PHOTO: Rebel fighters in northern Syria


On Monday, Syria’s rebel bloc Levant Front distributed a short film which parallels the Islamic State’s execution videos — but with a twist at the end:

The condemned men make their confessions to camera before they are lined up in a barren landscape paralleling that in northern Syria used by ISIS for the beheading of foreign hostages in autumn 2014. Masked fighters in black — another homage to the Islamic State’s display — aim pistols at the back of the would-be victims’ heads.

But suddenly the fighters are gone, replaced by an Islamic scholar who addresses the men:

O ye who believe! Stand out for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve from wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety.

The men’s chains and handcuffs are then removed.

(Hat tip to Muslims Are Not Criminals)