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ISIS has justified the burning to death of the Jordanian Pilot followed with dumping rubble on his corpse as following the Islamic concept of Qisas . Qisas in essence = eye for an eye.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...method-of-killing-jordanian-pilot-un-islamic/
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From Slate
" It then justifies the burning on eye-for-an-eye grounds: "
I perused issue 6 of Dabiq but - the issue with above mentioned section on the pilot - but could not find the scriptural justification being mentioned.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...le_defensive_about_burning_the_jordanian.html
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Meanwhile in Kobani..
ISIS who once looked poised to take all of Kobani is now having to pull out, after being pummeled by US airstrikes and stiff resistance from Kurdish fighters.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...blames-coalition-airstrikes-for-losing-kobani
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ISIS has justified the burning to death of the Jordanian Pilot followed with dumping rubble on his corpse as following the Islamic concept of Qisas . Qisas in essence = eye for an eye.
What Zakaria did not mention is that there is also an established concept within Sharia law known as Qisas. As the BBC points out, Qisas is the Islamic equivalent of an eye for an eye. This principle of equivalence allows the relatives of a maimed or killed Muslim to demand the same punishment for the person who injured/killed them. Qisas is still practiced in some countries such as Iran and Pakistan.
ISIS’s execution video clearly attempts to present the killing of Mouath al-Kasaesbeh as an act of Qisas. Most of the video is devoted to the captured pilot describing how he dropped laser-guided bombs on various targets. Video of laser-guided weapons striking ground targets is interspersed with shots of injured and dead children, some of them burned. The transition used between each video segment is an expanding flame. The point being made is that the pilot dropped bombs which burned his targets to death.
Many observers Tuesday were confused why, after Mouath al-Kasaesbeh has already been killed by fire, a front-end loader drops tons of concrete on his body. But Qisas explains why this was done. The point is to replicate the injustice he allegedly caused as exactly as possible. Thus the last image we see is a burned hand sticking from beneath the rubble. ISIS is visually arguing that he got precisely the kind of death he had, in his role as a pilot, given out to others.
As PJ Media pointed out, an ISIS-supporting Twitter feed even published a justification for the killing on Twitter, citing Islamic scholar Ibn Hazm. Ibn Hazm wrote nearly 1,000 years ago that burning was one of many acceptable forms of retaliatory justice under Qisas
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journa...method-of-killing-jordanian-pilot-un-islamic/
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From Slate
" It then justifies the burning on eye-for-an-eye grounds: "
In burning the crusader pilot alive and burying him under a pile of debris, the Islamic State carried out a just form of retaliation for his involvement in the crusader bombing campaign which continues to result in the killing of countless Muslims who, as a result of these airstrikes, are burned alive and buried under mountains of debris.
It also includes several scriptural examples of enemies of Islam being burned to make its case that ISIS had “followed the footsteps of Allah’s Messenger … in his harshness towards the disbelievers.”
I perused issue 6 of Dabiq but - the issue with above mentioned section on the pilot - but could not find the scriptural justification being mentioned.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...le_defensive_about_burning_the_jordanian.html
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Meanwhile in Kobani..
ISIS who once looked poised to take all of Kobani is now having to pull out, after being pummeled by US airstrikes and stiff resistance from Kurdish fighters.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...blames-coalition-airstrikes-for-losing-kobani