ISIS Hurls ? Men Off Buildings, Stones Them

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edited February 2015 in The Social Lounge
ISIS has released images that appear to show ? men being hurled off buildings and then stoned to death, part of the militants' self-professed mission to ? down on "sexual deviance."

The horrific execution tactic is the latest in a string of brutal punishment methods applied by ISIS under its strict interpretation of Islamic — or shariah — law, from crucifying Christians to stoning alleged adulterers to flogging young men for drinking.

ISIS featured a lengthy article in the latest version of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, released Thursday, on why it is "clamping down on sexual deviance."

The article blamed the advent of the sexual revolution for putting the West onto a "downward spiral" of immorality and said ISIS will continue its efforts to punish any transgressions.

"It's trying to shock and horrify"

The magazine came out just two days after ISIS released images purporting to show the execution of a ? man by stoning. In photographs released by ISIS supporters, masked fighters line up by a pile of rocks, and a blindfolded man is led by militants to his fate.

ISIS previously has opted to throw ? men off of towers — and stone them when they land. Two individuals were thrown off of the roof of a high building for the alleged "crime of homosexuality" in Mosul, according to a report released last month by ISIS on sentencing which was verified by Flashpoint Partners.

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Although ISIS' doctrine has its roots in traditional hard-line Islamic law, punishing men accused of ? by throwing them from tall buildings was "very obscure," according to Charlie Winter, a researcher at the London-based Quilliam anti-extremism think tank.

Winter said the practice was "not a traditional form of punishment" among Islamists and "not something we have seen other jihadi groups perform"

"What ISIS is doing in displaying this kind of thing is twofold," he said. "It's trying to shock and horrify the rest of the world but it's also trying to give the impression that the shariah that it practices is the purest form of shariah."

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  • AZTG
    AZTG Members Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thing is, they getting crazier and more extreme in their punishments and killings because they are losing ground everywhere.

    Its a war. So they gonna have win battles here and there, like they did this past weekend getting close to that Iraqi airbase that housed US soldiers, but overall they are losing ground. Losing battles and ground is leading them to lose their psychological edge, and so their punishments are getting more and more severe like burning hostages alive, and even more recent, beheading those Egyptian workers, now soldiers, just workers they captured who happened to be Egyptian Christians.

    Long story short, we are witnessing the beginning of the end for Isis and their desperation to prove their strength only proves it.
  • KLICHE
    KLICHE Members Posts: 5,061 ✭✭✭✭✭
    AZTG wrote: »
    Thing is, they getting crazier and more extreme in their punishments and killings because they are losing ground everywhere.

    Its a war. So they gonna have win battles here and there, like they did this past weekend getting close to that Iraqi airbase that housed US soldiers, but overall they are losing ground. Losing battles and ground is leading them to lose their psychological edge, and so their punishments are getting more and more severe like burning hostages alive, and even more recent, beheading those Egyptian workers, now soldiers, just workers they captured who happened to be Egyptian Christians.

    Long story short, we are witnessing the beginning of the end for Isis and their desperation to prove their strength only proves it.

    Just sad that there will be more innocent people suffering while they prove their point or mission, whatever message they're trying to convey.
  • Chef_Taylor
    Chef_Taylor Members Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Am I wrong for laughing at the thread title?
  • LUClEN
    LUClEN Members Posts: 20,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • OmegaConflict
    OmegaConflict Members Posts: 39,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • onthafly
    onthafly Members Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭✭
    The last thing they need to do is to give ? people their own oppressive history so they can feel like they're officially apart of the minority club. Just stop this ? .
  • gns
    gns Members Posts: 21,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I was to ask a Muslim or any of u dudes educated on the quran or whatever.
    Where exactly does it say these cats are supposed to ? Christians and all the other crazy ? they're doing.
    Where's these laws found?
  • Black Boy King
    Black Boy King Members Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    gns wrote: »
    If I was to ask a Muslim or any of u dudes educated on the quran or whatever.
    Where exactly does it say these cats are supposed to ? Christians and all the other crazy ? they're doing.
    Where's these laws found?
    This is what I want to know

    Does the Quran say or not say you are suppose to ? infidels/unbelievers