Beheadings by Islamic terrorists: the practice goes viral

In the wake of recent beheadings by Islamic terrorists (including victim Piotr Stanczak, a Polish national  executed by the Taliban in Pakistan) I’ve found it useful to investigate more about this particularly brutal trend: its history, the psychology behind it, the cultural and religious significance, and the ways in which the trend may be developing.

Click here for Middle East Forum article, Beheading in the Name of Islam.

Click here for American Chronicle article exploring the possibility that Mexican cartels are adopting the Islamic terrorist practice of beheading their targets.

Update: (via  Rhetorican and Instapundit):  Has this cultural meme gone viral?  The Boston Herald reports that Muzzammil Hassan, a Buffalo, N.Y. area man who runs an American-Islamic television station, is accused of beheading his wife. “Hassan is the founder and chief executive of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004 in hopes of portraying Muslims in a better light.”

So is this to be a new, savage hallmark of “honor killings”? Shades of Henry VIII and Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard.

On a related note: click here for Middle East Quarterly article, Are honor killings simply domestic violence?