Don't get the kindness in there in taking another's life while you preserve yours.
As senior leader of al Qaeda in Yemen during an interview with Reuters has criticized the beheadings by Islamic State (IS) fighters as un-Islamic, and said his own group had banned such acts.
IS, was an offshoot of the al Qaeda network, but seems to have carved out its own territory in Syria and Iraq with military victories over government troops and former Islamist allies and violence against civilians. Its fighters sometimes film their beheadings of prisoners and post the footage online.
"There is no doubt that some of our brothers have been influenced by scenes of beheadings which have proliferated lately," Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), said in video posted on Twitter, without referring to Islamic State by name.
"These are scenes which we do not accept and we strongly reject," he added.
"Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him and upon his family, has ordered us to be kind in everything, even in killing, and it is not part of kindness to film beheadings and slayings and publish them in public, where sons and daughters of those killed can see," he added in Arabic.
"These are some of the ugliest matters. "Beheadings are limited and individual acts and we will prevent them being repeated."
The United States has in turn killed AQAP leaders and members with drone strikes, in attacks that have sometimes killed civilians.
Credit: Sami Aboudi via Culled from Reuters
As senior leader of al Qaeda in Yemen during an interview with Reuters has criticized the beheadings by Islamic State (IS) fighters as un-Islamic, and said his own group had banned such acts.
IS, was an offshoot of the al Qaeda network, but seems to have carved out its own territory in Syria and Iraq with military victories over government troops and former Islamist allies and violence against civilians. Its fighters sometimes film their beheadings of prisoners and post the footage online.
"There is no doubt that some of our brothers have been influenced by scenes of beheadings which have proliferated lately," Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), said in video posted on Twitter, without referring to Islamic State by name.
"These are scenes which we do not accept and we strongly reject," he added.
"Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him and upon his family, has ordered us to be kind in everything, even in killing, and it is not part of kindness to film beheadings and slayings and publish them in public, where sons and daughters of those killed can see," he added in Arabic.
"These are some of the ugliest matters. "Beheadings are limited and individual acts and we will prevent them being repeated."
The United States has in turn killed AQAP leaders and members with drone strikes, in attacks that have sometimes killed civilians.
Credit: Sami Aboudi via Culled from Reuters
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