Behead.

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First, consider this headline and article from "Slate":

"Decapitation and the Muslim World Is there any special significance to beheading in Islam?"

This particular article from Slate seems to suggest that the current wave of beheadings as perpetrated the world-over by persons only best described as jihadists IS NOT A PHENOMENON UNIQUE TO ISLAM!! And, indeed, beheading has been historically NOT been something that is particularly unique to Islam. A practice, taking off the head of a vanquished enemy, rather, having a final, climactic, irrevocable decisiveness to battlefield victory. A enemy and foe, soldier or civilian, being dealt with in a manner that is totally with remediation!!

Now, consider also, from only the last three days, additional headlines, thanks to JihadWatch and Robert Spencer:

"Couple beheaded in Thai south "

Sun, Feb 22, 2009 - - AFP

"YALA - A MARRIED couple were shot dead by separatist rebels in Thailand's far south on Sunday, who then beheaded the husband and left his corpse in a rubber plantation, police said."

Yala province, bordering Thailand and Malaysia. Separatist rebels - - MUSLIMS!!

This is the type of thing that really pisses you off. A married couple, probably Buddhists, going about their own business, unarmed, defenseless, "little people", murdered and then the body of the husband defiled!! This is not rebellion, it is TERRORISM!!

"Attackers behead 2 soldiers in southern Thailand"

"PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed a military convoy and beheaded two soldiers in southern Thailand on Friday in the second such attack this month, police said."

"a 10-minute gun battle broke out after the ambush, and the teams of soldiers became separated. Later, the bodies of the two soldiers were found with their heads cut off."

In both instances, Muslim killer gangs, jihadists, waging low-intensity warfare against the Thai government and the Buddhist populace of Yala province, taking heads as prizes of war, souvenirs of bloody deeds that has Koranic sanction?

Muslim killer gangs, Salafists, waging a jihad against poly-theists [Buddhists], for which no quarter is given at all. These "insurrectionists" are Salafists?

Salafists, those jihadi that adhere to the belief that Islam in the pure state has been only practiced by the first three generations of Muslims. To include the generation of Muhammad and the two subsequent generations following!!

THOSE FIRST THREE GENERATIONS OF MUSLIMS WHO WAGED WAR BY THE SWORD, LOPPING OFF HEADS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OR IN INSTANCES OF GIVING NO QUARTER TO THOSE POLY-THEISTS WHO REFUSED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM!!

Slate is in part right, and IN PART WRONG?? You judge.

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