Revelations
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Women must not leave home unveiled or unaccompanied by a male relative, which is just as well, since rape is basically non-punishable in ISIS-controlled territory. That’s not to say that there’s no punishment at all, of course. Alleged rape victims can still be punished for adultery if they can establish that intercourse has taken place, like by showing up to a hospital with bruises and lacerations.
It goes without saying that most of the activities ISIS considers crimes are punishable by death, and the regime’s executioners show amazing versatility in administering it. ISIS is believed to have executed an average of seven people a day during its reign, and there are more execution methods than space to describe them. Stonings are popular, as are traditional beheadings, but setting fire to Jordanian POWs is also apparently an option. Stabbings, shootings, death-by-flogging, and live burial are all on the table for those condemned by the Caliphate. Often, the condemned will have gone through a dozen or so mock executions before the real one happens.
Helpful hint: If your government is crucifying Christian teenagers for refusing to swear allegiance to the caliph, you’re the bad guy. Source: Western Journalism
Lately, ISIS operatives have been posing as gay men as part of a sting operation to catch homosexuals. Once the suspect admits he’s gay, he is arrested and condemned to death. If the man’s family can raise enough cash for a ransom, Allah (as interpreted by ISIS) may have mercy, but if the money doesn’t show up on time, the condemned will likely be thrown off a roof and then stoned when he hits the ground. But first, everybody gets hugs:
Condemned gay men are hugged by their executioners before the stoning. Honestly, we can’t figure out which part is worse. Source: Nuzzel
Even punishment for petty crimes such as theft, which under Shariah may be punished by amputating the hand, are taken to extreme lengths by ISIS executioners. Thieves are punished with – you guessed it – stoning.
Where the hell are these people getting ski masks from? Source: MNBR
So, where does this go from here? What will become of Kant’s struggle against radical evil in the Iraqi desert? Nobody can possibly know. However, what’s really holding ISIS together right now is the widespread sense among Iraqi Sunnis that things would be much worse under a Shiite reign that often treats them as enemies, and that the outside world wants to punish them.
A military defeat of ISIS will set the stage for a necessary reconstruction. It will take a Marshall Plan-style, good-faith effort to truly ease ordinary Iraqis living under the Caliphate away from the violent insanity of what’s shaping up in the Iraqi desert.
Check out these VICE documentaries on ISIS below:
And why people from the United States and Canada are actually joining:
