Yemen al Qaeda leader criticizes IS beheadings as un-Islamic

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Yemen al Qaeda leader criticizes IS beheadings as un-Islamic

SANAA Mon Dec 8, 2014 2:44pm EST

(Reuters) - A senior leader of al Qaeda in Yemen has criticized beheadings by Islamic State (IS) fighters as un-Islamic, and said his own group had banned such acts.

IS, an offshoot of the al Qaeda network, has carved out territory in Syria and Iraq with military victories over government troops and former Islamist allies and violence against civilians. Its fighters sometimes film their beheadings of prisoners and post the footage online.

"There is no doubt that some of our brothers have been influenced by scenes of beheadings which have proliferated lately," Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), said in video posted on Twitter, without referring to Islamic State by name.

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"Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him and upon his family, has ordered us to be kind in everything, even in killing, and it is not part of kindness to film beheadings and slayings and publish them in public, where sons and daughters of those killed can see," he added in Arabic.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/08/us-yemen-qaeda-beheadings-idUSKBN0JM26H20141208

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1. Yeah, they prefer the more "humane" homicide bombings

and hijackings and ramming planes into buildings.