Content Warning: U.S. Aid Worker Peter Kassig Beheaded

This is the real thing: "Islamic State VIDEO Shows Beheading of American Hostage Peter Kassig (GRAPHIC)."

With this video the terrorists made sure to broadcast much more bloody graphic violence, lest Western audiences question the authenticity of the beheadings. Indeed, at least a dozen poor bastards get their throats slit, and then the terrorists pause, looking at the camera. Then we see the heads lined up on the bodies.

Not for the squeamish. But then, folks in the West ought not turn away uncritically, for then we abandon the will to defeat the evil. We must bear witness before gathering strength for the long fight ahead.