“[T]he U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said it has received reports of “several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive”, …
- UN: Islamic State Torturing, Killing Children in Iraq (AP /abc News)
… an association of Muslim scholars declared that IS’s barbarity “does not represent Islam in any way and its actions always harm Islam,” and even those countries who have no problems with beheading and crucifixion as punishment were shocked by the burning of a prisoner of war, …
… and even a hard-line Jordanian leader with “ties with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda” called the execution “un-Islamic in every sense” and has united “all of Jordan — Islamists and liberals, East Bank and West Bank — … against” the IS …
- Jordan Executes Two Jihadis in Act of Retaliation for Pilot’s Gruesome Murder (Christian Science Monitor)
… but the perpetrators justified their actions with an “eye for an eye” reasoning,  “saying the immolation matched what he had done in “burning Muslims with the fire of his plane’” …
- Muslim Outrage Grows Against Islamic State but Questions Linger over Next Steps in Fight (Washington Post)
… but Jordan’s response is to rain down more fire:
“Prime Minister Habib Essid, whose cabinet has ministers from four parties including the powerful Islamists, promised “work and nothing but work” on the country’s economic and security problems”:
- Tunisia’s New Government Wins Confidence Vote in Parliament (AP / abc News)
“An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Ahmed Douma to life in prison on Wednesday, judicial sources said, part of a sustained crackdown on Islamist and liberal government opponents”:
- Egyptian Activist, 229 Others Face Lifetime Jail Sentences for Protests (Christian Science Monitor)
“Greste saw first-hand the flaws of the Egyptian judicial system…. [P]rosecutors inexplicably presented as evidence of his guilt a Gotye song, footage of trotting horses, photos of his parents, an interview he filmed with Kenyan politicians, and Arabic text messages, which he cannot read”:
The wife of Mohammed Baher said that “she is looking to any country that could provide Baher with a foreign nationality” after Canada’s foreign minister said that another of the three detained Al-Jazeera journalists “could be imminently released after renouncing his Egyptian nationality”:
- Wife of Imprisoned Egyptian Al-Jazeera Reporter Issues Plea (AP / abc News)
“[R]eining in the religious, semi-governmental and military organizations accustomed to tax breaks portends a political challenge akin to “pulling fresh kill out of a lion’s mouth,†a Tehran-based political analyst said”:
George W. Bush had a roundtable with Muslim leaders in his first term, while Obama has “had roundtable discussions in the White House with African-American, Jewish-American and labor leaders, but never Muslim-American advocates” until year seven of his administration:
- Muslim-American Leaders Meet with Obama at White House (Detroit Free Press)
“Brian McKeon, principal undersecretary of defense for policy,  … said President Barack Obama and his national security team all believe the continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention center “is used by violent extremists to incite local populations”:
“Kenyan mediator Kenneth Marende told reporters that representatives of both the Seleka and anti-Balaka armed groups pledged to stop the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and to stop launching attacks against civilians” …
- Central African Republic Factions Reach Truce in Kenya (AP / abc News)
… but “extremists on the run from a massive, three-nation offensive took revenge Thursday on civilians in neighboring Cameroon, shooting and burning scores to death and razing mosques and churches”:
- Boko Haram, Hit by 3-Nation Offensive, Rampage in Cameroon (AP / abc News)
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