Burning alive a single human being offends al-Qa’eda. Did 9/11 offend them too, then?

Was the burning alive of an enemy combatant by the Islamic State a ‘deviant’ act – as the moderate Muslim political party, al-Qa’eda, insists? It is difficult to know why burning a single human being alive is more ‘deviant’ than burning several hundred alive, in al-Qa’eda’s greatest hit, the destruction of the World Trade Centre, back in 2001. I haven’t read my Koran scrupulously enough lately so maybe the answer is in there.

Meanwhile, Jordan has started hanging these remedial savages – which I daresay has not terribly worried you lot, all things considered. Hang them, hang them high. But no; leave this particular neck of the woods to its own devices, its hangings, its decapitatings, its burning alives, its chucking homosexuals off tall buildings, its FGM and its casual barbarism, its backwardness and stupidity, its uselessness, its pointless fury, its diseased macho rage at the world and at themselves. Just get the hell out and leave them to it. And for the UK jihadis who have migrated to Syria/Iraq – refuse them entry back home.