ISIS again caused international outrage with pictures this week of its beheading of Ayham Hussein, 15, who was reportedly executed for listening to Western music. ISIS considers such influences to be anti-Islamic and subject to death under the medieval Sharia law system enforced by the militants.
Ayham was found listening to Western music while sitting in his father’s grocery store in the Nabi Younis marketplace in Mosul. He was reportedly beaten and then brought before a Sharia court for his death sentence. Even by ISIS standards, people were shocked and a rare protest was held outside the family’s house. Two years ago ISIS banned “music and songs in cars, at parties, in shops and in public, as well as photographs of people in shop windows.” The group insists that it is merely following Koranic principles and that “Songs and music are forbidden in Islam as they prevent one from the remembrance of God and the Koran and are a temptation and corruption of the heart.” Obviously, most Muslims reject this extremist interpretation.
It is worth noting that Saudi Arabia, one of our closest allies, also enforces extreme Sharia law edicts, including arresting people for dancing.
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You have to call a spade a spade here. As much as Obama has lead this country out of the sewer into which the three stooges placed it, here he is woefully wanting. This is not a question of cultural differences and to say that is cowardly. This is an example of depravity and murder. Obama should strap on a pair, lay the law down to the so called allies and wax a few pedophiles. This hands off and let them sort things out because it’s their country is what the idiot Bush did after going in. The Bush administration forked over billions in duffel bags, let the local warlords cheat and corrupt, and then stepped back. The generals said to go in with close to a half million troops, wipe out the enemy, and quickly rebuild the country. They emphatically stated that America should do the whole job, rebuild, and administer, until the perverts were weeded out. The three stooges opted for ‘shock and awe’ and cut and run.
Obama inherited the sewer but he seems woefully inadequate to deal with this particular culvert. These pedophiles are disgusting and do not deserve to live. Going along with it is not correct, political or otherwise. It is just looking the other way. Perhaps our soldiers should take the law into their own hands, kill the pedophiles and then when they get the boot, be given jobs as firemen, policemen, etc here in America. Perhaps a bounty should be placed on the pedophiles.