Beirut: Daesh beheaded on Thursday a Syrian imam, or mosque prayer leader, for insulting God, a monitoring group said.
[Daesh] executed the imam of a mosque from the village of Abu Khuyut near Hasakah city [in northeastern Syria] at dawn Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based Observatory added that three of the manss sons were Daesh fighters, and that it was the first time the militants had executed a religious official for this reason.
The man was detained after watching a video on executions carried out by Daesh and cursing because God had permitted them, Observatory director Rami Abdul Rahman said.
Daesh carries out near-daily executions in the territories of Syria and Iraq that it controls.
Originating in Iraq, it appeared in Syrias civil war in spring 2013, and has since committed some of the conflicts worst abuses.
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