Militant executes own mother for asking him to leave ISIS

It was another day of madness in Syria, as a militant of the Islamic State publicly executed his own mother after accusing her of apostasy.

According to theactivist group, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, the 20-year-old jihadi Ali Saqr al-Qasem shot his mother Lena, 45, in the head with an assault rifle in front of a large crowd.

According to reports, Lena al-Qasem was accused of apostasy – a crime that usually means leaving one’s religion but in practise is used by ISIS as a justification for murdering anybody who doesn’t support or speaks out against the terror group.

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Ms al-Qasem was specifically charged with “inciting her son to leave the Islamic State and escaping together to the outside of Raqqa,” according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.

Ali Saqr al-Qasem was said to have reported his mother to his ISIS superiors, who then sentenced her to death and ordered him to be the one to kill her.

The Observatory said hundreds of people turned out to watch Ms al-Qasem’s execution, though it is not yet known why her son was given the task of killing his own mother but the reason the execution took place outside Raqqa’s post office is because that is where Ms al-Qasem had worked.

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