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Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 09:07 AM Oct 2014

Isis fighters 'crucify' 17-year-old boy in Syria (Warning...Graphic)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-fighters-crucify-17yearold-boy-in-syria-9802216.html


Isis fighters have reportedly executed a 17-year-old boy and left his body on display on a cross in Syria.

Pictures being shared online show a banner attached to the teenager’s chest saying the boy has been crucified for taking photos of Isis military bases, as well as receiving “500 Turkish lira” for any footage taken.

The message describes the ruling for the alleged crime as “apostasy” and states the teenager has been “killed and crucified for a period of three days” as the punishment.

The alleged execution comes after it emerged Isis militants had beheaded their own fighters for spying and espionage.



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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. Personally, I can't get worked up over whatever happens to a body
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 10:22 AM
Oct 2014

after the person is killed. To me, it's really no different than any other murder committed by ISIS.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. Obviously the point of doing that is to instill terror in others
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 11:24 AM
Oct 2014

The victims are those who are part of the victim's community. It's not about the dead it is about the living.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
6. I guess, but as I'm pointing out, the only people it will 'instill terror in'
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 11:46 AM
Oct 2014

are those who actually do care about the body after death. People who fear getting maimed, getting killed, having their friends and family killed or maimed are not going to be any more terrorized simply because they hang up dead bodies after they kill them.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
9. Okey-dokey, then. No big whoop. Just another murdered body on display.
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:43 PM
Oct 2014

Really, I find your statement kind of weird.

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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
12. I find it weird that people really care about what's done with a dead body
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:54 PM
Oct 2014

more than about what's done to living ones.

 

Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts)
8. Well, at least one member diagrees with you.
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:35 PM
Oct 2014

UK Accused: 'We are not extreme - we are normal'

A British man accused of plotting a potential Mumbai-style attack was secretly recorded ranting in his car saying: " Terrorist - that's a great word," a court heard.

Erol Incedal, 26, from London, is on trial at the Old Bailey charged with preparing for an act of terrorism and possessing a terrorist document about bomb making.

The Old Bailey trial, which is being heard partly in secret, has heard his plans were scuppered after police stopped him for a motoring offence on September 30 and bugged his black Mercedes car. Two weeks later he was arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist.
Today the jury listened to a recording of a bugged conversation Incedal had with co-defendant Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar about the definition of extremism and terror on October 6 last year.

Speaking in a heavy south London accent, Incedal said: "What does radical mean? Radical means you follow your principles to the core. Extremist: that's the word we don't agree with. We are not extreme. They are saying we are being extreme with our religion. We are not extreme with our religion."


http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/11540389.Accused___We_are_not_extreme___we_are_normal_/

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
11. How to win friends and influence people. ISIS has some strange ideas about that.
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:47 PM
Oct 2014

I wish karma would hurry up.

 

Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts)
14. Actually...I hate to tell you this...
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:57 PM
Oct 2014

but ISIS has a fair amount of support in the UK and France.

They are winning friends.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
17. I urge all ISIS supporters to get immediately to the battlefield.
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 01:08 PM
Oct 2014

And stand out in the desert waving their arms at the sky.

 

Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts)
18. Thats cute....but...
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 01:18 PM
Oct 2014

the increasing support of ISIS in the UK and France is going to have repercussions.

I think you know who supports ISIS in these countries. And I think you know what they do.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
13. Sounds like the peoples of that region...
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:54 PM
Oct 2014

... have some really ugly issues to deal with. Best wishes to them for getting it done.

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