In new video, Islamic State beheads British aid worker who thought his work for Muslim charity would save him

Jihad Watch : Alan Henning thought his work for a Muslim charity would save him from the Islamic State.

This is one of the fundamental fallacies of the West’s entire approach to the global jihad. Western analysts and policymakers persist in the delusion that their concessions and acts of kindness will meet with reciprocal acts of kindness from Islamic supremacists and jihadists.

This is not, in fact, the case. Instead, they’re just seen as signs of weakness, and regarded with contempt. “Video: Islamic State group beheads British hostage,” by Jon Gambrell and Jill Lawless, Associated Press, October 3, 2014:

CAIRO (AP) — An Internet video released Friday purports to show an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning and threatening yet another American captive, the fourth such killing carried out by the extremist group now targeted in U.S.-led airstrikes. The video mirrored other beheading videos shot by the Islamic State group, which now holds territory along the border of Syria and Iraq. It ended with an Islamic State fighter threatening a man they identified as an American.

“Obama, you have started your aerial bombardment of Shams (Syria), which keeps on striking our people, so it is only right that we continue to strike the neck of your people,” the masked militant said….