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Islamic jihadists in Syria “cut hands, cut heads, play with corpses”

May 11, 2014 9:10 pm By Robert Spencer

syria-gun“They cut hands”: “The thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah.” (Qur’an 5:38)

“When your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” (Qur’an 8:12)

“They cut heads”: “So when you meet those who disbelieve, strike necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

“‘They cut hands, cut heads, play with corpses’: Islamic extremists fighting brutal war against Kurds in Syria,” National Post, May 11, 2014:

A dirty little war is grinding on in northern Syria, off the West’s radar and beyond the reach of much of its media, writes Jonathan Spyer, who has just returned from a visit to the besieged Kurdish enclave of Kobani.

The conflict between the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and the Kurdish upstarts provides a glimpse of what the future might hold for the country, now in the fourth year of a punishing civil war — wars within wars.

Syria is now fractured into a multitude of interests, split along ethnic, religious and regional grounds — and each badly disposed to the others.

Last year, Syria’s Kurds seized the opportunity to declare independence from Damascus in areas along the border with Turkey. Today, they control three separate enclaves — Jazira, the largest, in the northeast, Kobani and Afrin. These are among the most peaceful and well-governed areas of the country.

However, the enclave has the misfortune of being located in an area the ISIS is eyeing as part of the Islamic state it is seeking to establish — a wide swath of territory from Anbar and Ninawah provinces in western Iraq through eastern Syria to the Syrian-Turkish border. It already controls a substantial part of eastern Syria, lapping around Kobani.

Now, the area is under siege, as the Islamists seek to starve the Kurds into submission. Jihadi fighters assault its borders with a daily barrage of mortar fire and sniper activity, and occasionally launch all-out ground attacks.

ISIS is the most brutal and extreme of the political-military organizations engaged in the civil war in Syria, ostensibly against President Bashar Al-Assad, but in reality against anyone who does not follow their extremist brand of Islam.

Residents of this new Islamist state are living in conditions of extraordinary brutality. Christians in Raqqa must pay a special tax — the jizya — in accordance with Shariah law. Anyone caught drinking alcohol is imprisoned and tortured….

For their part, the Kurds combine a studied contempt for their opponents’ tactical abilities with a sort of fascinated horror for some of their practices.

“They cut hands, cut heads, play with corpses,” said one female fighter.

“Many of them are on drugs. They attack randomly, haphazardly. But they can’t progress into our areas.”

A male fighter was more succinct. Asked about the Chechens who make up a significant portion of the jihadis’ manpower, he replied, “They are monsters.”…

Monsters? Oh, the Islamophobia!

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  1. laura r says

    May 11, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    yes i AM phobic.

  2. Jay Boo says

    May 11, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    Good Morning Muslim world.
    Wake up.
    Muslims, bow your heads in disgrace.

  3. Jay Boo says

    May 11, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    Wake up and listen to Satan’s rooster calling you each morning to bow in submission while praising Satan.
    TJ do you copy

  4. jewdog says

    May 11, 2014 at 10:29 pm

    One the plus side, Islam has reduced Syria to such a state of chaos, that it can’t seriously threaten Israel. On the down side, it’s an ugly and frightening thing to see an entire country reduced to the equivalent of a raving lunatic.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 12, 2014 at 12:22 am

      Well….after all, aren’t the lunatic ravers emulating their perfect example, Muhammad?

  5. Salah says

    May 12, 2014 at 3:25 am

    “They cut hands, cut heads, play with corpses,” said one female fighter.

    The Taliban do the same, wonder what do they have in common?

    (Graphic)
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2013/12/soccer-la-taliban.html

  6. firestarter says

    May 12, 2014 at 4:09 am

    These people are sub-human. There is no other way to describe them.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 14, 2014 at 4:02 am

      Not *sub*-human…rather, *evil* human.

      The human potential for appalling evil can be seen in the records of the millennia of human experience, both written and unwritten [archaeological] that preceded the invention of Islam, and in such things as the extravaganzas of human sacrifice indulged in by the Aztecs of mesoamerica.

      Islam as an ideology or a *system* or way of life codifies, sacralises, nurtures and *unlooses* that potential for evil that exists in all humans.

      • Angemon says

        May 14, 2014 at 6:16 am

        Off-topic: i’ve seen leftards and mahommedans alike wailing on how the evil, heartless, imperialist western mustache-twirling 16th-century Spaniards went and killed the poor, innocent Aztecs who just wanted to be left alone and never hurt a fly. No, seriously, i’ve had leftards and mahommedans on PalTalk assuring me that the Aztecs never made any human sacrifice and that the Spaniards made everything up because when they got there the Aztecs were muslims. I kid you not, they managed to say that while keeping a straight face.

      • Mazo says

        May 14, 2014 at 2:39 pm

        Correction: the extravaganzas of human sacrifice indulged in by Europeans who tortured, burned, and killed more people than the Aztecs sacrificed every year, during the Inquisition because they held the wrong religious beliefs or were falsely accused of being witches.

  7. Angemon says

    May 12, 2014 at 5:18 am

    “ in reality against anyone who does not follow their extremist brand of Islam.”

    Extremist, or accurate, by-the-book?

  8. Cindy Mccoy says

    May 12, 2014 at 11:56 am

    These people are crazy in their heads. Did they ever check to see when their book was written and who wrote it?? The Bible was written by men who were inspired by theTrue and Living God!! The great I AM, who was and is and is to come.

  9. EYESOPEN says

    May 12, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    I loved Robert’s wry humor: “Monsters? Oh the Islamophobia!” It gave me a chuckle on an otherwise crazy-busy afternoon.

  10. pst Alphonsus Duruji says

    May 12, 2014 at 7:35 pm

    This people are mad, they are devils in human form, they are cousing great havoc in this world, this are children óf satan the world need to rise up agaist them, they are contermination to humanity.

  11. gravenimage says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    Islamic jihadists in Syria “cut hands, cut heads, play with corpses”
    …………………………..

    This is Islam untrammeled, with no mitigating elements. Damn barbarians.

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