Shocking video shows ISIS supporters gathering to watch murder footage
Big screens have been erected in terror group's de facto capital Raqqa
Film of Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive appears to be playing on loop
Crowd cheer and shout religious slogans as pilot is engulfed by flames
Film then shows locals - including children - talking about the atrocity
Chilling new release is titled 'Muslims' Joy at Burning of Jordanian Pilot'
By John Hall for MailOnline
Published: 11:03 GMT, 4 February 2015 | Updated: 22:38 GMT, 4 February 2015
A sickening video showing cheering crowds of ISIS supporters watching the barbaric murder of a Jordanian pilot on specially erected giant screens also features a smiling child telling an interviewer: 'I would've burnt him [Moaz al-Kasasbeh] with my own hands.'
Filmed in the terror group's de facto capital Raqqa, the four minute clip is titled 'Muslims' Joy at Burning of Jordanian Pilot' and was released this afternoon.
The crowd can be heard cheering and shouting religious slogans as the airman goes up in flames, before an interviewer asks for their views on the atrocity, which has been widely condemned as one of the most sickening acts ever committed to film.
Among those questioned is a child who appears no more than eight-years-old. He is seen smiling and talking vividly about the murder, while eulogising about ISIS and their barbaric acts.
Jordan's King Abdullah II today returned home after cutting short a visit to the US where he was when news broke that the pilot had been savagely murdered.
'We are waging this war to protect our faith, our values and human principles and our war for their sake will be relentless and will hit them in their own ground', he said.
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Brutal: The footage, which is titled 'Healing the Believers Chests', shows the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit as a trail of petrol leading up to the cage is seen being set alight
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Barbaric: An ISIS extremist lights a trail of petrol leading to the cage in which the 26-year-old stands
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Depraved: The flames reach the cage holding the helpless pilot. It is later flattened by a bulldozer
The video is entitled, “Healing the Believers Chests.” That’s from the Qur’an: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you over them, heal the breasts of Believers.” (Qur’an 9:14) Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who years ago tried to murder students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the name of Islam and jihad, also referenced this verse when explaining his actions.
And then there is this story from Muhammad’s conquest of Khaybar: “Kinana b. al-Rabi`, who had the custody of the treasure of B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (T. was brought) to the apostle and said that he had seen Kinana going round a certain ruin every morning early. When the apostle said to Kinana, ‘Do you know that if we find you have it I shall kill you?’ he said Yes. The apostle gave orders that the ruin was to be excavated and some of the treasure was found. When he asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam, ‘Torture him until you extract what he has,’ so he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad b. Maslama and he struck off his head, in revenge for his brother Mahmud.” (Ibn Ishaq 515).
And Muhammad is depicted in a hadith as saying: “Certainly I decided to order the Mu’adh-dhin (call-maker) to pronounce Iqama and order a man to lead the prayer and then take a fire flame to burn all those who had not left their houses so far for the prayer along with their houses.” (Bukhari 1.11.626)
