The bastards have killed Alan Henning.
Henning, a 47-year-old taxi driver from Salford in northern England, was part of an aid convoy taking medical supplies to a hospital in northwest Syria in December last year when it was stopped by gunmen and he was abducted.
Muslim groups across Britain, including some organizations that are highly critical of British foreign policy and blame Western interference for fanning the recent crisis in Iraq and Syria, had called in vain for his release.
His wife Barbara had called him a “a peaceful, selfless man” and appealed to Islamic State to release him.
But the murderers of Islamic State don’t release people, they butcher them.
Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, the UK’s largest Islamic umbrella group, called the purported beheading of Henning “a despicable and offensive act.”
“It is quite clear that the murderers of Alan Henning have no regard for Islam, or for the Muslims around the world who pleaded for his life,” Shafi said.
It is quite clear that they have no regard for human rights, or fair treatment, or humanitarian work, or hospitals or medical supplies or the people who need them. It is quite clear that they have no regard for anything good.
ISIS gets no conceivable advantage from these beheadings but terrorization of the populations they control, and provocation of the US & Europe.
The Bush-Cheney invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama’s clumsy attempts at regime change in Libya and Syria, and bipartisan fubars in Africa, have enabled mujihadeen regimes to seize territories across multiple nations. Apparently several of these now calculate that more warfare with the West will open up even greater chances to extract power from chaos, and won’t stop until they get it.
Politically unable to resist entering combat on the opponents’ terms and territory, the new crusaders seem unlikely to control either events or trends. The strategy of shooting bad guys, fails when each kill motivates >1 new foe, and so far neither the neocons clamoring for blood nor the quasi-liberals delivering it show signs of either planning beyond or grasping their current lose-lose predicament. Lacking an achievable goal, never mind the proverbial exit strategy, the US has de facto acknowledged its long-standing reality of indefinite no-win warfare: a change we can believe in.
How many more foreign hostages does ISIS have available for sacrifices to draw us into the bloodbath, and what “out of the box” creativity will they exercise if they run out before suckering the US/UK/Israel/France/… into a world-record quagmire?
Have you read the MCB’s statement in full? It won’t take much time: it’s not very long. You can see it here – http://www.mcb.org.uk/alan-hennings-murder-despicable-act-offensive-muslims/; but I might as well quote it all:
Maybe they think that the killing would be less despicable if it hadn’t come on the eve of Eid al-Adha – otherwise why mention that?
And, as you point out, ISIS clearly has no regard for individual humans. But that escapes the MCB’s notice. Their concern is wholly with ISIS’ regard for Islam.
I don’t have much time for the MCB at the best of times; but they seem to have missed the point spectacularly here.
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The apologies offered up by islamist outfilts like the MCB and CAIR etc are always self-serving. They are designed to do nothing more than to deflect the blame from islam…which is always perfect and beyond any reproach
Maybe they think that the killing would be less despicable if it hadn’t come on the eve of Eid al-Adha – otherwise why mention that?
Saying something as stupid as that really gives the game away, doesn’t it?
“It is quite clear that they have no regard for human rights, or fair treatment, or humanitarian work, or hospitals or medical supplies or the people who need them. It is quite clear that they have no regard for anything good”
That sounds like a description of the American foreign policies and their defense of drones as the weapons of choice.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-300914.html
“Instead of carrying out regime change in Iraq itself, the US opted to subject Iraq to a decade of economic torment – a suffocating blockade that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. That was the golden age of America’s “containment” policy in the region.”
” Moreover, the war brought al-Qaeda to Iraq. The group used the atrocities inflicted by the US war and invasion to recruit fighters from Iraq and throughout the Middle East. ”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-240914.html
There is no “Free Syrian Army” – that Qatari myth – anymore. There are no “moderate” jihadis left in Syria. They are all fighting for The Caliph or for al-Zawahiri. And still the Obama administration extracted a Congressional OK to train and weaponize “moderate rebels”.
US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power – Undisputed Queen of Batshit Craziness – at least got one thing right. Their “training” will “service these troops in the same struggle that they’ve been in since the beginning of this conflict against the Assad regime.” So yes – this “sustained campaign” is the back door to “Assad must go” remixed.
https://www.globalpolicy.org/invasion-and-war/atrocities-and-criminal-homicides-.html
“US-led occupation forces have committed numerous atrocities in Iraq since the invasion of 2003. Haditha, Hamandiya, Sadr City, Samarra and Ishaqi have become synonymous with murder, rape and the multiple killing of civilians.
While some cases have been brought before military hearings, the Pentagon has covered up most of these cases and exonerated the soldiers involved. Rather than pursuing high officials and senior officers, military prosecutors have pursued only a few low- ranking soldiers. With few exceptions, most cases have yielded relatively light punishments, while the majority has seen original charges of murder downgraded to lighter charges or even dismissed completely.”
Not to exonerate the deeds of ISIS, but the stench of hypocrisy by American citizens enraging themselves over the death of a few civilians in light of the planned murder of likely hundreds of thousand Iraqis and Afghanis in pursuit of an imperial policy is utterly disgusting and shows the truly ugly American – male and female: Whatever we do is right (or we decline to talk about it) whatever someone else is doing to negate our claim for world supremacy is wrong.
I hope one thing only: America going down the shithole of history in a hurry before it does much more damage.