Why? If Islam so unequivocally forbids beheading, why do Muslims keep beheading? It is a shame that few seem to notice the growing cognitive dissonance between the statements of Muslim leaders in the West and the actions of Muslims around the world. No doubt even fewer are aware that the Qur'an tells Muslims to "strike the necks" of unbelievers (Sura 47:4).
And of course, this story is also about beheadings by non-Muslims -- although the name "Operation Baghdad" that the Haitians used indicates where they got their inspiration.
From AP, with thanks to Peter Rockas and Anthony:
ANKARA, Turkey - It was called "Operation Baghdad" and, to be sure, the headless bodies of the three police officers recalled the violence in that city. But these attacks happened in Haiti, not in Iraq.The brutal beheadings in Iraq appear to have inspired militants in other parts of the world who are drawn to the shock value of the horrifying attacks and the intense publicity they attract.
Thailand and the Netherlands are two other countries where suspected extremists recently beheaded or slit the throats of their victims in what appear to be copycat attacks.
Rime Allaf, associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, said beheadings are spreading because the practice "has so horrified us in the West."
"It achieves results and it makes the headlines," Allaf added. "People are talking about groups that we've never heard about before."...
In Thailand this week, a Buddhist village leader was beheaded after being shot in the chest. A note was left on his body saying his slaying was to avenge the killing of Muslim rioters by government forces.
And in Amsterdam, a suspected Islamic extremist shot and killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, then slit his throat. A note was left impaled by a knife on his body quoting from the Quran and threatening more killings.
"It's an ideal terrorist tool," said Jonathan Stevenson, senior fellow for counterterrorism at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington. "It is a horrifying image and I would say it is disproportionately frightening."
The first beheading by Islamic militants in Iraq was the slaying in May of American civilian Nicholas Berg. The killers posted a video on the Internet showing them pushing a bound Berg to his side, putting a large knife to his neck and cutting off his head as a scream sounded and the killers shouted "Allahu akbar!" — "God is great!"
A month later, an al-Qaida-linked Saudi group beheaded an American engineer in Saudi Arabia. The group did not mention Iraq but the executioners called themselves the "Fallujah Brigade" after the city in Iraq that U.S. forces had been besieging.
Since then, at least 12 foreigners, including three other Americans, have been beheaded in Iraq as part of a wave of kidnappings. Videos and the Internet were used to distribute the horrifying images across the world, compounding the shock value.
"I think the initial reason for the beheadings was true shock and awe," Allaf said. "These people are extremely media savvy."
The first beheading of a foreigner touted by Islamic militants was that of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, slain in Pakistan in 2002.
Decapitations had previously occurred in Algeria, Kashmir, Chechnya and the Muslim-dominated southern Philippines but had rarely been used in past militant attacks in the Middle East.
Algeria, Kashmir, Chechnya, and the southern Philippines: all arenas of jihad.
Jeez!
Beheadings, eh? Maybe the west should considercastration of all captured islamic terrorists before making a formal arrest.... Would certainly slow down the burgeoning population explosion happening in dar0al-islam at any rate...Doubt even that horrible prospect will deter them though.
BISMILLAH!
The recent spin that Muslims have put on the rise in murders for Allah makes me realize that I can now tell when a Imam or Islamic cleric is lying,their lips are moving.
KNOW HIS LAMB
NO PEACE
This morning on Fox news there was a story about a pastor's wife being beheaded in OKLAHOMA. I don't have any more information yet but this sounds really bad.
The solution is very simple. For every Jew or Christian or Hindu or Buddist beheaded by a Muslim, take a captured Jihadist or Jihad-preaching Iman and nail him/her to a cross. It worked for the Romans, it will work now. We simply have to communicate to these "people" in a manner that they will understand.
As with every other shocking event that becomes too often repeated, beheadings will lose their value as a tool for shock and fear. In fact, people will expect that kind of behavior from Muslims toward non-Muslims, an attitude that does not do them any favor. Thus, they are responsible for the bad reputation and bad feelings that are felt in the West against Muslims.
The fact that beheadings are legitimized in the Koran and are of long practice is irrelevant. The practice of beheading is barbaric and NOW one will look at all Muslims in the light of them possibly being murderers and mutilators in the name of their religion, the fruit of the tree of Islam!
There is a very simple explanation for this.
"Islam is the fastest growing religion"
The rising quarterly decapitation index attests to this.
If any of us wrote a book that advocated slaying of Muslims "wherever you find them and smite off their necks, but if they should convert to Buddhism, then let them go on their way."
Then we would be charged for inciting hate and violence.
Allah and his sidekick Muhammed should be put on trial and the Koran should be banned for the hate inciting book that it is.
Questions that I would sincerely appreciate if some of you would kindly answer:
In the past 6 months:
1) I have come in contact with arabs or muslims in my workplace, place of worship, or neighborhood.
(y / n)
2) engaged muslims or arabs in a face to face dialogue about Islam.
3) attended a lecture at a church which discussed Islam
4) attended an interfaith discussion about Islam and other religions
5) watched a television documentary about Islam
6) physically attended a lecture or service at a local mosque
7) physically attended a lecture or service at a local synagogue
8) attended a lecture at a local college or university about Islam
9) come in contact with arabs or muslims in the course of my daily affairs
10) befriended at least one arab or muslim in the course of my daily affairs
Thank you for your comments.
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Anyone who chooses to answer this moron, remember:
He is trying to classify what kind of Hate you suffer from. Which is an Outright LIE about YOU.
He is totally bogus. Why do you keep bothering with him? So he can make a report to post on islamic hate sites around the world?
Don't let this bastard get away with an attempt to discredit. Do not let him do what the Left will be pleased to have him do! Think!
The "art" of execution by beheading was perfected by French scientist Gillotine, and offered as a "humane way of execution" versus hanging.
Beheading is an aberration, but not limited to the islamic world. Many islamic scholars prohibit the use of beheading as a form of execution, islamic states such as Saudi Arabia and others being the exception. This is not unlike the case where in many christian countries, capital punishment is not acceptable, but in other christian countries, it is a matter of law.
Prosecution for alleged crimes in muslim countries is expected to follow the rule of law, either shari'ah law or constitutional law.
There is no islamic provision for vigilantism, just as there is no injunction for vigilantism in most civilized societies.
When the rule of law is destroyed, as was the case in Iraq when civil society was shut down, the army was dissolved and the police force disbanded, vigilantism increases.
The outcome is dictated by the process.
What hateshutup is really about:
http://www.geocities.com/savepenry/nazi.html
This person is attempting to use the same methods.
What Gary doesn't know about zionism, nazism and orthodox jewry:
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Statements/071604Hague.cfm
To any and all posters at Jihad Watch:
Not that you asked, but I don't think you or anyone else should answer this person "Hatshepsut." To do so is to allow him or her to put you on trial, thus shifting the focus away from the global jihad.
Another Muslim, Chan'ad Bahraini, recently asked me all sorts of questions about where I have been in the Middle East, what languages I speak, etc. I suspected that any answer I gave him, he would use for his own purposes, so I declined to answer (whereupon, of course, he used that). But it is a digression: this site, and the anti-jihad effort in general, is not about me. It is not based on where I have been, or what I know or don't know. It is meant to draw attention to the manifest activity of Islamic jihadists, and the ways they use Islamic texts to justify themselves and recruit. Those activities are a fact regardless of who I am.
The moral of the story: don't let attention be diverted away from the jihad.
There have been occasionally some posters here who are over the top, and I have consistently stated that those who call for genocide, nuking Mecca, etc., are not welcome here. However,
"Hatshepsut" is a deluded individual who believes that to resist violent jihad is racism (despite the ideological character of the conflict, transcending all races), that Jews perpetrated 9/11 (despite Osama's avowal that he did it), and that apparently any anti-jihad sentiment is "hate" (despite the fact that it is not Western non-Muslims who are perpetrating religious violence around the globe).
Just don't answer. This site is not about you and how many Muslims you had lunch with. This site is about the global jihad, which continues despite "Hatshepsut's" efforts to divert attention away from it.
Cordially,
Robert Spencer
Beheadings by islam terrorists have been going on since before Daniel Pearl, it just didn't make the western media.
Just a few days ago, an Indonesian Christian from Central Sulawesi was also beheaded. It didn't make the world news, nor the local Indonesian news, albeit for very different reasons.
An issue I have with Hatshpsut's "history lesson" on beheading. The Guillotine was probably quite merciful compared to hanging, but the "one solid stroke" of the blade there has very little to do with the methods of beheading that are employed by Islam.
Anybody remember the Saudi prince that killed one of the family members? the exact time frame and details escape me at this point, but I will never forget the details of his execution; in a public square, beheaded by sword, with THREE STROKES, ONE MINUTE APART. obviously, the first two were not killing strokes, but intended to heighten fear and agony. Certainly not the swift exit that the guillotine provided.
Further, on all the tapes we've been subjected to in the news, the modern day beheading is accomplished with a kitchen knife, sawing away at the throat of the victim, and taking time with the severing of the spinal column. Again, this is not swift or humane. The guillotine and the history of beheading is not the issue here - the issue is why the practice is still being used by these people today, when all other cultures in the modern world have ceased the practice.
Sorry, but the guillotine was QUICK, not humane. There were lots of French aristocrats the French revolutionaries wanted to get rid of and showing them "humanity" was not a goal.
hatshepsut = boring
There were two Muslim mothers showing each other pictures of their children. One of them says: "Here's Ammed at age 8. So cute...but he's gone." "Here's Hassan, such at a charmer at age 10...but he's gone." Her friends says, "I know. They blow up so young."
One last: hateshutup, I do not read propaganda.