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Islamic State execution room contained stacks of Qur’ans

Jan 30, 2016 9:03 pm By Robert Spencer

If our moral superiors — John Kerry, David Cameron, Pope Francis, all the rest — weren’t around to remind us that it ain’t so, we might get the crazy idea that the Islamic State had something to do with…Islam.

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“Life and Death Inside An ISIS Prison,” by Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad, BuzzFeed, January 28, 2016:

TEL ABYAD, Syria — The jihadis had scrawled a warning above the stairs that descended to their underground prison: Forbidden to enter.

At the bottom, a dusty chair sat in darkness behind a heavy desk. An ISIS guard once kept watch there, but now the prison was empty. The only sound was dripping water, and the only relics of the terror inflicted on the captives were the messages on the walls. One had met new arrivals at the desk: Death comes to you. God is great….

The largest room in the basement was reserved for those who were sentenced to be beheaded. Qur’ans were stacked atop a radiator — prisoners were told to read them as they awaited their fates. There was another directive graffitied outside the door: Do not approach.

The prisoners were kept in small rooms down the hall. They scratched and penciled cryptic phrases onto the concrete walls. Ask forgiveness from God, read one. Said another: God also has mercy.

Some had written their names. A few kept tallies of their time there — one stopped at 46 days. Others left only phone numbers. The digits appeared on wall after wall….

Each day in the prison began when the jihadis stirred the dozen or so men in his small room awake. Often they beat the prisoners, and then they made them pray. There were courses on ISIS’s fanatical version of Islam. The prisoners were fed just once a day, a small meal in the evenings. They knew there were other men in different rooms suffering the same fate. “When we were being beaten, they heard us, and when they were being beaten, we heard them,” he said….

Finishing his tea in Turkey, the former vegetable vendor remembered that it was about a month into his time at the prison when his father’s name was called, leaving him to worry in the cell, hoping in vain that his father would return.

Days later, a jihadi pulled him out too. The jihadi said that his father had been told to work with ISIS and refused. He was led into the room the prisoners feared, given a Qur’an to read, and killed….

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  1. Neil Jennison says

    Jan 30, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    The ONE thing you can be assured of in this life……..Nothing To Do With Islam….. NTDWI

    Whatever a suicide bomber claims in their pre-explosion video…….however many surveys show that ISIS and Jihadis are popular amongst “your typical Muslim in the West”…….you can guarantee that any terrorist act is NTDWI!

    • Saleem Smith says

      Jan 31, 2016 at 1:10 am

      Yes, and the 3 things you can be assured of in this life are death, taxes and that Islamic jihad terrorism has nothing to do with the Qur’an or Muhammad’s Sunnah…

      And those non-Muslim and ex-Muslims who dare to criticize Islam are to be put to death according to Islamic theology and law.

      Joke: Why do the Shia Muslims and the “moderate Sunni Muslims” get beheaded by ISIS? Because they are not enforcing ALL OF ISLAM and are considered to be heretics and apostates according to Islamic theology and law…

      The great ex-Muslim Ali Sina’s on-going $50,000 challenge to Muslims can be found over at Faith freedom.org:

      >>>>>

      I receive many emails from angry Muslims, who sometimes beg me, and sometimes order me to remove this site. I consider both, pleading and bullying, signs of psychopathology. Argumentum ad baculum and argumentum ad misericordiam are both logical fallacies.

      If you do not like this site and want me to remove it, instead of acting as a bully or as a victim, disprove my charges against Muhammad logically. Not only will I remove the site, I will publicly announce that Islam is a true religion. I will also pay

      $50,000 U.S. dollars

      to anyone who can disprove the following accusations that I have made against Muhammad. I accuse Muhammad of being:

      a narcissist
      a misogynist
      a rapist
      a pedophile
      a lecher
      a torturer
      a mass murderer
      a cult leader
      an assassin
      a terrorist
      a looter

      I have debated with many Muslims. Their defense of Islam can be summarized in two categories:

      a- Denial of the authenticity of Islamic sources that report the stories of crimes of Muhammad (example: debate with Edip Yukssel, a leader of the Submitters)

      b- Moral relativism and situational ethics, e.g., “In those days, pedophilia, assassination, rape, raid, pillage, massacre and lying, were common practices, so Muhammad is innocent because he did what everyone else was doing.” Muslims even go as far as to question the legitimacy of the Golden Rule to claim I do not have any basis to condemn Muhammad. In other words, who can say what is good and what is evil? That is up to the messenger of God to decide. (Example: debate with Yamin Zakaria)

      These are the main two arguments that Muslims present in defense of Islam. Any rational person can see they are logical fallacies.

      These charges are irrefutable. You simply can’t disprove them because they are reported in Islamic sources and as such they are as good as confession…

      http://www.faithfreedom.org/

      • mortimer says

        Jan 31, 2016 at 10:20 am

        Saleem Smith wrote: “These are the main two arguments that Muslims present in defense of Islam. Any rational person can see they are logical fallacies.”

        Agree. Muslims have no excuse for not abandoning Islam when they see the incoherencies and fallacies in Islamic arguments.

        However, most Muslims see these inconsistencies and then live in hypocrisy so to avoid trouble with their acquaintances and family…most Muslims spend a lifetime pretending to believe in this absurdity.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Feb 1, 2016 at 3:02 pm

        Ali Sina has doubled his on-going challenge to $100,000.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 31, 2016 at 10:15 am

      The Koran is a troop motivator.

      ISIS uses the Koran for the purpose it was intended…to motivate Muslims to hate, then kill disbelievers.

      Islam has nothing to do with Islam.

      (sarc/off)

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jan 30, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    Shoveling piles of Islam against the relentless tide of truth

    In a strange way I sort of feel sorry for the ISIS jihadis too.
    Imagine what it must be like to wake up every morning peering into the vast and endless emptiness of Islam while having to butcher and rape and pillage in a desperate attempt to stave off the ever encroaching knowledge that lecherous impulsive Muhammad and Islam’s Allah is nothing but a JOKE.

    Muslims need terror in order to hide the fact that Islam is a sick demented JOKE

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 30, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    Islamic State execution room contained stacks of Qur’ans
    ……………………….

    That really says it all…

  4. Champ says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 12:43 am

    islam > ISIS > quran > execution room

    Yep, it all fits together like a puzzle.

  5. Saleem Smith says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 1:27 am

    Muhammad the prophet of Islam raped every infidel women who crossed his path during his wretched life and loved every minute of it.

    >>>>>

    THE QURANIC SANCTION OF SLAVERY

    The institution of slavery in Islam was formalized in the following Quranic verse, in which Allah distinguishes free human beings or masters, who exercise justice and righteousness, from the dumb, useless and burdensome ones, the slaves:

    Quran 16:76 Allah sets forth (another) Parable of two men: one of them dumb, with no power of any sort; a wearisome burden is he to his master; whichever way he directs him, he brings no good: is such a man equal with one who commands Justice, and is on a Straight Way?

    Allah warns the believers against taking the slaves as equal partner in status and in sharing their wealth, lest they have to fear them as anyone else:

    Quran 30:28…do ye have partners among those whom your right hands possess (i.e., slaves, captives) to share as equals in the wealth We have bestowed on you? Do ye fear them as ye fear each other?

    Allah recognizes some human beings, namely the masters, as more blessed by Himself than the less favored slaves as part of His divine plan. He warns Muslims against sharing His gifts to them equally with their slaves. Those who would take slaves as equal, warns Allah, would deny Him:

    Quran 16:71 Allah has bestowed His gifts of sustenance more freely on some of you than on others: those more favoured are not going to throw back their gifts to those whom their right hands possess, so as to be equal in that respect. Will they then deny the favours of Allah?

    Allah does not only sanction the institution of slavery, He also gave divine blessing to masters (Muslim men only can own slaves) to have sex with the female slaves:

    Quran 70:29–30
    And those who guard their private parts, Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess—for these surely are not to be blamed

    Quran 23:5–6 And who guard their private parts, except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not blameable

    Therefore, if there are women amongst the captives or slaves, Muslims are divinely sanctioned to have sex with them as they do with their wives. This verdict of Allah founded the institution of sex-slavery or slave-concubinage in Islam, which was widespread in the pre-colonial Muslim world and continued well into the mid-twentieth century. As far as legal marriage is concerned, there is a limitation of four wives for a man at one time [Quran 4:3], but no such limitation on the number of sex-slaves.

    Allah also gave a divine sanction to Muslims for acquiring female slaves for sexual engagement by waging wars against the infidels:

    Quran 33:50 O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war…

    Muslims can engage in sex with the captured slave women even if they are married, but not with the married free Muslim women:

    Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess… [Quran 4:24].

    There are other verses in the Quran that talks approvingly of slaves and capturing them in wars. Thus, according to the divine commands of the Islamic God as enshrined in the holy Quran, Muslims are allowed to keep slaves. They can amass slaves by waging wars, have sex with the female slaves, and of course, use them as they wish. For Muslims, having sex with female slaves is as legal as having sex with their married wives. Slavery appears to be one of the most desired divine privileges in Islam, since Allah took the pain of reminding Muslims about this divine right time and again in so many verses.

  6. John says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 5:07 am

    The people are fed up that’s a fact. But to expect the politians to act on popular disent is another mater. The elities are controlled by OPEC a predominantly Islamic institution. Secondly the western world is getting drawn into Islamic banking. Thirdly western media is controlled by Saudis. Fourthly and most importantly the western world has taken away the rights of citizens to bear arms and their power of free speech. Not to mention the fact that many high level public services in the develop of world employ thousands of Muslims.
    In a nut shell the West is in an iriversible decline.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 31, 2016 at 5:07 pm

      Defeatist.

      Peddling despair.

      Seeking to paralyse the will, to stop people from even *thinking* about resisting.

      Tokyo Rose?

      Or just feeding the Dementors.

      Despair is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

      No-one here has any business wallowing in or seeking to promote an attittude of fatalistic despair.

  7. mach37 says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 5:39 am

    How much clearer can it be made, that ISIS is taking the words of the Koran literally, every verse literally, as written. No matter how much the unobservant Muslims claim it is peaceful and non-violent, there are many verses that, no matter which translation is used, still call for the death of innocents. Try the one where Allah proudly misleads the people astray, so Muslims can slay them because of their “transgressions:”
    S 4:88 – “What, do you desire to guide him whom God has led astray? Whom God leads astray, thou wilt not find for him a way.” This is followed immediately by 4:89 – “… if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”

  8. duh_swami says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 7:40 am

    From article…There were courses on ISIS’s fanatical version of Islam.

    Is that the ‘perverted’ version that Rasool Obama talks so much about, or the hijacked version that Hannity speaks of?
    Why is it that the people who write and say such things NEVER explain what the hell they are talking about…

  9. balam says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 8:27 am

    ‘Islam has nothing to do with the Islamic State’ ,JUST AS PORK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PIG. Nice logic by the three stooges for Islam!!!!

  10. Angemon says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 9:49 am

    One had met new arrivals at the desk: Death comes to you. God is great….

    “God is great”? Don’t you mean “allahu akbar” – allah is greater?

  11. vlparker says

    Jan 31, 2016 at 10:32 am

    ISIS’s fanatical version of islam? It is also Mohammad’s version of islam. It is the only true version of islam. You don’t get to have a different version of islam separate from Mohammad’s.

  12. Dan says

    Feb 1, 2016 at 12:33 am

    These people follow the teaching of a pedophile, and yet we act shocked at what they do???

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  13. Champ says

    Feb 1, 2016 at 2:17 am

    Next up: the quran has nothing to do with islam!

    Wait for it …

  14. Peggy says

    Feb 2, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    They will continue to peddle this rubbish that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam until we force them to stop. Whenever a politician spews this rubbish nobody ever challenges him there and then. We just get statements and no challenge.
    I wish for once that someone actually contradicts those lying bastards and asks them to explain why they say that and which part of the Koran they are referring to so that we can see it for ourselves too.
    Ask them if they have ever read the Koran for starters and if not are they only taking some Imam’s word for it.

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