Filial love
More news from ISIS: one of their soldiers has publicly murdered his own mother for “apostasy.”
The activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RIBSS) said 20-year-old jihadi Ali Saqr al-Qasem shot his mother Lena, 45, in the head with an assault rifle in front of a large crowd.
Lena al-Qasem is understood to have been accused of apostasy – a crime that usually means leaving one’s religion but in practise is used by Isis as a justification for murdering anybody who doesn’t support or speaks out against the terror group.
Naturally. There is The One True Group in Purity and Righteousness, and everyone else is an apostate. Such a view is efficient and, in the short term, good fun (assuming you love cruelty and death, as of course ISIS does).
The exact charge against Ms al-Qasem was “inciting her son to leave the Islamic State and escaping together to the outside of Raqqa”, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
The UK-based conflict monitor said Ali Saqr al-Qasem had reported his mother to his Isis superiors, who then sentenced her to death and ordered him be the one to kill her.
Allahu akbar.
What, don’t they have the “Honor your mother and father ” rule?
they’ve never had an ‘honour your mother’ rule. Nor an ‘honour your aunt’ rule. Nor an ‘honour your sister’ rule. Nor an ‘honour your daughter’ rule. Nor an……oh well you get the idea.
They’re a cult. A disproportionately powerful and violent one but a cult nonetheless, complete with exaggerated loyalty testing.Not only must this uppity woman die but *her son must kill her*. Denouncing her isn’t enough. How loyal is he? Is the cult mother, father, child or does he waver? There’s precedent, look at Allah and Abraham/Isaac.
And among all that a human being’s right to life is erased for the crime of trying to save her child. It makes me want to weep.
The whole notion of ‘takfir’ creeps around the edges of Islam. I think mostly from Wahhabi sources.
As members of the One Twue Edition of the One Twue Faith, Wahhabis, rather like ‘witch sniffers’ have the individual authority to judge, and punish, anyone they encounter for failing to meet THEIR standards of orthodoxy. The sub-culture breeds inquisitors the way Mormons break out in self-decreed prophets.
How sickening.
“And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour.” (Quran 17:23)