{"id":7146,"date":"2014-11-18T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:45:05","slug":"isil-defines-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7146","title":{"rendered":"ISIL defines itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Islamic State may have defined itself much more sharply with its dastardly execution of an American aid worker in Syria.<\/p>\n

ISIL isn’t fighting a war against Christians. It is fighting a war against westerners, namely Americans.<\/p>\n

So, for this murderous cult to call itself an “Islamic” anything<\/em> is to commit serious heresy.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/amy-davidson\/mystery-abdul-rahman-peter-kassig<\/p>\n

Peter Kassig once served as a U.S. Army Ranger, doing his duty as a soldier and a loyal American. Then he left the Army and became an aid worker dedicated to helping civilians caught in the middle of a bloody civil war in Syria.<\/p>\n

Along the way, he converted to Islam. He changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig. ISIL captured him, held him captive and then beheaded him in the same brutal fashion it executed two other Americans.<\/p>\n

A dear friend of mine, an educated and well-traveled man, noted on social media the other day that ISIL is anything but a religion-based organization. “The leaders of radical Islam are simply a collection of pychopaths, sociopaths, and murderous thugs who probably get aroused by watching be-headings, rapes, and other disgusting acts,” my dear pal noted.<\/p>\n

You know, I\u00a0accept that description — perhaps except for the arousal part.<\/p>\n

Still, we are engaging in a fight with an enemy that simply knows no boundaries of decency at any level.<\/p>\n

Kassig was seeking to do some good against the forces of evil. He was giving aid and comfort to fellow Muslims. This<\/em> is the kind of act that requires a summary execution by monstrous killers proclaiming to be carrying out Allah’s holy command?<\/p>\n

The Islamic State has just provided a stark reminder — as if the world needed one — of the nature of this beastly cult.<\/p>\n

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The Islamic State may have defined itself much more sharply with its dastardly execution of an American aid worker in Syria. ISIL isn’t fighting a war against Christians. It is fighting a war against westerners, namely Americans. So, for this murderous cult to call itself an “Islamic” anything is to commit serious heresy. http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/amy-davidson\/mystery-abdul-rahman-peter-kassig Peter … Continue reading ISIL defines itself<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2347,2349,3576,3839,4489,5041],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-isil","tag-islam","tag-peter-kassig","tag-rangers","tag-syria","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}