Mosul battle rages as ISIS bombings across Iraq kill at least 20

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/mosul-offensive-isis-iraq-1.3839052

Commentary

As the senseless loss of lives marches on there are reports of bodies which are headless being uncovered. The figure mentioned is 100. Why did these people die? They deserved to be alive … no one should decide if x lives and y dies. To decapitate someone is barbaric to say the least.

ISIS has the ambition to set up a Califate or holy state and anyone who thinks differently must be destroyed. This is so wrong, uncaring and stupid. Respect for life is just for these zealots with such thinking … empty talk. If the God they seek to worship seem so uncaring, then their mission is doomed to fail.

We hope and pray Mosul will be liberated fully soon and the innocent victims live in peace … they have suffered enough.

What are your views?

Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie is Senior International Correspondent & Photojournalist for Vision Newspaper Canada