Qatar Supports Islamic State Methods of Murder

Qatar is supposed to be a civilized Islamic society, or so says the Obama administration. They would never condone what the Islamic State did to Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh, the Jordanian pilot--immolating him in a cage while filming it for propaganda and recruitment purposes. Qatar may abide by Sharia law, but burning someone to death is not something they would support.

Except they do.

Raymond Ibrahim, writing for Robert Spencer's blog, Jihad Watch, told of a popular website known as Islam Web, which is owned by Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. The website featured a posting that appeared February 7, 2006 titled "The Burning of las bin Abdul Yalil by Abu Bakr." The fatwa explained that the burning of people as a form of punishment is allowed under Islam. 

Another Abu Bakr, this one with an al-Baghdadi after that name, may have been influenced by this post when the IS carried out the evil, barbaric immolation of al-Kaseasbeh.

But wouldn't you know it, just hours after the Jordanian pilot was burned alive, the fatwa (number 71480) was removed from the website.

Interestingly, the IS issued their own fatwa that justified the burning alive of the pilot and it makes the same arguments the Qatar fatwa made. It cited the same hadiths, tafsirs, and "even the logic of "humility"--implying that IS may well have relied on this fatwa from the Qatari website when writing its own to burn the pilot alive--" says Ibrahim. 

"Islam Web won the World Summit Award of 2007, on the basis that it is 'the best interactive edutainment website for Arabic-speaking children' by the consensus of the Jury which met in Croatia, in evaluating the productions nominated from 160 countries," Ibrahim added.

If we refuse to identify our enemy, we are going to be speaking Arabic ourselves.

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