When a 14-year-old boy from the Syrian city of Aleppo
named Mohammad Qatta was asked to bring one of his customers some coffee, he
reportedly refused, saying, “Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I
won’t.”
According to a story reported by two grassroots Syrian
opposition groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media
Center, Qatta’s words got him killed. A group of Islamist rebels, driving by in
a black car, reportedly heard the exchange.
They stopped the car, grabbed the boy and took him away.
Qatta, in
refusing to serve a customer coffee – it’s not clear why – had used a phrase
that the Islamist rebels took as an insult toward the Prophet Mohammed, the
most important figure in Islam. That offhand comment, made by a boy, was
apparently enough for these rebels to warrant a grisly execution and public
warning. The rebels, according to ABC
News’ reconstruction of the Syrian groups’ reports, appear to have
whipped Qatta. When they brought him back to where they’d taken him, his head
was wrapped by a shirt.
The rebels waited for a crowd to gather; Qatta’s parents were among
them. Speaking in classical Arabic, they announced that Qatta had committed
blasphemy and that anyone else who dared insult the Prophet Mohammed would
share his fate. Then, the shirt still wrapped around the boy’s head, the rebels
shot him in the mouth and neck.…..To Read More…..
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