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Islamic State murders female journalist, accusing her of being a spy

Jan 5, 2016 3:39 pm By Robert Spencer

“ISIS has been carrying out a ruthless murder campaign to silence anyone who might be speaking out against their rule…” In the West, we are much more civilized. Those who speak out against the accepted line are merely demonized, marginalized, and vilified as “racist, bigoted Islamophobes.” But not murdered.

Ruqia Hassan

“‘Go ahead and cut off the internet, our messenger pigeons won’t complain’: Last post of female journalist executed by ISIS ‘for being a spy,'” by Tom Wyke, MailOnline, January 5, 2016:

ISIS has murdered a female journalist after accusing her of being a spy, activists have confirmed.

Ruqia Hassan often posted information about the daily lives of residents living under ISIS in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

Writing under the pen name Nissan Ibrahim, Ms Hassan’s posts described how the city was targeted by coalition airstrikes on a regular basis.

It is unclear when the young journalist was first arrested by ISIS militants but her last Twitter post was on July 21 last year. Her death was confirmed by an activist from Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

‘Go ahead and cut off the internet, our messenger pigeons won’t complain,’ Ms Hassan wrote for the final time, maintaining her good sense of humour and hope even during the most difficult of times.

Her family were only informed of her death three days ago and were told she was found guilty of carrying out counts of espionage.

ISIS has been carrying out a ruthless murder campaign to silence anyone who might be speaking out against their rule or providing intelligence information about their movements in Raqqa.

The jihadi group has previously posted videos showing the execution of members from Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

Several members of the group have also been assassinated in Turkey by ISIS militants….

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  1. zebo says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    lol-
    as a woman you have zero rights in islam(except some placebo pseudo rights to look make islam
    look less barbaric for others)
    as woman you do not have access to isis warriors except for being sexually abused by them- the only thing left is doing some slave job for this men

    how the hell could you spy?
    The only thing a women can do is telling the truth about muslim attrocities?

    and criticizing is not spying.

    On the other hand:isis just doing what mohammed did.kill the critics .
    As he was 100% aware that his crappy religion has zero logic
    and can easily be exposed as the stupid shit it is killing critics is the only way
    to keep his religion from being ridiculed.

    On anothet note i may have found a huge flaw inside the quran:

    in the abrogation verse 2:106 it is written
    “None of OUR relevations do WE abrogate or cause to be forgotten,but WE substitute something better or similar:knowest thou not that Allah hath power over all things”

    I don’t want to even argue that perfect Allah is not perfect when he is correcting old verses with better(newer) one ,as there is no room for correction left if something is perfect(
    and how can mohammed be perfect when neither quran nor allah are)

    BUT:(my question)
    Who is WE?
    Allah is one single god and he is the one with the power,
    but who are the WE in the context of this verse.
    There is only one god? therefore “WE” cannot substitute ,only him(allah) can,
    but noone else.

    What is the official muslim explanation for the WE.
    Who are the WE in this verse??

    • خَليفة says

      Jan 5, 2016 at 4:31 pm

      Muhammed was speaking and what he meant by “we” was “ME and my imaginary friend Allah”

    • Angry Aussie says

      Jan 5, 2016 at 5:45 pm

      I was present at a meeting recently, also attended by one of the many self titled “Islamic Spokesperson” figures that float around attempting to hold BS interfaith meetings to persuade the West that Islam really is a religion of peace. The topic of abrogation was raised. The answer was astounding really. In a nutshell, the spokesperson for Team Muslim stated “there is no abrogation in the Quran”. He also stated that “The only people who misunderstand the Quran are extremists and non Muslims” (how could this be that only Muslims have the intelligence to understand?). The meeting ended shortly after with him muttering that the Quran was perfect and that there may be some bad Muslims who do bad things, but it doesn’t come from the Quran (now is the time to cough up a lung).

      I won’t ever get back that 2 hours of my life, but I got to hear first class double speak and taqiyya ooze from his every pore. I even heard Team Muslim say that the Quran was written in a time of global unrest and the passages we silly non Muslims continue to misunderstand are defensive passages applicable to that time only, because (you guessed it), Muslims were the victim back then and still are. So, when the Quran tells Muslims to lay in wait behind the bushes to kill them and strike them at the neck, when referring to non Muslims, apparently we should relax.

      I heard first hand from Team Muslim that non Muslims are not scholars of Islam and have no right to even attempt to interpret the Quran. Incidentally, did you know that any non Muslim daring to comment on Islam is an extremist? (Ridiculous nonsense.)

      • Rob says

        Jan 5, 2016 at 7:43 pm

        Edward Said said the same thing about this topic. ie ‘only Muslims can interpret Muslim events’.
        To which the incomparable Bernard Lewis responded:
        ‘Does that mean marine biology can only be studied by fish?’

        • spade says

          Jan 5, 2016 at 7:51 pm

          LOL 🙂
          Yep and only rocks can know rocks, forget about geology

      • spade says

        Jan 5, 2016 at 7:49 pm

        You dont need to understand anything about the koran, when a person attacks another, screaming “allo yukbah” and i am a moslem, die infidel scum. What else do you need to know?
        When they hold mohatemed as the pinnicle of earthly being and a person to be emulated. All you need to is that hero worship of a pedo, murdering, raping desert pirate, anyone who desires to be like this is very dangerous. I dont need to read a backward book filled with hate to know where i stand in the dellusion of islam

  2. Ainu888 says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    What a brave lady — Ruqia Hassan.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    Islamic State murders female journalist, accusing her of being a spy
    …………………………….

    Damn barbarians.

  4. Linde Barrera says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    May this brave and determined lady, Ruqia Hassan, be resting in peace, as well as all the innocent Christian, Muslim, Yezidi, Jewish and Hindu individuals murdered by those demon ISIS.

  5. Baucent says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 1:24 am

    It a reign of terror in the Caliphate. I suspect the only people they attract to willingly go there, are those who wish to take part in that terror. There is plenty of evidence that the residents inside areas controlled by Allah’s warriors would gladly leave if they could. That was reported in Ramadi where residents said the ISIS fighters prevented them from leaving. Without residents, without civilians they have no State, just a motley band of followers. But as a show piece of some sort of Islamic utopia, the Caliphate has failed miserably.

  6. mortimer says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 2:14 am

    But being Muslim, wearing the veil, praying…did not defend her from being called a Kafir and murdered.

    ISIS is very Islamic and does everything by the book…by Sharia law.

    When will the rest of the world understand that ISIS is the authentic version of Islam…accept no substitute…most Muslims secretly acknowledge ISIS by openly deny it.

  7. mortimer says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 2:15 am

    most Muslims secretly agree with ISIS but openly deny it.

  8. Scott M says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 8:14 am

    As others have said; what a brave, gutsy lady – murdered by these filth. islam is a disgusting ideology that is all about killing, killing, killing and all about destroying everything and anything decent and worthwhile in the world. when will our stupid politicians wake up!?

  9. Angemon says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 9:21 am

    Ruqia Hassan often posted information about the daily lives of residents living under ISIS in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

    Let’s see if I can follow the logic here: the islamic state routinely puts out videos about how wonderful it is to live in the Caliphate, with the beheadings, and stonings, and chopping of limbs, for adultery, or smoking, or blaspheming, or stealing. But a journalist reporting on the daily life in the Caliphate, with the with the beheadings, and stonings, and chopping of limbs, for adultery, or smoking, or blaspheming, or stealing, is a spy that must be killed.

  10. Mirren10 says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 5:38 pm

    Well, I don’t at all agree with the expressions of sympathy and admiration for this woman. She was a muslim, she wore the hijab.

    She believed in exactly the same bs that the IS believe, espouse, and act on. She probably believed mohammed was the perfect man, as well.

    Unfortunately for her, the IS enacted in real life, what she, perhaps, only believed in theory.

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 6, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    Those dogs will get their comeuppance.

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