An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
The whole world reeled in shock when a US reporter James Forly was beheaded by Islamic state terrorist. But this was not unprecedented. Pictures of decapitated heads place in spikes in Syria,Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East has sent horrors across the world. The Japanese too practised beheading during the Sino Jap war in the 40s..n so are emperors of Imperial China.
Precisely the scene by IS is to induce fear and power. But what has trigger these is still unknown. Whether this was a Middle east practice is unknown. The ritual of beheading through sawing, severing the jagular veins is not only practised by IS fighting against enemies. Not long ago, a clip of a Taiwanese Christian pastor trying to saw off the head of a Buddhist Guan Yin statue somewhat reminiscine this scary but symbolically powerful act of intimidation and showing who and which creed is more powerful.
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22-08-2014, 07:10 PM
Beheading as a gesture of aggressive power in culture n society
