Posted on 01/06/2015 6:30:41 AM PST by Red Badger
In a grotesque twist of the saying "live by the sword, die by the sword", an Islamic State executioner in Syria who carried out beheadings for the jihadist group has been found with his head cut off.
The body of the Egyptian man, known to be the deputy emir of the feared al-Hesbah (or Hisbah) force in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, was recovered near a power plant in al-Mayadeen city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The corpse showed signs of torture and carried the message "This is evil, you Sheikh" written on it. The severed head also had a cigarette in its mouth. It is unclear who carried out the decapitation but the message was obvious.
Islamic State's (formerly known as Isis) ban on cigarettes is one of its signature polices. It has imposed a strict set of Sharia laws barring the use of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes in the territories it has conquered across a swathe of Iraq and Syria.
IS has declared smoking "slow suicide" and demands that "every smoker should be aware that with every cigarette he smokes in a state of trance and vanity is disobeying God".
Hisbah is IS's religious police who perform the role of enforcing the group's twisted version of sharia in the self-styled caliphate.
Last year, Vice News released a documentary on what life is like under Hisbah in Raqqa during Ramadan. The footage shows how the religious police check on shops and scrutinise produce, while at the same time ensuring their strict rules on women's appearances are adhered to.
The Vice reporter also spoke with inmates in an IS prison accused of abusing drugs and selling alcohol, learning of their punishments - which included being whipped.
The Syrian Observatory also reported that unknown assailants tried to kill two IS militants in al-Mayadeen.
Smoking will kill you.
Joe Camel, one of the first casualties of PC.
Another smoking-related death.
Yeah, their God wants you to commit fast suicide by blowing yourself up and taking scores of other people with you.
Somehow, I think this was SECOND HAND SMOKE.............................
Never let a good death go to waste.......................
Was it filter or non-filter? Because filtered cigs are better for your health....LOL!
He liked to live life on the edge, so...
For true ecstasy, a Mooselimb puts himself in the camel.
For ordinary pleasure, a Mooselimb puts himself in a boy.
For reproduction, there are wives.
Smoking a cigarette is bad for ones health - boffing a camel or goat is ok.
Screwy religion they have there.
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