From a Western perspective, it’s a bad bit of PR.<\/p>\n
ISIS — which purports to fight for a world where an Islamic Caliphate is dominant — has released a video purportedly showing that it has beheaded Abdul-Rahman Kassig, an American citizen.<\/p>\n
This Muslim convert was known as Peter Kassig before he headed to Syria to work in civilian relief efforts.<\/p>\n
Have cooler heads (if that term can even be applied to ISIS leadership) lost control of their troops? What possible reason could there be for an Islamic State to kill a Muslim convert? Isn’t one of their tenets that all people should be (or become) Muslim?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a Western perspective, it’s a bad bit of PR. ISIS — which purports to fight for a world where an Islamic Caliphate is dominant — has released a video purportedly showing that it has beheaded Abdul-Rahman Kassig, an American citizen. This Muslim convert was known as Peter Kassig before he headed to Syria to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,30],"tags":[232,233,50],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isis","category-news","tag-abdul-rahman-kassig","tag-peter-kassig","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"\n