oped: And Barack Obama and Senator John McCain support the Rebels [MB] they also must support Sharia Law...akin to the Libya fiasco #Benghazi
By Alexander Marquardt
Qatta was then shot in the mouth and neck. A graphic photo was released late Sunday of the dead boy clearly showing wounds that matched the reports.
The Islamists and their group have yet to be identified. Large swathes of rebel-held Aleppo are under the control of al Qaeda-linked rebel groups who have set up Sharia courts and welcomed large numbers of foreign fighters into their ranks. The United States and its allies have struggled with the question of whether to arm an extremely fragmented opposition force whose strongest elements have pledged allegiance to al Qaeda.
By Alexander Marquardt
A teenager selling coffee in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo
was arrested by Islamist rebel fighters for insulting the Prophet
Mohammed, beaten and then executed in front of his family, a watchdog
group claims.
The boy, Mohammed Qatta, 14, reportedly refused to give a customer coffee, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Sunday.
"Even if [Prophet] Mohammed comes back to life, I won't," the boy said, who was known by his nickname "Salmo."
Extremist rebels driving past in a black car overheard the comment, the opposition Aleppo Media Center
said. Qatta was taken away by the fighters and later brought back, his
head wrapped with his shirt and his body covered with marks from
whipping.
The rebels then read out the boy's sentence - not in a Syrian accent,
but in classical Arabic. They accused the boy of blasphemy and told the
crowd - which included the boy's parents - that anyone who insulted the
Prophet would suffer a similar fate.Qatta was then shot in the mouth and neck. A graphic photo was released late Sunday of the dead boy clearly showing wounds that matched the reports.
The boy's parents confirmed
the accounts in an interview posted online on Monday by the Aleppo
Media Center. In it, his father stoically recounted the execution while
his mother wailed.
"Why did they kill my son," she cried. "We are not for or against anybody in this conflict, may God take revenge on them."The Islamists and their group have yet to be identified. Large swathes of rebel-held Aleppo are under the control of al Qaeda-linked rebel groups who have set up Sharia courts and welcomed large numbers of foreign fighters into their ranks. The United States and its allies have struggled with the question of whether to arm an extremely fragmented opposition force whose strongest elements have pledged allegiance to al Qaeda.
Aleppo is expected to become of the focal point of Syria's
two-year civil war in the coming days as Syrian forces look to take
back full control of Syria's most populous city in a new offensive
reportedly dubbed "Northern Storm."
ABC News' Nasser Atta contributed to this report 
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