ISIS decapitates yet another American hostage. Reuters.

The Kassig Family begged ISIS for the release of their son. They didn't listen.

ISIS is claiming to have decapitated yet another American hostage, aid worker Abdul Rahman, better known as Peter Kassig. Reuters. A video was posted online and through Jihadi twitter feeds with a decapitated head and a masked man with a British accent.  The man in the video claimed the dead man was Kassig, though the media has not been able to confirm this yet. Kassig was a ex-soldier and had gone to Syria for humanitarian work in an organization he founded. Kassig had converted to Islam while in captivity in Syria. In addition to Kassig, several local prisoners, believed to be Syrian soldiers and airmen, were beheaded as well. 

My Comment:

I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to post the video made by the Kassig family knowing that their pleas for mercy would be for nothing, but I does show what kind of person Kassig was in life. By my reasoning anyone that founds their own charity to help those displaced by war is one of the good guys. This is of course a terrible tragedy and my thoughts are with the Kassig family. As always, I won't post the video or pictures here.  

As for ISIS, it is painfully clear that they are evil incarnate. They are making war on anyone who isn't them. Kassig converted to Islam while in captivity. It may have been genuine and it may have been in duress, but any group with any kind of mercy at all would have spared him just for making the effort. Not that ISIS has been particularly kind to Muslims anyways, but out of all people you would think they would have spared someone who took up their religion. 

ISIS still has a few western hostages so I won't be surprised if and when this happens again. They have made it abundantly clear that any westerners that are captured by this group will be executed graphically. The other concern is that ISIS will inspire more lone wolf attacks in the west. We have had a spate of home grown, low scale and mostly random terror attacks in the west in the past couple of months and no doubt more will be inspired now.