This is interesting: in this, the Islamic State and the United States aren’t all that different. People aren’t allowed to attend counter-jihadist rallies in the U.S., either. Those who do won’t be publicly executed and crucified (yet), but they will be excoriated as “bigots” and “Islamophobes,” and the Center for American Progress and the Southern Poverty Law Center will issue reports about just how evil counter-jihadists really are. Maybe the CAP and the SPLC, and the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and Aslan Media, and Hamas-linked CAIR and get together and send a team to the Islamic State to help them curb this outbreak of “Islamophobia.”
“IS executes Syrian youth after anti-jihadist protest, says watcher,” AFP, September 5, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
Islamic State fighters executed a youth in a Syrian town today, after hundreds of residents demanded they leave following regime air strikes that targeted the jihadists but killed eight civilians, a monitor said.
Residents of Ashara, in the mostly IS-controlled eastern province of Deir Ezzor, protested in front of an IS headquarters Thursday evening, hours after regime air strikes killed the two children, five women and a man, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
In response, IS gunmen opened fire and seized several young men, the Observatory and an activist said.
The air strikes were part of a stepped-up campaign launched in recent weeks by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime against IS-held towns and villages in eastern and northern Syria.
But activists have frequently condemned the attacks for killing not only jihadists, but also many civilians.
“Thursday evening’s protest began as a funeral for the victims, attended by nearly 300 people,” said Rayan al-Furati, an activist from Deir Ezzor.
“Then the mourners began to protest, demanding that the IS leave the town of Ashara,” Furati told AFP via the Internet.
The Observatory said that, on Friday, the IS publicly executed and crucified a young man identified as Ali Khalaf, accusing him of “heresy and apostasy.”
“Though he had nothing to do with yesterday’s protests, they executed him publicly in Ashara in order to terrorise people into not taking any kind of action against the IS,” Abdel Rahman said….
John C. Barile says
So much for free speech and peaceable assembly to redress grievances in the Islamic State.
Diana Sitek says
Eventually there will be a ground opposition to ISIS, but it will take a lot more suffering yet.
wes says
Was the protest against the actions of the IS, or because it made the town a target of al-Assad’s air strikes? The headline implies the former but the article implies the latter.
voegelinian says
I doubt these hundreds were protesting Islam in any way, shape or form.
John C. Barile says
Robert’s caption is doubtlessly tongue-in-cheek; if there were hundreds against Salafist rigor, there would be a mass-murder of hundreds of the same.
bicky says
Dear JWtchers,
Pl go through the below link, where a muslim rapes his daughter in law, impregnates her, and sharia judges order her to treat her husband as her “son”, then marry her rapist father in law.
This is the second time it is happening in India.
http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/rape-father-in-law-muslim-clerics-sexual-assault-sharia-law-41414.html
PJG says
In Islam, it would seem , rape=ownership.
Walter Sieruk says
The evil and mad ISIS thugs may be described in the Bible. Which reads “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. Moreover, the ISIS villain are so very violent that the curse that is found in the Bible may be on them. For Psalm 140:11. reads “May disaster hunt down men of violence.” [N.I.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
The Muslim thugs of ISIS just could be so very soul sick, warped, deluded and wicked that they actually might think of all the evils they commit as something that is “good.” If this is the case then such a sick, warped ,deluded and wicked mindset has been written about in the Bible. Foe Isaiah 5:20. reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” [N.I.V.]
occupant 9 says
With apologies in advance:
In Star Trek terms, core aspects of Islam are illustrated by the behaviour and beliefs of Ferengi, Klingon and Borg.
The code of deception of the Ferengi; the code of war and “honour” of the Klingon; the code of assimilation of the Borg (“Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.” (hence, your culture annihilated, your libraries burned)).
Though he didn’t know it, Roddenberry gave our pop culture some tools to use to get our less-tuned-in, low information neighbours’ head around Islam before neighbour’s head is dead. Tolkien did the same with the Orcs et al.
As Francis Picabia (artist) said, “Our heads are round so our thinking can change direction.”
SteveInSC says
Tolkien is very apt. “What can men do against such reckless hate?” King Theoden asks. All you can do is ride out and meet it head on. Tolkien was writing during the early days of the Cold War and it’s pretty clear he envisioned the “Men of the West” fighting the Communists, but the nature of the struggle is the same.
dumbledoresarmy says
I don’t think Tolkien – and one must read the *books* not watch the movies – was writing an allegory about the Cold War. I personally think his imagination was shaped by a deep awareness of something else…the Long War (in his time, in abeyance but certainly not concluded) of self-defence against Jihad, a war that went on for centuries, against a merciless and annihilating foe, a foe that created ruin and desolation.
Do not forget: he was a devout and historically-aware Catholic whose main area of literary/ scholarly interest was the *early* middle ages. Which was the period during which the Ummah was massively advancing across and gobbling up huge swathes of formerly Christian turf.
And I think he was aware of later periods as well. It wasn’t until I read about the great ride of Jan Sobieski’s Winged Hussars to break the Ottoman Turkish Muslim siege of Vienna, that I suddenly realized that Tolkien’s fictional Siege of Gondor and the Ride of the Rohirrim may be a fictional or artistic “nod” to a historic high point in Infidel self-defence: the *real-life* rescue of Vienna (and, so, of all western Europe) from Jihad.
Ronald Polland says
In response to their asking for an apology, they should be accused of blasphemy. There is no way for any Muslim to dfeny the literal meaning of Sura 9:5 – and if CAIRattempts to apply any opther meaning to it, then they have made themsleves haram, and targets for death at the hgands of true Muslims.
Gotcha, CAIR.
Every Muyslim has been tasught the story of the Stone and the Tree that calls for klilling all of the Jews prior to Mohammed’s return – their version of the “End of Days.”
If Cair denies it, then they are calling Mohammed a liar – and then CAIR should be asked, what is the punishment for calling Mohammed a liar? Should you not be put to death? Isn’;t that exactly what Mohammed himself would pronounce on you?
Killing the infidel is true Islam abnd for CAIR to deny it is to deny Islam itself. The Catch-22 here is that Islam cannot be criticized and the Koran or Hadiths cannot be changed acdcording to the whims of CAIR.
If they pull hte, “Well you’re not a Muslim, then wew’ll bring in Bridgette Gabriel and Walid Shoebat who were Mualims along with the Son of Hamas’ Leader.
Does the Koran call for the extermination of Jews – with no qualifers?
Does the Koran permit the existence of any other religion except Islam?
A person who refuses forced conversion to Islam and refuses to pay extortion money is to be killed.
These are the words of Mohammed. Again, ask CAIR if they are calling mohammed a liar because they would be if they attempted to claim that no such thind was ever said.
The key is to make CAIR blasphemers. The key is to make CAIR unbelievers. The key is the make CAIR the enemy of Mohammed. That’s how you turn the tables on them.
From now on, no special accomodations will be made for Muslims. The Constitution forbids showing any religious prefrence and by making special accomodations for Muslims, they would be volating the 1st Amendment.
Speaking of which: how come we never hear complaints coming from the mouths of atheists? It wouldn’t have anything to do with Chris/tians turning the other cheek while Muslims would cut off their cheecks instead
Beagle says
Some people are so stupid it’s a wonder they make it out of the house without losing a limb or electrocuting themselves. No better example exists than the leftist hippy wing of Christianity.
Exhibit A:
http://www.maryknollogc.org/article/53-national-religious-groups-academics-ministers-urge-alternatives-us-military-action-iraq
The IS really simplifies planning. You fight them until they are dead or stop fighting. or you let them rampage around and conquer and destroy everything they touch. But I understand why such groups of leftist Christians keep plugging away. The IS disproves every closely-held belief they have about the world and the people in it. Until the knife is inches from their necks, they would rather die than admit their entire worldview is incorrect.
Mirren10 says
” But I understand why such groups of leftist Christians keep plugging away. The IS disproves every closely-held belief they have about the world and the people in it. Until the knife is inches from their necks, they would rather die than admit their entire worldview is incorrect.”
Very true, Beagle. Although it’s not just leftist *Christians* that hold to these daft and long exploded views. There are plenty of lefty liberals out there, *and* more than a few on the so called Right, who hold to no religion, and who share the same naïve and wishful thinking.
One would think they would only have to look at Gaza, and Hamas, to see how their nonsense has worked there. Millions in aid thrown at the ‘pooor palestinians’, and they used it to build tunnels and make rockets. All the ‘outreach’ (loathsome word) and ‘community action groups’ haven’t done a damn thing to blunt the murderous propensities of Hamas against Israel.
Ditto Pakistan, supposedly our ally. Afghanistan, et al.
And exactly the same thing will happen with the IS, if, God forbid, these well-meaning but woefully clueless types of people get their way.
Because, of course, every conflict in the ME, and the rise of the IS, has absolutely *nothing* to do with all the slogans these people think are going to work; ‘community enfranchisement’, ‘ curing poverty’, blah, blah, blah, and **everything** to do with the teachings of the koran and the example of mohammed.
These fools will never be able to get their heads around that idea, because, as you cogently note, they cannot handle the disproof of their cherished world view. In essence, it is exactly the same idiocy as that General who said, after Fort Hood, ”it would be a far greater tragedy if our diversity was damaged” (or something like that).
In fact, if the West does finally get its act together, and deals with the IS militarily, I would bet exactly the same woeful tactics will be used, and the exact same crippling rules of engagement, as have been forced on our troops in Afghanistan. And the exact same insane and suicidal attempt to ‘win hearts and minds’. Blech.
The trouble is, of course, we are dealing with barbarian savages, who in fact, **have** no hearts and minds; only mohammed and the koran.
Bamaguje says
“Though he had nothing to do with yesterday’s protests, they executed him publicly in Ashara in order to terrorise people into not taking any kind of action against the IS”
They killed an innocent man who was not even involved in the anti-I.S. protests… just to make a point.
Islam 101 – “I (Mohammed) have been made victorious with TERROR.”
fair_dinkum says
why did we ever import them?
ok
due to the location, its likely that these folk in ashara are fellow suunis. the shia being mostly concentrated in the north west of the country.
the word ‘crucifiction’..? was this poor unfortunate nailed to a cross etc ?
i guess it doesnt matter… he’s dead and the population are terrified.
and they realise now that protesting means death.
they may not be finished with the population of ashara just yet.