[Mr Ramsbotham]

We are rightly outraged at the beheading of James Foley by Islamist militants, and by ISIS’ other atrocities, but we overlook the public executions by beheading permitted by Saudi Arabia. By licensing such barbarity, the kingdom normalizes and indirectly encourages such punishments elsewhere.

Saudi beheadings don't appear to be particularly cruel, at least to my way of thinking. A sword is used, and the head comes right off; the condemned is dead before he can know what hit him. Not so the terrorists' form of beheading, where the head is slowly hacked off at the throat.

[Junk Silver]

” the condemned is dead before he can know what hit him.”

From what I understand in this sort of sudden decapitation enough blood remains in the brain for consciousness to continue for 15 or 20 seconds.

[rbg81]

The astonishing thing to me is that, after 9/11, we kept up importing Muslims into this country. And that was under Bush. —it has only gotten worse under Obama. The West apparently has a suicidal streak which I just cannot explain.