News:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State has executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday, part of a mass killing campaign launched last week to break local resistance to the group's territorial advances.

Tribal chief Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud told Reuters Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the group in Anbar Province on Friday. A further 35 bodies were found in a mass grave, a security official said.

Islamic State has executed a total of more than 300 tribe members in the past few days, Ga'oud and the official said.

The sustained bloodshed appears to demonstrate the group's resilience to the U.S. air strikes that have been targeting its fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Ga'oud said he had repeatedly asked the Shi'ite-led central government in Baghdad for arms but that his pleas were ignored.

Albu Nimr had held out for weeks under siege by Islamic State, but finally ran low on ammunition, fuel and food... Ga'oud said the 50-tribe members were killed near Tharthar Lake near a desert area. They had been traveling on foot when they were intercepted by the Sunni militants.

He said one managed to escape the carnage and get word to tribal leaders.

"Forty of the dead were men. Six women and four children were killed while trying to protect their husbands and fathers," said Ga'oud.

...In the other incident, 35 corpses were found on the outskirts of Ramadi. "They were handcuffed and blindfolded. Some were wearing tracksuits and others were wearing dish-dash robes," an eyewitness told Reuters.

Comment:

How strange it is, that the weapons of the US appear to be so ineffective against Da'ish. How strange it is the murderous tyrant Bashar of Syria is still on his seat and terrorizing his people with impunity. However all of that pales into insignificance when we see a group proclaiming to be the upholders of Islam, proclaiming to have established the State, desecrating the very Muslim blood, honour and property they are supposed to protect. Do they not know?!

In the Targhib wa' l-Tarhib of Imam al-Mundhiri, 3/276 it has the following hadith from `Abd Allah ibn `Amr ibn al-`As (Allah be well pleased with him) that he said:

"I saw the Messenger of Allah (saw) performing tawaf around the Holy Kaa`ba saying to it:

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ جَاءَ يُمْشَى حَتَّى دَخَلَ الْكَعْبَةَ , فَقَالَ : يَا كَعْبَةُ مَا أَطْيَبَ رِيحَكِ وَيَا حَجَرُ مَا أَعْظَمَكَ حَقَّكَ ، وَيَا كَعْبَةُ مَا أَطْيَبَ رِيحَكِ ، وَيَا حَجَرُ مَا أَعْظَمَ حَقَّكَ ، وَيَا كَعْبَةُ مَا أَطْيَبَ رِيحَكِ ، وَيَا حَجَرُ مَا أَعْظَمَ حَقَّكَ ، وَاللَّهِ لَلْمُسْلِمُ أَعْظَمُ حَقًّا مِنْكُمَا ، وَاللَّهِ لَلْمُسْلِمُ أَعْظَمُ حَقًّا مِنْكُمَا  وَاللَّهِ لَلْمُسْلِمُ أَعْظَمُ حَقًّا مِنْكُمَا

‘How pure and good you are! How pure and good your fragrance is! How great and exalted you are! And how great and exalted your sanctity is! But by Him in Whose Hand is Muhammad's soul, the sanctity of a believer's blood and property in the sight of Allah is greater than your sanctity!'"

Have they not read the Command of Allah (swt) in Surah An-Nisa' of His Noble Qur'an:

((وَمَن يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَآؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا))

"But whoever kills a believer intentionally - his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great punishment." [TMQ 4:93]

Written for the Central Media Officeof Hizb ut Tahrir by

Hamzah Muhammad