Posted by Jack
Raising doves and pigeons is a deadly pursuit in ISIS-controlled Iraq.
The popular hobby is in the sights of extremist Islamist fighters, who this week rounded up 15 boys and young men in the eastern province of Diyala for pursuing a pastime now deemed un-Islamic. Three have already been executed, according to a security official in the area who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.
Abu Abdullah, a 52-year-old farmer, told NBC News about the moment earlier this week that six gunmen barged into his home and dragged away his oldest son, who is 21.
“My son was standing beside me. I asked them why, and they said, ‘He is not following the real Islam, he must be punished for being a pigeon breeder. This habit is taking him away from worshiping Allah,” Abdullah said on the telephone.
The fighters put the household’s pigeons in bags and burned them. Then they took away his son.
“I begged them again to know where are they taking him, what are they going to do to him. They said he is going to be taken to be judged according to the Islamic Sharia,” Abu Abdullah said. “They pushed me, and when my son tried to stop them from pushing me they beat him. Then they put him inside the car and left.”
“I begged them, but I was begging criminals not, as they claimed, Muslims,” he said.
This story was repeated throughout the village as fighters rounded up men and boys aged 16 to 22, and destroyed their birds.
ISIS has imposed its hardline interpretation of Islam on the areas it now controls, forcing women to wear all-enveloping coverings and men to pray five times a day. Often, those who fall foul of its rules are executed in public. Source NBC News.
Every day we read about some atrocity done in the name of Allah by some extremist kook/s. Which begs the question, how could anyone living in a peaceful, free Western country, being exposed to all these horrific murders still want to join up with Muslim terrorists? That’s just amazing to me – it’s so insane. The list of barbaric, stupid and inhumane acts by ISIS, Al Qaeda, and dozens of other spin offs could fill a library. It must take a special kind of stupid to fall for their recruiting propaganda. This is why I think if a terrorist wannbe leaves America to join ISIS, et al, then the only way they should be let back in is in a pine box.
Sharia bans breeding pigeons???? Guess here that would make Foster Farms, Sanderson Farms and Tyson guilty as well . .
As if we need another reason NOT to recognize Sharia as valid . . .
Jack, your solution for returning terrorists is right on!
THREE HAVE ALREADY BEEN EXECUTED! For raising pigeons.
And in case it escapes anyone’s memory “the eastern province of Diyala” is in Iraq, the nation our boys, fought, bled and died to free from tyrannical forces with barbarian ideals. The nation was stable, requiring a small but strong diplomatic and troop presence…and of course what we got instead was a great transformer, not only of America but of the entire ME which is now more dangerous than ever before!
How the progress of that life and blood has been squandered! It makes my heart ache.
And still, radical lefties still do not get it!
Pardon me, but pigeon raising is also against mainstream Islam. It is not only in the purview of ISIS. In mainstream Islam the raising of pigeons is punishable by death.
Pie, no kidding…wow, so I wonder what else is punishable by death?
I’m surprised they have anyone left to practice the religion the way they keep killing off their flock.
Pigeons are considered unclean animals. Under Sharia raising unclean animals is punishable by death.
I just read today they killed some more teenagers who were caught watching a soccer match. They are the true face of evil. There can be no reasoning with monsters like this. Only their deaths will end the insanity.
They also just threw some guys off of a building for being homosexuals and stoned another woman to death.
Do not understand why the biased liberal media keeps supporting these religious fanatic’s acts with their lack of reporting. Just report the news, all of it.
I don’t understand the idea that the media doesn’t report on instances of Islamic terror and violence enough. ISIS is all we hear about these days. They can’t report every single instance of brutality in the Middle East; there would be no time to report anything else!