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Islamic State kills 300 civil servants for promoting “ideas that distorted Islam”

Aug 9, 2015 4:16 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic State 167“The Isis militant group has reportedly executed more than 300 civil servants from the Iraqi electoral commission, as part of a crackdown on those accused of promoting democracy and ‘ideas that distorted Islam.'” Yet virtually all Western political leaders, no matter where they are on the political spectrum, and all significant Western military, intelligence, and law enforcement officials agree that it is the Islamic State that is distorting Islam, and that Islam is perfectly compatible with democracy. Will some mainstream analysts kindly explain how it came to be that the group that so forthrightly and proudly proclaims itself to be the quintessential expression of Islam is actually so far from the genuine article, and detail what Muslim groups in the U.S. are doing to ensure that this misunderstanding of Islam doesn’t continue to spread within their communities?

No, no analyst will do that. And no mainstream journalists will challenge them to do so.

“Isis’s war on democracy: Militants execute 300 civil servants from Iraqi electoral commission,” by Adam Withnall, Independent, August 9, 2015:

The Isis militant group has reportedly executed more than 300 civil servants from the Iraqi electoral commission, as part of a crackdown on those accused of promoting democracy and “ideas that distorted Islam”.

An Iraqi security official told Spain’s EFE news agency that the executions were carried out by firing squad on Saturday in the militant group’s stronghold of Mosul.

Mahmoud al-Sauaryih, a spokesman for the National Multitude militia in Nineveh province, said that those killed included 50 women….

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  1. BlueHawK says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    O.M.G. “Promoting Democracy”!?@#!?@ The horror! ;-P

    • M S case says

      Aug 10, 2015 at 8:25 pm

      Islamic state=….the epitome of stupidity

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    As if we needed more evidence that islam is not compatible with democracy…

    • nicu says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

      and not with culture or the 21st century !

    • somehistory says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 6:06 pm

      islam is not compatible with Life. It’s all about death and destruction and depravity. It’s despicable and devilish and deadly deceitful. It’s, in a word, demonic.

      • TexianWife says

        Aug 9, 2015 at 10:11 pm

        VERY well said!!!

        • terry says

          Aug 10, 2015 at 5:49 pm

          now that makes me laugh! not too many people know what Texian means!

      • EYESOPEN says

        Aug 10, 2015 at 8:43 pm

        Right you are “somehistory”. It’s a sorry shame that more people just don’t “get it”.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Yet virtually all Western political leaders, no matter where they are on the political spectrum, and all significant Western military, intelligence, and law enforcement officials agree that it is the Islamic State that is distorting Islam, and that Islam is perfectly compatible with democracy.

    Nobody is willing to admit the truth because doing so would be too painful, a paint too dark a picture for civilization. The military is caught between a rock and a hard place, between the truth and Islam’s presentation of itself to the West as civilized.

    For example, Prez Barack Hussein just last week got in another bald faced lie, this one stating that it was take the nuke “deal” with Iran or launch a major land war in Persia. The generals flatly state that the Pentagon never told Mr. Hussein such a thing.

    No, no analyst will do that. And no mainstream journalists will challenge them to do so.

    An Mr. Hussein’s dirty lie, born of the spirits of the great communists Saul Alinsky and Franklin Marshall Davis, will not be reported to the American people.

    • Godwin says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 5:33 pm

      Iran is his fatherland because his father is shiite. Somehow he has to defend it.

  4. Karen says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    President Obama must be righteously furious that the world is not doing as he wishes. Things were supposed to be jim-dandy after withdrawing American forces from Iraq, but strangely, hell reigns. Who could have guessed that evil forces would take advantage of our absence.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 11:50 pm

      I suspect that Obama and the Left conspired to instigate 911 in the first place in order to put pressure on Bush because they were pissed that Al Jazeera Gore did not get elected despite Muzzie paid pro-Gore media coverage.

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    How the I.S. can be compatible with democracy if the true democratic system would throw them out of power at no time? So therefore they much prefer their Caliphate in which the Caliph is the One, uncontested representative of Allah on earth, and if somebody opposes that – chop his head off, Muhammad justified! Of course, from this perspective, absolute, totalitarian power-holders are against any system which would remove them from that said power. That is whole essence of their creed, their only ruling ideology all that super naturalistic crap of theirs to the contrary notwithstanding.

    • Karen says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 6:47 pm

      It is confusing, isn’t it? I mean, why stop at 300 heads? Seems ridiculous to have an ‘Electoral Commission’ at all in their sickening caliphate.

      • Westman says

        Aug 10, 2015 at 2:44 am

        Rounded numbers are always suspicious – 300 of which 50 were women; leaving 250 who were men.

        “Mahmoud al-Sauaryih, a spokesman for the National Multitude militia in Nineveh province, said that those killed included 50 women….” Not 34, 48, 51, or 49 but exactly 50. Can we really be sure anything coming from a ME Muslim regardless of their allegiance, is accurate and not purposefully distorted?

  6. duh_swami says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    ‘Natural born killers’…as you kill, so you shall be killed…Maybe by 2017-18.

  7. mortimer says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    Will Al Azhar University’s fatwa department and will national muftis and will professors of Islamic studies please explain how the opinions of ISIS are UN-ISLAMIC?

    They will not, because they cannot. The opinions of ISIS are PERFECTLY, COMPLETELY, THOROUGHLY Islamic.

    The silence of the Islamic world is DEAFENING! Silence is approval.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Aug 10, 2015 at 1:38 am

      “Silence is approval.”

      Perfect assessment, Mortimer!

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    Perhaps Democracy is seen as a hindrance to the Will Of Allah? What else could one expect of a thoroughly traditional Islamic movement at war with the rest of the world?

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 9, 2015 at 11:43 pm

      Then again, the “Will Of Allah” is just a euphemism Muslims use to avoid being held accountable for behaving in the vile example of Muhammad who sleazed his way through a disgraceful existence by using that very same excuse.

  9. Jay Boo says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    One possible reason that “mainstream analysts” are suffering from a severe bout of dhimmitude is because of Obo and his MO Bro buddies (along with a pandering MSM) efforts to ‘Control-the-Message.

    A perfect example is how Head-bump Hillary gets a free pass, her own image makeover drama series (Madame Secretary) whereas in a sane society she would probably be facing a firing squad for committing high treason.

  10. Stephanie says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 3:27 am

    “Isis’s war on democracy”

    Superior allah’s war Q61:4-9, 8:39, 9:29-33 though the hands of devout Muslims 8:17 (e.g. ISIS)

  11. Ed says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 5:20 am

    This isn’t headline news, in fact it’s not news at all here in the UK.
    The Palestinian father that died made the BBC front page and headlines, yet 300 executions isn’t reported on?
    With correct and honest reporting the public perception of Islam would change overnight. I still hear so much ‘it isn’t proper Islam’ – the truth still isn’t getting out.

  12. harbidoll says

    Aug 10, 2015 at 7:20 am

    Bush tried to promote democracy but it didn’t work, so now they are promoting the caliphate I think. (Of course the real issue is money, trade & power!) The reason they don’t say so is they cant claim to be helping the terror gangs like Isis is cuz the jihadis wont fight for the infidels, only pure muslims. This must appear to be a strictly muslim fight. Truth is the 1/st victim in war.

  13. Dave J says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    Islam is a criminal gang hiding behind a “religion”, like the Nazis they are only interested in absolute political power and will tolerate no dissent, let alone democracy. We are insane to let them into our country or allow them to infiltrate our government.

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