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.
The US and its allies kill innocents (collateral damage as they say) with unmanned drones and bombs. That’s a much better way to kill women and children. That needless killing is much more ‘Christian’.
Then there is Obama’s hands off military policy of the Bacha Bazi dancing boys in Afghanistan.
The pope’s a religious power broker. These religious power brokers have to be careful of what they say about each other. There’s a lot of dirty laundry hanging out there.
“Its.. Howdy Doody Time!
The show ain’t worth a dime!
So turn it on Channel 9 and…
We’ll see Frank en Stein!”
Or is it spelled “Howdie”?
I agree with Ralph about the Saudis. We used to have a tv show in America called Howdy Doodie. The name reminds me of Saudis. When one rears his ugly head with the head cover I say: Howdy Saudi!
The Pope and his complaint that we need to build bridges and not walls should practice what he preaches. Isn’t that a 40 foot wall surrounding Vatican City?
It’s good to hear the people put up a “protest”. Perhaps small and rare but protest none the less. I’ll pray they become larger and more frequent. That is when hearts and minds are ready for help.
Gary:
The Pope’s too busy indulging his preoccupation with American politics to condemn ritual murder.
ISIS = Idiots Still Infatuated Shit.
Lisa R:
The pope doesn’t comment on this, because it is too dangerous.
Self-preservation trumps ideological pontifications.
Overall, I think atrocities like this should give anyone living there a confirmed ticket to asylum here in America, you don’t have to prove much that you are under threat of your life for your beliefs there.
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I wish the media disinformation mafia would stop calling Saudi Arabia “one of the America’s closest allies.” That is sheer, unadulterated, highly concentrated BS! Saudi Arabia is an ENEMY of America. Yes, there are plenty of traitorous politicians backing the vile Saudis at every opportunity, but they don’t really represent America. The US does NOT need Saudi oil. The US does NOT need the Saudis at all and the US would be better off if that entire nation were to be destroyed and all those Saudi leaders wiped from the face of the Earth. As Trump has correctly indicated, the Saudis were BEHIND 9/11 and were the financiers of the crime of the century. Yet, traitors in the US likes the Bushes and the Clintons have PROTECTED the Saudis.
Sorry for the typos…..no religious belief defenses or exemptions.
Muslims have much to fear from other Muslims. It is an appalling situation that we in the US cannot fix. All we can do it make it clear that anyone who tries to e force his or her religious views via violence or by breaking the way will not be ginger a “religious” belief defense or excuse.
Defense attorneys could argue that the kid was listening to Billy Joel and the killers just snapped…..
That poor boy. My heart breaks for what his parents must be going through right now.
I hope and pray that extremism is stamped out of the Middle East. It ruins everything it touches. The people who are not brainwashed live in fear of atrocities that are hard to believe occur in the 21st century.
Speaking of atrocities, would you consider covering the outcome of this story?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/18/decision-looms-for-army-sergeant-who-protected-afghan-boy.html?intcmp=hpbt1
Sgt First Class Martland faces a dishonorable discharge for throwing a pedophile rapist off the base. I hope the public light of scrutiny sears this scandal. Everyone involved who directed our military to look the other way to pedophile rape because “it’s a cultural issue” needs to go to jail.
Sgt Martland deserves a medal, and the appreciation of parents all around the world.
Why doesn’t the pope speak about this instead of Donald Trumps religious preferences. The pope has crossed over into a political pontificator with a gown. Shame shame! The grass is always greener on the other side of the Vatican wall. A true pope would speak on beheadings, not Trump.
Thank you Professor Turley for this. I hope you also will note what these subhuman lowlifes are known in the Middle East as: Daesh. The term ISIS grants them a sense of legitimacy that they do not deserve.
I hope it was Johnny Winter or Stevie Ray and not Manilow or Diamond.