Mon semblable, Mon frère!: reactions to the immolation of the Jordanian Pilot

Mon semblable, Mon frère!
Burning a human being is a very disgusting, repulsive act, and of course a major crime in Islam. Muslim most authoritative text after the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari, contains clear prophetic prohibitions against immolation.
But something must be said about the hypocrisy of the international condemnations. Yes, ISIS's act is callous, outrageous, egregious, condemnable, and sick and every English descriptor expressing revulsion.
But isn't this what the brave warriors of our times do? Anyone who has seen the effect of smart and ordinary bombs, white phosphorus and cluster-bombs as they land with high frequency and concentrations in the past two decades on countries like Iraq, Palestine, and on Syrians for the past 4 years, would feel nothing but utter scorn for the fake moral indignation coming from the West and many parts of the Muslin world. ISIS's act is despicable and cowardly, but it is only a microcosm of all that has been going on.
Not only is modern warfare premised on the desire to incinerate people, often civilians or bake them alive, but that is Ironically what several countries have been doing in the past 6 months in the same territory. They don't burn people in cells; they don't film it in HD and distribute it; they don't show you the faces of the burned victims from a close by distance; and they themselves don't have to attend it. They are far removed from the scene. But the effect on the families of those burned, whether combatants, administrators, clerks, bystanders, children, infants or women is the same. They see their loved ones burned alive.
It is despicable that ISIS does this using religious discourse. But that is
ironically what the Jordanians are now deliberately doing, adorning their missiles with statements from Qura'n assuming a Divine voice, which if anything equals or surpasses the absurdity of ISIS's haughty proclamations.
"Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!" says one bomb statement quoting Quran.

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