The 'legal reasons' behind ISIS cutting off hands and heads

Al Monitor has published an article by Shukur Khikhal entitled

As for cutting off hands and heads, jizya tax imposition on non-Muslims, female genital mutilation, destruction of tombs and shrines and other practices carried out by IS, they are all enshrined in Salafist doctrines set forth mainly by Ibn Yaymiyyah. His doctrines are gathered in a book titled “Majmu' al-Fatawa” by Ibn Taymiyyah.

The truth of the matter is that these doctrines are taught regularly in schools and universities in many Arab countries. It is worth mentioning that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the current leader of IS — who proclaimed himself a caliph of Muslims in Mosul — studied these doctrines in the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Baghdad.

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A very somber explanation of the psychological nature of beheading is found here.


 

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