DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A message to ISIS delivered from Daytona USA. -- not to be confused with NASCAR branding, but most will get the analogy for its patriotic theme.
You, so-called "Jihadi John" with your British accent, make your political speech in the vast wasteland of sand under a baking sun. You call out Obama and the West as evil-doers while you proclaim your caliphate as though you represent the coming of a New World Order.
You are a mere regional irritant fighting for turf amid a mish-mash of splintered Jihadists, mercenaries and opportunists who have filled the vacuum in the wake of Saddam's iron-fist rule and bloodletting.
Your beheading victims -- Americans, Britons and next, perhaps Japanese. You stand behind your hapless victims, the coward that you are, your butcher's blade slicing through cartilage, jugular veins and then bone -- the spine of a human being -- separating head from body.
And while your camera fades to black in your elaborate YouTube video productions that are quickly sanitized by Google, no rich, red blood of life is shown spilled, even before the search engine intervention.
Instead, your cheap video production fades to black. You are the mere talking he'd, no pun intended with a hollow message. You are no disciple of Sharia Law, speaking to your victim in the prologue as if he's resigned to the fate that awaits him.
It's likely, your band of scoundrels -- with their incessant "Allahu Akbar!" chants -- do the cutting while you deliver the ideologue -- not of a Jihadist -- but of a blackmailer motivated by the greed of money you accuse your capitalist foes of using to satisfy their drunkenness for Middle East oil.
You will run like the jackal in the wind when confronted by those at opposite ends of the spectrum you claim claim to either embrace or loathe -- the Saudis with their swords and the Israeli's with their bombs.
And when you are either delivered into eternal bliss with Allah himself by an American sniper's bullet, an Arab swordsman or grenade launch from a Jew or Gentile -- or better yet a drone -- you will find a living hell with a thousand knives thrust into you by the souls of innocents beheaded.
And when you are either delivered into eternal bliss with Allah himself by an American sniper's bullet, an Arab swordsman or grenade launch from a Jew or Gentile -- or better yet a drone -- you will find a living hell with a thousand knives thrust into you by the souls of innocents beheaded.
For through your contrived and well-orchestrated use of the internet and social media, you have revealed your true self not as a caliphate. You are, for lack of a better description, a Gong-Show version of the likes of a Sinaloa Cartel.
Perhaps unnerved Japanese politicians will cave to your wishes of ransom amounts of $100 million for two hapless victims who are mere pawns to your extortionist hypocrisy for a Caliph would lead his Jihadists into capturing oil fields.
As Americans, we have an answer to your Allahu Akbar (God is greatest). It comes from one of our own aboard ill-fated Flight 93, that of Todd Beamer, who with the other brave souls, forced the hijacked airliner into an open field rather than see more American lives lost beyond their own and those of the other hijacked planes that struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
It was Beamer's voice, overheard on a credit-card call from the plane with the situation at hand, knowing they were all going to die no matter what in a matter of minutes, when he asked "Are you guys ready?" And then the two-word directive in all its potency as they stormed the cockpit: "Let's roll."
FAST FACTS: Two Americans beheaded
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