Terrorists Apologize For Beheading The Wrong Person
Apparently, everyone has their own version of a bad day at the office:
Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to al-Qaeda have asked for “understanding and forgiveness” for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man’s head.
In a public appearance filmed and posted online, members of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, one brandishing a knife, held up a bearded head before a crowd in Aleppo. They triumphantly described the execution of what they said was a member of an Iraqi Shia militia fighting for President Bashar al-Assad.
But the head was recognised from the video as originally belonging to a member of Ahrar al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist rebel group that often fights alongside ISIS though it does not share its al-Qaeda ideology.
An ISIS spokesman, Omar al-Qahtani, confirmed that Mr Fares had been injured and, thinking he had been captured by members of a Shia militia against which he was fighting, asked them to kill him in terms misunderstood by the ISIS members in fact taking him to hospital.
It is thought he was wounded in the battle for Base 80, a military zone being fought over near Aleppo.
In explaining the error Mr al-Qahtani made reference to a story in which Mohammed said Allah would forgive a man who killed a believer in error.
Well I guess that’s good for you, but this seems like something for which an apology just isn’t quite enough.
Well, I certainly feel better.
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
That’s OK, Texas does it too.
(Seriously, this is generally a “capital punishment” issue. There is no way back from a mistake.)
@john personna:
GODWIN!!! Oh, wait a minute, that only applies to Nazi wannabes, not people longing for the days when men in white robes and hoods were admired. My bad.
@john personna: One other thing John, and I know that this really a very minor quibble, but….
Texas never apologized.
@john personna:
“That’s OK, Texas does it too.”
So does the US government, following “collateral damage” from drone attacks and airstrikes.
It was a case of friendly fatwa.
That “apology” is completely insufficient.
After beheading the wrong person, the only acceptable apology is handwritten on formal notepaper – look it up in Emily Post (editions published after 9/11/01).
@OzarkHillbilly:
I didn’t even get that one!
I was just thinking of how Texas can continue the death penalty in the face of outcomes from The Justice Project.
@Moosebreath:
Sadly, yes.
@rodney dill: OK, it took a few posts, but you definitely win.
Well, as bill would say, as long as the Islamists are killing each other…
It was only a flesh wound!
You could say the punishment was wrongheaded.
@rudderpedals: but nothing to lose your head over.
Look, why focus on the mistakes of the past? This is a time to look ahea….um, never mind.
@rodney dill: He needed a helping hand. They gave him a head start.
Headlines from The Onion!
Death Cultists Don’t Really Get What The Big Deal Is But Apologize For Killing Wrong Person Anyway.
@JoshB: I guess Wednesday for his week will be ‘Stump Day’
@rudderpedals: @rodney dill: @Rafer Janders: @rudderpedals:
OK. ENOUGH! STOP IT! I CAN’T TAKE ANYMORE!!!!
Huh. Flashback to that one Austin Powers scene…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKGjOE_7bYI
‘If you can keep your head when those about you are losing theirs..”?
Must have heard them speaking with an Iraqi accent and assumed they were Iraqi Shia militia.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/12/syria-to-host-iraq-war-reenactors/