Islamic State threatens to kill British aid worker who thought his work for Muslim charity would save him
Sep 15, 2014 09:02 am | Robert Spencer

This is one of the fundamental fallacies of the West’s entire approach to the global jihad.

Western analysts and policymakers persist in the delusion that their concessions and acts of kindness will meet with reciprocal acts of kindness from Islamic supremacists and jihadists.

This is not, in fact, the case.

In new video, Islamic State beheads British aid worker who thought his work for Muslim charity would save him
Oct 03, 2014 04:38 pm | Robert Spencer

Alan Henning thought his work for a Muslim charity would save him from the Islamic State.

This is one of the fundamental fallacies of the West’s entire approach to the global jihad.

Western analysts and policymakers persist in the delusion that their concessions and acts of kindness will meet with reciprocal acts of kindness from Islamic supremacists and jihadists.

This is not, in fact, the case.

Instead, they’re just seen as signs of weakness, and regarded with contempt.