Muslim History Is Rife With ISIS-Style Executions

MEMRI ^ | 28/8/15 | Yasmin el Khatib

[Eleutheria5]

"I do not understand why, after every perverted [act of] execution carried out by ISIS, most Muslims insist that these actions have nothing to do with Islam. After all, Muslim history is rife with terrifying forms of execution, similar or even identical to those used by ISIS. I am not talking of executions motivated by revenge, such as the crucifixion of Al-Khallaj,[2] the killing of Suhrawardi,[3] or the slaughter of Ibn Al-Muqaffa.[4] [Nor am I speaking of] the mutilation of dead bodies, such as the practice of displaying the heads of decapitated [victims], which was invented by the Umayyad [caliphs]. The most famous [victim of this] was the greatest rebel in Islamic history, Hussein bin 'Ali.[5] I am talking of execution [methods] used in the early Islamic period, [a period] which most of our clerics regard as the essential [source] for Islamic legislation, such as execution by fire or by being cast from a high place – two punishments that were set out for homosexuals. It was the consensus among the Prophet's companions that homosexuals had to be put to death, but they disagreed on the method. Some thought [a homosexual] should be burned alive, others advocated toppling a wall over him and leaving him to die under the rubble, and yet others thought he should be cast from the highest wall in the village and then, to complete [the task], pelted with stones. The last [method] has actually been applied by ISIS to a homosexual who was cast from a tall building in Baghdad.[6] [The first and fourth caliphs,] Abu Bakr and Ali bin Abu Talib, ordered to burn homosexuals, and this was done. A book by the historian Al-Tabari[7] states that Abu Bakr ordered his commanders, during the wars against the apostates, to burn...

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[Eleutheria5]

Voted in HS Most Likely to be Honor Killed by own Grandfather for Blasphemy Against the Profit.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I do not understand why, after every perverted [act of] execution carried out by ISIS, most Muslims insist that these actions have nothing to do with Islam.

Exactly.

And, I do not understand why non Muslims would parrot the same thing.

[BeadCounter]

Most everyone likes the Kurds and they have their own tribes within it, the Yeshidis and so forth but the Assyrian News website says the Kurds joined with the Turks when they committed their genocide in the 1910s:

http://www.aina.org/index.html

[Eleutheria5]

Because they are either useful idiots, or whores. Probably both.

[Eleutheria5]

Naturally. They’re better as Muslims go, but they are still Muslims.

[Fungi]

Read Jihad by Paul Fregosi. The book details all this and much more.
http://www.amazon.com/Jihad-West-Muslim-Conquests-Centuries/dp/1573922471

[arthurus]

"Some may think that the purpose of this article is to blacken the image of Islam. So, in order to elaborate and clarify, let me note that, in the past, Christianity also practiced execution by fire. [This was true] especially in the Middle Ages, when the Inquisition courts burned thousands of Muslims and the Church burned thousands of women for practicing witchcraft,

Christianity differs from Islam in that there are no Christian Haidths and no directives in the Christian Holy Book and no directives in the writings of the Fathers (roughly comparable to the Hadiths) that justify, even tangentially, killing much less killing by atrocious methods.

[bert]

there is an unlimited volume of catholic dogma created by churchmen

the pope’s recent pronouncements are just such officious dogmatic statements

[Lorianne]

Exactly. None of this is new ... has been going on for centuries.

Also read:
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
http://www.amazon.com/Tamerlane-Sword-Islam-Conqueror-World/dp/030681465X

Tamerlane and his army were the ISIS of his day. All the things that are going on today (and worse) were done by Tamerlane in pursuit of his caliphate.

[Eleutheria5]

Moot. Christians are behaving nicely lately. They got dogmas, sure, but they get browny points for good behavior. Msulims have nothing but dogma, and are behaving very, very badly lately. They get a dunce cap and no browny points. Bad.

[bert]

Islam is in the midst of a counter reformation

it will fail

[Will88]

Most of the atrocities committed by ISIS have been committed for centuries by Moslems. One can read about a very early example under Mohammed's leadership.

The Battle of the Trench

[Eleutheria5]

Festivus and Scientology missionaries must stand ready to fill in the vacuum once it fails.

[arthurus]

And what does that have to do with this?

[Fungi]

I don’t see how. It will be with us for a long time and be responsible for the rise of the antichrist.

[HonorInPa]

Be careful citing ‘facts’ about the Inquisition. Recent research points to 125,000 people tried for some level of heresy or blasphemy with less than 5,000 being executed.

[arthurus]

What facts did I cite about the inquisition?

[arthurus]

Mention anything relating to Christianity and all the hypersensitive Prots leap up to cry, “HERESY!” because it might not quite comport with the anomalies and oddities of each one’s particular sect.

[bert]

the radicals running the counter reformation number in the tens of thousands

Islam that has been evolutionary reformed in modern society numbers in the hundreds of millions

[Fungi]

“Islam that has been evolutionary reformed in modern society numbers in the hundreds of millions.” Reformed into what? Has ISIS been reformed? Or the Islamists in Timor, or Nigeria, Chad, France, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Tunesia? What do you mean?