Shocking video has emerged showing a veiled woman being publicly executed by Al Qaeda for alleged adultery – a sentence that has sickened even the Islamic State. The footage shows the woman, who is wearing a black robe and a hijab (headscarf), being ordered to crouch down on the pavement in front of a crowd of masked jihadi fighters in Syria.
Behind her, a militant declares that she has been convicted by an Islamic court of being an adulterer, condemning her for allegedly running a brothel. A gunmen then pulls out a pistol and shoots her in the head with a single shot as chants of Allahu Akbar – Arabic for God is greatest – ring out from the baying mob.
The video, which was posted on social media, has drawn condemnation even from rival Islamists, with one ISIS supporter asking ‘which Sharia (Islamic law) is that???’.
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