“They broke the fast with no religious justification.” This is the virtue that Sharia creates: a conformity born of fear, not a discipline freely chosen.
“IS hangs 2 boys for eating in Ramadan: monitor,” AFP, June 22, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):
The Islamic State group hanged two youths Monday after accusing them of eating during daylight hours in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.
“Residents of the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province reported that IS hanged from a crossbar two boys aged under 18 near the HQ of the Hissba”, the jihadist police, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
“The children have been suspended by ropes from a pole since noon, and they were still there in the late evening,” he said.
“Apparently, they were caught eating.”
A placard was attached to the bodies reading “They broke the fast with no religious justification”….