ISIS.

Hell is empty and all the devils, are here.

I don't think any combination of words, any words at all even, could explain the horror, the sickness, the deep seated pain that reading about the fate of First Lieutenant Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot who was being held captive by self claimed "Islamic extremists" ISIS caused worldwide yesterday. Though I, personally, struggle to call them human let alone Muslim. 

Yesterday they released a carefully edited, barbaric video which showed Muadh al-Kasasbeh locked in a cage, burned alive. Considering the standards of evil already displayed by ISIS, who had the day previously, thrown a man from a roof for being gay and then had him stoned to death at the bottom after surviving his initial fall, the actions towards Muadh Al-Kasasbeh are a new level of horrific. 

For anyone who is unaware, ISIS or Islamic State Of Iraq are an (and i use the following word on the basis only that it is what they claim to be) Islamic rebel group currently controlling territories in both Iraq and Syria, slowly rising to terrorist infamy, along with African terror group Boko Haram,  seen before only by Al Qaeda and the Taliban. 

Currently over sixty countries are considered to be waging a war against ISIS but, like a cancer, ISIS are a tumor, ambivalent to action against them. Even Al Qaeda, responsible for 9/11, have severed ties with ISIS. 

Quite how ISIS are managing to attract so many to support and rampage with them, from all corners, including the UK, I do not understand, for me, I don't think any belief, in any God, in any religion, in any scriptures that were twisted to me to reflect any purpose could convince me to join ISIS. To walk with and defend evil. Absolutely not. Yet people are, whether through fear or through belief or because they have no desire to live in a peaceful world, they are joining, they are murdering, they are spreading evil. 

At the moment ISIS remain in the middle east, what feels like a world away from the rest of the world, but watching the violent increases in their barbaric behavior you wonder when will the rest of the world be forced to properly act or when ISIS will expand themselves into other countries. It seems inevitable that for years now, we have been in a long drawn battle of WW3, in Iraq and Afghanistan, against Taliban and Al Qaeda and now ISIS is the next in battle, but exactly how are they beaten? When the world is  so divided?  What kind of world will our children grow into? 

What is most clear is this, ISIS are not Islam, they are not Muslims, they are a violent cult, an army hiding behind a religion they defy continually. No God would reward their actions, no God would condone such evil. 

"the taking of one innocent life is like taking all of Mankind... and the saving of one life is like saving all of Mankind" - Holy Qur'an, 5:33.