The Barbarians Behead A French Tourist For Allah
Ryan Gorman writes on AOL that French tourist Hervé Gourdel was beheaded by Muslims in Algeria.
An ISIS-offshoot based in Algeria has executed a French hostage after previously threatening to kill him over France's participation in airstrikes over Iraq.Herve Gourdel, 55, was captured Sunday by Jund al-Khilafa while on vacation. The horrifying video ends with one of the insurgents holding his head over his body as another stands on it waving to the camera while they all praise Allah.
Gourdel was captured only one day after landing in Algeria, according to reports.
Gourdel was a mountaineer, and described himself in the barbarians' video as a "mountain guide," The Wire reports. He looks a bit like a crusty retired French friend of ours, in his 70s. Terribly sad.
I was always sort of amazed that friends of mine from France were so relaxed about vacationing in places like Algeria and Egypt that are so hostile to westerners and Enlightenment values.
Beheading is big in the Quran -- it calls for it for unbelievers:
Book of Al-Anfal, verse 12 (8:12) - "I (Allah) will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off."
Sadly, if you want to climb some mountains these days, and want to keep your head on your shoulders, you'd best stick to places like Switzerland that as of yet do not have an Islamic majority.
Is the problem Islam or Araby?
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at September 24, 2014 4:15 PM
Arab society is a tribal, warring society -- is and was:
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4198/tribalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula_it-is-a-family-
Amy Alkon at September 24, 2014 4:41 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/09/24/the_barbarians.html#comment-5128374">comment from Amy AlkonStanley Kurtz book review of Philip Salzman's Culture and Conflict in the Middle East:
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/04/07/salzman-on-tribal-islam-insights-of-an-anthropologist/
Amy Alkon at September 24, 2014 4:44 PM
The French have a long tawdry colonial history in Algeria.
People that don't know their own history tend to wander around the world into dangerous places like the ignorant rubes that they are.
If there is a lesson here, I guess, it is just that ignorance about the world (and their own history) isn't confined to Americans.
Isab at September 24, 2014 6:03 PM
Very interesting article, Crid.
Conan the Grammarian at September 24, 2014 8:20 PM
Well, to be fair to the guy, up until now beheaded tourists haven't been a huge problem in Algeria.
NicoleK at September 25, 2014 7:57 AM
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Civil_War
Does it actually require a beheading of a tourist to get a clue?
I think the link above and the the French colonial history in Algeria is about as big a warning sign as you are going to get.
Isab at September 25, 2014 10:13 AM
I totally don't get being a "tourist" in a war torn area. Dafuq? Why? I mean, seriously....
LauraGr at September 25, 2014 12:13 PM
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