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| Graphic Video: Muslims Slaughter "Apostate" in Tunisia | ||
| 2012-06-04 | ||
Video "There is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to death." Liberal talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on "Egypt Today," airing a video of Muslims slicing off a young man's head off for the crime of apostasy -- in this instance, the crime of converting to Christianity and refusing to renounce it. The video--be warned, it is immensely graphic--can be seen here (the actual execution appears from minute 1:13-4:00). For those who prefer not to view it, a summary follows: A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background speaker, or "narrator," chants a number of Muslim prayers and supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of the Trinity, is referred to as a polytheistic faith: "Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist apostate"; "Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against the polytheists"; "Allah, defeat the infidels at the hands of the Muslims," and "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger." Then, to cries of "Allahu Akbar!"-- Allah is greater!"--the masked man holding the knife to the apostate's throat begins to slice away, severing the head completely after approximately one minute of graphic knife-carving, as the victim drowns in blood. Finally, the severed head is held aloft to more Islamic slogans of victory. Visibly distraught, Tawfiq Okasha, the host, asks: "Is this Islam? Does Islam call for this? How is Islam related to this matter?...These are the images that are disseminated throughout the electronic media in Europe and America.... Can you imagine?" Then, in reference to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, whose political influence has grown tremendously, he asks, "How are such people supposed to govern?"
Any number of Islamic legal manuals make explicitly clear that apostasy is a capital crime, punishable by death. The first "righteous caliph," a model of Muslim piety, had tens of thousands of former Muslims slaughtered--including by burning, beheading, and crucifixion--simply because they tried to break away from Islam. According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the most authoritative reference work on Islam in the English language, "there is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to death." Finally, a word on the "prayers" or supplications to Allah made by the Muslim executioners in the video: these are standard and formulaic. In other words, these are not just masked, anonymous butchers who pray to Allah as they engage in acts of cutting throats and holding up heads, these are top-ranking Muslim leaders, who appear regularly on TV, who invoke such hate-filled prayers. See here for examples of Muslims supplicating Allah to strike infidels with cancer and disease "till they pray for death and do not receive it;" there are even formalized prayers in Mecca, blasted on megaphones as Muslims honor their obligation to go on a pilgrimage at least once in their lives, supplicating Allah to make the lives of Christians and Jews "hostage to misery; drape them with endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment; fill their lives with sorrow and pain and end their lives in humiliation and oppression." "Is this Islam?" You decide. Raymond Ibrahim is an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. | ||
| Posted by:BernardZ |
| #8 He is speaking out the truth. Faithfully. To make people realize their heads are in danger of being seperated from their necks. Just as this young man died with faith in Christ as strong as ever. Just as death on crosses 2000 years ago failed to put fear in Christians, this young mans faith at the point of his beheading will also inspire Christians world wide. |
| Posted by: Ebbavise Panda4755 2012-06-04 18:07 |
| #7 Where's that preacher in Florida? Keeping his head firmly on his neck. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-06-04 11:05 |
| #6 Where's that preacher in Florida? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-06-04 10:34 |
| #5 More of a feature than a bug: any Muslim wanting to get rid of a fellow Muslim, simply tags the intended victim with the label 'apostate' or 'blasphemer' (you know the routine) and OTHER Muslims will do the killing. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-06-04 10:11 |
| #4 "Is this Islam?" Yes. Along with the honor killings and jihad against the west. Until Islam is ready to have a reformation and grow up and join the modern world, it will always be a barbaric religion. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-06-04 09:13 |
| #3 In Liberated Afghanistan what these islamofascists did would not only be legal, it would be mandatory because, in Liberated Afghanistan apostasy carries the death penalty. Apostasy carries the death penalty in Liberated Afghanistan because this is the wish of the people of Afghanistan, no, the NOBLE people of Afghanistan. Pastor Terry Jones however, is not a noble man because he occasionally burns Korans in order to draw attention to the persecution of Christians in the islamic world. </sarc> |
| Posted by: Lumpy Bucket7965 2012-06-04 09:13 |
| #2 I've sent a copy of the link to MEMRI so that it can be translated and widely disseminated, especially to those idiots who say all religion are equal. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-06-04 08:50 |
| #1 Perhaps this explains why Trinity United Church of Christ converts and their Islamic pasts and backgrounds are so shrouded. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-04 07:49 |