Islamic State Savages Slaughter Shi'ites in Syria.

"And kill them wherever you find & catch them. Drive them out from where they have turned you out; for Fitna is worse than slaughter." So Allah the spittle-saturated rock tells his rabid devotees, in the book which qualifies as the most repulsive ever written, the Koran, in verse 2:191.

The 'fitna' referred to in this piece of divine inspiration means 'strife' of any variety. It could mean civil war between Muslims, heresy, apostasy or anything at all deemed un-Islamic by those who have elected themselves adjudicators in such things.

It was the Second Fitna, a civil war ending in 692, which split the Sunni & Shi'ite factions of Islam into two opposing sides. As these two branches of Islam are mutually heretical &, therefore, guilty of fitna in the eyes of the other, they have been slaughtering each other ever since.

It is Allah himself, after all, who says that slaughter is the lesser of two evils when compared to fitna. Thus, this slaughter has continued for more that 95% of Islam's pitiful existence & it goes on today. The civil war in Syria is the Sunni Islamic State trying to oust the Shi'ite Assad government. The latest round of this slaughter has occurred in the Hama province, where Islamic State savages rounded up the men of several Shi'ite villages, machine-gunned them & then took their time mutilating & murdering the women & children, as reported by the Mirror yesterday (hat-tip to Christopher J Green‏ @DefiantLionUK):

ISIS behead and dismember dozens of women and children in horrific attack on Syrian villages The head of the National Hospital in Salamiyeh said they received 52 bodies - including 11 women and 17 children - with 'all forms of deformations' Islamic State militants have beheaded and dismembered dozens of women and children in horrific attacks on Syrian villages which have left 52 people dead. The series of deadly attacks in the central Hama province targeted villages where most residents belong to the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam. The villages are located near the town of Salamiyeh and the highway that links the capital, Damascus, to the northern city of Aleppo. State news agency SANA said militants stormed homes in the southern part of the Aqareb al-Safi village. Government forces eventually managed to "repel them", pushing them back toward the desert. The head of the National Hospital in Salamiyeh, Dr Noufal Safar, said the hospital received 52 bodies, including 11 women and 17 children. He said some of them had been beheaded, while others had their limbs removed.

Shrouded corpses lie ready to bury in Salamiyeh, courtesy of the Islamic State. Click to enlarge.

Dr Safar said: "They were brought with all forms of deformations but most of them appear to have died as a result of gunfire." He quoted some of the wounded people as saying the extremists began storming homes and beheading women inside. Rami Razzouk, a coroner at the hospital who inspected the bodies, said the children brought in were mostly dismembered, while most of the men died from shelling or heavy machine gun fire. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said that 52 people were killed in the fighting, with the dead including 15 civilians, 27 Syrian soldiers and 10 unidentified people. SANA said 40 people were wounded. The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said the group had captured Aqareb al-Safi and Mabouja. It identified residents as members of President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shia Islam. The Sunni extremists view Shias as apostates deserving of death. IS has massacred thousands of Shias and other opponents in Syria and Iraq, often boasting about the killings and circulating photos and videos of them online.