the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that Islamist rebels in Aleppo had executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents as punishment for what they regarded as a blasphemous comment.
The UK-based activist group said Mohammed Qataa was shot in the face and neck a day after being seized by the rebels, who allegedly overheard the teenager tell someone: "Even if the Prophet Muhammad comes down [from heaven], I will not become a believer."
Before executing the boy, one of the rebels reportedly told onlookers: "Disbelieving in God is polytheism and cursing the Prophet is polytheism. Whoever curses even once will be punished like this."
[Admin note:
Story has been reported differently previously. The original account, he was alleged to have refused to give free coffee to a third party. He was reported to have said "“Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won’t [give coffee away]”
Thanks to John_in_Oz
Further, the translation isn't the greatest:
The Arab word for Polytheism (širk), also carries conotations of "idolatry" and "heresy". This has historic roots, or in other words, whoever translated the quote sucks at Arabic.
Thanks to UHM
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You people are lower than scum. Protip: A "religion of peace" does not murder children (or anyone for that matter).
"Disbelieving in God is polytheism "
lolwut? In fundieland, apparently zero is greater than one.
Distind, Syria needs a parachute brigade/ air drop of Liberals with the Humanist manifesto to bring peace and stability. Voila: peace on earth - sorted in one sentence.
or rather,
wasn't Arab Spring/ Coptic Winter largely bought and paid for by Western intellectuals, Hasan and colleagues at the Ministry of Perpetual Truth ?
No, you might be right - Baptists did it all. / and our only fault in life is not reading a Qur'an like an Arab can!
People who've had their fucking heads cut off don't realize that this how Gaytopians are suffering every day of the week. Those headless bodies don't realize what real suffering is.
@Phillip-George(c)2013: you are only very slightly less crazy than the murdering thugs in the news story from which this quote was taken.
This is a significant change in the story from the original account, where he was alleged to have refused to give free coffee to a third party. He was reported to have said "“Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won’t [give coffee away]”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/teenageer-15-executed-by-islamist-rebels-in-syria/#comment-928725178
In either case there is no curse there.
But let me rectify that omission.
Fuck the Prophet Mohammed, and the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Prophet Elijah, Jesus, Moses, Abraham and all the deluded crew who have imposed so many lies and delusions upon poor benighted humanity in the name of their own self importance. Curse them, their works, their lies, their followers and all those who work harm to others, whether in the name of religion or otherwise.
As was pointed out, this kid may not have even been an atheist and may have been arguing with someone over a free drink.
But I guess they had to execute him anyway, just in case he may be an atheist. Nothing like loving God through force.
Sometimes I wish we could just ignore that part of the world and leave them back in the stone age. If we didn't need oil, that would be the case.
Closet-case PG is going on a bit more than usual about teh gay on unrelated quotes this morning. He must be fighting some extra strong urges today.
It's OK, PG, you can come out now. We won't tell your fundie friends on you.
Wow. I don't even know what to say. I am not a fan of any of the 'Big 3' monotheistic religions, but never in a million years would I think that gunning a child down in front of his parents was just punishment for believing (or disbelieving) in one. What the hell is wrong with people?
Side note: Polytheism is a belief in many Gods/Goddesses. Disbelieving in any deity at all makes one an Atheist. These so-called 'defenders of the faith' aren't even intelligent enough to know the difference.
The way I heard it, the kid refused to give a guy a free cup of coffee and said that even if Muhammad came to him he couldn't give away his coffee because he needed to support his family.
Which group changed the story?
Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won’t [give coffee away]
How exactly is this a curse? But I'll say this... Any "god" who needs thugs to kill for him because he is such a weenie that he can't defend himself, or his prophet, doesn't deserve to be called a god. Such a "god" is nothing more than a petty tyrant who has others do his dirty work for him.
And to kind of echo what John_in_Oz said...
Fuck that god!
How's that for ya?
~qaz.
This is what happens when the West does nothing.
@all: The Arab word for Polytheism (širk), also carries conotations of "idolatry" and "heresy". This has historic roots, or in other words, whoever translated the quote sucks at Arabic.
@Osiris
I'm not seeing any better than the second version, but if you find one let me know and I'll mod this.
I think this comes down to 'name in vain' style cursing more than anything else though.
@UHM
Now that's down right interesting. BRB, adding it in.
Barbarians. How could this happen in 2013? I see now that my Syrian friends were right. Assad may be bad, but the extremist theocracy advocated by the rebel factions is worse.
Religion continues to be a motivation for good people to do nothing and evil people to instill terror. The Middle East needs to wake up, and start abandoning Islam in favor of Atheism and Agnosticism, or at least take a leaf from the West and East and start a more secular culture.
I donno, he spends so long trying to be with us. Just how long did it take you to figure out what I'd done buddy? I had time to go out, do laundry, get lunch, and play a few games with my fiancee. Did you spend all that time bouncing off my 30 second idea?
Admitedly, I probably should have spent it working on better ways to get rid of you. But it feels better when you work so hard to overcome something that trivial.
Edit:
And bravo you little shit, that's how you got comments that long in there. You could probably make a mint in the software testing world if you put your mind to something constructive.
take a leaf from the West and East and start a more secular culture
that's the problem - there's no such thing. You conjure up some null set theory/ pure rationalism hypothesis and in a few week there are coast to coast Orange people, Deepak Chopra, feel good host a Jihadist self destructors etc., the real Jihadists, the real Anarchists, militant humanists, pedophiles and inyourface everything else; all equals your pure rationalism.
read it twice and it won't sink in.
read it three times and it won't sink in.
Thus you're sunk.
Don't sail with this ship of fools is a 'self' audit refrain.
To the admins:
Only the dead and the unforgivably stupid ever stop learning. That you're willing to make or clarify even the most insignificant correction places you well above most fools that crawl upon this Earth.
Also... FUCK! What the hell is wrong with those people?!
It's true, if the Assad regime evaporated tomorrow, there would still be armed assholes in Syria. However, I'm still not quite willing to do nothing as thousands more are slaughtered (whatever their religion,) so that Russia can preserve its lucrative arms market, its gas pipeline and production facility , and its naval logistics facility in Tartus. I think Syria will effectively be split up, with a "safe zone" [protected by NATO.
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