My friend was beheaded for sorcery – but he was just doing acupuncture': Libyans fear being executed by ISIS in staged 'witchcraft trials'

My friend was beheaded for sorcery – but he was just doing acupuncture': Libyans fear being executed by ISIS in staged 'witchcraft trials'

ISIS carrying out brutal executions after seizing swathes of Libyan territory

One elder who fled the terror group said his friend was beheaded with a four-foot sword for practising homeopathy and acupuncture

Libyans forced to live under ISIS have told of their fear they will be wrongly convicted of sorcery in staged witchcraft trials – and brutally beheaded.
ISIS has become notorious for its sickening executions in Iraq and Syria of anyone performing what it believes to be 'black magic', an art condemned as questioning the existence of Allah.

A man accused of sorcery is beheaded by an ISIS executioner near Benghazi in Libya in pictures released last year. Libyans forced to live under ISIS have told of their fear they will be wrongly convicted of sorcery in staged witchcraft trials since the terror group seized swathes of territory over the last year
Haaji Mohammed showed The Daily Telegraph a video of two men being beheaded by an jihadi with a four-foot scimitar after being accused of sorcery.
Referring to one of the victims, he said: 'I know that man personally. He is not a witch, he is just an alternative healer who does homeopathy and acupuncture. He was wrongly accused.'
Mr Mohammed, whose son was killed fighting ISIS, is now living in the nearby Misrata along with 5,000 other Sirte residents.
But the city is also under which is also under siege from the fanatics and he fears suffering a similar fate if he is captured. 
The media branch of ISIS has previously released images of several executions in Syria and Iraq of individuals found guilty of performing 'black magic.'
Street performers, entertaining young children and passersby have been put to death for crimes of magic and sorcerers.
Optical illusions and other basic magic tricks are considered strictly forbidden and a form of black magic, an art condemned as questioning the existence of Allah.
Last year, ISIS's Libyan franchise, released their first images of a sorcerer being beheaded in the province of Barqah. 

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