General Chat

Dermot's caller is not a lone voice. Thousands of Muslims whilst condemning this most recent act of murder (for that is exactly what it is) feel other loss of life is being viewed as 'collateral damage'. Their families consider them 'martyrs'.

Totally unacceptable! There are organisations who attempt to give names and faces to as many of the civilian dead and injured during these conflicts as possible. The mental and physical suffering of the injured in these impoverished regions are never reported.

Obviously the caller didn't phrase their concerns very well but I understand the sentiment. The world is up in arms over the IS murders but turn blind eyes towards the hundreds of thousands of deaths which aren't considered headline worthy in the West.

Until this is addressed there will be resentment.

crocodile tears? not from me

A caller to a local UK radio station this morning pooh-poohed some of the exaggerated crocodile tears & hand wringing following this awful event, reminding the listeners of the undoubted devastation caused by Drone delivered bombs which kill the innocent & the guilty indiscriminately.

SHOCKING :-0

No words can describe the people who did this, RIP to the poor man.

and the plain fact is that IS couldn't care less about the people Jordan executed - in fact they don't care about anyone other than themselves

I wonder how God and Allah (one and the same entity) feel

If they hadn't joined ISL , .how many of the 'executioners' would be thugs and murderers in their home countries?

I don't think that retaliating by executing others is the way to go - I can understand why, an eye for an eye and all that, but it just perpetuates barbarism

Sickening Act . doing this to a fellow Human .beggers belief .

'The first stage in the evolution of law is personal revenge. This principle of
revenge persists throughout the history of law'.

(The Story of Civilisation by Will Durant 1885-1981).

A very sad video report. Evolution in reverse.

I agree with you Allan. Religion has long been used as an excuse for violence and torture by psychopaths.

So often it's down to "interpretation" of the original writings.

I like to think that Mohamed would be angered by this just as I'm fairly sure Jesus wouldn't have liked the Spanish Inquisition.

Guinevere,

I've long thought that religion is just used as an excuse for the perpetration of the most barbaric acts.

It seems to give the participants some sort of perceived 'moral' protection for the most heinous crimes imaginable.

I may be naïve, but I thought that all religions teach tolerance, peace and unity

I thought ISIS offered Kenji Goto for the woman Sajida al-Rishawi who the Jordanians have just hanged.

Jordan said they would exchanger her for Mu'ath Al Kassasbeh, if they were given proof of life.

I guess that's why ISIS released the video now so Jordan couldn't ask again, the poor man was already dead and killed in an anti Islamic manner.

Which demonstrates that ISIS is not about religion at all.

Jordan has now executed two terrorist prisoners, including the female bomber

AND ................


it is now being said that he was murdered in early January



which I think was BEFORE ISIS offered to exchange him for that woman


no wonder the Jordanians wanted proof that he was still alive!

Barbarians.

I hate to think what will happen next.

This murder horrified me, as bad or worse than the beheadings these sick evil barbarians have carried out. I can only imagine the fear and pain this man felt and how his family and loved ones will cope, I don't know.

May he and the other murdered hostages rest in peace now and their families somehow get through the trauma of such loss.

Liz

: The Prophet Muhammad said, "None shall punish with fire other than God"

The method was carefully conceived and he probably died early January according to Jordanian sources.

We live in a very sick world

The Jordanians said they'd execute 6 IS prisoners if anything happened to him.
I think they may do more.

It was so barbaric.