egyptian center for Islamic learning, said Islamic State "has nothing to do with Islam" and was deliberately misreading centuries-old verses and sayings that were originally designed to end, rather than encourage, slavery.
"Islam preaches freedom to slaves, not slavery. Slavery was the status quo when Islam came around," he said. "Judaism, Christianity, Greek, Roman, and Persian civilizations all practiced it and took the females of their enemies as sex slaves. So Islam found this abhorrent practice and worked to gradually remove it."
In September 2014 more than 120 Islamic scholars from around the world issued an open letter to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi refuting the group's religious arguments to justify many of its actions. The scholars noted that the "reintroduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam."
ISIS fatwa lays out rules for raping sex slaves | World | News | Toronto Sun
Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart, REUTERS
First posted: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 09:56 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:52 AM EST
WASHINGTON - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.
The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
The fatwa was among a huge trove of documents captured by U.S. Special Operations Forces during a raid targeting a top Islamic State official in Syria in May. Reuters has reviewed the document, which has not been previously published, but couldn't independently confirm its authenticity.
Among the fatwa's injunctions are bans on a father and son having sex with the same female slave; and the owner of a mother and daughter having sex with both. Joint owners of a female captive are similarly enjoined from intercourse because she is viewed as "part of a joint ownership."
The United Nations and human rights groups have accused the Islamic State of the systematic abduction and rape of thousands of women and girls as young as 12, especially members of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq. Many have been given to fighters as a reward or sold as sex slaves.
Far from trying to conceal the practice, Islamic State has boasted about it and established a department of "war spoils" to manage slavery. Reuters reported on the existence of the department on Monday.
In an April report, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 female escapees who recounted how Islamic State fighters separated young women and girls from men and boys and older women. They were moved "in an organized and methodical fashion to various places in Iraq and Syria." They were then sold or given as gifts and repeatedly raped or subjected to sexual violence.
DOS AND DON'TS
Fatwa No. 64, dated Jan. 29, 2015, and issued by Islamic State's Committee of Research and Fatwas, appears to codify sexual relations between IS fighters and their female captives for the first time, going further than a pamphlet issued by the group in 2014 on how to treat slaves.
The fatwa starts with a question: "Some of the brothers have committed violations in the matter of the treatment of the female slaves. These violations are not permitted by Sharia law because these rules have not been dealt with in ages. Are there any warnings pertaining to this matter?"
It then lists 15 injunctions, which in some instances go into explicit detail. For example:
"If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter suitable for intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter, he is not permitted to have intercourse with her mother and she is permanently off limits to him. Should he have intercourse with her mother then he is not permitted to have intercourse with her daughter and she is to be off limits to him."
Islamic State's rape of female captives has been well documented, but a leading IS expert at Princeton University, Cole Bunzel, who has reviewed many of the group's writings, said the fatwa went beyond what has previously been published by the militants on how to treat female slaves.
"It reveals the actual concerns of IS slave owners," he said in an email.
Still, he cautioned that not "everything dealt with in the fatwa is indicative of a relevant violation. It doesn't mean father and son were necessarily sharing a girl. They're at least being 'warned' not to. But I bet some of these violations were being committed."
The fatwa also instructs owners of female slaves to "show compassion towards her, be kind to her, not humiliate her, and not assign her work she is unable to perform." An owner should also not sell her to an individual whom he knows will mistreat her.
Professor Abdel Fattah Alawari, dean of Islamic Theology at Al-Azhar University, a 1,000-year-old Egyptian center for Islamic learning, said Islamic State "has nothing to do with Islam" and was deliberately misreading centuries-old verses and sayings that were originally designed to end, rather than encourage, slavery.
"Islam preaches freedom to slaves, not slavery. Slavery was the status quo when Islam came around," he said. "Judaism, Christianity, Greek, Roman, and Persian civilizations all practiced it and took the females of their enemies as sex slaves. So Islam found this abhorrent practice and worked to gradually remove it."
In September 2014 more than 120 Islamic scholars from around the world issued an open letter to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi refuting the group's religious arguments to justify many of its actions. The scholars noted that the "reintroduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam."
ISIS fatwa lays out rules for raping sex slaves | World | News | Toronto Sun
