Is this amputation somehow more terrible because it was live-tweeted? Amputation of the hand for theft is prescribed in the Qur’an, and these Syrian jihadis have made abundantly clear their determination to impose the Sharia in Syria. So it would be more surprising if they didn’t amputate hands for theft, and not surprising at all that they would do so proudly and openly. They are, after all, implementing the perfect law of Allah.
“Syrian extremists amputated a man’s hand and live-tweeted it,” by Liz Sly and Ahmed Ramadan for the Washington Post, February 28 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The apparent amputation (Twitter)
The extremist Syrian group deemed too radical even for al-Qaeda performed what may have been a Twitter first Friday: live-tweeting the amputation of a hand.
The amputation took place in the remote rural town of Maskanah in the northern province of Aleppo, according to a series of tweets posted by the account of a supporter of the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
The first showed a photograph of a blindfolded man having his arm positioned on a table by fighters as a masked man wielding a sword waits nearby. Another man, wearing a white robe of the kind favored in Arab Gulf countries, is reading a statement. A caption states that the blindfolded man is a thief who had asked to have his hand cut off “in order to cleanse his sins.”
A second photograph was taken just as the sword is about to strike the hand while a burly fighter restrains the victim.
A third picture posted an hour later is too graphic to show here. The man appears to be passed out, with his bloodied arm and his severed hand resting on the table. Fresh slashes in the wood suggest it took four swipes of the sword to cut the hand off.
[UPDATE: The Twitter account that posted the photos, @reyadiraq, has been suspended. When asked why, a Twitter spokesperson said the company doesn’t comment on individual accounts and pointed to the rules and media policy. A screengrab of the first photo is at the top of this post. The account had about 96,000 followers and more than 20,000 tweets before suspension.]
ISIS evolved from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, which U.S. forces battled to contain before they withdrew in 2011. The group’s attempts to impose strict interpretations of Islamic law on the parts of rebel-held northern Syria under its control have earned it many enemies….
Amputation of the hand for theft is not a “strict interpretation of Islamic law.” It is in the Qur’an: “[As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah . And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” (5:38)

Champ says
Such savagery!
islam = religion of savages
sam says
If Israel had given more land to “Palestinians” this Muslim would have kept his hand to kill more infidels. These Jews are something aren’t they?
Jay Boo says
Islam has no other choice than to use violence in order to be taken seriously.
Better not hurt spiteful Allah’s feelings by leaving with your apostasy.
Allah must be prayed to at least five times a day to assuage his raging insecurity.
Islamic self-esteem attempts to rise by the degradation of humanity.
That which Islam calls good deeds is merely sociopathic vanity.
Jay Boo says
Without a lurid spectacle,
there can be no Islam.
Salah says
“The Twitter account that posted the photos, @reyadiraq, has been suspended.”
Guess how many times this short clip has been removed from Youtube!!!
(Graphic)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/islamic-amputations.html
joeb says
Excellent news. I look forward to such punishments being meted out in London’s Trafalgar Square in, oh, about ten years or so…
mortimer says
What is most repulsive is the PARTY ATMOSPHERE and dancing when this cruel act is perpetrated.
I for one do not want savages like these coming to my country! I want them stopped from entering IMMEDIATELY!
Barbarians.
King Dave Newsvine says
You would hope the Assad military would have taken notice, the freedom fighter are all standing in one place.
FeelingSick says
I couldn’t bring myself to watch that video clip. Coincidentally, I wrote a little piece for Wikipedia just three days ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_bint_Al-Aswad
Someone immediately flagged it as an “obvious hoax”! Within a few hours, he apologised and removed the flag. What he had done was to google for “Fatima bint Al-Aswad” and, on finding next to nothing about her in cyberspace, concluded that she had never existed. I believe it was an honest mistake.
So that raises the question: Why is there next to nothing on this topic in cyberspace? It is a relevant current affair, since the atrocities still happen NOW. But there is not much acknowledgement of who started the custom.
I don’t see much hope that the horrors will stop as long as Muhammad is considered an authority on human behaviour.
citycat says
Terror changes free energy into fear.
Submission to Allah, the vampiric entity, relieves Muslims of their energy/soul that becomes fear through terror.
Acceptance causes a clearing that some Muslims take as being holy.
eib says
The problem is that the thing cleared is too quickly filled up with the mentality of the herd and in some cases, outright bloodlust.
And imagine the chemicals they imbibe by way of halal slaughter!
Mark Dunn says
no one cares it is bball season.
Gary Woods says
Rabid savages that see this as normal and just halal with the quran.
Anushirvan says
“Is this amputation somehow more terrible because it was live-tweeted?”
It is to limp-wristed / lily-livered / invertebrate / effeminate / spineless / weak-kneed PC MC liberal do-gooders who can’t and won’t handle the inconvenient truths which will make their flimsy house of ideological cards and the exaltation of their egotistical flimflam (“Islam is a religion of peace”) collapse.
These people have decided to shield the general public from reality, otherwise they can no longer sustain their PC mythologies nor their self-congratulatory inclination in showing off their “virtues” to the world.
Charli Main says
If Mohammed of Islam was alive today, he would be committed, indefinitely, to a mental institution for the criminally insane.
Mohammed of Islam was a raving sociopath, psychopath and just plain looney tunes.
eib says
Muslim civilization, a contradiction in terms.
panther says
If the moslem immigration is not stopped & the ones already in are not ousted from western nations, unless they denounce any allegiance with islam, we will be experiencing such savagery more often in our own city squares.
Richard Bowden says
This is what Islam is taken to its the letter of what their revered religious book says. It just goes to show how barbaric and medieval Islam was and is and will be as long as it lasts. http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=8…1491
Jan Strucker says
The majority of Americans still think it’s a peaceful religion. They don’t think this will happen in the US.
doreva says
well, one could say at least the islamlists are honest about their hippocrisy….just like they’re honest about their misogyny, what i mean to say is they don’t go around saying disingenuous things like “some of my best friends are women”…so with “stealing”, the honest and brutal way of dealing with it is first to destroy the means of getting a livelihood (demolish Damascus, for example, and drive everyone out of the neighbourhood, then if someone “steals” to get something to eat or for survival, make an example of him but cutting of his hand so he can’t work at all…stupid sharia law…idiotic