A Russian Jihadi

We have another case of a person cutting the throat of another human being and saying it is for a good cause.  It is hard to understand how this kind of behavior is supposed to get a person into heaven, or why ISIS followers of Islam find it an attractive thing to do.  This time, the spokesman is Russian and speaking to the many Russians living and working in that country, most of whom are Christians.  [ http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-grapples-with-its-own-jihadi-john-as-moscow-steps-up-role-in-syria-1450175412 ]

We can always tell who is hurting ISIS by the people it singles out for death.  The Russians bombing campaign is having an effect, though it was not what they advertised it to be.  They said they were going after ISIS, but they bombed people who were fighting against Assad, most having nothing to do with ISIS.  It would seem that ISIS must be hurt by these air strikes or they wouldn't have reacted the way they did.

This guy is one of many killers trained by ISIS to slaughter helpless people in an up-close-and-personal kind of attack.  You almost never see ISIS attack an armed individual, though they do show a video of blowing up a truck now and again, and there might be armed people in that truck - maybe not.
It is a curiosity that ISIS only shows the killing of unarmed people, bound and helpless.  It is unlikely that this image is the one it wants to convey to the world, but it is the reason why thousands of people evacuate the  territories that ISIS holds.  Being neutral will not help you avoid being killed.  Being innocent will not help you.  No group, trying to be a country, has ever been successful with this kind of strategy applied to its population.