Just when you think ISIS cannot horrify any more than it has, the group sends us to a new level of disbelief.
The latest news from the Middle East — the release of a video allegedly showing the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh deliberately burned alive by his captors — is the latest example. How can we comprehend human beings behaving in this way?
The highly produced videos of decapitations have continued coming, and now this.
It’s tempting to think this is the work of a small number within ISIS, perhaps a core of psychopaths, given free rein by the so-called Islamic State’s leaders. But these are not isolated incidents. This is much more.
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Along the way, it turns men who were once presumably normal, even lovable, children into black-hooded executioners capable of taking a knife to the neck of a man kneeling at their feet, or of setting on fire another human being, a Muslim man, no less.
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