Rotten.com has some odd and disgusting photos - some of which are about this very subject. Algerian, I believe.
Yes, the arabs did that a lot in Algeria to Apostates. Or who they considered apostates for “corrupting” Islam. They weren’t Islamic enough for the Arab fundamentalists who took over the country.
“Algerian, I believe.”
From the Algerian Revolution against France from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. I’ve read several books on the event. Another favorite past-time was beheading a man and a dog, and sewing the one’s head on the other, and vice versa.