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Islamic State burns four Iraqi Shiite fighters alive

Aug 31, 2015 9:35 am By Robert Spencer

Many will say that this is additional proof of the claim that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. This is because of this hadith: “Narrated ‘Ikrima: Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, ‘If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, “Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).” I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”‘” (Bukhari 9.84.57)

But as is so often the case with hadith, there is also a contradictory one — supporting the view that these sayings were fabricated by competing factions among Muslims, and have no historical value. Muhammad is depicted as saying that those who don’t answer the call to prayer should be set on fire, along with their houses: “Certainly I decided to order the Mu’adh-dhin (call-maker) to pronounce Iqama and order a man to lead the prayer and then take a fire flame to burn all those who had not left their houses so far for the prayer along with their houses.” (Bukhari 1.11.626)

Then there is this gruesome story from Muhammad’s conquest of Khaybar: “Kinana b. al-Rabi`, who had the custody of the treasure of B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (T. was brought) to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, ‘Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?’ he said Yes. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam, ‘Torture him until you extract what he has,’ so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.” (Ibn Ishaq 515).

Islamic apologists never, ever explain the data that contradicts their positions. They just ignore it. That is what distinguishes them as deceivers rather than reformers.

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“IS burns four Iraqi Shiite fighters alive,” AFP, August 31, 2015:

The Islamic State group strung up four Iraqi Shiite fighters with chains and burned them alive, according to footage posted online, the latest gruesome execution video from the jihadists.

The victims — identified as fighters in the pro-government Popular Mobilisation forces from southern Iraq — were suspended from a swingset by chains attached to their hands and feet, then set on fire.

IS, which overran large parts of Iraq last year and still controls much of the country’s west, said the murders were in revenge for the alleged burning of four men by pro-government forces.

“Now retribution has come, for today, we will attack them as they attacked us, and punish them as they punished us,” a masked militant says in the video, which was not dated and did not say where the burnings took place.

The video included a clip said to show a Sunni man suspended over a fire while still alive as pro-government forces look on, and another of famous Shiite fighter Abu Azrael (“Father of the Angel of Death”) slicing a piece of flesh off a burned corpse with a sword….

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 9:48 am

    “The Management of Savagery” is the title of the booklet issued by Islamic State.
    Yet Pamela Geller was pilloried by the media for using “savage” for jihadis.

  2. Infidela says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 10:03 am

    Iraqi shiite fighters need to carry cyanide pills with them to prevent this from happening to them.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 10:20 am

      Victims of Muslims should also carry cyanide to poison their wells.

      • mortimer says

        Aug 31, 2015 at 1:43 pm

        That’s a war crime and your thoughts are criminal.

        • Jay Boo says

          Sep 1, 2015 at 3:23 am

          Cheap retort

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 10:17 am

    If only we could convince liberals that this is sanctioned by Islam then they will come around — NOT.

    They will simply reply by saying, “I used to think that burning someone alive was kinda wrong but now that I know Islam condones it, I wish to respect their religious beliefs by being less judgmental.”

    • mortimer says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 1:46 pm

      Your psychopathic political ideas are called ‘Nazism’.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 1, 2015 at 3:21 am

        Mortimer. You are out of control

        You were so anxious to toss mud that you did not even read what I actually wrote
        It is understandable though since you ego is likely still smarting from my correctly critiquing your sometimes (reverential tone) when discussing Islamic doctrine’s point of view concerning non-Muslims. You give the impression of begrudgingly respecting their vile chapter and verse as you show off your cerebral gymnastics.

    • Joseph says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 5:06 pm

      Jay Boo, I thought the liberals might say something like
      “But the fire wasn’t THAT hot”
      OR
      “At least it was quick and painless” (Which is total B.S.)
      OR
      “But good Muslims don’t do that”
      OR
      “If they had the proper tools to execute someone they wouldn’t have to resort to that”

      But what they won’t say is……”That could be me or one of my loved ones someday”

  4. Peter Buckley says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 10:42 am

    The first biography of Muhammad, a translation of Ishaq’s, is available online.

    https://ia700404.us.archive.org/32/items/Sirat-lifeOfMuhammadBy-ibnIshaq/SiratIbnIahaqInEnglish.pdf

    The episode of Kinana is on page 91, exactly as quoted by RS.

    This is extremely embarrassing for those muslims who still don’t believe he did these things.

    Apparently Ishaq becomes “unreliable” when describing events in Mo’s life which might shame muslims.

    Since Ishaq was a muslim, why would he write anything insulting about his prophet..?…..unless it were true?

    Hilarious……….

    • ECAW says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 11:06 am

      Thanks for the link.

      I wonder if it’s more in the interests of Muslims or anti-Muslims to publish this.

      • Peter Buckley says

        Aug 31, 2015 at 11:26 am

        I’ve not had chance to go through it all, though it’s not that long.

        Certainly the slaughter of the Banu Qurayza is there.

        I’ve not checked on Muhammad’s “Dead Poets’ Society” killings yet.

        Plenty of incriminating evidence there……………..

        • ECAW says

          Aug 31, 2015 at 4:33 pm

          I’ve found this version which is easier to use since you don’t have to wait for each page to appear:

          http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sira/index.htm

  5. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 11:10 am

    The Bukhari that suggests (“if I had been in his place”…) not burning an apostate but rather beheading him (more properly) is still calling for apostates to be killed just quibbling over the method. It’s not slaughtering an apostate that has “nothing to do with Islam” –just burning them up! Of course even this objection doesn’t hold given the behavior of Muhammad and the Rightly Guided Caliphs. The first Abu Bakr loved burning people up, too. He ordered Khalid “the Sword of Allah” to burn people up. Keep in mind, the objection in this hadith is not some sort of law, it’s a suggestion, and never are there any consequences, then or now, for its breach. Ali was not punished for burning atheists alive.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    If fire breathing Muslims would just burn Korans instead of people they would not feel the pathetic need to ride on the burning embers of Muhammad’s hellish ideology.

  7. mortimer says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Mohammed wanted to burn non-practicing Muslims in their homes because they did not attend his prayer-indoctrination sessions.

    If it’s good enough for Mohammed, it should be good enough for his followers.

    Sadistic brutality is the Sunna…the praiseworthy example…of Mohammed, rather than a ‘perversion’ of Islam.

  8. Marty says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    In the UK all papers have run this vile story online
    (plus the fact that the EU is building a nice new centre
    for jihadists & criminals to break into the UK)
    The BBC has not mentioned it.
    Quelle surpise !

    • Baucent says

      Sep 1, 2015 at 3:02 am

      The only news story on the BBC at present is the Migrants swarming over Europe, and why this is a good thing.

  9. Fatts says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 10:55 pm

    I saw this execution on twitter. Regular pack of scumbags, this Islamic State crowd. Can you imagine if this endless chain of digitally recorded and broadcasted atrocities were committed on George W. Bush’s watch, how the media would spin it?

    The myriad, wanton atrocities of the Islamic State is Obama’s legacy, though the leftist media wouldn’t touch that fact with a 50 foot pole.

  10. Baucent says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 3:00 am

    The two headed beast Islam is competing for the title of “Most Barbaric” as it apparently pleases the moon god Allah.

  11. bob says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 10:57 am

    could be worse…they could have been waterboarded…then the outrage!

  12. Suzelle says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 5:32 am

    Back in May 2015 – a SUNNI was hog-tied over a bonfire by SHIA’s: http://heavy.com/news/2015/05/sunni-muslim-burned-alive-by-shia-soldiers-iraq-uncensored-youtube-video/

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