ISIS Harvesting "Organs Of Infidels"

by JASmius



Hardly surprising.  Oil, hostage ransoms, "infidel" antiquities plunder, illegal human organ trafficking - the Islamic State is always on the lookout for fresh revenue streams, after all.

And these animals are, you know, bloodthirsty, cannibalistic butchers, too:

The Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group's Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent [Muslim] group may be trafficking in body parts.

The ruling, contained in a January 31st, 2015 document reviewed by Reuters, says taking organs from a living captive to save a Muslim's life, even if it is fatal for the captive, is permissible.

Reuters couldn't independently confirm the authenticity of the document. U.S. officials say it was among a trove of data and other information obtained by U.S. special forces in a raid in eastern Syria in May.

"The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity," says the document, which is in the form of a fatwa, or religious ruling, from the Islamic State's Research and Fatwa Committee.

"Organs that end the captive's life if removed: The removal of that type is also not prohibited," Fatwa Number 68 says, according to a U.S. government translation. [emphasis added]

That's not all of the "goodies" the May raid yielded, either; not by a long shot:

The group of documents reviewed by Reuters - entitled "Lessons Learned From the Abu Sayyaf Raid" - show how the Islamic State has provided a legal justification to its followers for a range of practices.

For instance, "Fatwa Number 64" dated January 29, 2015, provides detailed rules for rape, prescribing when Islamic State men can and cannot have sexual intercourse with female slaves.

The fatwa sanctioning organ harvesting justifies the practice in part by drawing an analogy to cannibalism in extreme circumstances, a practice it says earlier Islamic scholars had allowed. "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," it says.

McGurk said the Islamic State's Research and Fatwa Committee reports directly to the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The ruling on organ harvesting cites Islamic texts, principles and laws that it says support what it calls "the notion that transplanting healthy organs into a Muslim person's body in order to save the latter's life or replace a damaged organ with it is permissible."

Welcome to the Islamic Reformation, folks.

The Islamic State doesn't need to be defeated; it needs to be exterminated.

So why won't Barack Obama do so?

Yes, that is a rhetorical question.