article_snippet: This is not Islamic terror, This is terror committed by Muslims.'
article_snippet: Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious seats of learning, denounced the burning of the Jordanian pilot as a violation of Islam.
article_snippet: But then the Jordanian pilot called for the perpetrators to be subjected to the same punishment that ISIS prescribes for those who 'wage war on Islam' - crucifixion, death or the amputation of hands and legs.
article_snippet: There are citations in the Hadith of Muhammad of ordering beheadings, and verses in the Koran setting out rules for dealing with slaves.
article_snippet: Most Muslims denounced the burning of a Jordanian pilot as a violation of Islam with some calling for the perpetrators to be subjected to the same punishment .
article_snippet: One ISIS cleric, Sheikh Hussein bin Mahmoud, wrote a vehement defence of beheadings after the killing of American journalist James Foley.
article_snippet: One ISIS cleric, Sheikh Hussein bin Mahmoud wrote: 'Those who pervert Islam are not those who cut off the heads of disbelievers and terrorise Those who pervert Islam but those who want (Islam) to be like Mandela or Gandhi, with no killing, no fighting, no blood or striking necks. '
article_snippet: Islam is the religion of battle, of cutting heads, of shedding blood.'
article_snippet: To support beheadings, the group cites the Koran as calling on Muslims to 'strike the necks' of Muslims enemies.