21 beheaded by IS

I think it is made worse by too much media information. It is true that all these things (or similar) went on before but we didn't know about them. Now we know everything - all the time- immediately - in great detail - and can't escape it. Our perception is that things are getting worse but they were always pretty bad. I only listen to the news headlnes on the radio now as I just can't process all this bad news.

It is a snowball, soontobe Once one of them has committed an act of violence and the world reaction has been to condemn them for it, others then regard it the reaction as unfair vicimisation, so they feel justified in repeating it again and again, more savage each time.

They believe that they are doing God's will, punishing those who blaspheme, but they are quite happy to kill and maim bystanders at the same time.

I dont get it all really.
I am not convinced that it has much to do with religion.
I dont get their real motives.
I dont get their apparent wanting for publicity.
I dont even know or understand if the people fighting for IS are all thinking in the same way.

It is all beginning to feel like war.

The retaliatory bombing by Egypt has been the headline on the radio 4 news.

It's been all over the Today Programme.

Appalling, heartbreaking - every day seems to bring some awful new horror. I read about this on the internet yesterday and it was on ITV's news last night, but it seems the BBC didn't feel it was worth mentioning this morning.

It's despair-makingly terrifying.

As is utter and complete intolerance, which seems to be what drives IS.

So the beheadings would stop if there was no media coverage?
It would be nice to think so. However, Ghengis Khan did not have media coverage. Neither did all those religious fanatics in the Middle Ages, including our own kings and queens.

I agree, pogs, it is all very worrying. Fascism always is.

So what should the media do? Walk away and let us put our heads in the sand?

Something is going to have to done about these people. It will probably be war. A just one in this case.

And some of it is done for the media coverage I feel.