The newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid al-Hussein warned of a "house of blood" trying to be created by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, urging states to take action to protect women and minorities.
He also called on the Iraqi government to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to ensure justice for the crimes committed in the region.
"Do they believe they are acting courageously? Barbarically slaughtering captives?," he said, describing the militants as "takfiris" - those who kill others on the basis that they are apostates.
"They reveal only what a Takfiri state would look like, should this movement actually try to govern in the future. It would be a harsh, mean-spirited, house of blood, where no shade would be offered, nor shelter given, to any non-Takfiri in their midst," he added.
"In the takfiri mind, as we have seen in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Kenya, Somalia, Mali, Libya, Syria and Iraq. There is no love of neighbour, only annihilation to those Muslims, Christians, Jews and others, altogether the rest of humanity, who believe differently to them," Zeid said.
His comments come as Islamic State militants continued their advance, with attacks in a town north of Baghdad, Dhuluiya.
He also called on the Iraqi government to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to ensure justice for the crimes committed in the region.
"Do they believe they are acting courageously? Barbarically slaughtering captives?," he said, describing the militants as "takfiris" - those who kill others on the basis that they are apostates.
"They reveal only what a Takfiri state would look like, should this movement actually try to govern in the future. It would be a harsh, mean-spirited, house of blood, where no shade would be offered, nor shelter given, to any non-Takfiri in their midst," he added.
"In the takfiri mind, as we have seen in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Kenya, Somalia, Mali, Libya, Syria and Iraq. There is no love of neighbour, only annihilation to those Muslims, Christians, Jews and others, altogether the rest of humanity, who believe differently to them," Zeid said.
His comments come as Islamic State militants continued their advance, with attacks in a town north of Baghdad, Dhuluiya.