Off with their heads

[Dextraneous]

What is it with these loons and beheading people? If you want to kill, then so be it, but why lop the heads off?

 

[Norcon]

Its RoP tradition stemming from the days of mohammed.

 

[Brigadier]

Post / thread delete coming up.....

 

[Dextraneous]

Post / thread delete coming up.....

Don't know why. I'm just asking a question

 

[tony1851]

but why lop the heads off?

Because they are peverted and enjoy making people suffer.

Absolutely nothing to do with beliefs, more to do with imposing their will on people by terrorizing them.

They enjoy strutting about in their black garb, expensive trainers and brandishing their Kalashnikovs - makes them feel powerful, rather than just the murdering t***$ they really are.

 

[Dextraneous]

There's a lot of them though. Bit of a coincidence

 

[JBR]

I think it must have some basis in their culture or religion.
Executions in Saudi Arabia are always by beheading, although these are performed usually after a proper and public trial.
Having said that, the difference is that the Saudis lop off the head rather quickly as opposed to the ISIS sub-humans who saw through the neck starting at the front.

 

[Belboz]

Nothing we didn't do a few years back....

And we [The Europeans] did far worse to people than just beheading them.

 

[Norcon]

Nothing we didn't do a few years back....

And we [The Europeans] did far worse to people than just beheading them.

When was a "few years back"?
And what pray tell did we do that is worse than beheading?

Can you be specific with dates and the type of atrocity?

Is this the crusades your on about?
Saladin V Richard the Lion heart?

I know the SAS cut down Jim Lynagh in a hail of bullets a few years ago.
He had it coming though!

 

[Belboz]

Okay, 'a few years back' is pushing it....

hanging drawing and quartering

burning at the stake

torture using various devices intended to cause maximum pain

Most of which was done without any form of trial or, indeed, any proper evidence

I could go on.....

 

[JBR]

Okay, 'a few years back' is pushing it....

hanging drawing and quartering

burning at the stake

torture using various devices intended to cause maximum pain

Most of which was done without any form of trial or, indeed, any proper evidence

I could go on.....

You're talking about mediaeval times. We moved on centuries ago, unlike a certain group of people.

 

[Belboz]

The medieval period ended in the 15th century.

Just a few examples....

'We' cut off the King's head in 1649

The last burning at the stake in England was in The Georgian Period - in 1789

France (remember I spoke of Europeans] last execution using the guillotine was as recently as 1977

There are lots of other examples of similar practices throughout Europe far later than the middle ages and far more recently than you would imagine.

And many of them were performed without what we would call 'due process'

And these are people who are supposedly advanced and cultured??

'People in glass houses...'

 

[securespark]

http://www.historyrundown.com/10-most-cruel-torture-devices-of-all-time/

 

[ladylola]

To be fair the guillotine was designed to be a humane form of execution .

 

[Belboz]

To be fair the guillotine was designed to be a humane form of execution .

Agreed - it was certainly introduced as an alternative to the much older, much more painful method.

However, I fail to see the difference between a very sharp blade falling from a wooden structure and a very sharp blade being swung down on the person being executed. They both avhieve the same result using the same method. The latter, if done correctly, will sever the head from the torso in one movement just as effectively as a guillotine.

My overall point is that labelling actions as savagery brings into play comparisons between nations and we are certainly not a nation who can hold its head high when it comes to 'savagery'.

All IMHO of course.