“They have been practicing savagery for a very simple reason: to strike fear in their enemy,” says Abdel Bari Atwan.

The Qur’an says: “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60)

“Abdel Bari Atwan: ISIS Savagery Comes from Islamic History; The West Likely to ‘Contain’ ISIS Like It Contained the IRA and Arafat,” MEMRI, December 15, 2015: