Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Muslim insurgents behead 14-year-old Christian boy
World Net Daily ^ | October 31, 2006

Posted on 10/31/2006 6:09:07 AM PST by NYer

A website in Assyria is confirming that a 14-year-old Christian boy who was working a 12-hour shift maintaining an electric generator has been murdered by Muslim insurgents.

The Assyrian International News Agency said the tragedy was reported by an Assyrian language web page at www.ankawa.com.

The youth was identified as Ayad Tariq, who lived in Baqouba, Iraq, and was at work on Oct. 21 when a group of "disguised Muslim insurgents" went into the power plant shortly after his shift began at 6 a.m.

The website reported the insurgents asked him for his identification and, according to other witnesses who hid and stayed alive to report on the attack, questioned his identification card's reference to him as a "Christian."

Are you truly a "Christian sinner," they asked.

"Yes, I am Christian but I am not a sinner," he replied.

The insurgents then called him a "dirty Christian sinner," grabbed his limbs and held them while beheading him, the witnesses reported.

They were shouting, "Allahu akbar! Allahu Akbar!" during the murder, witnesses said.

An organization called AssyrianChristians.com said they are the indigenous people of Iraq, with a population that has been in the Middle East from the time of Christ.

However, they have faced a number of purges by the region's rulers over time, including the present attacks by powerful Islamic factions across Iran, Iraq and neighboring nations, officials said.

Only two generations back, Assyrian Christians made up 20 percent of the population of the Middle East, but during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, an estimated three million Christians were slaughtered there, the organization said.

Current estimates are that there are about 2.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq.

Kenneth Scott LaTourette wrote in "A History of Christianity" that the Assyrian Christians became the first nation to accept Christianity, and one of the largest missionary-sending peoples in Christian history.

"The Assyrian Christians are one of the last remaining Christian communities in the Middle East," said Rev. Ken Joseph Jr., of the Assyrian Christians organization.

Tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians have fled their traditional homelands in recent months, officials confirmed.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: christian; christianpersecution; crushislam; gop; iraq; islam; islammustdie; islamsucks; jihad; muslim; muslims; religion; religionofbeheadings; religionofpeace; rop; trop; wot
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 161-180181-200201-220221-234 next last
To: 353FMG

There is a level at which everyone's concept of God is different from everyone else's.
And then there are cases where you grant equivalence because doing so shows your argument even stronger.

But I get your point which is correct at almost any other level.


201 posted on 11/01/2006 10:34:42 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 198 | View Replies]

To: Earthdweller
That was very cute!!! I just took my 22 month old son out last night for his 1st real Halloween. He lasted 12 Houses before getting tired. Pretty good for a toddler dressed as a lion.

Thank you very much!!!!
202 posted on 11/01/2006 12:12:42 PM PST by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 183 | View Replies]

To: Air Force Brat
So unless it comes from "main stream" sources you do not care?? Many of these links get wider reading than the NYTs. These are the people watching what the media says. In the case of the leftist websites, they represent the leftist base. Howard Dean showing up at pro-terrorist rallys isn't proof (zombietime)? The links shown between Move-on and Answer are not proof (Zombie and discoverthenetworks)? The connections between said groups and true NAZIs (stormfront.org and daily kos) are not enough? Kos is used as a major DNC resource. The daily drivel posted on DU is not enough? AIM is a mainstream media site. It is a group dedicated to keeping a watch on the MSM.

What about the photoshop scandals? What about the journalists blatantly reporting FOR the terrorists? What about Ward Churchill? What about Kerry calling US soldiers terrorists last year and idiots this week? What about Murtha, Dean, and others? I've given you the links to see the research and they contain links to their research. If you expect to get truth from the MSM then you are lost.

How about more? Or is FrontPage Magazine not prominent enough?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19186

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22960

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24143

You do not care that these links investigate what these MSM anchors say and where their money goes? Or is it you just do not want to hear them saying it?

Interesting and telling. I should ask 'why bother' since I doubt you want to see.
203 posted on 11/01/2006 12:43:22 PM PST by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 179 | View Replies]

To: Air Force Brat; M1Tanker; Peach; Earthdweller
You wanted something from Reuters?

Bombing of Funeral: False Reporting by Reuters
16:24 Aug 08, '06 / 14 Av 5766

The day after it was revealed that a Reuters News Agency doctored photographs to show an anti-Israel bias, the news service incorrectly reported Tuesday afternoon that the IDF bombed a funeral procession in Lebanon.

Reuters has corrected without apology its earlier story that the IDF strafed a funeral procession and updated the report to state that the bombs struck a village at the same time the funeral was taking place, adding that "the air strike was not in the immediate vicinity of the funeral."


This weekend was not a good one for Reuters.

First, it was revealed by Charles Johnson of the Little Green Footballs blog that a photo showing bomb damage in Beirut by a local Muslim stringer, Adnan Hajj, was doctored. Reuters promptly recalled the image and fired the reporter.

Since the original unaltered photo revealed that there really was a large explosion being documented by Hajj, Reuters accepted his excuse that the picture was only altered to "remove some dust marks".

Accusations that the photo was “sexed-up” to make Israeli damage of Beirut seem worse were dismissed. The photo was treated as an isolated incident by Reuters. It wasn't.

Prompted by Charles Johnson's expose, a reader led me to another Reuters photo taken by Adnan Hajj. The photo purported to be of an Israeli F-16 firing "missiles" at a Lebanese village.

That photo was also a fake. The original photo actually showed an Israeli plane firing a defensive flare. The flare had been labeled a "missile" by the reporter and then duplicated several times using computer software to make it seem that multiple "missiles" were being "fired" on a Lebanese "village".

In other words, the F-16 which Reuters purports to show firing missiles at a Lebanese village, was taking defensive measures.

This time the "dust marks" excuse could not fly.

When confronted by a second obvious forgery, Reuters was forced to retract all 920 photos produced by Hajj.

But Reuters is still in denial about several things.

First, Reuters retraction order makes it seem as if the second photo was discovered by an internal investigation. An internal discovery of a second faked photo makes it appear that Reuters is a responsible and objective news organization which takes seriously accusations of impropriety. It is not.

Second, and more importantly, Reuters is in denial that there is an overtly anti-Israeli bias in its reports and their accompanying photos.

Why is it that no one at Reuters caught these two obvious forgeries? It doesn't seem too far fetched to suggest that editors do not scrutinize closely those things that they already believe to be true about Israel. The photos showed what Reuters already knew-- namely, that it is Israel that is responsible for so much death and damage in the present Middle East conflict.

Which is why Reuters is still in denial about many other photos which are not outright forgeries, but which appear to be staged?
Reuters admits publishing distorted Beirut photo, apologizes, pulls pic By israelinsider staff and partners August 6, 2006

The faked photo


Reuters has admitted that one of its published photos has been crudely distorted and, under pressure from bloggers, has "killed" a photo of a Beirut bombing and published an apology. The photographer credited, Adnan Hajj, also was responsible for some of the staged photographs from Qana, such as this one (discretion advised).

The Reuters caption on the doctored photo was: "Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut?s suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj"

Charles Johnson, published of the Little Green Footballs blog, says that the photo "shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop 'clone' tool to add more smoke to the image. It's so incredibly obvious.... Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There?s really no question about it."

But it's not only the plumes of smoke that were "enhanced," Johnson writes. There are also cloned buildings, which the blog Left and Right illustrated in an animation.

In a published message, Reuters pulled the photo and said that "photo editing software was inappropriately used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvenience."

Reuters employees suspended for death threats A Reuters has suspended an employee for sending a death threat to an American blogger. The message, sent by someone with the address zionistpig@hotmail.com, was: "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut."

It was sent to Charles Johnson, owner of the Little Green Footballs (LGF) weblog, a popular pro-Israel, anti-Jihad site.

Johnson noted that "This particular death threat is a bit different from the run of the mill hate mail we get around here, because an IP lookup on the sender reveals that he/she/it was using an account at none other than Reuters News."

He told ynetnews: "I think it's more than fair to say that Reuters has a big problem."

After bringing the threat to the attention of Reuters, Johnson was told by its Global Head of Communications, Ed Williams: "I can confirm that an employee has been suspended pending further investigation. The individual was not an employee of Reuters' news division."

Johnson further traced the movements of the sender of the threat, and found direct parallels between the internet locations of the sender and Inayat Bunglawala, Media Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain.

Bunglawala, who contributed an editorial to the Guardian website, has attracted negative attention in the past after making anti-Semitic outbursts, and has declared that the British media was "Zionist-controlled."

In the comment section of the Guardian, underneath his own editorial, Bunglawala denied sending the threat, blaming "Zionists" instead.

"That was not me! Methinks some Zionists are up to mischief," he wrote.

"There is strong circumstantial evidence connecting Bunglawala to the threat, but there is no way for me to verify this for certain. Only a Reuters network administrator would have access to the necessary records," Johnson said.
Green Helmet Fauxtography

Newsweek retracts Quran story U.S. military says it must reach out to Afghans to ease tension Monday, May 16, 2005 Posted: 11:49 PM EDT (0349 GMT) (CNN) -- Newsweek magazine issued a retraction Monday of a May 9 report on the alleged desecration of the Quran at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The report -- which said American interrogators put copies of the Quran on toilets or in one case, flushed one down a toilet -- was blamed for anti-American riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world last week.

"Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay," Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker said in a statement issued Monday afternoon.

Newsweek published the item in its May 9 issue. In the May 23 issue, it reported that its senior government source had backed away from his initial story, and Whitaker wrote that "we regret" that any part of the story was wrong. (Full story)

But the magazine did not completely disavow the story until Monday's statement from Whitaker. That followed remarks earlier in the day from Bush administration officials who called for a full retraction.

In an interview on the PBS "Newshour" Monday night, Whitaker said the problem stemmed from "one detail."

"There were other elements in this story that people are not concerned about," he told PBS. "This is the one detail everyone is concerned about, and we are prepared to retract that."

Senior White House officials applauded Newsweek's decision to retract the story but said the magazine will have to do more to repair the damage done.

"It's a good first step," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

McClellan said the magazine now has a responsibility to spread the word to the Muslim world that U.S. interrogators "treat the Quran with great care and respect."

Another official said it will take a sustained effort by Newsweek to "mitigate the fallout," also calling on the magazine to take steps to spread the word about its retraction to Muslims worldwide.

CNN confirmed at least four deaths last week stemming from riots in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Newsweek reported rioting in Afghanistan and "throughout much of the Muslim world" last week had "cost at least 15 lives."

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the flap was a reminder that people "need to be very careful about what they say."

"People are dead, and that's unfortunate," Rumsfeld told reporters. "People need to be very careful about what they say just as people need to be careful about what they do." Editor: 'Many elements' in riots

Whitaker disputed the notion the Newsweek report was the sole cause of the rioting that rocked eastern Afghanistan last week.

He said "many elements" contributed and noted that Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week the U.S. commander in Afghanistan put more emphasis on local politics than anti-American sentiment stirred by the magazine report.

"On the other hand, clearly, our report played a role -- and for that we feel terrible," Whitaker said.

He said everyone at Newsweek "behaved professionally" in producing the report, and that the magazine went to the "extraordinary length" of showing the story to a Pentagon official for a response before publication.

"That official challenged other aspects of the story, but not the Quran detail," Whitaker said. He said no U.S. officials complained about the accuracy of the report for 11 days, until after the Afghan riots broke out.

The Pentagon said last week it was unable to corroborate any case in which interrogators at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay defiled the Muslim holy book.

"We can't find anything to substantiate the allegations that appeared in Newsweek," Myers told reporters Monday afternoon.

After a review of more than 25,000 documents, Myers said, investigators found only one incident recorded in the prison logs involving a Quran.

In that case, Myers said, a prisoner used pages from a Quran in an attempt to block a toilet as a protest. Even that incident was unconfirmed, he said.

"People have said, 'My goodness, why does it take so long for someone to come back with and have the actual facts?' " Rumsfeld said. "Well, it takes a long time to be truthful."

The original Newsweek article cited "sources" as saying that interrogators, "in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Quran down a toilet."

But Newsweek said only a single source was used and that after the original article was published, the government source said he wasn't sure what he'd read about the desecration.

Whitaker told PBS the source was known to be credible and "in a position to know the things he was telling us."

Newsweek's article was not the first time allegations of Quran desecration at Guantanamo have surfaced, but others have come directly from detainees. Diplomatic efforts

U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher chided the magazine before Monday's retraction, saying "one would expect more than the kind of correction we've seen so far."

U.S. diplomats overseas were working the phones to try to spread the word about Newsweek's latest story, he said.

"We'll deal with it the same way we have been dealing with it -- by being transparent, up front and open about our policies and what our soldiers do," Boucher said.

State Department officials said it would be hard to undo the damage because of the already existing sense of anger and mistrust of the United States.

"People will believe the worst, even if it is wrong," one official said.

Afghan government spokesman Jawed Ludin said his government expresses "in the strongest terms our disapproval of Newsweek's approach to reporting which allowed them to run this story without proper examination beforehand." Reviewing tactics

The U.S. military said Monday it must reach out to angry Afghans to ease tensions.

"We want to redouble our efforts to communicate with the Afghan people," said Army Col. Gary Cheek in Kabul. "We want to ensure there is trust and confidence in the U.S."

Cheek promised to re-evaluate U.S. military tactics being used in Afghanistan that have drawn criticism from Afghan officials, including President Hamid Karzai.

"We continually review our tactics and certainly as the sovereignty of the Afghan government grows they will want more control, and that is correct and proper," Cheek said.

U.S. troops have been criticized for breaking into homes unannounced and for taking people into custody, sometimes on faulty intelligence.

"It does us no good to detain someone and make 100 enemies," Cheek said. "We want to be very balanced in our operations. You can't do that through heavy-handed tactics."

Cheek also said the United States wants to engage Afghan religious leaders "to make sure they understand our true values."

CNN's Dana Bash, Ed Henry and Barbara Starr and journalist Nick Meo contributed to this report.


Reuters, CNN, Newsweek.
Can I find a MSM article that says "WE SUPPORT BEHEADINGS"?

Not too likely.

But a distortion followed by a deception followed by an omission, followed by an inaccuracy, followed by something completely fase eventually adds up to supporting those who are doing the beheading.

You blasted Earthdweller for not posting what you asked for, but it took ten times longer to format these for ease of viewing than it did to find them. Had you bothered looking you could have found ten times as many as I posted here in the time it took me to post this.

I didn't even start looking for the French riots, where they carefully avoid mentioning that muslim youths are the ones burning cars (and the people in them alive), or the Abu Ghraib media blitz.

A question for you:
How many American soldiers have been killed in Iraq?
I bet you can get the answer within 100 soldiers easily.

How many insurgents have been killed?
How many were from countries other than Iraq?

I don't think you can get within 1000. Why?

Does the MSM support those that perform beheadings?
Your d@mn well f#cking right they do. But they will not spell it out for you.

One final analogy. On "Meet the Press", Tim Russert was talking with pundits on the potential for democrats to win the House and/or the Senate. There were only about seven close Senate races. Whenever the democrat was ahead by 4-10 points, he would say the democrat had a "huge lead". Whenever the Republican was ahead, he would say it was a "tight race". No he never said, "I'm Tim Russert and I want to do every thing I can to ensure that the democrats win the 2006 election." But if you choose to watch, you can kind of get the gist of it.
204 posted on 11/01/2006 8:00:29 PM PST by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 179 | View Replies]

To: NonLinear

You are good.....very very good.


205 posted on 11/01/2006 8:33:16 PM PST by Earthdweller (The West has mistakenly believed tolerance begets tolerance.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 204 | View Replies]

To: Armando Guerra

Thanks, Armando. I hadn't heard of that case.

Horrible and pointless.

But my question still stands. I didn't ask if anyone could dredge the gutters for a liberal (or any other person) somewhere and find a person who supports heinous acts. Of course you could.

My question was - does anyone actually believe the main stream media advocates for beheadings?

I still maintain it does not, but I welcome facts that might prove me wrong.


206 posted on 11/01/2006 10:48:37 PM PST by Air Force Brat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 200 | View Replies]

To: M1Tanker

Thanks, M1Tanker. Please keep in mind I didn't start this thread. Another person stated that the mainstream media advocated for people who behead. I was quite doubtful of that, and asked if anyone actually believed that. One person responded, "Yes."

I subsequently asked that person to cite an article or report from the main stream media supporting beheadings of Christian children, since that was the example being discussed. Instead of examples, I've received extraneous information from a variety of sources. For example, you've provided various links to Front Page Magazine. I'm not aware of any reasonable person who considers that to be part of the "main stream media."

I'll try to cut to the chase. I have no doubt that one could find, on the extreme left, support for idiots such as those who behead. Similarly, I have no doubt that one could find, on the extreme right, support for idiots who would drop nuclear bombs on every Muslim country on Earth.

Both exist. I'll grant you that.

But neither represents the main stream media.

I think it's high time we stop lying about fellow Americans we oppose, and try a little respectful dialogue.


207 posted on 11/01/2006 10:56:46 PM PST by Air Force Brat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 203 | View Replies]

To: SIDENET

Lib ;-)


208 posted on 11/01/2006 10:57:22 PM PST by Air Force Brat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 189 | View Replies]

To: Roy Tucker
God forgive me but I don't have any love for Muslims.
209 posted on 11/01/2006 11:03:00 PM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia now a certified socialist state reporting to Mexico City for further instructions)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: NonLinear

A mighty job of cutting and pasting.

Thank you for proving my point. You said:

"Can I find a MSM article that says "WE SUPPORT BEHEADINGS"?

Not too likely. "

And, despite your claim, errors and distortions about war and acts of violence do not constitute support for beheadings.

I can't understand why you and others can't see the difference. Emotionally, you obviously feel that one rises to the level of the other.

But they are not the same.

I hope you can honestly see that. Otherwise, I'm afraid you, and a few others, have lost the ability to objectively consider information that conflicts with your opinions.

That's not a good place to be.


210 posted on 11/01/2006 11:03:48 PM PST by Air Force Brat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 204 | View Replies]

To: OKIEDOC

In light of events like this, I can certainly understand that sentiment.


211 posted on 11/01/2006 11:13:25 PM PST by Air Force Brat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 209 | View Replies]

To: M1Tanker
We need to kill them out of self defense not hate. Hate hurts us. Jesus died on the cross to forgive them. Hopefully we will win the war there soon. The best thing that can come out of this is that we will be safer and the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be able to reach these people in a much greater way. They need to hear the Gospel so that they can have the opportunity to be saved.

May The LORD help you keep your heart pure before Him. He does not wield the sword in vain. May The LORD bless you and keep you. In Jesus Holy Name.

212 posted on 11/02/2006 12:15:28 AM PST by Bellflower (A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: azhenfud

Amen.


213 posted on 11/02/2006 12:23:15 AM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: ladyL

I'm not sure you've read the New Testament. The moment I stop seeking to follow my Lord is the moment I stop having a reason to live. Your instincts are my instincts; but our ways are not God's ways.


214 posted on 11/02/2006 12:27:29 AM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 123 | View Replies]

To: kittycatonline.com

It can't eradicate the Sermon on the Mount if we're to take seriously the notion of Scripture being God's word.

Another time Jesus mentions swords is when he said he came not to bring peace, but a sword. Yet we must somehow interpret that in a way that's consistent with his saying "blessed are the peacemakers."

To Jesus, the sword represents the tool of spiritual warfare, of God bringing people from darkness into light and leaving their old ways behind -- not adapting their faith to the world, but adapting themselves to the faith.

If you have another way he means "sword" that's consistent with the SotM I'm all ears.

My basic point in all this is not that we should simply turn the other cheek to the Islamofascists. Jesus is setting out ideals, not things that we can achieve right now. The trouble lies when we forget what the goals are and revel in our earthliness and fleshiness.


215 posted on 11/02/2006 12:39:30 AM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 130 | View Replies]

To: Air Force Brat
I think it's high time we stop lying about fellow Americans we oppose, and try a little respectful dialogue.

"Respectful dialogue"? With members the MSM? That's laughable. We're talking about the same bastards (CNN) who aired a snuff film showing a sniper killing American soldiers. How about the AP using a photographer with insurgent ties? Look it up yourself.

You sure rushed to the defense of the MSM when I disparaged them. In fact, I seem to have really hit a nerve.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if you worked in journalism.

216 posted on 11/02/2006 4:14:45 AM PST by SIDENET (Is it too early for flapjacks?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 207 | View Replies]

To: Air Force Brat; SIDENET; M1Tanker; Earthdweller
From CBS (Is that mainstream enough for you?)
Saudi Arabia's Beheading Culture

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 25, 2004


(AP) The Saudi government beheaded 52 men and one woman last year for crimes including murder, homosexuality, armed robbery and drug trafficking. But Saudis say that while Islam condones the punishment in one context, it condemns militants who decapitated hostages here and in Iraq.

Islam permits the death penalty for certain crimes, but few mainstream Muslim scholars and observers believe beheadings are sanctioned by Sharia, or Islamic law.

The Saudi government says the punishment is sanctioned by Islamic tradition. State-ordered beheadings are performed in courtyards outside crowded mosques in major cities after weekly Friday prayer services.

A condemned convict is brought into the courtyard, hands tied, and forced to bow before an executioner, who swings a huge sword amid cries from onlookers of "Allahu Akbar!" Arabic for "God is great."

On Friday, outside the main mosque in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, a policeman standing in the scorching summer heat declared to worshippers: "There are no qisas today." Qisas is the Arabic word for Islamic-law punishments — which in the kingdom could mean beheadings or the amputation of limbs.

But Saudi clerics insist beheading is only allowed in the case of criminal convictions — not in the killing of innocents.

"No religion condones these acts," Abdul Muhsen al Obaiqan, a senior Islamic cleric in Riyadh, told The Associated Press. "They are against Islam and they tarnish the image of Muslims. No Muslim should show any sympathy for them."

Last week, al Qaeda-linked militants in Saudi Arabia decapitated American engineer Paul M. Johnson Jr. after warning they would kill him if the Saudi government did not release jailed comrades.

In Iraq this week, militants beheaded Kim Sun-il, a South Korean translator for a U.S. military supplier, and dumped his body between Baghdad and Fallujah. American businessman Nicholas Berg met a similar fate last month in Iraq. Both killings are blamed on the al Qaeda-linked movement of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The beheadings were videotaped, photographed and posted on the Internet — a new tactic apparently aimed at increasing the shock value of the militants' campaign against Westerners.

Al Qaeda is thought to be trying to drive out foreigners, depriving the kingdom of a vital work force and undermining the rule of the Saud royal family.

Beheading has been nearly unknown in previous Middle East violence. The militants may have been seeking to give an Islamic veneer to the slayings — or they may have been taking a page from Islamic militant groups elsewhere. Beheadings have occurred in Algeria, Kashmir, Chechnya and the Muslim-dominated southern Philippines.

The beheadings of Johnson, Kim and Berg drew condemnations from Saudi officials, Islamic leaders and scholars throughout the Middle East.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud denounced Kim's decapitation as "inhumane and cruel."

Columnist Qenan al-Ghamdi wrote in the Al-Watan daily of Johnson's death, "Saudis were saddened by this crime because it was perpetrated in the name of Islam by some of their sons against a resident in their country and in such an ugly and despicable way."

Badr bin Nasser al Badr, a theology professor at Riyadh's Imam University, told the AP: "Our guests are protected by our faith, Islam. Their lives and property should be protected. Their blood and lives are as precious as ours."

"The killing of foreigners who are working and feel secure in Muslim countries ... is not sanctioned by Islam," said Lebanon's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.

Egypt's foremost religious leader, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, told an Islamic conference in Yemen that "such beheadings and (the) mutilation of bodies stand against Islam and have nothing to do with Sharia."

But in Kuwait, Osama al-Menawer, a lawyer who defends fundamentalists, said beheading is "the least painful method (of execution)."

"Killing is killing. Incendiary bombs dropped on Palestinians and Iraqis are much worse," he said. "This is a state of war. Americans are invaders and they kill every day."

And on Islamic Internet forums, mostly used by radicals, beheading has been a popular topic in recent weeks, with many participants describing it as the "easiest" way to kill an American or a Saudi from the ruling family.

Link to source



217 posted on 11/02/2006 4:33:10 AM PST by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 210 | View Replies]

To: Air Force Brat; SIDENET; M1Tanker; Earthdweller
How about MSNBC?

Islamic Web site shows beheading pictures
Iraqi militants claim Egyptian was U.S. military spy
NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Updated: 8:38 a.m. ET Aug. 13, 2004

CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic Web site posted still pictures Friday that purportedly showed Iraqi militants beheading an Egyptian man who they claimed was spying for the U.S. military.

There was no way to verify the authenticity of the images, and there was no record that the man, identified on the Web site as Mohammed Fawzi Abdaal Mutwalli, had been kidnapped. The pictures are apparently stills from a video on the site that could not be accessed. The date of the beheading was not given.

A second Web site, an English-language site that does not appear to have political links, carried the video of the beheading. Neither site gave a date for the killing. Story continues below ↓ advertisement

Police officials have said Mutwalli, 45, went to Iraq in 1986 to work as a car mechanic. He is single and comes from the village of Saqr in Dakahlia province in the Nile Delta, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials.

First reports came Wednesday Reports of the beheading had first surfaced Wednesday, and Egyptian government officials could not confirm it. Friday's edition of the opposition newspaper Ahrar quoted the Egyptian Foreign Ministry as saying it had received no news of Mutwalli's kidnapping or killing.

Until Friday, there had been no evidence of an Arab hostage having been beheaded by Iraqi militants acting for political motives. A Lebanese Muslim hostage, Hussein Alyan, was killed this year, but his kidnappers may have had criminal motives as they made no political demands to spare his life.

The images show three masked men standing in front of a banner carrying the name and golden-sun logo of Tawhid and Jihad, the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that has claimed responsibility for the beheading of other hostages in Iraq _ including American Nicholas Berg and the South Korean translator Kim Sun-il.

The pictures showed a man, with a mustache and an Arabic robe, sitting in front of the three masked men with his hands tied behind his back. Captions on the pictures of the hostage say: "From the Arab Republic of Egypt. Mohammed Fawzi Abdaal Mutwalli. I was working as a spy with the Americans in Iraq."

A statement that appeared on the Web site alongside the pictures said: "This is the story of the Egyptian traitor spy."

"This criminal confessed"
"This criminal confessed that he was taking electronic devices from the Americans to throw them into the Mujahedeen's (holy warriors') locations so the Americans could identify the targets and raid them with planes and missiles."


The sequential pictures then show the man lying on the ground. A militant decapitates him with a knife and places his severed head on his back.

In the video shown on the second Web site, the militant who kills the hostage says in Arabic: "Today we are executing God's punishment on this criminal by beheading him."

The site shows only the video of the beheading, not the hostage's purported comments beforehand. It is an English-language site that offers recent beheadings in Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well as pornography.

The morality of killing Muslims who work for the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq has long been debated on Islamic extremist Web sites, but generally it has been considered justifiable.

A Turkish hostage, Murat Yuce, was shot dead by Tawhid and Jihad militants in an Internet video that appeared on Aug. 2. The kidnappers claimed he supported "the occupier."

Opinions have been mixed on taking Muslims hostage and beheading them, with some saying "fellow Muslims" should be spared and others saying they should be killed to deter Muslims from becoming "allied with the devil."

The alleged spiritual leader of Tawhid and Jihad, Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, posted an audio tape on the Internet on July 28 in which he defended the killing of Muslims who work for "infidels" without opposition.

Link to source

Q.E.D.



218 posted on 11/02/2006 4:46:36 AM PST by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 210 | View Replies]

To: NYer

This filthy, so-called "religion" of Islam....and all of its adherants......needs to be wiped from the face of the earth. Period.


219 posted on 11/02/2006 4:54:48 AM PST by RightOnline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Air Force Brat; M1Tanker
Thanks, M1Tanker. Please keep in mind I didn't start this thread.

LOL. Why make excuses now? Oh, yeah...because M1Tanker spanked you.

Come on, wouldn't you like to come clean and tell all of us "Right Wingers" to go to hell?

220 posted on 11/02/2006 5:10:30 AM PST by SIDENET (Is it too early for flapjacks?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 207 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 161-180181-200201-220221-234 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson