The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Isis publicly behead man in Syrian town square for ‘insulting Allah’ as he screams for help

A man was held down and beheaded for “insulting Allah” in the middle of a Syrian town by Isis fighters as he screamed for help from the silent crowd.

Footage reportedly taken on Monday in the town of Al-Shadadi is the terror group’s latest show of brutality in its territories stretching from the Turkish border in Syria to northern Iraq.

Details of the man’s crime were unknown but his death was staged for maximum exposure in a public square.

A militant addressed the large crowd, which included children, as the man was restrained behind him claiming to carry out the “law of Allah” by executing him for allegedly insulting God.

Isis fighters posed with the man as the address was filmed close-up for the group’s propaganda makers.

Unlike most victims, the young man was not blindfolded and was forced to the ground face down to be decapitated.

He continued to struggle while screaming for help as the crowd stood watching and filming the gruesome display on their phones.

According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, who said the footage appeared genuine, he shouted: “I won’t forgive you, I am not the one who did it.”

One militant dropped his Kalashnikov as the man fought his captors for several minutes, eventually being pinned down by four men including one sitting on his back and pinning his arms behind him.

When the executioner finally beheaded him with one blow of a sword, a roar went up from the crowd as militants chanted “Allahu akbar” (God is great).

Al-Shadadi, in the oil-rich Al-Hasakah governate, is strategically positioned between Isis strongholds in Syria and the border with Iraq.

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-publicly-behead-man-in-syrian-town-square-for-insulting-allah-as-he-screams-for-help-10007806.html