I didn't realize that John Kerry had the authority to excommunicate people from Islam.

Maybe they are and maybe they aren't, but that isn't the call of the Secretary of State.

//At a conference of coalition members tasked with fighting ISIS in Rome yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry said members of the terrorist organization are not Muslims but apostates of Islam.

“Daesh [ISIS] is in fact nothing more than a mixture of killers, of kidnappers, of criminals, of thugs, of adventurers, of smugglers and thieves,” Kerry said. “And they are also above all apostates, people who have hijacked a great religion and lie about its real meaning and lie about its purpose and deceive people in order to fight for their purposes.”//

As I've said in the past, it is strange how enemy powers would work so very hard - and businesses will pay so much money...

...for something that our media is giving away for free.

THE WESTERN PRESS IS NOW THE PR WING OF THE ISLAMIC STATE

There are two possible consequences of the Western media’s lapping-up of IS snuff movies. The first is that they will help IS recruit more nihilistic Westerners. As George Packer of the New Yorker said of last week’s execution of the Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, there is ‘an undeniable attraction in this horror for a number of young people around… Europe and America, who want to leave behind the comfort and safety of normal life for the exaltation of the caliphate’. It’s a sad fact that, for complicated reasons, we live in societies in which fairly significant numbers of young people feel estranged from mainstream politics and morality and drawn towards nihilistic ways of thinking, and these media-spread videos act as an invitation to some of these youngsters to pursue their nihilistic urges with the one global group devoted to such despicable behaviour. The second consequence of the media’s publicity for IS horrors is that IS will feel encouraged, incited in fact, to up the ante. Its horrendous new video suggests it is learning the lesson of diminishing returns — that the media had tired somewhat of its beheading videos and so IS needed to do something new and spectacular to get back on the front pages. So it did, and it worked. What will it do next? Who knows. But it will have to be extra atrocious if IS wants the Western media to carry on doing it a favour by making a global spectacle of its squalid murders.

Jordan's response to ISIS barbarism...

...is barbaric, but is it unjust?

Jordan announces it will execute ISIS prisoners in retaliation for burning of Jordanian pilot alive.

On the one hand, Jordan's prisoners were caught in attempts to murder Jordanians, so these hostages are not civilians, and ISIS seems to speak in the language of hostage-taking and nothing else seems to work.

On the other hand, where does it end?

On balance, it would be unjust; we know that there is no moral justification for executing unarmed individuals who have not committed a crime and that no one can be executed without due process of law.

Nonetheless there is a "pull" toward the dark side.

Thoughts.

Those Crusades were a disgrace...

...although they were an effort to stop this kind of thing.

Yazidis face genocide by ISIS after US turns away.

But, at least, he has a plan...

...or if not a plan, at least a Nobel Prize!!!

Washington Post gives Obama 4 Pinocchios for ISIS spin.

From the Hot Air article:

//Obama is in over his head. All the spin in the world can’t cover it up, and even the President’s usual defenders can’t deny it any longer.//

Can we get angry now?

ISIS beheads American journalist Steven Sotloff.

More good news in the fight for civilization...
...1 in 6 Frenchmen prefer ISIS.