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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition
 ISIS eases up on prayer requirements in Ninevah (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Al Sumaria News reported on Sunday, that the Islamic State group (ISIS) decided to decrease Islamic ‘Salah’ (Obligatory Muslim ritual prayers) from five to three times per day, and threatened to flog anyone who violate the group’s terms and instructions. The media outlet stated, “The ISIS issued a decree in Nineveh to lessen Muslim ritual prayers from five to three times per day, due to what it called a state of war, so prayers might be shortened or combined, and then informed all preachers and Imams to abide by this decree that covers all ISIS-controlled areas in Nineveh.” “The ISIS threatened to flog the violators of the decree with 30 lashes,” Al Sumaria News added. “The terror group is issuing weird and unreasonable decrees due to its vulnerable state,” Al sumaria explained. “This decree is considered the second of its type; ISIS issued a decree earlier to change Adhan time (call to prayer) because it considered these times as set by the government and do not represent Muslim countries,” Al Sumaria News stated. Salah is one of the five pillars of Islam, and an obligatory religious duty and worship for every Muslim that is observed five times every day at prescribed times. ISIS confiscates Iraqi currency (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Monday that the Islamic State prohibited Iraqi Dinar currency from Mosul in order compel its people to adopt ISIS currency. Al Sumaria News stated, “ISIS confiscated large quantities of the Iraqi Dinar currency from the people of Mosul, forcing them to exchange it with ISIS currency. ISIS gave the residents receipts with the amounts taken from them.” “The so-called ISIS Sharia Court issued a fatwa prohibiting the Iraqi Dinar currency in markets in the city of Mosul,” Al Sumaria added. The coffers of ISIS were adversely affected after Iraqi security forces liberated many areas and cities in Iraq. ISIS executes 5 for desertion [ARA News] Duhok – The Islamic State (ISIS) radical group has executed a number of its own militants on Monday for fleeing the battlefield in Iraq’s Anbar Governorate. ISIS has executed at least five of its militant fighters In the Hīt city of Anbar, after accusing them of committing “high treason” for evacuating their positions during clashes with Iraqi army forces. Raafat al-Zarari, head of the Nineveh media centre, told ARA News that the executed fighters had fled the battlefield in the western suburb of Ramadi. “The militants were executed by firing squad at the hands of their fellow fighters,” al-Zarari reported. “The decision has been made by the ISIS leadership, and anyone violating the orders is being executed on charges of high treason.” Dozens of ISIS members were demanded to witness the executions on Monday. “More than 150 people watched the public executions, most of them were ISIS fighters and military leaders, as if the group wanted to warn its members that anyone who would escape the fighting would face a similar punishment,” Iraqi journalist Adeeb al-Jadi told ARA News. Last Thursday, the Islamic State (ISIS) executed two other militants on charges of “high treason.” Activists and eyewitnesses reported that the executions took place on Thursday in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor city. ISIS detained two members of its Islamic Police, also known as Diwan al-Hisba, after they left their post without permission. Firas al-Ahmed, a local media activist, told ARA News: “They tried to escape Deir ez-Zor, but the group was able to arrest them near the southern exit of the city.” An ISIS-controlled Sharia court decided to execute them. “The two Hisba members were executed by firing squad in the Sabha District,” al-Ahmed reported. He added that hundreds of people witnessed the execution. In July, ISIS executed six of its own militants on charges of “treason,” after accusing them of leaking security information to the US-led coalition. Local sources told ARA News at the time that the executed men were members of the al-Hisba police in the city of Mosul, in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate. Abdullah al-Malla, a media activist, told ARA News in Mosul: “The ISIS leadership suspected that the al-Hisba members were leaking confidential information to the western coalition–whose airstrikes have recently killed top jihadi officials.” “After interrogation, the Mosul Sharia Court issued a decision to publicly execute the six suspects,” al-Malla reported. “The six jihadists were beheaded in front of dozens of ISIS officials in central Mosul.” Posted by: badanov 2016-10-11 |
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