oktjabr

They probably wouldn't be as disgusted about the beheading (as a concept), as it is a rather customary way of execution in the arab countries with death penalty, at least around the Persian gulf. I don't even think that they directly (at least in the beginning, before seeing the media reaction) thought about the fact that beheading hostages might be somehow more revolting than killing them in some other way.

Correction: Customary as a part of Sharia. I'm not aware what countries actually practice beheading. At least Saudi Arabia?

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