Given the brutality of the execution of their hostages is
Islamic State / ISIS / ISIL nothing more than a nihilistic death cult?
By: Ringo Bones
The terrorist organization has already executed scores of
hostages with extreme brutality and they seem to not offer anything in terms of
economic security – never mind an economically viable health plan - of the
people under their control, it seems that Islamic State / Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria / Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is for all intents and
purposes nothing more than a nihilistic death cult. Even the group’s claims of
advancing the cause of Islam, an overwhelming majority of moderate Muslims
consider them not apart of the officially accepted form of Islam. And the straw
that finally broke the camel’s back is the imholation of Royal Jordanian Air
Force pilot first lieutenant Muath al Kasasbeh.
Islamic State as of late tend to not to stick to their word
given that after they shot down the F-16 flown by the Jordanian pilot back in
Christmas Eve and planned to swap him for a failed female Iraqi suicide bomber
captured by the Jordanian authorities they burned the pilot alive anyway.
During the course of this tragic ordeal, pilot Kasasbeh’s father used to hang
on the opinion that the war against Islamic State is not Jordan’s war, but
after seeing the gruesome video of the imholation of his own son under the
hands of ISIS, his views changed. Jordan’s King Abdullah has recently launched
extensive air operations against Islamic State to avenge the gruesome execution
of 26 year old first lieutenant Muath al Kasasbeh.
Now that the majority of Jordanians are now against Daesh –
the Arabic name of Islamic State – it seems that the cycle of violence in the
region could perpetuate for years to come. With Islamic State’s penchant for
dissembling, the two Japanese hostages executed earlier before the prisoner
swap was arranged only strengthen the resolve of the international community
against Islamic State. The terror group even recently claimed that their female
American aid worker - now identified as 26 year old Kayla Mueller - taken hostage by them was a recent casualty of recent
Jordanian Air Force operations against them.
