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August 25, 2014
U.N. accuses Islamic State of mass killings
Source: yahoo news
The United Nations on Monday condemned "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq, including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes.
U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay condemned "grave, horrific human rights violations" being committed by Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim group which has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria to the alarm of the Baghdad government and its allies in the West.
Up to 670 prisoners from Badush prison in the city of Mosul were killed by Islamic State on June 10, Pillay said in a statement quoting survivors and witnesses to the "massacre" as telling U.N. human rights investigators.
"Such cold-blooded, systematic and intentional killings of civilians, after singling them out for their religious affiliation, may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity," Pillay said.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/iraqs-abadi-optimistic-formation-government-085950562.html
August 25, 2014
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary has reportedly been identified the ISIS militant who beheaded American journalist James Foley in a video released this week.
Reports over the last several days had indicated that British intelligence forces were focusing in on the 23-year-old former London resident, who had achieved some fame in the UK for his rap career. Sources say that Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary left his family’s upscale home in London last year to join ISIS.
Bary is believed to have traveled to Syria, and recently tweeted a picture of himself holding a severed head.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary had a somewhat successful rap career, with some of his songs earning play on BBC radio. In early songs he made references to drug use and violence, as well as the threat of his family being deported to Egypt. His father, Adel Abdul Bary, was extradited from Britain to the United States on charges of terrorism in 2012 and was believed to be a close lieutenant of Osama bin Laden.
http://www.inquisitr.com/1429387/abdel-majed-abdel-bary-london-rapper-identified-as-isis-militant-who-beheaded-james-foley/
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary: London Rapper Identified As ISIS Militant Who Beheaded James Foley
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary has reportedly been identified the ISIS militant who beheaded American journalist James Foley in a video released this week.
Reports over the last several days had indicated that British intelligence forces were focusing in on the 23-year-old former London resident, who had achieved some fame in the UK for his rap career. Sources say that Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary left his family’s upscale home in London last year to join ISIS.
Bary is believed to have traveled to Syria, and recently tweeted a picture of himself holding a severed head.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary had a somewhat successful rap career, with some of his songs earning play on BBC radio. In early songs he made references to drug use and violence, as well as the threat of his family being deported to Egypt. His father, Adel Abdul Bary, was extradited from Britain to the United States on charges of terrorism in 2012 and was believed to be a close lieutenant of Osama bin Laden.
http://www.inquisitr.com/1429387/abdel-majed-abdel-bary-london-rapper-identified-as-isis-militant-who-beheaded-james-foley/
August 25, 2014
Little over a week after the gruesome video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley was posted on to YouTube, another symbolic video has started making the rounds of the Internet. While the video doesn’t show anyone being killed, there’s no doubt about the fact that this one is equally disturbing to watch. The video shows a little girl holding a doll and then later beheading the same while singing praises to Allah.
The video was initially posted to video sharing site LiveLeak and has since then been posted on to YouTube.
What is even more sickening about the video is that it apparently mocks the beheading of James Foley. Like Foley, the doll too is seen wearing an orange jumpsuit. The doll is then laid to the ground after which the girl simply beheads it without flinching. At this moment it’s still unclear if this is a propaganda video by ISIS, or simply the work of a deranged mind who created this simply for fun.
Welcome to the future.
Baby Jihad: Muslim Toddler Executing Doll By Beheading
http://www.inquisitr.com/1431876/girl-beheads-doll-james-foley/Little over a week after the gruesome video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley was posted on to YouTube, another symbolic video has started making the rounds of the Internet. While the video doesn’t show anyone being killed, there’s no doubt about the fact that this one is equally disturbing to watch. The video shows a little girl holding a doll and then later beheading the same while singing praises to Allah.
The video was initially posted to video sharing site LiveLeak and has since then been posted on to YouTube.
What is even more sickening about the video is that it apparently mocks the beheading of James Foley. Like Foley, the doll too is seen wearing an orange jumpsuit. The doll is then laid to the ground after which the girl simply beheads it without flinching. At this moment it’s still unclear if this is a propaganda video by ISIS, or simply the work of a deranged mind who created this simply for fun.
Welcome to the future.
August 24, 2014
A well known Egyptian social activist and blogger posted a photo to Facebook Saturday of herself and another unidentified women defecating and menstruating on an Islamic State flag while in the nude, in what appears to be a protest against the Islamist terror group’s recent advances in northern Iraq and Syria.
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy did not specify why she posted the photo, though past controversies, such as a 2011 incident in which she posed in only stockings and red shoes for her blog — to protest against Egypt’s conservative culture — suggest that she was opposing the Islamic State terror group’s brutally restrictive and misogynistic ideology.
Picture is rather inappropriate to post.
Egypt feminist defecates on IS flag in the nude (warning if hit link)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-feminist-defecates-on-is-flag-in-the-nude/A well known Egyptian social activist and blogger posted a photo to Facebook Saturday of herself and another unidentified women defecating and menstruating on an Islamic State flag while in the nude, in what appears to be a protest against the Islamist terror group’s recent advances in northern Iraq and Syria.
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy did not specify why she posted the photo, though past controversies, such as a 2011 incident in which she posed in only stockings and red shoes for her blog — to protest against Egypt’s conservative culture — suggest that she was opposing the Islamic State terror group’s brutally restrictive and misogynistic ideology.
Picture is rather inappropriate to post.
August 23, 2014
He also said that the executions are "rejected and condemned" by the Palestinian people, adding that they were reminiscent of the summary executions carried out by Wahhabi militant groups in other parts of the Middle East.
Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel is punishable by death. All death sentences, however, require President Mahmoud Abbas' approval before being carried out, and Abbas issued a moratorium on death sentences in 2005.
Until the formation of a unity government in April, however, Hamas carried out executions under its own authority because it did not recognize Abbas as president, arguing that his term expired in 2009.
PA slams Hamas executions of alleged collaborators
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=722656He also said that the executions are "rejected and condemned" by the Palestinian people, adding that they were reminiscent of the summary executions carried out by Wahhabi militant groups in other parts of the Middle East.
Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel is punishable by death. All death sentences, however, require President Mahmoud Abbas' approval before being carried out, and Abbas issued a moratorium on death sentences in 2005.
Until the formation of a unity government in April, however, Hamas carried out executions under its own authority because it did not recognize Abbas as president, arguing that his term expired in 2009.
August 23, 2014
not exactly freedom of religion.
Video shows ISIS ‘converting’ Yazidis to Islam
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/23/ISIS-video-allegedly-shows-Yazidis-converting-to-Islam.htmlnot exactly freedom of religion.
August 21, 2014
Disgusting but if youre interested it is something you may never see again.(thankfully)
Open at your own risk.
In Photos: ISIL radicals execute and crucify 3 men in Syria (WARNING-GRAPHIC)
http://www.abna.ir/english/service/pictorial/archive/2014/08/19/632231/story.htmlDisgusting but if youre interested it is something you may never see again.(thankfully)
Open at your own risk.
August 21, 2014
In a text message sent to media, Hamas said three of its senior military leaders - Mohammed Abu Shamaleh, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar - were killed, along with three other people.
Gaza police and medical officials said scores more people remained under the rubble of a four-story structure destroyed in the airstrike.
The three Hamas leaders are considered to be at the senior levels of its military leadership and were involved in a number of high profile attacks on Israeli targets.
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet confirmed the deaths of Shamaleh and al-Attar in an email, but did not mention Barhoum.
Hamas says 3 senior leaders killed in Gaza strike
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/21/hamas-says-3-senior-leaders-killed-in-gaza-strike/20950206/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing13%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D518730In a text message sent to media, Hamas said three of its senior military leaders - Mohammed Abu Shamaleh, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar - were killed, along with three other people.
Gaza police and medical officials said scores more people remained under the rubble of a four-story structure destroyed in the airstrike.
The three Hamas leaders are considered to be at the senior levels of its military leadership and were involved in a number of high profile attacks on Israeli targets.
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet confirmed the deaths of Shamaleh and al-Attar in an email, but did not mention Barhoum.
August 19, 2014
Does anyone know how many non-peaceful protesters there are ?
Or to be less PC, how many people want to cause trouble ?
(Seems no whatever what the police do...
Riot gear...no riot gear
Curfew...no curfew
Talking ...no talking with them
Helicopters...no helicoptors
It really doesn't seem to satisfy the non-peaceful protestors protestors.
August 17, 2014
Up to 3,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Islamic State thugs on the rampage in Iraq over the past two weeks, it is feared.
They face the terrifying prospect of being forced into marriage or sold as sex slaves, reports the Sunday People.
Amnesty International said the victims, some just babies, were snatched from villages overrun by the heavily-armed jihadists.
Hundreds of male villagers who refuse to convert to Islam have been mercilessly shot dead.
Meanwhile US jets continued to pound Islamic State positions and British planes airlifted relief supplies to refugees yesterday.
Islamic State fanatics kidnap more than 3,000 women and girls in 2 week rampage
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/islamic-state-fanatics-kidnap-more-4062810Up to 3,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Islamic State thugs on the rampage in Iraq over the past two weeks, it is feared.
They face the terrifying prospect of being forced into marriage or sold as sex slaves, reports the Sunday People.
Amnesty International said the victims, some just babies, were snatched from villages overrun by the heavily-armed jihadists.
Hundreds of male villagers who refuse to convert to Islam have been mercilessly shot dead.
Meanwhile US jets continued to pound Islamic State positions and British planes airlifted relief supplies to refugees yesterday.
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