Wednesday 11 February 2015

Egyptian Journalist on IS's Atrocities (video)

Noted the Israeli Arabist scholar Mordechai Kedar in an important analysis of the meaning and motivation of the horrible death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh:
'[T]he burning alive of the Jordanian pilot is not a new propaganda weapon invented by ISIS, as some of the media commentators on the movie claimed. This is a method of eliminating enemies that is well known and documented in early Islamic sources, and based on a deductive legal principle in Sharia law.'
Below, in a video from the invaluable Memri.org, is Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Eissa insisting on 3 February that IS's atrocities are rooted in Islamic sources:


(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHaWta7AFI)

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