'The Islamic State posted a religious edict on Twitter, which ruled that it is permissible in Islam to burn an infidel to death.
However, senior clerics across the Islamic world argued that inflicting death by fire was always banned under Islam.
'In Qatar, the International Association of Muslim Scholars, headed by prominent cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi and linked to the Muslim Brotherhood that has influence across the region, called the burning of Kasaesbeh a criminal act.
"The Association asserts that this extremist organisation does not represent Islam in any way and its actions always harm Islam," it said.
"The Prophet, peace be upon him, advised against burning people with fire," Sheikh Hussein bin Shu'ayb, head of the religious affairs department in southern Yemen, told Reuters in Aden.
Saudi cleric Salman al-Odah wrote on his Twitter account: "Burning is an abominable crime rejected by Islamic law regardless of its causes."
"It is rejected whether it falls on an individual or a group or a people. Only God tortures by fire," he added.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/04/mideast-crisis-jordan-clerics-idINKBN0L814Q20150204
Well you don't have to be a genius to guess that al Caliph with a PhD in Islamic Studies and theocratic leader of a Caliphate has an islamic precedent or two up his sleeve.
During the 'Riddah Wars'...which means Wars of Apostasy:
'Abu Bakr even set the example when a captive who had fought against the Muslims was brought to him. Abu Bakr
ordered a fire to be kindled with much firewood in the prayer yard (musalla) of Medina and threw him, with arms and legs bound, into it.http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dr-stephen-m-kirby/islam-and-burning-people-alive/
The History of al-Tabari: The Conquest of Arabia, p. 80
'Muhammad promised regarding anyone who abandoned Islam, Abu Bakr said, to “burn them with fire, slaughter them by any means,..'
and Abu Bakr, they say, is an honourable Rightly Guided Caliph.That's what I call class.
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