Despite Obama’s suggestion today that the ideology of ISIS isn’t Islamic, Walid Shoebat has analyzed the video and tells us that ISIS actually reveals in the video the reasoning they use for killing Al-Kassasbeh the way that they did and it’s very much Islamic:
The method on how to kill Al-Kassasbeh circulated the Muslim world as ISIS was soliciting on how to execute him.
In the burning scene video (see 1:00) ISIS gave the Islamic edict from Ibn Taymiyya’s jurisprudence:
“So if horror of commonly desecrating the body is a call for them [the infidels] to believe [in Islam], or to stop their aggression, it is from here that we carry out the punishment and the allowance for legal Jihad”
To desecrate the victim is part and parcel of Islam in hope that people would convert through sheer fear or to repulse the enemy.
Ibn Taymiyya was an Islamic scholar who lived back in the early 1300s in Damascus, Syria and, according to Wikipedia, is considered to have had considerable influence in contemporary Wahhabism, Salafism, and Jihadism.
Now burning someone alive isn’t the only way that some in the Islamic world wants ISIS to deal with other Muslims pilots they catch. Shoebat reveals that they are calling for ISIS to impale the victim like they did in the Ottoman Empire to ensure fear or conversion:
Yeesh!
So despite what Obama and other wannabe Islamic scholars say, desecrating the body this way is very much Islamic and is being done to try and scare us ‘crusaders’ away.