A young Syrian woman, accused of adultery, was sentenced to be stoned to
death. Her father zealously helped carry out the death sentence.
Islamic State militants in Syria stoned to death a young woman who they had accused of committing adultery.
According to the Arabic language news site Al-Arabiya, the stoning
took place in the eastern part of the Hama province. A gruesome video of
the execution was published by the media sources of the Islamic State
(see below).
The video shows the victim’s father standing next an Islamic State
member while facing his daughter. Using a pleasant, gentle tone, the
militant explains to the woman that she is being punished for the crime
of adultery.
The Islamic State member then asks the father if he’s willing to
forgive his daughter. The father refuses adamantly. Turning to his
daughter he adds, “I’m not your father.”
The militant again tries to convince the father to forgive his
daughter before she is stoned to death, but he refuses. The daughter
pleads with her father to forgive her, only to be told by him, “Don’t
call me father.” In the end, the father only agrees to say, “
Allah will forgive.”
The video then shows the central militant from the Islamic State
turning to the woman and saying, “My sister, I want to tell you a few
words. You are about to receive a punishment that Allah commanded.”
He then turns to the Muslim men, telling them that they should not
leave their wives for more time that is allowed according to (Islamic)
sharia law.
The woman is then covered in a blanket, with her face left exposed.
Her father ties her arms at her waist and then led her to a pit. He
proceeds to tie her legs together after which the Islamic State
militants, together with the father, start pummeling her head with large
stones.
At this point the image is blurred by the Islamic State’s video editor, however the act of the stoning can still be seen.
Towards the end of the video, music -- added by the Islamic State’s
editors – accompanies the scene of the father hurling, at point blank
range, one stone after another at his daughter’s head.
Warning, very graphic, disturbing images
To learn more about the Islamic State and its brutal system of sharia-based governance see Clarion Project's Factsheet: The Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL)
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