Piers Morgan's Faux Outrage on Islamic State's 'Abominible' Inhumanity

In what could have been an excellent editorial, Mr. Morgan captures the horror of Moaz al-Kasasbeh murder, but then he sputters out with his conclusion about how this has "noting to do with Islam."

For leftists, it's never about Islam --- despite the fact that Islamic State quoted Koranic scripture in the video's release.

Here, "Watching ISIS burn a man alive was the most abominable thing I have ever seen - and any Muslim who won't stand up to these barbarians must watch it too":

My finger hovered over the ‘click’ button.
I’d heard that ISIS had burned a young Jordanian pilot alive in a cage, and there were numerous people posting the snuff movie on social media.

I wanted to watch it.

To see for myself whether it really was, as many claimed, the ‘sickest video ever made’.

But I hesitated.

I don’t ‘need’ to see a man burned alive. Nobody ‘needs’ to see such an abomination.

It’s diabolical enough that it happened at all. Why compound the misery of that man’s life ending by acting as some kind of complicit voyeur?

Then I pressed click anyway.

I watched those murderous bastards light up a trail of petrol into a small cage, I watched as Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasabeh caught fire, and I watched as he screamed in horror and burned to death.

It was just as repulsive and sickening as I feared it would be. Truly the worst thing I have ever had to witness, and as a journalist for 30 years I’ve seen a lot of unpleasant things.

But I’m actually glad I watched it.

Glad I saw in real time, on professionally-crafted movie-quality video, exactly what these monsters are capable of.

Glad I know they have no limits, no humanity, no semblance of any kind of soul.

Glad I saw the undisguised joy in their evil little faces as they perpetrated such a despicable act on a fellow human being.

Glad they repeatedly switched the camera shot from blow-torch to their victim’s face so we can be under no illusion what utter sadists they are.

I’m glad about all this because it allows me to feel such uncontrollable rage that no amount of reasonable argument will ever temper it.

And that’s precisely what we all have to feel now towards ISIS and those who support its hideous activities.

We all have to feel the same kind of unquantifiable, collective horror everyone felt when the full scale of the Nazi concentration camps was revealed.

Hitler’s Nazis and ISIS share similar aspirations and values:

The extermination of vast numbers of people.

The pursuit of power through death and mayhem.

The ability and willingness to commit physical and mental torture and murder so depraved that it defies belief or reasoned understanding.

And as with the Nazis, the world must now come together to rout and destroy them.

The big question is how?

This is not a conventional enemy that operates with an army, air force or navy.

It’s a disparate, amorphous entity whose tentacles spread wide around the Middle East.

Hard to track, thus hard to defeat.

But I believe ISIS made a big strategic error today.

Moaz al-Kasabeh was a devout Muslim.

He was the first high profile Sunni Muslim from a state involved in the US-led coalition ‘war’ effort to be executed.

By killing him in such a grotesquely barbaric way, ISIS should rouse the decent, civilized Muslim world as never before.

It’s easy to justify attacks on the West by screaming to young, impressionable poverty-ravaged minds that it’s ‘revenge’ for all the bombing campaigns in Iraq or Afghanistan.

It’s far tougher to justify the bestial immolation of a young Muslim man to other young Muslims...

Actually, there'd no reason to suspect a backlash in the Muslim world had Islamic State immolated a Christian American or an Israeli Jew.

Indeed, after the Paris attacks Muslims worldwide hoisted "Je Suis Cherif" banners over their heads, in militant solidarity with the Kouachi brothers.

No, sadly, Mr. Morgan's logical flaw is to pretend that Islam isn't really the ideological equivalent to the Nazism that the horror the Jordanian pilots murder evoked.