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[h=1]Christian beheads jihadist in Syria revenge killing: monitor[/h]news.yahoo.com/christian-beheads-jihadist-syria-revenge-killing-monitor-155615405.html
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Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian Christian fighter has beheaded an Islamic State group (IS) militant to avenge people "executed" by the jihadists in northeastern Syria, a monitor said on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the incident took place on Thursday in Hasakeh province, where IS holds large areas of the countryside.
According to the monitor, the Christian fighter, a member of the minority Assyrian community, found the jihadist in the local village of Tal Shamiram.
"He took him prisoner and when he found out he was a member of IS, the Assyrian fighter beheaded him in revenge for abuses committed by the group in the region," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The Observatory is based in Britain but has covered the Syrian conflict since it broke out four years ago thanks to a network of sources inside the country.
The Christian was fighting in the ranks of Kurdish forces who earlier this month drove IS out of more than a dozen Assyrian villages the jihadists had captured in Hasakeh.
IS has carried out a wave of abuses in areas it controls in both Syria and Iraq, including public beheadings, mass executions, enslavement and rape.
 

Oh boy, talk about torn. As a woman, a mother, etc. I want to behead them all, and their supporters, twice, after imaginative torture. As a hopefully, somewhat self-actualised human being, I must reluctantly refrain. It sucks having to live my beliefs.
 
Two comments - one that is not an act compatible with Christian teaching. I know that we can invoke all kinds of medieval examples to the contrary but they were also a long way off the core teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

The second is that this could be rumour or propaganda. The story needs validation. If it is true, it is a very sad extension of this barbarous conflict.

Additional - I've been searching the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and their facebook page and cannot find any mention of this.
 

The story had its origin with AFP (Agence France Presse) but I still can't find it there yet.

However, I have found this on the AFP website that endorses the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights

Confronted by propaganda from the regime and the sometimes biased narratives of rebels, journalists have also turned to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which gathers information and intelligence from a wide network of activists, doctors and lawyers, among others. Rami Abdel Rahman, who directs the Britain-based NGO, said that its daily death toll and other information is gathered from multiple sources in the same cities who do not know one another.

The Observatory track record – with no major blunders so far – is very good, though its estimated death toll among rebels does sometimes appear low. The United Nations stopped providing casualty estimates at the end of 2011, making it even more difficult to come up with a reliable count.
Evaluating conflicting reports of massacres is even trickier. One expects government and rebel figures to diverge sharply, but even estimates by the Observatory and other ostensibly independent international organizations can vary.

Beyond the numbers game, it is especially difficult to authenticate the circumstances of such killings, especially when a sectarian dimension enters the picture. In the Houla massacre in central Syria, where around 100 people were killed, the opposition accused Alawites – an offshoot sect of Shiite Islam – of slaughtering the inhabitants of the Sunni village. The Alawite-dominated regime blamed "terrorist" gangs. For journalists, there was no real way to prove which description was more apt. http://www.afp.com/en/node/378826
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"no major blunders" suggests credibility
 
I wish we could just eliminate this enemy without emmulating their methods of execution. That might lead to something that could get out of control easily.
 
AZ Jim said:
This isn't a "war" in the sense that there are Geneva Convention Rules.
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That's right....there are NO rules in these conflicts...especially for those fighting on the ISIS side. They are behaving just like savages, and have NO respect for any laws or human rights. I sometimes think that when one of their enclaves or training camps is located, we should bring back Napalm, and saturate their encampment with an airstrike.
 
Until 5-10 countries band together and go after and destroy this radical group, which I know is never going to happen, then we all have to live with it.If the U.S.,alone, goes after and destroys them then you can expect 500+ body bags coming back home.
Something I will not accept.
 
AZ Jim said:
Christian beheads jihadist in Syria revenge killing: monitor

news.yahoo.com/christian-beheads-jihadist-syria-revenge-killing-monitor-155615405.html
11 hours ago
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Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian Christian fighter has beheaded an Islamic State group (IS) militant to avenge people "executed" by the jihadists in northeastern Syria, a monitor said on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the incident took place on Thursday in Hasakeh province, where IS holds large areas of the countryside.
According to the monitor, the Christian fighter, a member of the minority Assyrian community, found the jihadist in the local village of Tal Shamiram.
"He took him prisoner and when he found out he was a member of IS, the Assyrian fighter beheaded him in revenge for abuses committed by the group in the region," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The Observatory is based in Britain but has covered the Syrian conflict since it broke out four years ago thanks to a network of sources inside the country.
The Christian was fighting in the ranks of Kurdish forces who earlier this month drove IS out of more than a dozen Assyrian villages the jihadists had captured in Hasakeh.
IS has carried out a wave of abuses in areas it controls in both Syria and Iraq, including public beheadings, mass executions, enslavement and rape.
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Somebody tell me again about how religion does no harm. Its not God's doing, its just these cursed human beings who keep screwing up "the plan".:playful:
 
Don M. said:
That's right....there are NO rules in these conflicts...especially for those fighting on the ISIS side. They are behaving just like savages, and have NO respect for any laws or human rights. I sometimes think that when one of their enclaves or training camps is located, we should bring back Napalm, and saturate their encampment with an airstrike.
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I love the Napalm idea. I'd thought of that one myself. Great minds, etc, etc..:rolleyes:
 
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