Jack the al Qaeda

Paul Johnson was murdered yesterday. He was murdered in a particularly brutal way: his head was sawed off. To celebrate and publicize this crime, the perpetrators then placed his severed head on his body and photographed it. Those pictures were then published on the Internet. You can see them HERE. Careful! Very graphic.

As I saw these pictures, I am reminded of a book I read recently: “Portrait of a Killer.” It’s about Jack the Ripper. What made Jack the Ripper famous was the brutality of his crimes; his victims were mutilated and dismembered. In addition, the killer lusted for publicity and wrote dozens of letters to the police bragging of his deeds.

There is a disturbing parallel between Jack and the moral monsters that beheaded Paul Johnson. The poor women who were Jack’s victims in the seedier parts of London were as good as dead when he approached them. Paul Johnson was as good as dead when he was abducted. The depraved minds that mutilated their victims did so with a purpose: they have a message to send.

For Jack, one of his pleasures was taunting the police. For the Islamofacists who sawed off Paul Johnson’s head, the message is “fear me.”

The police never apprehended Jack. But there was only one of him. Unfortunately for us, Radical Islam has spent the last quarter century creating thousands of would-be Jack the Rippers. We have no choice about fighting them. If we turn away, we will become victims who will, like the women Jack preyed upon, die screaming.