We recently discussed the homicidal hunk from ISIS who is all the rage with Muslim women looking for a husband to watch martyred. The extremist Sunni movement has been reaching out to Westerners to join their self-declared caliphate and thousands have reportedly responded. Now even more disturbing pictures have been posted with a father from Australia having his seven-year-old son holding up a severed head in celebration and a former British rapper (right) doing the same. Beheadings are viewed by ISIS as a traditional Islamic form of execution and a type of macabre celebration of their view of Islam. Severed heads feature prominently on ISIS (or Islamic State) social media postings.
The image of the young boy is particularly shocking for most people even after being deadened by weeks of atrocities and murders by ISIS forces. Sharrouf (left and right) claims that this is his son who has joined him in the wonderful caliphate created by the Islamic State. Sharrouf is wanted on terrorism charges in Australia and escaped to the Middle East on his brother’s passport. He posted the picture with the caption: “That’s my boy.”
He of course also posed with the severed head — a signature moment for any Islamic State fanatic and apparently a father-son bonding moment. He followed the grisly pics with a prayer that Allah “grant us martyrdom.”
As a father of four who yesterday prevented my nine-year-old daughter from watching Batman as too violent, I cannot imagine the twisted religious view that prompts a father to teach a child to mock and devalue a human life in this fashion. But then again beheading are not viewed in our house as the ultimate expression of religious values.
A friend of Sharrouf defended the picture and told the Telegraph that “This is what every sensible Muslim wants, to bring their children up in a caliphate . . . I don’t see what the big concern is getting children to hold up severed heads.” In the meantime, pro-Islamic State flyers and supporters have appeared in England. These are people who see these images and rejoiced in them as the culmination of their true faith.
Much like the once secularized law student turned homicidal religious fanatic, British rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, shows how quickly an individual can become radicalized in these Islamic extremist circles. Before he was modeling with severed heads of non-believers and traitors, he was trying to establish himself in the record industry. Then roughly a year all, he walked out of his family’s wealthy home in Maida Vale, west London, to join ISIS and “leav[e] everything for the sake of Allah.” His new persona posted pictures laughing with severed heads and the caption “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.” He went from a rapper on the “grime” music scene to extremist after encountering Anjem Choudary — a hateful and extremist Muslim speaker. Now Bary displays heads with captions like “It’s beautiful when you see Allah’s laws implemented.”
These pictures truly capture the insurmountable gulf between these Islamic fanatics and the rest of humanity, including most Muslims. They revel in the blood and killings of non-believers and seem liberated from basic human values by their religion. Their clerics seem to tap into not just pre-existing rage but a desire for murder and torture. The sense of euphoria in these images speaks to an almost narcotic effect of unrestrained violent rage. What is interesting is that this is not some weekend frolic of homicidal joy but a constant state of serving Allah by severing heads.
The world has truly gone mad.
Karen S.,
Are you suggesting that Bloomberg, a Jew, has forgotten about the 6 million who died in concentration camps because he wants some sanity concerning our addiction to guns? Really?
Well I see a few extremists here too, Squeaky being one. Good to see Annie here as she’s a rare level head. If any of these severed head holders are in the west or return to the west, I’m sure that would be a major crime, like inciting murder.
Happy poppies,
My flippant remark about Jews? Excuse me? What flippant remark would that be? I was defending Jews.
Sorry, I am new to this Blog as you know and it is difficult to understand the tone of many of the comments as well as the people. please accept my apology
@Squeaky – this comment I was directing at you and Annie’s flippant remarks about the Jews. I am all over the internet so I can only take a shot – happypappies
Great article with heart as usual stupid egocentric comments
So – I am mostly in agreement with your views but government is necessary, Lucky for us we have the constitution which I feel was divinely inspired and somehow holds this country together and helps us all aspire to be more than the animals we see all around us. As to what is going on in Ferguson. Please understand there is no Militia there;. There is State Police there and they are trying to work their problems out. I wish everyone here would try to look at these things clearly as if it were where they lived and realize that those people are from America and they want to work things out and that BS piece of paper being circulated by that groups is bs. The Police were wrong but right now I am sure they are protecting their own like they always do.
Karen- Amen!
@max – 1
Well then for Heaven’s sake, go to one of the 19 states where you can get married! Think positively here. Don ‘t do one of those “but we can still cheat on each other” marriages. Nope, if you want to get married, then do it, do it right, and help convince people by example that it is OK.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky,
When you play in the mud puddles of the Holacaust…
… Expect muddy shoes, yours.
If you don’t like me making comparisons, then don’t bring up comparatives.
It’s like bringing up gay rights…
Did you know your buddy, Charlie is gonna get married in jail?
Yep, but in 31 States I still can’t. And to think, I haven’t murdered any pregnant actresses.
Wrxdave,
A-10 thunderbolts are awesome. Saw them flying over Ft. Bragg NC in a training exercises with the 82nd Air Borne and 5th Special Forces.
To secure US taxpayers $3 trillion investment in Iraq, Obama, Kerry, Chuck Hagel and NATO need a plan. Just a reminder, one these ISIS jerks is running around with 88 pounds of plutonium.
@karens
True. Then right after the gratuitous Christian bashing, comes all the hand -wringing over divisiveness and the hateful partisan environment.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Karen, “Haters gotta hate.” The lovers of atheism have to answer for Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. Atheists have tortured and killed hundreds of millions.
@happypappies
I am not sure what you are taking back. If you called me a name, I don’t take that stuff personally. As far as NWO shills, most don’t even know that they are shills. That is why the answers usually don ‘t work. You can stop building prisons when you start building jobs. But many poor blacks are incapable of any but menial type jobs because of lousy schools and lousy family lives. Sooo, if you start with welfare reform, then there are no jobs to go to.
If if was me, I would hit it all sideways. Increase mininum wages significantly. Put a tariff on imports. Secure the border from low wage labor. Screw all that HB1 visa crap. Raise taxes. Increase food stamp allowances and include utilitity allowances. End teacher unions. End student loans and make those outstanding dischargeable without bankruptcy. Increase social security payments to track with minimum wage amounts. Increase infrastructure repairs.
Hopefully by doing this, and many other things, demand would increase across the board and restore the economy. But it would be just as likely the government would screw it up and make things worse.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Right on cue comes the Christian bashing.
Each . . . and every . . . time an Islamic extremists murders someone, people have to bring up the “but the Christians are just as bad”. I call shenanigans.
Obama called ISIS, ISIL, shitbirds in my book, “The Jayvee.” Didn’t Obama play Jayvee b-ball in high school?
Annie:
“Stoning takes a long time for the victim to die, seems like beheading is quicker.”
Sharia Law has stoning, beheading, amputation, and lashing as punishments.
Squeeky:
“You are entitled to your opinion. Personally, if 6 million of my people had been locked up and murdered, I would be a poster child for the NRA. But instead New York Jews like Bloomberg want to disarm. You can call that “not stupid ” but not me.”
So true. It seems that people have forgotten.
According to the census by the Ottoman Empire, what is now Israel was sparsely populated. Arabs immigrated there for the jobs when the British Mandate came down to create a Jewish state.
Palestine was never a country; it was a region. The Muslim portion is now Jordan, and the Jewish people now have Israel.
How many Muslims do you think would be understanding about giving up Mecca?
A father prays on video that his little boy be martyred?
What is WRONG with people? It’s a tragedy that this little boy will be ruined by Islamic extremism.
This is why the parents are blamed for extremism. When mothers praise their sons for blowing up school buses, for killing children, as they preside over the funerals of their suicide-bomber sons, there is something seriously wrong.
How do you combat brainwashing from birth?
Arabs have an entrenched hatred for any non-Muslim state in the Middle East. Arabs immigrated to what would become Israel for the economy of the British Mandate, but once there, they fought against a Jewish state. Aside from an occasional lull, they have never stopped fighting.
Hamas’ charter reads that its goal is the destruction of Israel and death to nonbelievers. They were democratically elected by Palestinians.
How do you meet someone halfway who wants to kill you and your children unless you convert to Islam???
Reports have surfaced that Hamas soldiers carry babies with them, running down the street, shooting at Israeli soldiers. Those soldiers faced a demented choice: sit there and die, or fire back and risk killing an innocent baby.
It’s the stuff of nightmares. I cannot understand anyone who defends this.
Hamas does not want a 2-nation-state. They have openly declared they want the destruction of Israel. How many people would sympathize with those who immigrated here, and then began suicide bombing us, targeting women and children, because they want us destroyed and converted to a Muslim caliphate? Seriously? Are there more than 8 non-Muslim people on the globe who defend this?
@max-1
I do not find any equivalence between the Gazans and the Warsaw Jews. One were fodder for gas chambers and ovens. The other is a group of genocidal murderers who do bear more than a passing resemblance to the Nazis. Plus, I have already cited you to Gazans having the 13th highest birth rate in the world. So skip all the blather about the poor Gazans.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
How long before these converted westerners return to their home countries, on their home passports, to further pursue the ISIS agenda?
Squeeky,
Yep, they were scratching to get weapons…
… Just like Hamas has to scratch for weapons.
Oh, and don’t forget… TERROR TUNNELS.
Polish Jews did that too!