Damascus: Reports have claimed that Islamists in Syria are now crucifying people and tweeting their pictures, the Daily Beast reported. Two men were reportedly crucified in Raqqa on Tuesday, their bloody corpses displayed in the center of a town controlled by the most severe of Syria’s Islamist factions, the Beast said.
Among the forms of slaughter that have become commonplace in Syria’s civil war, crucifixion may be no more brutal than barrel bombs or sarin gas attacks. But the revival of an ancient form of torture is one sign of what life is like under the rule of one of Syria’s powerful Islamist factions.
And it’s an indication that, despite years of public hand-wringing in the West over Syria’s bloody and rapid decline, the country is continuing to plummet into new depths of the abyss.
Below the photo of a crucified body, the message on a jihadist Twitter account reads, “One of 7 people executed by ISIS in Raqqa on charges of planting IEDs”. Another photo of a different man’s crucifixion shows a similar scene.
