Reuters – A Christian woman carries a cross during a demonstration against ISIS militants in Arbil, north of Baghdad, Iraq.
In yet another display of its sickening nature, the Islamic State (ISIS) turned the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, or the “Feast of Sacrifice,” into an occasion to show its gross savagery.
Muslims around the world celebrated the holiday on Monday. Eid al-Adha is the second of two Muslim holidays celebrated worldwide each year, and considered the holier of the two, the other being Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.
Eid al-Adha honours the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) for his willingness to sacrifice his own son, as an act of submission to God’s command. However, according to both the Quran and the Old Testament, God sent his angel Jibra’il (Gabriel) to inform Abraham that his sacrifice had already been accepted and that he should slaughter a lamb instead of his own son.
To mark the occasion, the ISIS extremists did their share of slaughtering—but those butchered were not sacrificial lamb but men accused of spying for the United States. An ISIS propaganda video released on Monday showed the men slaughtered like animals and hanged upside down from meat hooks inside a slaughterhouse, The Christian Post reports.
The more than 12-minute video also includes footage of executions and past terror attacks as well as “spy” scenes taken from television shows and Hollywood movies, according to Heavy.com.
Meanwhile, in another report of ISIS atrocities, a Yazidi mother and one of her sons who survived the jihadists’ attack on Sinjar and surrounding villages in northern Iraq in August 2014, described how the jihadists abducted young girls for sex, filmed the rapes and sent the video clips to the girls’ families, and even “beheaded children with axes,” CNS News reports.
The grief-stricken mother also revealed that her husband “felt so helpless” that he killed himself, adding that two of her sons, in shock and anguish, smeared their faces with their dead father’s blood.
The woman narrated the ISIS atrocities in Sinjar in the video posted on the website of Yezidi Human Rights Organization – International.
In the video, the woman described what happened when the Yazidi fighters ran out of ammunition while defending their community from ISIS.
“After that the ammunition was finished,” the mother said. “We had to flee. Many didn’t have a car and as they fled on feet they were shot and killed. Many people were killed.”
“They [ISIS] took by force women and girls,” she said. “They cut off the head of the children. They caused us unbearable suffering. May God punish them.”
“They called and told us that they [ISIS] had abducted our girls,” said the mother. “People were talking about children dying of thirst, hunger, and being beheaded by ISIS. They abused our girls and women. They filmed while abusing our girls and women and sent it to our phones.”
