“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.” (Qur’an 5:33)
“Then they [the Jewish Qurayzah tribe] surrendered, and the apostle [Muhammad] confined them in Medina in the quarter of d. al-Harith, a woman of B. Al-Najjar. Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina (which is still its market today) and dug trenches in it. Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were brought out to him in batches. Among them was the enemy of Allah Huyayy b. Akhtab and Ka’b b. Asad their chief. There were 600 or 700 in all, though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900.” — Ibn Ishaq 690
Muhammad beheaded the Qurayzah men because he considered them to have betrayed him and effectively revolted against his rule. So the Islamic State here is following Muhammad’s example quite closely.
“Syria tribal revolt against Islamic State ignored, fueling resentment,” by Liz Sly, Washington Post, October 20, 2014:
REYHANLI, Turkey — The cost of turning against the Islamic State was made brutally apparent in the streets of a dusty backwater town in eastern Syria in early August. Over a three-day period, vengeful fighters shelled, beheaded, crucified and shot hundreds of members of the Shaitat tribe after they dared to rise up against the extremists.
By the time the killing stopped, 700 people were dead, activists and survivors say, making this the bloodiest single atrocity committed by the Islamic State in Syria since it declared its existence 18 months ago.
The little-publicized story of this failed tribal revolt in Abu Hamam, in Syria’s eastern Deir al-Zour province, illuminates the challenges that will confront efforts to persuade those living under Islamic State rule — in Iraq as well as Syria — to join the fight against the jihadist group, something U.S. officials say is essential if the campaign against the militants is to succeed.
The Abu Hamam area has now been abandoned, and many of the bodies remain uncollected, offering a chilling reminder to residents elsewhere of the fate that awaits those who dare rebel.
Just as powerful a message for those living under the militants’ iron fist was the almost complete international silence on the bloodbath.…
“We saw what the Americans did to help the Yazidis and the Kurds. But they have done nothing to help the Sunnis against the Islamic State,” he said.
Abu Salem and the other men said they did not so much begrudge the efforts to help Kurds as wonder why no one had helped them when their community was under attack. The carnage inflicted on the Shaitat tribe has instilled in the Abu Hamam survivors a loathing for the Islamic State and the warped brand of Islamist politics for which it stands, said Abu Siraj, another of the tribesmen. A former lawyer, he, like most of the men, asked to be identified only by his nom de guerre because he fears being tracked even to Turkey by the jihadists.
“Now we hate everyone who prays,” he said. “Now we hate even beards.”
Abu Salem apparently subscribes to the Islamophobic idea that the Islamic State has something to do with Islam.
john spielman says
So why. pray tell, doesn’t Saudi Arabia send its army to defend fellow Sunni Arabs from ISIS? Doesn’t Syria and Saudi Arabia share a common border?
ECAW says
I think I might have an answer to that. There are so many supporters of ISIS’s ideology within Saudi Arabia that perhaps some of their armed forces would side with ISIS if push came to shove:
“Until now the Saudis have been able to suppress Wahhabist zealotry within their own borders while encouraging it abroad. Now they find themselves facing an army not far from their borders which does not recognise any temporal power other than the mosque and which actively disseminates the writings of their spiritual predecessor Juhayman al-Otaybi [who siezed the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979] . The Islamic State, like the [Saudi] Ikhwan, is Wahhabism without the concession to temporal power granted to the House of Saud.
Furthermore IS declares itself the restored Caliphate, an institution encouraged as we have seen in Hilali-Khan 8:73. Already IS is controlling territory the size of Britain, is self-financing through captured oil wells, is capable of attracting thousands of jihadis from around the Muslim world and has managed to drag the West into a war, confirming its position as the champion of Islam. If IS manages to grow to a position where it can directly confront Saudi Arabia which way will the Ikwhani tendency within the Kingdom jump? It must make King Abdullah and his regime very nervous.”
http://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/a-deadly-translation/
voegelinian says
So why. pray tell, doesn’t Saudi Arabia send its army to defend fellow Sunni Arabs from ISIS?
The majority of Muslim insurgents causing mayhem in Iraq are non-ISIS Sunni Muslims, a mess of groups and forces, some more, some less, involved and/or allied with ISIS. This fixation on ISIS by Western analysts is problematic if it reduces our peripheral vision onto the rational Broad Brush.
UnEasyOne says
Why didn’t we help those people? I am sure they would have been loyal and trustworthy allies from that day forward, right?
They made their bed.
Alex says
The only hope of success against this islamic cancer is that Muslims around the world (and especially in the Middle East) stage a *meaningful* revolt and start looking deeply into the root problems of their religion. But sadly enough, it’s probably just never going to happen.
Walter Sieruk says
The title of the above article reads “Islamic State beheads, crucifies and shoots 700 people…” There is a chance that the Muslim thugs who compose the jihad entity of ISIS might be so evil, sick, warped and deluded that they actually think of all the cruel, vicious and murderous violence that they commit as something that is “In essence something that is good” If this is the case with the way of thinking with those ISIS fiends then the Bible has teaching concerning those who are of such an evil, sick, warped and deluded mindset. For example, the Bible in Isaiah 5:20. teaches “Woe unto those who call evil good and good evil…”
Walter Sieruk says
The murderous thugs of ISIS are so very malice and hate filled that in their brutal wickedness not only gather together to engage in deadly violence against Christians but these ISIS villains even go so far in their brutal and heinous actions to murder children. Such a hideous, wicked,vicious mindset that results in so much murder as those ISIS fiends have are described in the Bible. For Psalm 94:21 reads “They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” [N.I.V.]
gp says
Muslims are beserking and rampaging around the world, their contibutions to civilization? Genocide, rape, theft, seizing of pubilc and personal property, destroying precious ancient monuments and artifacts, pillaging of cities and states. Their tools are terror, murderous violence, the sword, and all weapons of wearfare. They build nothing and create nothing they only come to take, destroy, and subjugate.
They serve the father of lies. This is all in line with their satanic verses. They are a scourge to civilized societies everywhere.
They will only understand overwhelming force. They live to die fighting and committing jihad.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “Now we hate everyone who prays,” he said. “Now we hate even beards.”
Righto, mate.
So the logical thing to do is *stop* the “prayers”, which are abundantly producing the horrible results that you just experienced.
DITCH ISLAM: the whole lot of you. Shave off the beards! Raze the mosques, tar and feather the imams and run them out of town, burn the qurans, and all the womenfolk can rip off the slave rags and burn them. Rediscover – reinvent – a free-spirited NONISLAMIC Arab culture.
Apostasise, en masse, and then *fight like blazes* to keep your freedom.
sidney penny says
“Abu Salem apparently subscribes to the Islamophobic idea that the Islamic State has something to do with Islam.”
Well put Robert.
But not too much sarcasm please , might get lost on people who do not know you.
Yes praying and beards have nothing to do with Islam.
Elisheva14 says
The UN and the world was too busy accusing Israel of war crimes while it was trying to defend itself from missiles from barbarians. The UN is too busy (lazy), biased and afraid to deal with the real threat of Islamic Radicalism ISIS….Hamas, etc