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| ISIS’ Egypt branch executes 100-year-old cleric | |
| 2016-11-20 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ... Supporters of Jerusalem, the former pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, who subsequently became ISIS in same... ‐ ISIS-affiliated bad boy group in Egypt ‐ has released images purporting to show the execution of a 100-year-old man. The group, who rebranded as ISIS-Sinai when they pledged allegiance to the bad boy group holding swathes of Iraq and Syria, killed Sheikh Sulaiman Abu Haraz after kidnapping him earlier. Abu Haraz, considered one of the symbolic Sufi holy mans and elders of the Sinai Peninsula, was taken by the group from in front of his house in Arish city under gun point. ISIS-Sinai accused the elderly sheikh of "practicing witchcraft".
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... affiliate in Egypt says it has beheaded two men that it mistakenly described in a statement as priests, but were later identified by locals as leading religious figures from among Sinai's Bedouins. Pictures were posted on the Twitter accounts of the group's supporters. They showed one of the men, elderly with a white beard and kneeling in an orange jumpsuit with his neck pressed against a steel stand. Masked IS executioners dressed in black raised long swords over his head. Locals identified the man as the blind Sufi sheikh Suleiman Abu Heraz, who was kidnapped two weeks ago from his farm south of the peninsula's town of el-Arish. The second man was identified as sheikh Said Abdel-Fattah, a top Religious Endowment holy man kidnapped a month ago. | |
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