article_snippet: It was not a militant commander but an ISIS Sharia judge, said Osama Edward, who heads the Assyrian Human Rights Network, based in Sweden.
article_snippet: Then Edward pronounced Ten other Assyrian Christians not guilty of violating Sharia law and ordered Ten other Assyrian Christians released.
article_snippet: It did win They points with Assyrian activists.
article_snippet: That reduced some of ISIS' chances of receiving international moral and financial support, leaving the group to make up the gap with other funding.
article_snippet: But Christian activist Edward thinks the Sharia court decision was, in part, a nod to Syrian Sunni Muslim tribal leaders who negotiated for Christians release.
article_snippet: It also makes the Sunni tribal leaders look good and gets a rapport started between the Sunni tribal leaders and ISIS'.
article_snippet: The released Assyrian Christians agreed to acknowledge ISIS' as The released Assyrian Christians new masters and to pay a special tax.