ISIS Savages Crucify Their Own in Syria.

32. Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.
33. Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah & His Messenger & strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands & feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; & for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,

So Allah informs his dribbling devotees, in sura five of the book that said devotees claim Allah wrote himself, but reads to the rest of us as if a deranged psychopath wrote it. I refer, of course, to the Koran. We in the West fixate upon hand-chopping & beheading but neglect the fact that Islamic murderers are also partial to a bit of crucifixion, as the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria have demonstrated again, as reported by RTÉ News today:

Jihadists crucify nine rebels in Syria A jihadist group in Syria has publicly executed and crucified eight rebels fighting both President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the jihadists, a monitor said this afternoon. Also in Aleppo province, a ninth man was crucified for eight hours as a form of punishment in Al-Bab town near the border with Turkey. He survived the ordeal. The report comes amid fierce clashes on the outskirts of Damascus between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, also known as ISIL, which is spearheading a major offensive in Iraq, and rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "ISIL executed eight men in Deir Hafer in the east of Aleppo province" because they belonged to rebel groups that had fought against the jihadists as well as Mr Assad's forces, it said. ISIL then "crucified them in the main square of the village, where their bodies will remain for three days", the Britain-based monitor said. ISIL first emerged in Syria's war in late spring last year and was initially welcomed by some Syrian rebels who believed its combat experience would help topple Mr Assad. But subsequent jihadist abuses quickly turned the Syrian opposition, including Islamists, against ISIL. Rebels launched a major anti-ISIL offensive in January 2014, and have pushed them out of large swathes of Aleppo province and all of Idlib in the northwest. However, ISIL remains firmly rooted in Raqa, its northern Syrian headquarters, and wields significant power in Deir Ezzor in the east near the border with Iraq. Activists say the group's Iraq offensive and capture of heavy weapons -- some of them US-made -- appears to have boosted its confidence in Syria. East of Damascus, "fierce clashes broke out early Sunday between rebels from the Army of Islam and ISIL near the town of Hammuriyeh", the Observatory said. The Army of Islam is a major component of the Islamic Front, Syria's largest rebel coalition which has been fighting ISIL for months, but such fighting in Damascus province is unprecedented. Regime soldiers and warplanes backed by Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah also pounded rebel positions near the capital with rockets and surface-to-surface missiles, said the Local Coordination Committees activist network. Syria's war began as a peaceful protest movement in March 2011 demanding political change, but became an armed insurgency when Assad's regime unleashed a brutal crackdown. Many months into the fighting, jihadists began to flock to Syria where upwards of 162,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in more than three years of conflict.