He emphasizes that Islam forbids killing innocent civilians, and community members here have said they will not tolerate a mosque prayer leader advocating violence.

Ellesmere supported a small musk ox population, but the police detachment, 40 miles from the Inuit encampment, forbade killing them.

When Spike learns that several humans are still alive, he wants to kill them; Angel forbids killing the humans because they need the crew to get back to the surface ("We're underwater?"

Jewish law forbids killing injured or sick animals, so they may not be stunned first, either with clubs as in ancient times or with air hammers, pistols or electricity today.

The Army Field Manual explicitly forbids killing prisoners "on grounds of self-preservation", but many people who served in Vietnam said the unwritten rules of the conflict made it clear that such actions were acceptable.

Custom forbids killing these mistakes.

"That law goes back to-well, I've forgotten his name, but he was an ancestor and forbade killing a fallow doe even if you were starving."

The late Azhrei forbade killing them because he wanted to keep all the gold and jewels for himself.

In one unusual Web site posting, a Saudi man who wrote that he worked with the kidnap victim and had even discussed Islam with him, tried to extend a religiously inspired, traditional tribal form of protection known in Arabic as "ijara" that would forbid killing Mr. Johnson.

Writing that he understood that Islam forbids killing innocents, he asked those who insisted on "peaceful protest":