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| Africa: North |
| Three Soldiers Decapitated in Algeria |
| 2004-10-28 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 You're right CF...how could I forget the rape, plunder and pillage. Must have lost my head! |
| Posted by: RN 2004-10-28 9:38:23 AM |
| #6 RN, dont forget that Mo and company would often rape the women and children before selling them into slavery. After beheading some 800-odd jews in Medina (in front of their wives, mothers, and children) Mo and company raped the women and children the very same day. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-28 9:22:34 AM |
| #5 As far back as the beginning of Islam (7th Century) followers of Mohammad could be, and frequently were, barbaric in their treatment of Christians and Jews. As his armies swept the infidel tribes from Mecca and Medina, Mohammad approved this judgment over the vanquished Jewish Qurayza tribe: the women and children would be sold into slavery and the men killed, thus 600 or so Jewish men were led into the market square in Medina and beheaded. Early in the First Crusade, the Turks dealt similarly with German and French prisoners captured prior to the sacking of Jerusalem. Those who renounced Christ and converted to Islam were sent to the East; the rest were slaughtered. The Saracens (mostly from present day Iraq) who often held captured soldiers to ransom, would take no such risk with Templars. They were always beheaded. At the Battle at the Horns of Hattin (1187) the military orders of knights were among the crusaders trapped by Saladin (born in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, Saddam’s home town). First Saladin himself killed Reginald of Karak with a single stroke, and even though he allowed most of the other knights to be ransomed, the Templars and Hospitallers were beheaded one by one. As a curious display of his sense of humor, Saladin assigned the task to a group of Shiite mystics who were in his party. Not being warriors as such, the Shiites handled the job poorly, often using knives rather than swords, sawing through the neck of the knight. Appears to me beheading was and continues to be the method of choice for execution. Where’s Amnesia International or the ACLU now? |
| Posted by: RN 2004-10-28 8:54:52 AM |
| #4 Aye, beheading is the new black, everyone knows that. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-10-28 7:53:03 AM |
| #3 Nothing new there. In the Algerian war of Independence (50's), beheadings were quite common. In these times, the Salafist jihadi thugs are mostly satisfied with throats slitting. Same for Lebanon war in late 70's early 80's. Why you did not hear about that on the news? Yea, that is the main difference. Seems that it is coming into fashion in Arabistans again. |
| Posted by: Cornîliës 2004-10-28 7:50:58 AM |
| #2 Spread? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-10-28 5:22:12 AM |
| #1 The demonic driven jihadic murders spread to Algeria. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-28 4:29:50 AM |