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Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by peteregwu(m): 10:06pm On Jun 15, 2013
Report: Syrian rebels executed a 14-year-old boy for insulting IslamWhen a 14-year-old boy from the Syrian city of Aleppo named Mohammad Qatta was asked to bring one of his customers some coffee, he reportedly refused, saying, "Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won't."

According to a story reported by two grassroots Syrian opposition groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center, Qatta's words got him killed. A group of Islamist rebels, driving by in a black car, reportedly heard the exchange. They stopped the car, grabbed the boy and took him away.

Qatta, in refusing to serve a customer coffee – it's not clear why – had used a phrase that the Islamist rebels took as an insult toward the Prophet Mohammed, the most important figure in Islam. That offhand comment, made by a boy, was apparently enough for these rebels to warrant a grisly execution and public warning.

The rebels, according to ABC News' reconstruction of the Syrian groups' reports, appear to have whipped Qatta. When they brought him back to where they'd taken him, his head was wrapped by a shirt.

The rebels waited for a crowd to gather; Qatta's parents were among them. Speaking in classical Arabic, they announced that Qatta had committed blasphemy and that anyone else who dared insult the Prophet Mohammed would share his fate. Then, the shirt still wrapped around the boy's head, the rebels shot him in the mouth and neck.

As Islamist groups continue to take territory in the Syrian civil war, more Syrians are coming under the control of armed extremists who enforce an austere and sometimes violent version of sharia law. The Washington Post's Liz Sly has reported on other such punishments in Aleppo, where the al-Qaeda-allied group Jabhat al-Nusra is thought to lead the newly established sharia enforcement authority.

Such incidents are a sign of the rise of extremism within a rebel movement that began, over two years ago, largely unified behind the goals of ousting President Bashar al-Assad and establishing democracy.

The influx of avowed jihadists and extremists is bad news for Syrians, and not just because those under rebel rule have to worry about sharing Qatta's fate if they are perceived as insufficiently pious. The growth of these groups seems bound to exacerbate tensions between rebel factions, easing Assad's military path to victory, and scaring off the Western powers that might otherwise be persuaded to lend the rebels greater support. Lots of people in and outside of Syria could get behind the idea of ousting a cruel and unpopular dictator and replacing him with something more democratic. But few things are more universally loathed than an al-Qaeda-allied group that executes children.


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Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by Adek15(m): 10:36pm On Jun 15, 2013
Another western propaganda against islam, i'm nt fazed though. 1st to comment
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by Nobody: 10:40pm On Jun 15, 2013
Where are the Team True Muslim Players?
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by peteregwu(m): 10:44pm On Jun 15, 2013
Adek15: Another western propaganda against islam, i'm nt fazed though. 1st to comment

U call that propaganda? What of the girl they almost kill last time who at the moment is recuperating in London. Or the little girl they almost jailed claiming she burnt Quran. Or doing want me to start digging deep or what?

Actually am not here to talk about Islam, it's just a news headline am posting here.
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by mike404(m): 12:36am On Jun 16, 2013
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I CALL "TRUE MUSLIMS"
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by gbadexy(m): 10:40am On Jun 16, 2013
This is a taste of what is to come if the rebels take over syria.
Al asad said the rebels were alqaeda and other terrorist groups but the west didn't listen and were supporting the rebels in hope of installing a western puppet.
Were it not for russia, america and their puppets would have intervened and depose the government of asad leaving these extremist in charge.
Libya and iraq was stable when ghaddafi and saddam were in control because they were strong rulers capable of controlling the unruly and aggressive arabs and middle easterners.
Syria was also stable with assad in full control of the country, now because of western meddlesomeness, these region know no peace with possibility of a far worse leader emerging.
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by raytony: 10:49am On Jun 16, 2013
Eyah! Going Going Gone. Syria has gone to the dogs.
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by deeobserver209(m): 12:32pm On Jun 16, 2013
By their actions, you shall know them.
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by gratiaeo(m): 1:03pm On Jun 16, 2013
Who said Islam ain't religion of peace!
Re: Report: Syrian Rebels Executed A 14-year-old Boy For Insulting Islam by Zet72(m): 1:56pm On Jun 16, 2013
angry Who said Mohammed is not a terrorist& allah a blood drinking demon...

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