Latest IS Beheading Video: New Levels of Ritual Madness

article-kassig2-1116On November 16, 2014 the Islamic State released a 16-minute video that displayed the severed head of 26-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger Peter Kassig. The video was characteristically different than the four previous Islamic State beheading videos of American and British hostages by the man known as Jihadi John. Although there have been many previous videos of mass beheadings by various al Qaeda-linked groups and Islamic State militants, this film is unique in content and quality. The Islamic State is the first terrorist group to film and stage a formalized ritual mass beheading. Shot in high definition, slickly produced and edited with Hollywood precision, 19 jihadists simultaneously behead 19 Syrian air force pilots and military officers in a ceremonial ritual execution.

Prior to the ritual mass murders the first half of the video is the usual propaganda that provides justification for the violence. The video opens with images of a map of the world graphically indicating the Islamic State’s goals of world domination. The title that appears in segments throughout reads “Although the disbelievers dislike it.” The first 4 ½ minutes is a history of the Islamic State with tributes to its fallen leaders beginning with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the father of modern beheading. There are images of alleged victims of American airstrikes, including dead children to evoke hatred and clips of Islamic State battles to demonstrate that the jihadist militants are the heroic good guys. This is all a prelude to the featured segment.

At exactly 8 minutes, halfway through the video, the Islamic State ritual begins. Syrian military personnel each accompanied by a jihadist militant are marched through the desert, led by Jihadi John. The militants are dressed in camouflage uniforms with black head coverings but their faces are not concealed. The Syrian soldiers are dressed in dark blue. Jihadi John is dressed in his usual black uniform with his face covered. The ritual procession continues with each jihadist taking a black handled knife out of a wooden box that contains the ceremonial weapons. The footage is very dramatic and powerful, zooming in with slow motion visual effects and melodramatic sounds as each blade is taken from the box. The ritual procession continues until the jihadists file into a formal line with nine on each side of Jihad John and their victims on their knees in front of them.

The jihadists hold their knives in their right hand and their victims in their left. The ritual execution begins with a reading of offenses by Jihad John who also has a Syrian soldier in front of him. Jihad John begins the ritual execution by insulting and threatening President Obama:

To Obama, the dog of Rome. Today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers. And with Allah’s permission we will break this final and last crusade. And the Islamic State will soon, like your puppet David Cameron said, begin to slaughter your people in your streets.

He points the knife at the camera during the threats to America. Then there is silence as the camera pans over the faces of the men who know they are about to suffer a horrible death and the faces of the executioners who are about to pledge their allegiance in sacrificial blood. Dramatic images and sound effects portray the moment as a sacred solemn rite. The camera fades to black and appears with Jihad John signaling with one word for the ritual killing to commence.

The victims are immediately pushed to the ground, the camera keeps fading in and out of black in-between the cutting of throats, with the loud sound of hearts beating in the background. In one of the most inconceivable mass murders ever committed, 19 men are simultaneously beheaded at one time by 19 other men. The camera returns to focus on Jihadi John. Of the four previous videos this is the first time we ever see him actually kill anyone, and it is obvious that he has experience. As he is cutting through the carotid artery the sound of blood hitting the ground is exaggerated adding to the horror. Then the culmination of the ritual killing and the most disturbing act in the entire film occurs when Jihadi John pulls his knife out of the throat of his victim and looks directly at the camera while exposing the partially decapitated neck. The look in Jihadi Johns eyes is chilling; pure, unadulterated feral bloodlust. Then the camera in fast motion displays Jihad John pounce on his victim in a wild animal movement to finish the decapitation. The camera then pans over all of the soldiers completing their beheading and zooms in on a large stream of blood.

The ritual ends with each soldier holding his bloodstained knife standing above his sacrificial victim, whose heads are placed on the center of their backs. The camera then shows the faces of the jihadist executioners, all from different countries, a multicultural mass murder team. They are somber and serious, not laughing or desecrating the bodies, demonstrating how a warrior should behave during and after the kill. Then as the camera slowly pans over images of the beheaded men a voiceover from Islamic State’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Arabic says, “Know that we have armies in Iraq and an army in Sham of hungry lions whose drink is blood and play is carnage.” After viewing the ritual murders that is an apt description.

The next segment, also titled “Although the believers dislike it,” demonstrates how many individuals and groups from around the world have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.  The final segment at the 14:30 mark opens with the disarticulated head of American Peter Kassig at the feet of Jihadi John. The camera pans up Jihad John’s body and he makes the following statement in English:

This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen of your country. Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American army, doesn’t have much to say. His previous cell mates have already spoken on his behalf.’ But we say to you Obama … you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago. We said to you then that you are liars, that you have not withdrawn and that if you had withdrawn that you would return, even if after some time.’You would return. Here you are. You have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies and withdrawn the rest. Your forces will return, greater in number than they were before.’You will return and your proxies will not benefit you.’And we also remind you of the haunting words that our Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told you. The spark has been lit here in Iraq and its heat will continue to intensify by Allah’s permission until it burns the crusader army in Dabiq. ‘And here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq. Eagerly awaiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive.

The video ends with the classic image of the jihadist carrying a large Islamic State flag across the land. Dabiq is a highly symbolic location which has historical and religious significance for Islam. The Islamic State has designated the place for the “Final Hour” where Armageddon will begin in an Islamic apocalyptic tradition that designates the West as modern-day Romans. That is why Jihadi John referred to president Obama as the dog of Rome.

This video goes way beyond just propaganda and psychological warfare — it is the documentation of an Islamist ceremonial ritual mass murder. For the jihadist executioners it was an initiation ritual, a somber rite of passage that grants them status and honor as Mujahideen warriors. As a recruitment tool it is a tour de force, a murder masterpiece that will resonate with young men around the world. This video will recruit more soldiers for the Islamic State, incite lone wolves and inspire more beheadings in Western countries than any of the others that preceded it. Unlike the unsophisticated beheading videos that involve laughter and body desecration that diminishes the sanctity of the act, it elevates beheading to a ceremonial rite of purity that distinguishes it from accusations of barbarism.

The video also functions as proof of death of Peter Kassig and proof of life of Jihadi John who reportedly had been injured in a U.S.-led air strike. Significantly there is no new victim displayed at the end of this video as in the prior four. That is because the Islamic State has successfully sent its message. They no longer need to do their own dirty work. They have inspired lone wolves all over the world to continue their beheading tradition. The threat in this video that “tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers” should be taken very seriously. The Islamic State has made good on every threat to murder hostages. This video should be viewed as a preview of what they intend to do. For example, if the Islamic State breaches the American Embassy in Baghdad they are going to make the Fall of Saigon look like a garden party. Instead of Syrian pilots it will be American Marines ritually murdered and filmed.

President Obama’s response was that this incident was “pure evil by a terrorist group.” How large does the Parents of Beheaded Americans Club have to get before President Obama will use the words “Islamic terrorists”? There should be no doubt that these murders are done in the name of Islam and for the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, whom they are emulating. Beheadings are ritual expressions of authentic Islam and the Islamic State has turned them into Hollywood blockbusters.

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  • truebearing

    “Pure evil by a terrorist group” that Obama armed and supported. Yes, Obama is an expert on pure evil and he proves the veracity of the old axiom, “It takes one to know one.”

    • Hewlett Harris

      He is one with them.

  • Hewlett Harris

    They are Obama’s people. Make no mistake, he is with them.

  • Hank Rearden

    It would seem to the unbiased observer that this film – a video Mein Kampf in the sense that it unmistakably tells those with the ears to hear and with the eyes to see exactly what the perpetrators are going to do – strengthens the Israeli case for self-defense.

    Amidst all the wailing about totally legitimate Israel military action in its own defense, it should be emphasized that the actions in the video are not those sanctioned by the Geneva Conventions. The murder of helpless prisoners is a distinctly Islamic ideal and practice. It is part of its philosophy of war rather than an isolated act.

    Nota bene.

  • http://raycaruso.com Ray Caruso

    “For example, if the Islamic State breaches the American Embassy in
    Baghdad they are going to make the Fall of Saigon look like a garden
    party. Instead of Syrian pilots it will be American Marines ritually
    murdered and filmed.”

    These Mohammedan cockroaches will never capture Marines alive unless they do it with the assistance of Barack Obama—for instance, if the “commander in chief” orders the Marines to carry unloaded rifles.

    • knowshistory

      those who surrender do so with some expectation of survival. take away that expectation, and only a fool will surrender. the question is when will soldiers start refusing to carry insufficient weapons or ammunition. if a soldier cannot be trusted with a loaded rifle and a belt of ammunition, he should not be sent on the mission. our diplomats were sent to Benghazi without sufficient protection, and they knew it. they should have refused to go, making the Chicago witch decide: more protection or no diplomats. either choice would have been preferable.

      • http://raycaruso.com Ray Caruso

        Obama is trying to purge every politically unreliable military officer, Bolshevik-style. It remains to be seen whether he can do it thoroughly enough to avoid the ones who would honor their oath to defend the Constitution against “all enemies, foreign and domestic”.

        By the way, Chicago witch is a good one.

    • jon

      Shhhhhh! Don’t give him ideas!

  • Adhemarde

    Folks, this is islam. Obama and the Left will never use the words “Islamic” and “terrorists” together because they are trying desperately, along with CAIR and other muslim organizations, to convince you that there is no connection between islam and terrorism. Their koran says, Quran (8:12)
    - “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore
    strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”

    Any questions?

  • Hard Little Machine

    We should be air lifting a billion machetes and letting them clean house until there’s no one left. And publish the address of everyone who works for MSNBC and ask them to take care of that too.

  • jon

    And Obama golfs……..

    • Brokenstriker

      poorly
      … like everything else he does

  • Gee

    Muslims aren’t too bright. All this does is convince people that since they are going to die anyway to take as many of the b*astards with them before they go

  • knowshistory

    clearly, ISIS has declared war on the united states, and has inflicted casualties. a response is required, if we are not to be viewed as an international weakling. a full bore military adventure in Syria and Iraq is not feasible, if nothing else because we have a enemy in the white house, as well as a national population that has become to soft to wage war successfully. no matter how much our nation’s domestic enemies supported such a war, they would revert to their usual defeatism at the first setback, or even at the first success. there is, however a response to Islamic state’s declaration of war that is highly appropriate, and would set back the Islamic conquest of the west by centuries. we could win a victory greater than tours, lepanto, and gates of Vienna by sending all our muslims home to some country they do not hate. that would be a response that the monsters of ISIS would understand perfectly, and there is nothing they could do about it. if we fail to deport our muslim enemies, we are surrendering to ISIS, and thanks to jihadi john, even the densest among us knows what means. it is time for a great victory over islam.

    • jon

      We/Obama ARE viewed as an international weakling…….

      • knowshistory

        even a weakling can pick off ticks and slap mosquitoes. if we as a nation cannot rid ourselves of an invading foreign enemy that our nation’s domestic enemies have invited, coddled, protected, and paid to breed, we deserve the mass beheadings that will surely follow.

        • jon

          First, we would need to rid ourselves of Obama. Then, we could try to find a “leader”.

          • knowshistory

            no argument here. my definition of a leader is one who is willing to stop the invasion and send the invaders home. I don’t see anyone on the political scene who is willing to even think about that, let alone do it. the sheeple who are being replaced and groomed for genocide don’t seem to think survival is important.

          • jon

            Bibi…..Bibi…….Bibi
            Put him in charge of the troops
            Problem solved within 30 days

  • sly311

    When America finally admits it elected its first black liberation muslim president–twice– it will indeed be a sad day. Shame on America for turning its back on God.

  • RMThoughts

    Jihadist are purging the region of Christians, but we do get the media event beheddings reported.
    Al Qaeda affiliates are suddenly now Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates, what are two initially CIA operations, now become one. Entire groups of militants the US has been arming, funding, and training are “merging” with to Al Qaida, bringing along with them a large number of US weapons. Is this a failure of US foreign policy? Or is this simply a rhetorical means to explain away what appears to be an immense army of extremists the US is once again building up to direct at our enemies? Who would be surprised to see this vast American proxy Jihadist Army engaged in a much sought after regime change in Syria, soon be directed against Russia as Al-Qaida was directed at the Soviet Union.

    • knowshistory

      the “extremists” have made it clear who it is that they hate the most. it is not what was previously known as the soviet union. the only substantial difference between Islamic “extremists” and other muslims is that the extremists are telling the truth. we disbelieve them at our own peril.

      • RMThoughts

        If we stop funding them, training them and unleashing them, it might be a good start.

        • knowshistory

          a better start would be to send them some unarmed reinforcements: our entire population of invading muslims. let them wage jihad in Arabia, and stop paying them to wage jihad here.

    • nightspore

      Give me a break. Is their rhetoric directed at Russia or at us?

  • mickeycz

    It is past time to acknowledge there is no religion involved at all, but a despotic gangsterism that resurfaces in Islam every few centuries until beaten down in as ferocious a manner. This the Sicilians had to do and the Spanish did and the French had to deny the Moors’ entry and conquest in France.
    Since ALL of this violence and despotism is within all of the founding teachings of Islam it will never stop and fundamentalists will resurrect it and start the violence again.
    And women and children have NO rights in this “system” of male domination.

    • PhillipGaley

      Yes, long past time!

      I read the net, very much in order to benefit from the advantages in broad experience and education in others, and wherein I may suffer some lack—I assume the writers whom I read to have 4-year degrees, . . . but, . . . who knows, . . .

      Although, in the article’s final sections, there are other logical and grammatical errors, here are a few corrections:

      Unlike the unsophisticated beheading videos [which include/show] laughter and body desecration [which] diminishes the sanctity of the act, [this one/video would] elevate beheading to a ceremonial rite of purity [and would distinguish hacking someone’s head off] from accusations of barbarism (And here, a statement indicating contrary falseness should be placed.) [which, of course, it does not.].

      The video also functions as proof of [the] death of Peter Kassig, and proof of [the] life of Jihadi John who reportedly had been injured in a U.S.-led air strike. . . . The threat in this video that “tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers” should be taken (Here, “very” is a distracting redundancy.) seriously. The Islamic State has made good (Here, “made good on” is very much the wrong idiom. Rather should the author have placed “fulfilled” or something similar.) on every threat to murder hostages.
      And, than “Ritualistic Madness”, I think, in a more accurate nomenclature, “Ritualistic Evil” would have been better, . . .

      But the article does again point up the fact of shame in the USA, inthat, this is the first time in history wherein the dominant power had not the resolve to provide checks in favor of decency against the mentality and conduct of the savage peoples.

      And for but one example, in the 50s(?), an Australian Commander went to the Buin leaders; he bought a pig from them; he ordered the pig, shot; the pig was shot, and death throes flopped down dead; the Buin there assembled were aghast; the Commander communicated to them that, if there was any more eating of each other, he would effect the same shocking, shooting fate of that pig upon each of them, . . . And, that was the end of cannibalism in New Guinea.

      I would say—as with these latest killings as videoed—the cost of innocent blood will be laid against the USA, . . .

    • 1Indioviejo1

      I agree with you if you mean that ISLAM is not a religion, but a Totalitarian Ideology masquerading as a religious cult. As it is it needs to be eradicated from the face of the earth. All Muslims should be annihilated.

      • mickeycz

        Annihilation is too strong, if you mean to carry death to them. Islam means submit, so make them submit to not being Muslims anymore. They understand that sort of thing–peace through strength to reuse an old slogan from last century.

    • truepeers

      What i think you need to recognize is that Judeo-Christian religion, in its condemnation of human sacrifice is radically different than more primitive religions in which human sacrifice is normative. To say that the Aztec cult of human sacrifice, for example, was not a “religion” is just silly. I am not saying the most primal forms of religion indulged in human sacrifice; i think that came with the development of hierarchical agrarian societies. But animal sacrifice, the ritual feast, is clearly part of the fundamental basis of religion. I mean that is clear to all but Christians whose thoroughly anti-sacrificial religion denies them even a coherent experience of a sacrificial feast, for better and only occasionally for worse.

  • Guest

    I read the net, very much in order to benefit from the advantages in broad experience and education, wherein I lack—I assume the writers whom I read to have 4-year degrees, . . . but, . . . who knows, . . .

    Although, in the article’s final sections, there are other logical and grammatical errors, here are a few corrections:

    Unlike the unsophisticated beheading videos [which include/show] laughter and body desecration [which] diminishes the sanctity of the act, [this one/video would] elevate beheading to a ceremonial rite of purity [and would distinguish hacking someone’s head off] from accusations of barbarism (And here, a statement indicating contrary falseness should be placed.) [which, of course, it does not.].

    The video also functions as proof of [the] death of Peter Kassig, and proof of [the] life of Jihadi John who reportedly had been injured in a U.S.-led air strike. . . . The threat in this video that “tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers” should be taken (Here, “very” is a distracting redundancy.) seriously. The Islamic State has made good (Here, “made good on” is very much the wrong idiom. Rather should the author have placed “fulfilled” or something similar.) on every threat to murder hostages.

    But the article does again point up the fact of shame in the USA, inthat, this is the first time in history wherein the dominant power had not the resolve to provide checks in favor of decency against the conduct of the savage peoples.

    And for but one example, in the 50s(?), an Australian Commander went to the Buin leaders; he bought a pig from them; he ordered the pig, shot; the pig was shot, and death throes flopped down dead; the Buin there assembled were aghast; the Commander communicated to them that, if there was any more eating of each other, he would effect the same shocking, shooting fate of that pig upon each of them, . . . And, that was the end of cannibalism in New Guinea.

    I would say—as with these latest killings as videoed—the cost of innocent blood will be laid against the USA, . . .

  • gtmancan

    Nuke them and stop wasting time and precious lives. Obama is a coward and fears the Islamists.

  • Texas Patriot

    This is a very strange situation, indeed. It’s almost as if he greater and more extreme lengths Jihadists are willing to go to present the reality and truth of Islamic Jihad, the more Western leaders are determined to deny it. Even more strange is the effort by those in some quarters to blame it all on President Obama, when in fact the leadership of both political parties in America have been talking about the benevolent and peaceful nature of Islam for many, many years. What can explain it other than the fact that Western leaders are being paid very well for their willingness to disseminate false propaganda on behalf of their financial sponsors in Muslim lands. As Nancy Pelosi said recently, “The Qataris have assured me over and over again that Hamas is a humanitarian organization.” How much did they pay you, Nancy? And then there is John McCain who insists that we must support the “freedom fighters” in Syria in their effort to overthrow Bashar Assad. How much did they pay you, John?

    • nightspore

      It’s not a matter of “being paid” (which seems to act as an all-purpose explanation for too many people). This is moral and physical cowardice in the face of an actual, looming threat which refutes all the false doctrines they’ve been promulgating over the past several decades.

      As far as John McCain goes, I think it must just be the Beltway reality warp. Also, there were relative moderates fighting Assad before the problem metastasized. I find it odd how easy it is for people to forget that this guy survived 6 years as a North Vietnamese POW. (And read Tom Wolfe on what it takes to be a fighter pilot taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.) He may now be past his sell-date, but I doubt that he’s sold out or caved in.

      • Texas Patriot

        nightspore: As far as John McCain goes, I think it must just be the Beltway reality warp.

        I agree. After a certain amount of time in Washington, D.C., the “good guys” are the ones who pay, and the more they pay, the better they are.

      • Pete

        “This is moral and physical cowardice in the face of an actual, looming threat ”

        That nails it.

    • truebearing

      Why are you defending Obama, yet again? He is refusing to acknowledge that Islam is the enemy. He won’t even acknowledge that ISIS is Islamic. He armed them, for pete sake. He knows they are Muslims, yet you persist in defending the indefensible.

      Is Nancy Pelosi the CIC? Is John McCain? Is Bush still president? Try living in the present and addressing the behavior of our miserable failure of a president instead of floating your lame moral equivalencies in a vain attempt to defend your delusions that Obama is going to suddenly come to his senses and defeat Iran.

      • Texas Patriot

        TB: Why are you defending Obama, yet again?

        Because he’s not any worse than any of the rest, and until we know how he is going to deal with the prospect of Iran getting nuclear weapons, none of us can be sure what his legacy will be.

        • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

          He is much worse than Conservative leaders who understand the danger of jihad. McCain is no Conservative – he’d be a total RINO if he weren’t anti-abortion and is certain Mr. Establishment. Again, what we need is for Conservatives to take over the Republican Party so we finally have a public voice.

          • Texas Patriot

            I couldn’t agree more, but who are these Conservative leaders you are talking about? Other than Ted Cruz, I really can’t think of one now holding office at the national level. Michele Bachman maybe, but who else?

          • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

            I have to agree with you – our Conservative leaders are few and far between. Cruz, Bachmann, Mike Lee, Mike Pence, Mitch Daniels perhaps, Jeff Sessions – it’s hard to come up with many more. Perhaps there are some young guns in the House we’re not familiar with.

  • knowshistory

    it is a fool’s strategy. muslims know they have a religion of murder, rape, slavery, conquest, and genocide. there is no amount of lying about their intentions what will change anything.

  • Pete

    “Winning” – Charlie Sheen

    ISIS Beheads Another American as 60 New Terror Groups Join

    Winning“- Barack Obama

  • Pete

    “Winning” – Obama

  • steve b

    NUKE THESE BASTARDS NOW, WHEREVER THEY ARE IN THE WORLD. OBAMA WANTS TO REDUCE OUR SUPPLY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SO WHAT BETTER WAY TO DO THIS?

  • Omar Kahlid

    This is what bho masturbates too. These are HIS people without any doubt.

  • GHjo

    Obama:”The future does not belong to they who slander the prophet of Islam”
    Is these murderers slandering the prophet?No,they do as he did.

  • reyol

    This is more than an initiation. This is a sacrament to a diabolic entity – mass human sacrifice. Judaism and Christianity have denied the demons their bloody victims in this region for too long. They will not be denied any longer.

    • pintorider

      Not to sound superstitious and pre-scientific, but this ugly mass murder does smack of demonic ritual and satanic bloodlust.

  • Lee

    With their video ISIS are also clearly referencing Muhammad’s mass head-chopping (in cold blood) of the Qurayza – to remind and inspire other Muslims to perform such holy acts. See:

    Ibn Ishaq: “The Apostle of Allah imprisoned the Qurayza in Medina while trenches were dug in the market place. Then he sent for the men and had THEIR HEADS STRUCK OFF so that they fell in the trenches..In number, they amounted to six or seven hundred, although some state it to have been eight or nine hundred. All
    were EXECUTED”

    In the video note the shot of the blood gushing down the trench. Unlike the Nazis, the Muslims are *proud* of their savagery, and film and distribute it with relish.

    Interestingly, on Nov 7 at the Lakemba Mosque in western Sydney, young children practiced sawing off *toy* animal heads, with fake blood, and cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ in triumph over the toy victim. See women proudly filming the incident on their iphones at the 33 second mark – http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29k2ff_lakemba-mosque-toddler-decapitates-sheep-yt1080p_news

  • herb benty

    Just as Mengele’s “human skin lampshades” or any other evil maniac’s taunts to the sane world has only ANGERED us. A return of medieval age tactics will not help Islam this time. IF the West, NATO, whatever, ever get some leaders, who own a pair, this Islamic threat would be toast very quickly. The fact that this Islamic issue is highly beneficial to World Communism/NWO is troubling however. If Communism and Islam worked together against us……..?

    • Texas Patriot

      HB: If Communism and Islam worked together against us……..?

      It won’t happen. Communism as an ideology is dead. Russia and China are now global economic competitors of the first order, and they have no intention of going back to the failed ideology of Marxist-Leftist-NIhilism. The truth of the matter is that Russia and China have two of the largest Christian populations in the world, and the last thing they want to see is the rise of Jihadist Islam.

      • mickeycz

        Communists and Marxists still abound in the world. In this country socialism is taught such that young people grow up thinking it can be a reasonable alternative system, not realizing the horrors that inevitably follow its implementation in any form sooner or later.
        It may not be the mounds of skulls of Pol Pot but the slow disintegration of all social norms and placing the state in charge of everything is going to be awful. Things are certainly tending towards awful anyway.

        • Texas Patriot

          I totally agree that Marxist-Nihilist philosophy and psychology is still widespread, but Russia and China have moved on and no longer subscribe to it. Will jihadists link up with radical Marxists in the jungles of Columbia? Perhaps. There are many pockets of Marxist radicals around the world, but the main sources of it have moved on, and it’s no longer a threat. At this point, Russia and China represent our best potential allies in the global struggle against Islamic Jihad, and I think they know it. In fact, they may know it better than we know it!

      • herb benty

        Pardon my scepticism, but Putin just placed his buddy, Medvedev, as the CEO of Gazprom, which the government had previously taken over. China is still totalitarian, commie to the core. And, Russia and China are building new pipelines, etc. NK, Venezuala, Ecuador, Argentina, Central America, South Africa, Mugabe, etc., communism is doing fine. Russia, China, America and probably a couple others could annihilate Islam. But Islam can weaken someone, and they say America/Israel is the #1 Enemy. Putin made several trips to Iran, just before this latest brouhaha, and he wasn’t ordering falafel.

  • wholerest

    There is no honor in such deeds, and individuals that possess integrity know
    such things to be true. I just e-published a novel that delves into the 2016
    election, terrorism, and the use of online video streaming to
    “message” the entire world:
    https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/484550

    • Texas Patriot

      Bravo!

  • Chippy

    Islam sucks.

  • ratonis

    We need to resurrect Vlad Tepes, the Impaler. And Charles “The Hammer” Martel. And John Sobieski . . .

  • AbsolutelyRight

    Obama missed it. He was having a meeting with CAIR at the time.

  • Space Cowboy

    The Islamic State is the first terrorist group to film and stage a formalized ritual mass beheading

    One of the biggest fallacies about Islam going today is that Muslims are terrorists. As terrorism, which is always and only violent, always involves only a tiny minority of radicals and extremists, and has typically been perpetrated for almost as reasons as there have been terrorists.

    However, Muslims are not terrorists but jihadists instead. As waging jihad, which is a so-called holy war waged by ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD in the cause of Allah against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world, is a fundamental holy obligation COMPULSORY for ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD in one form or another. Either of the violent variety (a tiny minority) or of the non-violent variety (the vast overwhelming majority).

    Meanwhile, because Islamic totalitarian society is totalitarian to the core, all non-conformers are summarily executed for the capital offenses of apostasy and blasphemy according to the dictates of Islam.

    Thus, ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are jihadists in some form or fashion. Otherwise, they are dead apostates and dead blasphemers. As opposed to only a tiny minority of radicals and extremists as with the case of terrorism.

    In addition, while terrorism has typically been perpetrated for almost as many reasons as there have been terrorists, jihad, on the other hand, is always and only waged in the cause of Allah to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme.

    Furthermore, jihad in stark contrast to terrorism, is waged both violently and non-violently and, indeed, by any and all means. While terrorism, on the other hand, is always and only violent.

    For instance, the millions of Muslims living in the USA and also throughout the infidel world today that are typically assumed to be so-called moderate Muslims or not so-called moderate Muslims at all, but stealth jihadists instead waging jihad deliberately non-violently by design and on purpose for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest. Indeed, that’s the reason why Muslims never ever assimilate and integrate no matter where it is in the infidel world they migrate to.

    Meanwhile, violent jihadists don’t murder innocent civilians in cold-blood like terrorists do because they are also terrorists too. Instead, they murder innocent civilians in cold-blood because ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are waging a jihad against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD, non-combatants and combatants alike. As they aim to convert all infidels to Islam or to otherwise kill or subjugate them. Thus, Muslims murder innocent civilians in cold-blood primarily because they make the easiest targets.

    Jihad is a phenomenon strictly unique to Islamic totalitarian society and terrorism is a phenomenon strictly unique to infidel society. Indeed, Muslims can’t be terrorists because that would make them apostates and blasphemers and all apostates and blasphemers in Islamic totalitarian society, which again is totalitarian to the core, are summarily executed according the dictates of Islam.

    In other words, jihad is a civilizational war waged by the entirety of Islamic totalitarian society against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme, and terrorism, on the other hand, is extreme violence perpetrated by only a tiny minority of radicals and extremists for almost as many different reasons and causes as there have been terrorists.

    Indeed, they are not one and the same manifestations. In fact, one involves an entire civilization and the other involves only a tiny minority of radicals and extremists, and one manifests by any and all means both violently and non-violently, while the other is always and only violent.

    Although both phenomena are almost always universally conflated together as being one and the same thing, the reality is that is one of the worst mistakes our political and media elites could possibly make. In fact, it is critically important for the infidel world to eventually learn to understand that jihad, which involves an entire society, is far more substantial a problem relative to terrorism, which involves only a tiny minority of radicals and extremists. Indeed, it’s time to learn to look at this problem from a different angle.

  • Space Cowboy

    This video goes way beyond just propaganda and psychological warfare — it is the documentation of an Islamist ceremonial ritual mass murder.

    Islamists are Islamic radicals and extremists. In other words, they are fantasy based manifestations of PC multiculturalists. However, the members of ISIS are comprised of mainstream orthodox Muslims that are no more radical or extreme than the millions of Muslims living in America and, indeed, throughout the infidel world today that are waging stealth jihad deliberately non-violently by design and on purpose. One segment wages jihad violently and the other non-violently by stealth and deception. Nonetheless, both segments share the same exact goal: A world where Islam and its followers have been made supreme.

    Meanwhile, beheading infidels is as old as Islam itself, as it has always been a mainstay of Islamic totalitarian society ever since the days that Muhammad was still roaming the Arabian Peninsula slaughtering and beheading infidels himself. Indeed, in Islamic totalitarian society, there isn’t anything in the least radical or extreme about the practice. While the practice may seem radical and extreme to our modern infidel society. In Islamic totalitarian society, on the other hand, it has always been a long held and very sacred tradition.

    This video will recruit more soldiers for the Islamic State, incite lone wolves and inspire more beheadings in Western countries than any of the others that preceded it.

    While the video will no doubt be an inspiration for many aspiring jihadists throughout the Islamic totalitarian world and also for the millions of jihadists living in the infidel world today, it will not, however, be a source of radicalization. Since ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD to begin with are already jihadists in one form or another. Including the millions of Muslims living within our midst that, per the dictates of PC multiculturalism, are assumed to be peaceful and so-called moderate Muslims,

    It will probably generate a few lone wolf violent jihad attacks over here in the infidel west, especially among recent converts to Islam. I’ll give the writer that much. However, there will not be a huge rash of violent jihad attacks perpetrated over here by Muslims as predicted by the writer since that could possibly put their stealth jihad being waged intentionally non-violently by design and on purpose in jeopardy. Nonetheless, if you don’t understand jihad and ignorantly conflate it as being terrorism, then one can easily see how one would think it would automatically “inspire more beheadings in Western countries.”

    They have inspired lone wolves all over the world to continue their beheading tradition.

    The lone wolves have virtually all been recent converts to Islam with chips on their shoulders already and that have been reacting to the teachings of Islam. Now, those people (recent converts) are the true radicals, since prior to their conversion to Islam they weren’t foaming at the mouth jihadists. Most of them were criminals and misfits of societies, but they didn’t turn into foaming at the mouth jihadists until after they converted to Islam. Meanwhile, ALL MAINSTREAM ORTHODOX MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD, on the other hand, are already jihadists in one form or another according to the dictates of Islam, which again is totalitarian to the core.

    • pintorider

      Excellent piece of writing. Thanks for explaining the error of conflating jihad with terrorism. It lets Islam off the hook.

  • Space Cowboy

    The threat in this video that “tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers” should be taken very seriously.

    Of course, as ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are waging a jihad against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world.

    For example, if the Islamic State breaches the American Embassy in Baghdad they are going to make the Fall of Saigon look like a garden party.

    Building that American Embassy in Baghdad, just like GWB’s fantasy based nation-building missions in Afghanistan and Iraq to lift up Muslims out of poverty, who are the eternal mortal enemies of all infidels in the world, because he stupidly believed that “poverty and despair” were the “root causes” of terrorism, was incredibly misguided to say the least and never should have been built in the first. Hence, let’s dump our embassy and get our people out of Baghdad ASAP, and at the same time let’s also try to learn from GWB’s insidious mistakes. We can’t continue doing the same stupid idiotic things over and over again while expecting a different outcome. We must learn from our mistakes.

    Instead of Syrian pilots it will be American Marines ritually murdered and filmed.

    The solution is not to go after ISIS. As that will be just as stupid as GWB’s two fantasy based nation-building missions that inevitably turned into the two biggest strategic blunders ever in American history. Instead, the solution is to eradicate Islam and when I say Islam, I mean mainstream orthodox Islam, because mainstream orthodox Islam is the only kind.

    President Obama’s response was that this incident was “pure evil by a terrorist group.” How large does the Parents of Beheaded Americans Club have to get before President Obama will use the words “Islamic terrorists”? There should be no doubt that these murders are done in the name of Islam and for the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, whom they are emulating. Beheadings are ritual expressions of authentic Islam and the Islamic State has turned them into Hollywood blockbusters.

    Of course, since terrorism as opposed to jihad has typically been perpetrated for almost as many different causes and reasons as there have been terrorists, Obama can plausibly get away with claiming the terrorists that comprise ISIS have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Which also happens to be one of the evils of universally conflating what is actually jihad as being terrorism.

    Nonetheless, (again) Muslims are not terrorists but jihadists instead, and jihad, in stark contrast to terrorism, is a so-called holy war waged by ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD in the cause of Allah against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme throughout the world.

    Thus, if our political and media elites didn’t universally conflate jihad as being terrorism by mislabeling jihadists as being terrorists, then Obama, Cameron, and other PC multicultural loons couldn’t get away with totally mischaracterizing the reality of Islam.

    Indeed, GWB also never would have made the stupid idiotic mistake of occupying two Islamic totalitarian countries to lift up Muslims, who are the eternal mortal enemies of all infidels in the world, out of poverty, because he foolishly thought “poverty and despair” were the “root causes” of terrorism.

    • pintorider

      I think your history and causal relationships are mostly correct. But your solution, the eradication of Islam, how could that possibly happen?

      • Space Cowboy

        It’s not that complicated. First of all, the infidel world must be united. Second, mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage, which is really stealth jihad waged intentionally non-violently by design and on purpose for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest, must be banned and reversed. Third, Iran’s nuclear weapons program must be eliminated and Pakistan’s massive nuclear weapons arsenal must also be confiscated or eradicated. Fourth, the Islamic totalitarian world must be rendered into total abject poverty to make it virtually impossible for them to wage jihad by confiscating all the Middle East oilfields. Which is justifiable because they use the proceeds derived from those oilfields to fund jihad. Lastly, the infidel world must totally abandon and isolate the Islamic totalitarian world until such time as Islam has been discredited, disgraced, and abandoned by former Islamic totalitarian society.

        Since the Islamic totalitarian world is totalitarian to the core, it is incapable of producing anything on its own other than jihad and lots and lots of misery. Thus, the Islamic totalitarian world will inevitably fall into deeper and deeper poverty as time goes by. Then in time when Islam as a force in Islamic totalitarian society eventually becomes discredited, disgraced, and abandoned, then and only then will those former Muslims be ready to rejoin the rest of infidel society.

        • pintorider

          Thanks again for your coherent reply. I see your relevant posts for this thread are now “awaitng moderation.” That means you’ve been getting flagged. So much for freedom of speech. I would bet the flaggers are liberals or muslim/sympathizers/apologists. You know, the anti-Americans.

  • Dawn Perlmutter

    The problem is that President Obama’s semantic decisions directly effect policies. My policy impacting advice is to allow law enforcement to be trained on the ideology and even the identifiers of Islamic terrorism. I suggest you watch the video – start at the 8 minute point – and then comment on my cold analysis and criticism.

  • Steve

    Your “reasoning” reminds me of the idiotic phrase ‘war on terror’. We are NOT fighting terror!! We are fighting Islamic maniacs!! We are fighting Islamic groups who are out to destroy us. We do not have to fight a billion Muslims, but we do have to fight to complete victory every stinkin Muslim group which has proven that they mean us harm, to put it mildly. The only thing holding us back is the nation’s will and the assurance that it is a ‘just war’, We certainly do have the ability, if we dared to use it.

  • http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.fr/ Rita

    Obama is on the side of the vermin – he “promised” from the very beginning that “the future does not belong to those who insult the prophet”. And dont think that Clinton, the nexr POTUS with her Muslim Brotherhood female lover will be any better.

    “nothing to do with religion”? You disgusting coward, David CamOron!

    Nose not brown enough yet, Kerry?

    Happy to lead the dance of the culturally sodomised cowards, Obama?