Islam: ISIS and the Limits of Behavior Toward Non-Muslims

Islamic State okays taking organs of living non-Muslims

The Islamic State's religious scholars have ruled that taking the organs of non-Muslims is permissible under Islamic law to save the life of a Muslim, because killing apostates to eat their flesh has previously been allowed.

The revelation comes in a January 2015 document that was capured by U.S. special forces in Syria in May and obtained by Reuters.

The news agency posted a U.S. government translation of the document attributed to the Islamic State's research and fatwa committee.

"Allah almighty knows what's best and knows what's right and what is wrong and there is evidence from texts and Islamic principles and laws supporting the notion that transplanting organs from an apostate's body into a Muslim body in order to save the latter's life or replace a damaged organ with it is permissible," the document reads.

The details say that if taking the organ kills the apostate/infidel fighter, that's OK. So there are no limits to this form of Islamic behavior.

There is a copy of the ISIS document at the SITE.