Beirut: Stooping to new low, a militant of the dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) reportedly executed his own mother in front of a large crowd, accusing her of apostasy.
As per a report published in The Independent, the activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RIBSS) said 20-year-old jihadi Ali Saqr al-Qasem shot his mother Lena al-Qasem, 45, in the head with an assault rifle in front of a large crowd.
Apostasy is a crime that usually means leaving one’s religion but in practise is used by the ISIS as a justification for murdering anybody who doesn’t support them or opts to speak against the terror group.
In Al-Qasem’s case it was believed that Lena persuaded her son to leave the IS and escape together outside of Raqqa, stated the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
The UK-based conflict monitor said Ali Saqr al-Qasem had reported his mother to his ISIS superiors, who then sentenced her to death and ordered him be the one to kill her.
Citing local sources, a British-based Observatory said the 20-year-old man executed his mother on Wednesday near the post office building where she worked in front of hundreds of people in Raqqa, a main base of operations for the group in Syria.
The Islamic State group, which controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq, has executed hundreds of people it has accused of working with its enemies or breaching of its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam.
