Islamic State beheads female civilians for first time in Syria: monitor

[brooklynite]

Source: Reuters

The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday.

The beheadings took place in the eastern Deir al-Zor province this week said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground.

One of the women was beheaded along with her husband in Deir al-Zor city. In al-Mayadeen city to the south east, the group beheaded another woman and her husband. All of them were accused of sorcery, the monitor said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/30/us-mideast-crisis-syria-islamicstate-idUSKCN0PA0QB20150630

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lone wolves...

[ananda]

1. Sorcery?!!

Oh dear, it's back to the dark ages again.

Unbelievable.. yet it's happening.

[DetlefK]

2. A few years ago, a teacher in Florida was accused of witchery...

He had performed a magic trick where he makes a toothpick disappear...

[R. P. McMurphy]

3. We should go after the GOP . . .

they made our standard of living and REAL family values in this country disappear.

Before anyone says that was assholery instead of sorcery, let me ask this - ARE YOU SURE THE GOP POLITICIANS HAVEN'T SOLD THEIR SOULS TO SATAN? (caps for emphasis, not yelling)

[DetlefK]

5. YOU HAVE TO WRITE LOUDER, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

[captnearl]

8. bullshit

really who is (HURT) by someone typing in caps get over the bullshit

[NuclearDem]

9. WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT ANGER

I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ANGER

I'M NOT UPSET

AND I AM NOT ANGRY

DO I LOOK ANGRY

[DetlefK]

10. NEED HELP! MY KEYBOARD IS STUCK IN CAPS MODE!

[melman]

24. Was he beheaded?

I'm guessing no.

[Iliyah]

4. "black magic" and many cultures still believe it.

[candelista]

6. This is the ISIS version of equal opportunity.

[snagglepuss]

23. To make light of something so cruel and so ignorant is disgusting.

[candelista]

25. I hope you feel better soon.

[Yupster]

7. To borrow a reply another DU'er made in a similar thread

Someone needs to tell someone about what these guys are doing so someone can do something.

[oberliner]

11. Everyone knows and nobody wants to do anything

I mean what is there to do, really? I mean that sincerely. What can be done about this sort of horror?

[Beauregard]

12. Not every problem has a solution.

Anything the US tries to do always makes things worse.

[oberliner]

13. Is there anything that would make things better?

I mean, I assume the US will/would do something if these folks manage a major attack on US citizens. Do we really want to wait for that to happen, though?

[Archae]

15. I say we give them a nuke.

Oh yeah.

Granted, it'll be ticking...

[oberliner]

16. Huh?

I'm sorry but I don't understand that comment.

[Archae]

17. I'm joking, of course.

But if a nuke did explode in ISIS's face, I really wouldn't be sad about that.

[Yupster]

19. It depends what we are willing to tolerate

I truly believe that if ISIS built gas chambers and started herding Christians in Jews into them and filmed it on YouTube, I believe the US would do nothing.

It really has gotten that bad.

I believe some things can't be tolerated.

I would use massive force. Hundreds or thousands of airstrikes and helicopter strikes every day.

Some things you just can't tolerate.

[tabasco]

27. www.goarmy.com

Ask for specialty "eleven bravo."

[Archae]

14. Just look at all the nitwits here in the US opposing gay marriage.

Just about all of them invoke a mythical being, (Satan,) who they blame for the SC ruling.

Just as crazy as the ISIS kooks, the only difference is most of the fundys here in the US don't kill, they just whine a lot.

[Oneironaut]

18. ISIS = House Bolton IRL

Al Qaeda seems sane compared to ISIS. They're like a bunch of five-year-old boys who were given magnifying glasses, and civilians are the ants.

[Comrade Grumpy]

20. Iran could take care of this problem.

[6chars]

21. Of course, they didn't forget the men.

From op linked article:

The Islamic State also "crucified" five men in al-Mayadeen for eating during daylight hours of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the Observatory said.

They were hung up by their limbs on the city wall and children were encouraged to mock them as they suffered, it added.

[freshwest]

22. And it will be a generational war. Those kids being taught that, will repeat it. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. Saudi Arabia beheads women all the time

as a punishment for crimes. In April, two women were beheaded by the government in broad daylight within weeks of each other.

[hrmjustin]

28. Barbaric!