The reign of terror won’t end with this. Sharia itself is a slow-motion reign of terror: the stonings, the amputations, the institutionalized oppression of women and non-Muslims — it all creates an empire of fear.
“Islamic State executes 262 as it takes Syrian city of Palmyra, group says,” CNN, May 26, 2015:
(CNN) – When Islamic State captures a city, the bloodshed is hardly over, as the militants summarily execute captive fighters and residents by the dozens. In Syria, they have killed more than 250 of them in less than two weeks.
At least 13 of the victims were children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian expat watch group.
As the group has taken control of the Syrian city of Palmyra in the last 10 days, it has executed 217 people there and in other towns caught in the military campaign, SOHR said.
Beheading preferredMost of the victims, 150, were Syrian soldiers or allied militiamen – or others who were accused of acting as their informers. Beheading was the preferred method of their execution.
But 67 of those killed were residents, including those children, SOHR said. Their crime? “Dealing with the regime forces and hiding regime’s members in their homes.”
ISIS also executed five nurses in Palmyra, SOHR said. And they are holding some 600 detainees, whom they have accused of similar things.
Elsewhere, in the Deir Ezzor province, 45 more people were executed in the last four days. The accusations against the victims were similar, and some were related to the Palmyra campaign.
But some of the execution victims in Deir Ezzor were accused of apostasy.
Executing antiquityThe city of Palmyra itself could become one of the next casualties.
Islamic State despises antiquity, since it represents culture that predates Islam, and extremist militants have vandalized some of the most ancient artifacts of humanity in Iraq and Syria. The terrorist group has flattened the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud and smashed statues in Iraq’s Mosul Museum.
Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was an ancient cultural crossroad city founded more than 2,000 years ago. Its art and architecture unites Greek, Roman and Persian influences, UNESCO says….
Brian says
Evil unfettered, armed by the closet Muslim Obama. He needs to be brought to justice for war crimes alongside ISIS.
mortimer says
Obama and Hillary collaborated with Gulf states to create a militia to destroy Assad. The militia became ISIS.
pdxnag says
The violence can never end in a terror state because each new generation must be introduced to it, no matter the superficiality of any transgression of authority. The authorities can seize upon any excuse to initiate a teaching moment.
Angemon says
Perhaps the SOHR should state that the killers were Israeli – that would certainly get the attention of the Western left. Not to point out that it was an easily disprovable falsehood but to foam at the mouth and curse Israel.
Keyword: accused. Suppose you don’t like your neighbour, or you like his wife (or at least the pieces of her you can see, like the eyes and hands), or you want his job, oor car, r whatever. An invading force comes in, so what do you do? You accuse your neighbour of siding with the resistance. Then you let nature take its course and presto!, your neighbour is no longer there, his wife, job,or car are ripe for the taking. Of course, you have more neighbours – on the other side of your house, across the street, maybe even right after your backyard, so you better start praying that none of them dislikes you, or is after your new wife, job or car. And the collaborators and snitches would be in good standing with the islamic state, having proved their loyalty and devotion by handing them their neighbour.
“Beheading was the preferred method of their execution.”
islamic orthodoxy in action
They were probably from another islamic sect. And same reasoning applies here – maybe they were from the right islamic sect but someone was after their wives, car, job, etc.
Of course they do. It reminds them that there were greater civilizations than islam. The quran assures muslims that those who refused to acknowledge islam before have ended up in ruins, so muslims take it up to themselves to ruin whatever remains of older civilizations. In my book, that’s called “being wrong”.
Plamen says
Tragedy evolves.
Al Jazeera Poll: 81% of Arabs Support ISIS…
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/al-jazeera-poll-81-arabs-support-isis
Al-Baghdadi ‘Influencer2014’
Plamen says
It’s a calm before the storm now.
They will prepare and blow Palmira ruins by hugest explosive.
Their propaganda video is rubbing hands now.
marco says
More horror caused by climate change! Killing children! Climate change is satanic!
nacazo says
Wait a second. Are you saying that Climate Change is not a religion of peace? Is that the religion that caused two jihadis to travel 1000 miles to Garland TX?