“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” — Qur’an 47:4
“Islamic State beheads hundreds of members of Syrian tribe,” Reuters, August 17, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
The Islamic State militant group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians, a human rights monitoring group and activists said on Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said reliable sources reported beheadings were used to execute many of the al-Sheitaat tribe, which is from Deir al-Zor province.
The conflict between Islamic State and the al-Sheitaat tribe, who number about 70,000, flared after the militants took over two oil fields in July.
“Those who were executed are all al-Sheitaat,” Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman said by telephone from Britain. “Some were arrested, judged and killed.”
Reuters cannot independently verify reports from Syria due to security conditions and reporting restrictions.
Proclaiming a ‘caliphate’ straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has swept across northern Iraq in recent weeks, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Muslims, Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes, prompting the first U.S. air strikes in Iraq since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.
The insurgents are also tightening their grip in Syria, of which they now control roughly a third, mostly rural areas in the north and east.
An activist in Deir al-Zor who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters that 300 men were executed in one day in the town of Ghraneij, one of the three main towns of the al-Sheitaat tribal heartland, when Islamic State stormed the town earlier this week.
Another opposition activist from Deir al-Zor said residents of al-Sheitaat towns had been given three days to leave.
“Those who were executed during the storming of the al-Sheitaat area are around 300. The rest were killed in the course of the battles,” he told Reuters on condition of anonymity to protect his identity.
Civilians fleeing al-Sheitaat towns had either taken sanctuary in other villages or travelled to Iraq, he said.
More than 170,000 people have been killed in Syria’s civil war, which pits overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim rebels against President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Shi’ite-derived Alawite minority, backed by Shi’ite militias from Iraq and Lebanon.
The insurgency is split between competing factions in Syria, with Islamic State emerging as the most powerful.
Tribal powers in Syria and Iraq have had to make the choice between fighting Islamic State or pledging allegiance.
On Friday, a video posted on YouTube showed men who said they were from the al-Sheitaat towns of Kishkeih and Abu Hammam pledging full support for Islamic State.
“We say that what Islamic State stands for is justice,” a tribal member sitting in a room with dozens of other men said in a statement that was read out.
The head of the al-Sheitaat tribe, Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju, called in a video message for other tribes to join them in the fight against the militants.
“We appeal to the other tribes to stand by us because it will be their turn next … If (Islamic State) are done with us the other tribes will be targeted after al-Sheitaat. They are the next target,” he said in the video, posted on YouTube.
Islamic State was condemned on Friday in a U.N. Security Council resolution for “gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.”
PRCS says
The Nazis were pretty brutal.
But one of the reasons Hitler’s government ultimately decided to use gas chambers to carry out “the final solution” was that the troops assigned to murder Jews one or two or a hundred at a time was that after a while it became too psychologically difficult for them to keep doing that day after day.
Unlike, at least, these Muslim “fighters”.
Beagle says
Interesting point. Odd how the mujahideen never seem to get “war weary,” suffer from PTSD, or have any moral or other compunctions about shooting defenseless people.
PRCS says
Or–to an even greater degree of physical barbarity: cutting their throats, burying them alive, beating them, etc.
All because they believe their man made god directs them to.
Christian Knight says
They so enjoy doing this.. they’ll never tire of doing this as the have no ampathy…. They’re doing Satan’s work..
PJG says
This article made me wonder when they will tire of the killing. What happens if they run out of enemies and the land is deathly quiet. Do they then take to farming, start families, become a little fat and keep photo albums of their glory days? Do they part ways with their fighting mates and then find that they have to banish some doubts which are nagging at them? Or will they forever rejoice in what they have done? Will they spend their older years as directors of Islamic slave markets, easy work like that?
Children and grandchildren will be born as a result of the rape they commit. These will develop cultures around their birthplaces and as the years roll on, the history of their origin will become lost and forgotten. Conquered people, the children of violence, who will fabricate stories about their heritage and worship Allah as devout Muslims…like so many Muslims in the world, their hearts and souls possessed by Allah…such an immense tragedy. This is how Islam has grown.
The Levite says
http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/israel-dismantles-world-s-problems-end-t307.html
PJG says
Thanks for that, Levite!
An old Lefty friend of mine dismissed me after I argued with her view that the ISIS phenomenon was “all about oil” and I then said something disparaging (gasp!) about Islam. What did that foolish woman think: that once ISIS had the oil money, they would start dressing in smart suits and take to collecting racehorses and fine antiques?
Patricia A. Gallagher says
The Third Reich did not concern itself with the psychological wellbeing of its executioners, except to strengthen them. They resorted to Zyklon-B because execution with firearms was much too slow when compared with the target population.
The goal was to eradicate the “vermine” from the Reich: all of Europe’s Jews and gypsies, the elderly, the physically and mentally disabled, the Poles, and any other “non-Aryan race.” Twelve million plus.
PRCS says
Patricia wrote:
“The Third Reich did not concern itself with the psychological wellbeing of its executioners, except to strengthen them. They resorted to Zyklon-B because execution with firearms was much too slow when compared with the target population.”
That is NOT correct, Patricia. I noted the psychological difficulties that the constant murder of Jews, a few at a time, as ONE reason to ultimately resort to the gas chambers.
https://suu.edu/faculty/ping/culture_of_murder.htm
“The Jews of Jozefow were taken into the forest in groups of twenty and executed by a bullet to the neck or head. Those soldiers tasked with the actual shooting found the experience difficult. Shooting people at close range, in the words of Sergeant Bentheim, meant that “The executioners were gruesomely soiled with blood, brain matter, and bone splinters. It stuck to their clothes.” The thirty men of Lieutenant Kurt Drucker’s platoon shot three hundred Jews in three hours. In all, Police Battalion 101 shot approximately 1,500 Jews that afternoon. A fairly significant portion of the unit–according to Christopher Browning, 10 to 15% — either did not shoot at all, or started shooting but could not continue.
Franz Kastenbaum* volunteered the following account to the Hamburg prosecutor:
The shooting of the men was so repugnant to me that I missed the fourth man. It was simply no longer possible for me to aim accurately. I suddenly felt nauseous and ran away from the shooting site. I have expressed my-self incorrectly just now. It was not that I could no longer aim accurately, rather that the fourth time I intentionally missed. I then ran into the woods, vomited, and sat down against a tree. . . .Today I can say that my nerves were totally finished.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen
“Transition to gassing
After a time, Himmler found that the killing methods used by the Einsatzgruppen were inefficient: they were costly, demoralising for the troops, and sometimes did not kill the victims quickly enough.”
There are numerous other sources which address that.
I pointed this out to note that Muslim “fighters” do not appear to suffer similarly; because their actions are directed by the teachings of their “religion”.
Yaakov Holansky says
My studies of the Shoah also reflect what Ms Gallahger stated. Initially 2 methods were in use: shooting Jews into a pit or loading them into a custom designed flat bed encased truck, with exhaust piping setup to bring the CO into the truck of 50 (I think). After a learned set period of time the doors were opened, tied down and the hydraulic arm raised the body of the truck throwing t the bodies out. A SS Officer horrific description noted that the truck was filled with body fluids. These 2 methods were used during the blitzkrieg of Barbarosa. Himmler realized the the limitation. In order to handle millions he would need an infrastructure & different method of execution. I believe it was Bayer that offered the poison used. I don’t remember the industrial use it had for them.
Now, I’ve also read that amongst SS Troopers responsible for the Camp and executions prior to toCamps as in Russia had a high alcoholism rate and severe mental problems. I don’t know if a. Study has been done, it wouldn’t surprise me.
IS & other Islamist have no problem with their ghastly deed since it is a core belief part of what they see as the natural way of the nature. They can compartmentalize it go home play with the son go to Mosque &feel like a good Muslim. It is not a problem for someone in a religious belief system like this
Shane says
Because ISIS jihadists are savages, not civilized people. Its past time for the West to stop ISIS and expel them from Iraq.
Kiel E. Hesselman says
The Nazis could have held a lot of sympathy among the locals in Ukraine and elsewhere was it not for the brutal racial war on the Slavs and other “untermenschen.” The IS jihadis repeat this kind of warfare – and lose all support from wannabes.
Angemon says
Erm, the IS is following islamic law. And the narrative is that criticizing islam is racist, hateful and bigoted. Does this means that the UN is a racist, hateful and bigoted organization, even counting out the OIC states?
Michael Copeland says
The Vatican “unambiguously denounce and condemn these practices unworthy of man”: the practices are orthodox Koran-faithful Islam. See
“The Vatican is Blind to the Fundamental Barbarism of Islam”
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6538-vatican-blind-to-islamic-reality
tpellow says
Supplementary.
“Islamic State terrorists forced family to flee their home and almost starve to death”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/islamic-state-terrorists-forced-family-4065447#ixzz3AfJkE2YL
Michael Copeland says
Reuters are too free with the word “execute”. It belongs properly to the judicial ending of a life after due process.
Aardvark says
Exactly correct. The word they should have used in this case is ‘murder’.
Appalled By The World says
Don’t these subhuman savages ever take a break? Every single day brings news of fresh atrocities. At this point using chemical weapons on them would be justified-even if they manage to cleanse their “state” to their liking they will never build it up-murder seems to be all they know. Concepts like administering a viable state probably is beyond their grasp. Saddam Hussein and Hafez Assad were loathsome creatures in their own right but even they were a bit better than these maniacs-and that’s saying a lot.
Wetwork56 says
Islamic State was condemned on Friday in a U.N. Security Council resolution for “gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.”
Hmmm-the “Unabashed Nit-Wits” (UN) condemns Isis on friday. Correct me if I’m wrong, but, hasn’t this slaughter, raping, and pillaging of first Syria, then Iraq, been going on for let’s say YEARS? Always a comfort to know that the unabashed nit-wits are on top of things and can issue such scathing statement.
Time for a change America. Stop funding this grossly corrupt, inept, and useless governmental cartel and kick them to the streets so that they can scurry to some other country.
Yaakov Holansky says
Someone should tally up the number of words devoted to Israel vis a’ vis Gaza versus IS. Then compare how many condemnations Israel received (Navi Pillay Ban Ki Moon and the rest ) versus the IS or Hamas or both combined.
Richie says
This will be ignored by the western leftist media, it goes against the paradigm that Islam is a religion of peace. some way or another, they’ll just blame the Jews
fair_dinkum says
70 000 people condemned because of splintering of factions and interpretations.
however…
im thinking that if these 70 000 people had the power, the situation would be the same, just reversed.
its the 1st time ive heard of the al-Sheitaat tribe and it may be the last very soon.
PJG says
Islamic State was condemned on Friday in a U.N. Security Council resolution for “gross, systematic and widespread abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law.”
This language is far too mild, even dreary. It almost sounds as if they don’t really mean it.
paddy says
The difference between the Nazis and ISIS: The Nazis started with concentration camps which then became death camps. ISIS is outright slaughtering/executing the opposition and/or undesirables on site. In any event, the end result is the same.
PRCS says
That is not THE difference, paddy; but one of several.
Another difference is that Muslims commit those crimes because–in their minds–they are commanded to by Islam’s written “religious” teachings.
Ronald D. Bruno says
“… And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” Rev.20:4
I have reason to believe that Islam is the Beast in the end-time scenario. The beast has manifested itself throughout history as: Medo-Persians, Assryrians, Egyptians, Romans, Babylonians, etc. They all have either warred against or enslaved the Jews. Now this evil manifestation, governed by Satan, is and has been represented by false religions (Hindu, Buddhism, Islam, etc.) and philosophies (such as evolution); but Islamic terrorism is clearly the present threat in the world. We have seen the stage being set in the Middle East as it unravels, regroups and Iran prepares to nuke Israel as well. All prophecies point to many nations attacking Israel. It is not some revised Roman Empire, the US or EU, it is nations of Islam.
dumbledoresarmy says
By the time I had got about a third of the way through Andrew Bostom’s massive encyclopedic compilation “The Legacy of Jihad”, I had become convinced that, at bottom, Islam is **all about murder**, all about killing. Churchill called it “the religion of blood and war”, but he could have cut right to the chase and simplified even further, by calling it “the religion of Murder”.
Because it is. It’s a cult that glorifies and sacralises murder, mass murder; that programs people to get “high” on…killing. Not on music, not on art, not on wine; on **killing**. They kill their own, as well as the kuffar: “honor” murders are nothing but human sacrifice of nubile females on the altar of the insatiable allah.
If you want to visualise the ‘god’ of Islam, visualise a black rock over which people are continually pouring libations of human blood.