A video featuring an elderly Syrian woman confronting ISIS militants has become a hit on social media, subtitled into English. The gutsy granny slams the fighters as ‘devils’ accusing them of ‘slaughter’ and ‘killing each other like donkeys.’
The two ISIS fighters appear to be sitting in a car when the
unidentified woman, dressed in traditional Arab clothing,
approaches them to deliver what happens to be a curse on the
militant group.
"Oh you devils, turn back to God," she says, asking the
fighters about the "slaughter" of a local Kurd and "all
those" they had previously killed. "It's all forbidden.
I swear nothing what you have done was in the way of God."
"Turn back to God," she repeats, like mantra. "This
slaughter is forbidden."
The men in the car first seem to be taken aback by the elderly
woman's audacity.
“Granny, what do you mean? Surely, it is right between
us,” they ask laughing off of her remarks.
The granny then quotes several passages from the Koran, accusing
them of violating the teachings of Syrian Sunni Muslim imams.
"Grandmother we don't have any free time, go away," one
of the jihadists tells her.
@sherif_elko Granny telling ISIS made my day ! The more they laughed she got mad ! Told them good!
— Nancy Onyett, FNP-C (@pyramidmedicine) February 14, 2015
But the granny has not finished yet: "Neither of you will win,
nor will anybody, you only will keep killing each other like
donkeys."
"Oh, granny is a poet," the militants joke in response.
"Your state [ISIS] is cursed," she states quoting Koran
again. “If two parties of the believers quarrel, make peace
between them. But if one of them acts wrongfully towards the
other, fight that which acts wrongfully. You don’t want this
slaughtering, nor do you want this murder.”
#pt despite being against ISIS I give them credit for letting that old woman say her piece
— Malcolmite (@Malcolmite) February 13, 2015
The men make fun of the elderly woman, as one of them replies
with an ISIS slogan, “We have come to you with
slaughter.”
"Now when you got money from America and weapons of America
you want to kill each other," granny continues her verbal
attack.
"What you said was correct," one of the fighters
replies.
"Turn back to God," she urges.
"We are now going," they reply.
"God is watching what you are doing," she wraps up in
the last moments of the video.
The Islamic State (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) is a jihadist
rebel group that controls territory in Iraq and Syria and
operates in eastern Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and
other areas of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. The United
Nations has held the group responsible for war and human rights
crimes, while Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing
by the group on a "historic scale". Amnesty
International has found that the IS has systematically targeted
non-Arab and non-Sunni Muslim communities, killing or abducting
hundreds, possibly thousands, and forcing more than 830,000
others to flee the areas it has captured since 10 June 2014.
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The Islamic State has recently threatened to execute at least 17
Kurdish fighters burning them alive in a cage, in a similar
manner as it killed Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh. ISIS
began its initial offensive on Kobani, a city in northern Syria,
in mid-September after capturing more than 300 towns and villages
in the area. More than 200,000 Kurdish residents have been forced
to flee their homes, with most of them heading across the border
to Turkey.
In a new four-minute video the men dressed in orange jumpsuits
are being paraded around the northwestern Iraqi town of Kirkuk
while in cages.
On Friday several Islamic State fighters who attacked an Iraqi
air base that hosts about 400 US forces were killed in a
counter-attack by Iraqi troops, according to US military
officials.
The burning alive of the Kurdish fighters is seen as a possible
revenge by ISIS following reports of Kurdish forces allegedly
dragging bodies of the jihadists through streets in the Kurdistan
region of Iraq, according to The Daily Mail.