HSBC Bank Fired Six Employees over Mock Islamic State Execution Video

Major Bank Fires Staffers Over Mock Islamic State Execution Video (The Blaze)

HSBC bank announced Tuesday that it had fired six employees who posted a video of themselves staging a mock Islamic State-style beheading video during a company team-building day, British media reported.

In the video, five men dressed in black and wearing balaclavas over their heads stand behind a colleague wearing an orange jumpsuit, the hallmark of the jihadi group’s execution videos.

As the “victim” kneels on the ground, one of the mock executioners raises a coat hanger — doubling as a knife — over his head while another colleague holds the victim’s shoulders down as if making to behead him.