Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery

BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.
None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away.

"Even when she was hit with stones she did not scream or move," said an opposition activist who said he witnessed the stoning near the football stadium and the Bajaa garden in the city of Raqqa, the main Syrian stronghold of the Islamic State group.
The July 18 stoning was the second in a span of 24 hours. A day earlier, 26-year-old Shamseh Abdullah was killed in a similar way in the nearby town of Tabqa by Islamic State fighters. Both were accused of having sex outside marriage.

The killings were the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where jihadis from the Islamic State group have seized large swaths of territory, terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and cutting off the hands of thieves. The jihadis recently tied a 14-year-old boy to a cross-like structure and left him for several hours in the scorching summer sun before bringing him down -- punishment for not fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The group has also brutalized Shiite Muslims and others whom it views as apostates. In neighboring Iraq, Islamic State militants have driven members of the Yazidi religious minority out of a string of towns and villages. Thousands of the fleeing Yazidis have been stranded on a mountaintop for days, a humanitarian crisis that prompted the U.S. to airlift aid to them this week.
The stonings in Syria last month were not widely publicized at the time, but in the following days three photographs appeared online which appeared to document the grisly spectacle and were consistent with other AP reporting.

The pictures posted on a newly-created Twitter account showed dozens of people gathered in a square, a cleric reading a verdict through a loudspeaker and several bearded men with automatic rifles either carrying or collecting stones.

The stoning took place after dark, he said, at about 11 p.m. He could not see blood on the body because of the black clothes she was wearing. Ahmad did not scream or shake, and died silently. "They then took the dead body in one of their cars and left," he said.

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Shame on them upstaging Hamas this way.

Sick people.. Radicals and religion is a bad combination. To claim that their religion dictates this, is an outrageous travesty.

I wonder how many people in those cities support the invaders?

A lot i am affraid... Because some of them are Sunni. And for some stupid reason there is a lot of animosity going on betrween Sunni and Shias.

Terrorists are not real Muslims
It is very important to study the psychology and behavior of terrorists because they can kill their self anywhere to kill people, which is absolutely abnormal.
This article may be a key to such study.
Muslims are basically divided in two major factions, Sunnis and Shias. Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam they are currently four recognized schools; Hanafi, Shafi, Maliki and Hanbali. Also there is a school for Sufi. Hanbali is considered to be the most conservative of the four schools. Hanbali jurisprudence is predominant among Muslims in Saudi Arabia.
The Salafi movement was revived by Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab in the Arabian Peninsula, and was instrumental in the rise of the House of Saud to power. Salafism (Wahhabism) is a puritanical and legalistic Islamic movement under the Sunni umbrella (Hanbali), and is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Salafism is, in general, opposed to Sufism and Shi'a Islam, as well as Christians.
Osama bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family. He was Salafi (Wahhabi) , the leader of Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has continued to exist and grew through the decade from 2001 to 2011.
Al-Qaeda attacked civilian and military targets in various countries. It is intolerant of other branches of Islam, specially Shias, Sufis and other sects regard them as heretics and sometimes issue attacks on their mosques and gatherings.
Al-Qaeda is also known as the International Islamic Front for Jihad against the Crusaders and the Jews.
Salafi-Jihadist Sheikh said: "It Is Permissible to Spill the Blood of the Iraqi Christians – And a Duty to Wage Jihad Against Them." So Al-Qaeda attacked churches in Baghdad, in Egypt Salafi militants have burned churches and killed Copts, and in Muosel ISIS did the same.
Salafism (Wahhabism) is a religious method whose influence has spread throughout the Arab world and also in Europe, thanks to the support received from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have helped expand this peculiar vision of Islam.
In Europe, it has become a powerful magnet for generations of young Muslims who suffer identity problems.
The fighting version of Salafism has also become the core ideology of the global jihadism sponsored by al-Qa’ida and ISIS.
Stephen Schwartz is a senior policy analyst with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies based in Washington, DC. As a journalist, wrote;
''Al-Qaeda represents Wahhabism in its purest form – a violent fundamentalist doctrine that rejects all non-Wahhabi Islam, especially the spiritual forms of Islam. Wahhabism is an expansionist sect intolerant of Shi‘ite Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Hinduism; in fact, Wahhabists seek to challenge and destroy these faiths. The Saudi-Wahhabi threat must not be underestimated; it requires our grave attention.
Stephen Concluded;
Saudi Arabia and its militant Islamic doctrines constitute a clear and present danger to the United States and the international community. The U.S. should demand a full accounting of Saudi complicity in the September 11th terrorist attacks. We should no longer accept the status quo and forcefully pressure the kingdom to cut its ties to terrorism.

I agree. Saudi Arabia should be at the held accountable for their part and for not doing anything to control radicals. They like our petro-dollars but they are not our friend.
Most peace loving people in the western world only see Islam as one religion though. Until things change that will always be the case.

Iran is a good example where the country is both Islamic and supports terrorism.