Another beheading


It’s being reported that IS has beheaded the American journalist Steven Sotloff. NBC says it’s not confirmed yet, but there seems little reason to think that IS would say it had when it hadn’t. It’s not as if its members are hesitant about being brutal bastards. The text of the story (as opposed to the video) states it as fact in any case.

The Islamic militant group ISIS cut off the head of an American journalist in a video made public Tuesday — following through on a threat it made when it beheaded another American two weeks ago and vowed to keep killing unless the United States stopped airstrikes.

The journalist, Steven Joel Sotloff, was beheaded in a video made public by SITE Intel Group, which monitors jihadist organizations. The video surfaced days after Sotloff’s mother pleaded with the leader of ISIS for mercy.

I hope no more parents or other relatives do that. It’s so obvious that they don’t do mercy, and that pleading only makes it more fun for them.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said it condemned the “pure barbarism” in the strongest possible terms.

Sotloff, like Foley, “went to Syria to tell a story,” said Joel Simon, the executive director of CPJ. “They were civilians, not representatives of any government. Their murders are war crimes and those who committed them must be brought to justice swiftly.”

Must, but won’t.

Comments

  1. aziraphale says

    “It’s so obvious that they don’t do mercy”
    And yet their holy book starts

    1:1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
    1:2 Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds,
    1:3 The Beneficent, the Merciful.

    and repeats those adjectives throughout.

    I suppose it might read differently in Arabic

  2. Crimson Clupeidae says

    The Koran reads better in the original Klingon.

    Sorry, I got nuthin’, and this shit just makes me rage and despair. 🙁

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