Japanese Journalist butchered in ditch by ISIS. Heartbreak and fury at the callousness. Reprisals and hatred the response.

Is this what religion does? Is this what Islam stands for?

Islam means peace.

ISIS stands for inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, terror and cowardice.

I hope their god forgives them. I don’t think the Japanese and Americans will.

Are they trying to provoke an all-out war? Is that the aim?

Their actions are beyond words – it speaks reams for the lack of civilisation that now comes from their caliphate. My heart goes out to their families!

Surely it is time for everyone to speak out against such hatred. We need a new zeitgeist of love and peace.

Hatred breeds hatred.

Violence breeds reprisal.

Every one of us on the planet is a loser.