ISIL codifies more of its war crimes

NY Daily News:

Islamic State terrorists can eat so-called “apostates,” harvest their organs and rape sex slaves under ISIS clerical rulings revealed Friday.

The January “fatwas,” or religious rulings, come from a seven-terabyte trove of data seized by American special forces during the raid that killed senior ISIS money man Abu Sayyaf in May. Reuters published a U.S. government translation of one of the ISIS Research and Fatwa Committee rulings Friday.

“The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity,” according to Fatwa Number 68. The document cites “evidence from texts and Islamic principles and laws supporting the notion that transplanting healthy organs from an apostate’s body into a Muslim body in order to save the latter’s life or replace a damaged organ with it is permissible.”

The ruling doesn’t define “apostate” but gives ISIS terrorists sanction to remove organs from captives without regard to the captives’ lives and engage in cannibalism, according to American officials.

“A group of Islamic scholars have permitted, if necessary, one to kill the apostate in order to eat his flesh, which is part of benefiting from his body,” the document says.

Both the organ harvesting and rape rulings from a U.S. government briefing called “Lessons Learned From the Abu Sayyaf Raid” follow reports of the brutal practices in ISIS-controlled areas. Fatwa Number 64 outlines detailed rules for when ISIS men have a religious right to have sex with female slaves.
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It is rare that an adversary so openly confesses its war crimes and makes them part of their code of conduct.   ISIL will go down in history in that regard and there are other ISIL wannabes out there fighting in Syria as the Islamic religious bigots compete in infamy.