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Islamic State misunderstands Islam again, beheads Shi’ite soldier

Sep 6, 2014 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer

AbbasMedlejThe Islamic State is not only run by misunderstanders of Islam; it is apparently unteachable. Even after everyone from Barack Obama to Nihad Awad have patiently explained to them that they’re getting Islam all wrong, they keep on heedlessly misunderstanding the Religion of Peace That Forbids Beheading. These guys are incorrigible!

Note that the slain soldier’s Shi’ite mother is vowing revenge. And so the 1,400-year-old cycle of hatred and violence will continue.

“Islamic State Beheads 2nd Captive Lebanese Soldier,” Associated Press, September 6, 2014:

BEIRUT — The mother of a Lebanese soldier held captive by the militant Islamic State group said photographs posted online Saturday purporting to show his beheading appeared to be real.

Zeinab Noun said her 20-year-old son, Abbas Medlej, was “sacrificed” after supporters of the militant group posted images appearing to show a captured Lebanese soldier before and after he was beheaded.

“My son was sacrificed,” said Noun, clutching a passport-sized photo of her son, a handsome, smooth-faced young man.

Medlej’s maternal uncle, Abu Ali Noun, also said the photographs appeared to be of his nephew. A spokesman for Lebanon’s military said it was still investigating the incident.

Medlej would be the second captive Lebanese soldier killed by the Islamic State group, underscoring the grave challenges that face the ill-equipped Lebanese military as it fends off an unprecedented jihadi threat from Syria-based militants.

Around two dozen more members of the country’s security forces remain held captive by militants. They were seized in August when several groups, including the Islamic State group and Nusra Front, overran a Lebanese border town, killing and kidnapping soldiers and policemen in the most serious spillover yet of the neighboring civil war.

Families of the captive soldiers have blocked highways and held demonstrations to pressure the Lebanese government to negotiate with the militants.

Local media had reported that negotiations were underway, with the militants demanding cash and the release of Islamists being held in Lebanese detention. A statement posted by supporters of the Islamic State said Medlej was killed after he tried to escape.

Medlej hailed from a large Shiite clan from the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbak.

His mother vowed revenge on rival Sunnis.

“We have to take our revenge from those apostates,” she said.

The captured soldiers and police are from Lebanon’s many religious sects: the first soldier beheaded by the group, Ali Sayid, was a Sunni Muslim. The militants are also holding Christian soldiers and other Sunni Muslims….

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  1. Emilie Green says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Hey, maybe Longenecker will stick out his long neck here and let these errant boys know that beheading is recommended, but not commanded. You know, that they unnecessarily mixing up two English vowels, and that this unfortunate Shiitte is going to suffer for the confusion.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 4:33 pm

      Self-declared caliph al-Baghdadi (Ph.D.) has a doctorate in Islamic knowledge and may understand the ‘Islamicity’ of beheading BETTER than Fr Longenecker!

  2. Jay Boo says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    Family of James Foley interview
    http://news.yahoo.com/video/exclusive-family-remembers-slain-journalist-170000383.html

  3. John C. Barile says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 4:36 pm

    Proof that IS operates on Lebanon’s frontier. The Islamic State must either expand, or decay.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 5:47 pm

      Proof that IS speaks ‘Muslim’ fluently.

      • John C. Barile says

        Sep 6, 2014 at 6:12 pm

        That’s the larger point.

  4. putzmanberg says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    Such a deal !. now maybe the all the muslims will just kill each other and get it over with.

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    Allah and Sharia approve Retaliation

    When Muslims are slain ‘without right’, retaliation is obligatory. This can take the form of jihad when kafirs are targeted and self-directed jihad is allowed in the absence of a global caliphate, but there is now a caliphate that prescribes the retaliations against kafirs.

    Koran 2:178 – “O you who believe, retaliation is prescribed for you regarding the slain…”

    (Sharia law text) Reliance of the Traveller o1.1 – “Retaliation is obligatory (A: if the person entitled wishes to take it against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.)”

    No kafir ever has a right to kill a Muslim, but it is not a sin in Sharia to kill a kafir; it is at most a misdemeanor for which a fine is sufficient:

    Reliance of the Traveller o1.2 – “The following are not subject to retaliation: …a Muslim for killing a non-Muslim”

    Islamic retaliatory violence restores the honor of the family, clan or tribe. This is sanctioned by the Koran 11.173 – “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”

    This is well expressed by Abu Tammam, a ninth-century poet. “With the sword will I wash my shame away. Let God’s doom bring on me what it may!”

    This is about the honor of Sunnis which increases when Shi’ites are executed.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 5:19 pm

      The sad irony is that by calling oneself a Muslim is to bring a well-deserved shame and humiliation upon oneself as followers of Islam and let us not forget the boundless disgrace of Muhammad.

      • Laura says

        Sep 7, 2014 at 5:05 am

        Well said Jay Boo, but do you fancy trying to explain what you mean to knife wielding, foaming-at-the-mouth muslims?

  6. Jay Boo says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 5:48 pm

    In whose name do Muslims speak?

  7. Hrothgar54 says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    Well, remember that they’ve been at it for all of these centuries, so it won’t just be gotten over with.

    • Hrothgar54 says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 7:18 pm

      ….click problem here….comment meant as a reply to “putzmanberg
      September 6, 2014 at 4:40 pm”

  8. tpellow says

    Sep 7, 2014 at 7:50 am

    Supplementary.
    1.)
    “IS ‘beheads second Lebanese soldier'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29096909

    2.)
    “Islamic state:
    Stalemate in Lebanon as Islamists claim to have beheaded a second soldier.”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-fighters-behead-second-lebanese-soldier-9716602.html

  9. gravenimage says

    Sep 7, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    Islamic State misunderstands Islam again, beheads Shi’ite soldier
    ……………………………

    Nothing more Islamic than slaughtering “hypocrites”…

    More:

    His mother vowed revenge on rival Sunnis.

    “We have to take our revenge from those apostates,” she said.
    ……………………………

    No pious Muslim can *ever* acknowledge that anything bad happens in the name of Islam. Instead, it must be the work of “hypocrites” or “apostates”.

    And hence, the solution for the horrors of Islam is *always* a greater application of savage Islam. *Ugh*…

  10. fair_dinkum says

    Sep 8, 2014 at 6:30 am

    suunis and shias love killing each other..

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