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SYRIA: ISIS BEHEADS MUSLIM MAN FOR BLASPHEMY
December 8, 2014: The Islamic State (ISIS) beheaded a man in northern Syria after accusing him of blasphemy, a militant website and a rights group said.
According to ISIS, the man had called Islam “a false religion” for which he was charged under the blasphemy laws of the Sharia court.
The alleged blasphemer was killed in a market square in the town of Sulouk in front of a crowd that included children, the British-based Observatory for Human Rights said.
A statement posted on a jihadist website said the man had admitted to blasphemy before being killed in the countryside of Raqqa province, which the hard-line group controls.
The website included images of crowds at the square. One photo showed a blindfolded man kneeling with his head on a wooden block as a masked man in black raised a sword over his neck. (Sources: ibtimes.co.in and dailystar.com.lb, 10/12/2014)
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