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Islamic State ties foes to ancient Palmyra columns and blows them up

Oct 27, 2015 10:50 am By Robert Spencer

The self-proclaimed lovers of death keep finding exciting new ways to express their love.

Arch of Triumph Palmyra

“ISIS ties foes to ancient Palmyra columns and blows them up,” by Ed Payne and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, October 27, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

(CNN)ISIS, which comes up with more and more heinous methods of execution, has ramped up its cruelty: Members of the group tied three people to the pillars in the ancient section of Palmyra and killed them by detonating the pillars, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported….

Not much else is known about the executions, including the names of the men or what they were accused of.

But ISIS has killed for the slightest of offenses and used brutal ways to do so.

In another recent execution, ISIS ran over a member of the Syrian military with a tank “because he ran over dead bodies of the Islamic State soldiers by tank.”

Some sentenced to death have been forced to dig their graves with their own hands before being put to death.

ISIS, also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has taken over large swaths of both nations in an effort to create a caliphate. Where the group holds sway, it has imposed harsh Islamic Sharia law.

ISIS jihadists seized control of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the surrounding area from Syrian government forces on May 20. Since then, the Islamic extremists have beheaded the antiquities expert who looked after the ruins and set about demolishing their architectural riches….

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  1. Stephanie says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 10:58 am

    ISSlam, the ‘religion’ of peace, pleasure & pancake

    http://www.zerocensorship.com/r/executions#axzz3pmPxr8tC

    Latest video,
    NEW ISIS Tank(instead of 5:33 ‘crucifixion … cutting off of hands and feet’?
    , so what!)
    Execution – Graphic Video

    • miriamrove says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 11:58 am

      OMG Stephanie! I just went to the link you posted. How evil and barbaric they are. But I guess they are following the foot steps of their pedophile and murderous prophet. m

    • Joseph says

      Oct 28, 2015 at 8:41 am

      Thanks for that link Stephanie. I am going to keep that as an ace up my sleeve for the next **but Islam is peaceful quack. And I hope he/she has a weak stomach.

  2. jr says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 11:28 am

    Syria is going to be an Islamic stone age when this is all said and done

  3. richie says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 11:36 am

    Since hostile Muslims are flooding into Europe, what are the odds Muslims will one day set off explosives at ancient Greek or Roman ruins? Athens and Rome may look to Muslims like a buffet of western ruins to destroy

    • Lynn says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 3:34 pm

      everything is subject to being destroyed to them no matter where they land. They are no better than feral animals.

    • TheBuffster says

      Oct 28, 2015 at 3:21 am

      I hope they have mega-security at the Louvre.

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 11:37 am

    Torturing prisoners for sport and as exemplary punishment is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    Tabari VIII:122/Ishaq:515 “The Prophet gave orders concerning Kinanah to Zubayr, saying, ‘Torture him until you root out and extract what he has. So Zubayr kindled a fire on Kinanah’s chest, twirling it with his firestick until Kinanah was near death. Then the Messenger gave him to Maslamah, who beheaded him.”

    Sunan an-Nasa’i 4029–Anas bin Malik narrated that a group of eighty people from Ukl came to the Prophet, but the climate of Al-Madinah did not suit them and they fell sick. They complained about that to the Messenger of Allah and he said: “Why don’t you go out with our herdsmen and drink the milk and urine of the camels?” They said: “Yes (we will do that).” They went out and drank some of the (camels’) milk and urine, and they recovered. Then they killed the herdsmen of the Messenger of Allah, so he sent (men after them) and they caught them and brought them back. He had their hands and feet cut off and branded their eyes, and left them in the sun to die.

    Tabari IX:69 “Killing disbelievers is a small matter to us.”

  5. spot on says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 11:50 am

    This is real time culture wars. There has not been time enough for various agents of indoctrination to absorb and redefine the reality for students of multicultural history.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 10:33 pm

      “culture wars”?

      Yes, indeed. Muslims are trying to impose their backwardness, amorality, misogyny and Death Cult on the world through violence.

      • spot on says

        Oct 28, 2015 at 9:24 am

        Someone needs to address academic experts on multicultural subjects and bring them up to date on the realities of different cultures. They are teaching our children that Muslims are just poor nice people of color. That they are every bit as good as all the rest of us and that what we see in the Middle East, are just a few hooligans, criminals, barbarians, or savages that are not representative of Islam and Muslims.

        I would suggest to anyone that this is exactly how it is presented to Europeans (and our children) who now see these “poor defenseless Muslims” as fleeing to safe havens in Europe from Middle Eastern “criminal” activity. “Islam is a peaceful religion, after all, don’t you see.”, they would say.

        The fact is that the vast majority of Muslims feel great joy when they see killing and destruction of non Muslims. Tying non Muslims to the ancient Palmyra columns, an ancient non Muslim structure, brings them even greater joy. They even use such an event to advertise to other faithful Muslims to join them. Mayhem and killing for Allah has been taught to all Muslims birth and is the legacy of all faithful Muslims for the past 1400 years. Anything to the contrary is a big lie. There is no better authority on Islam than Middle Eastern Muslims who continue to kill and destroy to this very day.

        Europeans are intuitively scared to death (and they have reason to be) when they see the hatred in the eyes of these Islamic killers from the Middle East as they march through their cities. While these invading Islamic killers deeply penetrate their cities, they know intuitively that their days are numbered. All the while their academia and their politicians continue to spew cum-by-yah multicultural rubbish. We here in the USA are next. Our academics and politicians are on the same page as their European counterparts.

  6. Angemon says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    ISIS, which comes up with more and more heinous methods of execution

    And usually justifies them in islamic orthodoxy.

  7. duh_swami says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    Stupid and meaningless destruction…There are per-Islamic ruins all over the planet. It’s going to take a long time and lots of explosives to get them all…

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      They’ve got the time, if you’ve got the dime.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    To destroy that’s all the jihadists thugs of ISIS know how to do. The murderous and destructive savages who compose ISIS never ,ever, construct, make or create anything of worth or value. They just destroy. They destroy people .,they also destroy ancient historic site. they destroy building , they destroy art, they destroy literature, they destroy infrastructure. They are worthless and useless for anything good or constructive. They just destroy.

  9. Miao Zedong says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    As much I deplore the destruction of cultural monuments I find solace in the fact that unlike the culture of death, the the cultures of creation will always be able to create and recreate art, science and their beauty.

  10. Matthieu Baudin says

    Oct 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    There they go again; trashing our past, our present and our future. The people who built these monuments were the ancestors of the modern world; these are our treasurers. The lives that they have destroyed with the ruins have been sacrificed in order to turn back the clock, to take us back to the ‘golden days’ of rampaging hordes of Mohammedan armies, Viking Raiders and Mongols.

  11. gravenimage says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 12:03 am

    Islamic State ties foes to ancient Palmyra columns and blows them up
    …………………………..

    ‘Efficiency’, Muslim-style.

    God, I hate Islam.

  12. Screeminmeeme says

    Oct 28, 2015 at 10:12 am

    If Islamists had their way, the world would be a lifeless heap of dust with rivers of blood and guts flowing through it…….and it would reverberate with a cacophony of screams of agony, piteous appeals for mercy, and murderous cries of ”Allahu Akbar!”

    Concepts such as compassion…..truth…..honor….freedom…..brotherly love….and peace…….would be gone.
    And there would be no libraries, No museums. No works of art. No celebration of humanity. No beauty.

    A world of mindless cruelty and palpable evil.

    Hell on earth.

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