Appearing online Tuesday, it seems to show a Jordanian military pilot being burned alive while confined in a cage.
ISIS has released footage of its killings before. But this latest video is different in key aspects, and ups the stakes in ways few could have imagined.
“It’s a kind of atrocity pornography,” Karima Bennoune tells CNN.
She is the author of “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism.”
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Many analysts are predicting the video will backfire on ISIS, isolating anyone on the fence about its ideology and tactics.
But Maajid Nawaz, a former extremist and author of “Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism,” makes the point that ISIS is not speaking to those who oppose it.
It’s going after existing terrorists, competing with al Qaeda for foreign fighters.
He tells CNN: “This is a race to the bottom when it comes to the gruesome depictions that they’re showing.”
