[AnNahar] The jihadist Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group on Tuesday said it beheaded a member of the minority Ismaili community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, accusing him of "apostasy".
"Yesterday (Monday) the Islamic police in Homs province carried out the punishment for apostasy against on an Ismaili apostate... The punishment was carried out before a group of Moslems," IS said in a statement distributed on jihadist forums.
IS also distributed graphic photographs of the execution, including one showing the unnamed victim kneeling on the ground as a jihadist raises a sword above his head.
"This is what will happen to every apostate," read a handwritten sign placed above the shoulders of the victim's disfigured body.
The Ismaili community numbers some 200,000 people in Syria, where many live in Salamiyeh, a town in the central province of Hama.
IS considers all non-Sunnis to automatically be heretics and deserving of death, especially Shiites and Alawites, the sect to which Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's clan belongs.
The jihadist group also believes that Sunnis who do not subscribe to its extreme ideology are apostates.