Jordanian monarchy’s eye for an eye ‘helps’ making the whole world blind

This video from the USA says about itself:

Jordan executes ISIS prisoners in retaliation for pilot burning

4 February 2015

Jordan executed two prisoners, including a female Iraqi militant whom it had sought to trade with ISIS, on Wednesday morning in retaliation for the death of a Jordanian pilot who was reportedly burned alive in an ISIS video, Jordanian state media and police said.

The title of this video is misleading. These two prisoners had not been arrested for being ISIS members. ISIS did not exist yet when they were arrested.

As we know, the self-styled ‘Islamic State’ ISIS are criminals, committing rape, torture, beheadings and other atrocities.

One of their more recent crimes is murdering Jordanian prisoner of war Muath Al-Kaseasbeh.

ISIS’ evil actions did not arise suddenly, out of thin air.

Their ill-treatment and torture of prisoners is derived from the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and other secret and not so secret prisons of the government of the USA, close allies of the absolute monarchy Jordan. The CIA used Jordanian territory for torturing its prisoners.

The US Bush administration’s Iraq war is at the origin of ISIS. ISIS was greatly helped by the CIA’s and US NATO allies’ undeclared war against the Syrian regime in Damascus. An undeclared war which in 2013 almost escalated into an official war, in which ISIS would have been allies of the self-styled ‘free world’. Anti-war demonstrations in many countries and a vote in the British Parliament against warmonger David Cameron’s plans stopped that then.

Some of the ISIS torturers learned their trade of abuse while serving in the police force of the absolute monarchy Bahrain, also close allies of the absolute monarchy Jordan (and of the United States Pentagon).

The ISIS beheadings are imitations of the beheadings in Saudi Arabia, the only government in the world practicing the death penalty in this way.

The ISIS ideology of fanatical salafism, a perversion of Sunni Islam, is derived from the state religion of the Saudi absolute monarchy; again, close allies of the absolute monarchy Jordan.

How did the absolute monarchy Jordan react to ISIS killing Jordanian prisoner of war Muath Al-Kaseasbeh? According to the ‘logic’ of ‘An eye for an eye’, as the Bible calls it. Mahatma Gandhi replied, correctly, to that maxim, saying ‘An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind’.

From Associated Press:

Jordan Executes 2 Prisoners After ISIS Killing Of Pilot, Official Says

By OMAR AKOUR and KARIN LAUB

AMMAN, Jordan — Islamic State group militants burned a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage, according to a purported video of the violence released Tuesday. The kingdom, which had vowed a swift and lethal response, executed two al-Qaida prisoners by hanging early Wednesday. …

The Jordanian military confirmed the death of 26-year-old Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, who was captured by the extremists in December when his F-16 crashed while he was flying a mission as part of the U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State group. …

In a first response to the killing of the pilot, Jordan executed Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouly, two Iraqis linked to al-Qaida, government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani said. Another official said they were executed by hanging.

The executions took place at Swaqa prison about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of the Jordanian capital of Amman. At sunrise, two ambulances carrying the bodies of al-Rishawi and al-Karbouly drove away from the prison with security escorts.

Over the past week, Jordan had offered to trade al-Rishawi, a failed suicide bomber, for the pilot, but froze any swap after failing to receive any proof that the pilot was still alive.

The man and the woman killed today by Jordanian state violence did not kill prisoner Muath Al-Kaseasbeh. They did not plan the death of Muath Al-Kaseasbeh. They had not been arrested for membership of ISIS. ISIS did not exist then yet. This was revenge. Which may lead to more revenge killings by ISIS, very probably of people not connected to the hangings of the two people in Jordan today. And so on. And so on.

Another example of this clueless ‘eye for an eye’ mentality: Isis militants should be crucified for the burning of Jordanian hostage, says Sunni academic.

Meanwhile, the bombing campaign against ISIS controlled areas, a campaign in which the late air force Lieutenant Muath Al-Kaseasbeh participated, continues. The Pentagon has confirmed that civilians are being killed in this campaign. Which may lead to civilians, whose friends or family are killed by coalition bombing, joining ISIS as fighters. Which they may have never wanted to do before, but which they may want to do now. In blind rage. As revenge. Which will lead to more revenge. Etc.

Read the story of a Sudanese family forced to flee Mosul following airstrikes against ISIS: here.

There is an anti-war movement in Jordan. One should hope pro-peace in Jordan, and everywhere in the world, will help to stop this escalation to a completely blind world.

The release of a video showing the immolation of captured Jordanian pilot First Lt. Moaz al-Kasabeh by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been followed by a wave of hypocritical moralizing, combined with threats of more violence, from the imperialist powers and their regional allies. The killing of al-Kasabeh, which apparently took place in early January, not long after the fighter jet he was piloting crashed in Syria, has evoked revulsion among ordinary people around the world. It is a reflection of the backward and reactionary character of ISIS. However, this act did not occur in a political vacuum. Both ISIS and the disaster unfolding in Iraq and Syria are the direct products of the criminal policies of the governments that now proclaim their moral indignation: here.

The latest ISIS atrocity – releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive – prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery. It is thus worth noting that deliberately burning people to death is achievable – and deliberately achieved – in all sorts of other ways: here.

BRITISH TROOPS FOR JORDAN! – Stop the War demands issue be put before parliament: here.

USA: Code Pink Leader Gives Fox News Sound Advice On Nonviolent Ways To Fight ISIS: here.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has seized on the brutal murder of two citizens—Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa—by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to press for new legislation to further extend the government’s powers to dispatch military forces overseas. A video of Goto’s execution was released by ISIS last weekend, and followed the Islamist organisation’s beheading of Yukawa a week before: here.

Protesters Say Jordanian Law Encourages ‘Honour Killings’ and Must Be Changed: here.