According to a May 26 report, the Islamic State “burned an 80-year-old Assyrian [Christian] woman to death in a village southeast of Mosul.” The elderly woman was reportedly immolated for “failing to comply with Islamic Sharia law.”
Islamic State attacks Christian villages, captures dozens, burns churches
Many people invoke the destruction of churches by the Islamic State as evidence that it is not Islamic, as the Qur’an appears to forbid such activity: “Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory. [They are] those who […]