Iraq: Out of the desert into Mosul (closed)

[KingJaja]

Shashank Joshi, of RUSI, has another article 'Where does the Islamic State's fetish with beheading people come from?':http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/sh...eading-people/

He tries to answer this:

Now this is unexpected - well for me:

Don't see how it differs from accounts of King David in the Old Testament or even Cortes in Mexico.

They are following "the book to the letter" - and remember it was only after several centuries of horrible violence that Western Christianity was rid of that sort of stuff.