@ bemused
"It could have unintended consequences - some Muslims might begin to question their whole religion."
If only that were true, the problem of ISIS and Muslim fundamentalism would be over in about a year from now. The reason this murder wouldn't change a thing in the Islamic world is simple. It is quite similar to the pretentious teaching by the JW that a bad JW is better than the nicest person outside the BORG - a concept I always struggled with while I was in. Following the same logic, most Muslims, including the "moderates" happen to believe that the worst Muslim is better than the best "infidel". This is what makes even the so-called moderate a dangerous element !
Some of these Jihadists from the West are known in their communities for who they are and what they represent and would eventually return to Europe and America. (Yes, even they cannot resist the lure of the West !) I would bet you £20 (yes, it's all I can afford) if you find them being turned in by their respective communities upon their return !
It is also for this reason that the war against ISIS will be lost. Once the heat is turned on them, they will break up and disappear into the surrounding communities where they would be protected from any Western-led investigation, by the very ones who had been crying out for Western help !
My take on this whole situation is simple. Don't get involved in ground battles...keep all support aerial and there would be no Western trophy for the Jihadists to parade and gloat over. You would think that after all these years of meddling in Arab affairs, the one thing that Western governments should have learned is that non-Muslims cannot bring peace to that part of the world ! Any intervention by a non-Muslim only serves to unite the warring factions for attacks against the West. It is alright for ISIS to rape and slaughter thousands of fellow Muslims but if a misguided Western bomb kills an innocent Muslim, you can picture the song and dance that would soon follow, ochestrated by the "do-gooders" from the West and rehashed across the Muslim world as motivational speech for recruiting Jihadists !
"On the other hand, most Christians I know just ignore the awkward bits of the bible and don't feel that the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, for example, have anything to do with their religion."
That is true as the KKK cannot find any verse in the Bible to support their evil practices which are purely doctrinal, and therein lies the big difference between Christianity and Islam. Islamic extremists often quote freely from the Quran to support their barbarism !
