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| Iraq |
| 'Mosul Eye' Claims City 'Quietly Slipping Away' From IS |
| 2015-02-15 |
| [Iraq Sun] A "drastic social change" is taking place in the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS)-controlled Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... following the killing of captured Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, with more and more religious residents expressing resentment and anger toward the Lion of Islams, a local resident-turned-anonymous blogger has reported. The account of life in Mosul was posted on the on February 13. Mosul Eye is the pseudonym of who has been secretly documenting IS's activities in Mosul since the turbans overran the city in June. While it is not possible to verify the blogger's identity, believe the accounts are credible. According to Mosul Eye, IS's recent murder of Kasasbeh was "the main direct factor" -- though there have been others -- that led to the significant change in the attitude of religious Mosul residents toward the holy warrior Sunni group. Kasasbeh was captured by IS on December 24 during a bombing raid, after his F-16 war plane developed mechanical problems and crashed. showing Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage was released by IS on February 3. Activists in the Syrian town of Raqqa reported that IS showed the immolation video on large screens in the city. The objections being expressed by Mosul residents toward IS are toward the Lion of Islams' theory and application of Islamic Shari'a law, Mosul Eye said. "The big question people are asking today in Mosul is how [IS] is well-correlated to true Islam," Mosul Eye reported. When IS first took over Mosul, local people were afraid to get involved with the turbans or even mention them, but that has changed, Mosul Eye. "Nowadays, people talk openly in the market about [IS] and its cruelty," Mosul Eye said. While talking about religion had become almost taboo in the Iraqi city over the past months, the burning of Kasasbeh led people to question IS's interpretation of Shari'a. Mosul Eye quotes a 25-year-old university student, named only as Samir, who said that he did not sleep the night that Kasasbeh was burned alive. "The idea that Allah, the merciful God I learned about in my childhood, is giving the pretense and justification to kill in his name, has scared me a lot," Samir was quoted as saying. Samir said that he told everyone that the immolation of Kasasbeh was "not an act of Islam." "I went to the nearby mosque...and I talked to the imam there. I asked him about the legitimacy of burning. The imam kept silent and did not want to give me an answer.... I left the mosque knowing that this is the last time I'll ever enter the place," Samir said. According to Samir, an IS imam gave the sermon in the mosque the next day and told the congregation that burning was legitimate and that God had authorized it. Mosul Eye described Samir as "one among a small but very significant population in Mosul who was struck by [IS's] brutality." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 one among a small but very significant population in Mosul who are on the Special High Intensity Treatment list compiled by ISIS. That list will be getting ever shorter. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-15 12:35 |
| #1 "I went to the nearby mosque...and I talked to the imam there. I asked him about the legitimacy of burning. The imam kept silent and did not want to give me an answer.... Therein lies much of the problem. Our boneheaded betters (sarc) in Washington keep insisting that terrorism is not religion-related. Therein lies another part of the problem. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-02-15 09:23 |