Syrian father helps IS stone his daughter to death
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AN elderly Syrian took part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery, in a video posted on YouTube by the Islamic State group yesterday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the execution took place in August or September in an IS-controlled rural area in the east of the central province of Hama.
It was the latest in a spate of videotaped executions that the jihadists have posted on social media as they impose their extreme version of Islamic sharia law across a swathe of Syria and neighboring Iraq.
In the video, a bearded gunman in combat fatigues stands behind the father, who is dressed in the white robe and checkered headdress typical of the Syrian countryside.
They both face the young black-clad daughter as the gunman addresses her in the classical Arabic of the Koran.
“The punishment is the result of crimes which you committed under no duress,” he says.
“You must accept the punishment of God. Do you accept the punishment of God?”
She nods her head in assent, then turns to her father and asks his forgiveness. He refuses until the assembled IS fighters persuade him to relent.
But it makes no difference to his daughter’s fate. She is permitted to speak briefly before the stoning commences.
“I say to every woman: preserve your honour... and I appeal to every father to pay attention to the surroundings your daughter lives in,” she says.
The father then ties a rope round his daughter’s waist and forces her to lie down. The IS gunman orders punishment to begin and the father joins in.
The video drew condemnation from the mainstream Syrian opposition in exile. “This crime has nothing whatever to do with the Syrian revolution,” the National Coalition said
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