[SeekAndFind]

Ahmed Obeid, a doctor who worked with U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig at a hospital in Tripoli, speaks during a news conference calling for his release in Tripoli, northern Lebanon November 8, 2014. Kassig, a 26-year-old humanitarian worker from Indiana whose first name was Peter before he converted to Islam while in captivity, was abducted on October 1, 2013.

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Abdul-Rahman Kassig fishes with his father, Ed Kassig, near the Cannelton Dam on the Ohio River in southern Indiana in 2011 in this photo courtesy of the Kassig family.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Peter Kassig, whom ISIS claimed Sunday to have beheaded and who took the Muslim name Abdel Rahman after his conversion, was struggling to find meaning and purpose in life

Sometimes, your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

[Balding_Eagle]

Some peoples purpose in life is to serve as an example to others on WHAT NOT TO DO.

[I want the USA back]

“his love for the Syrian people and his desire to ease their suffering,”

So the parents were crazy liberals who actually thought that loving savages was a good idea. Sorry, loving savages gets them to hate you, because they are savages.

[al baby]

I blame the dude with the ginsu for his death... imagine that

[Blood of Tyrants]

You cannot love a Muslim enough for him to stop hating you. Too many years of inbreeding and indoctrination.

[southernmann]

I’d say he found his purpose...to bring even more notoriety to those animals.

[goldstategop]

People who are weak Christians or lack faith fall prey easily to the siren song of Islam.

And they also hate their own country. Is it any wonder Peter Kassig ended up getting his just desserts as a Muslim in an Islamic hellhole?

No sane person goes there.

[SMARTY]

“He never thought that conflict was a solution.”

Did he cash his paychecks?

[rrrod]

“”We are heartbroken to learn that our son, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, has lost his life....”

Eff him and cut his head off again!

[PLD]

LAY DOWN WITH DOGS AND YOU WILL GET FLEAS..EXCEPT THIS TIME YOU GET YOUR HEAD CHOPPED OFF..MAYBE THIS GUY WITH HIS DEATH CAN STOP OTHER IDIOTS FROM JOINING THE SAVAGES THAT ARE IGNORANT..

[Vendome]

Seems he found the purpose in life:
“The end”...

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Well, from the picture shown here, it looks like Dad’s a fisherman so he can’t be all that bad!! I’m not gonna say his parents are a bunch of left wing liberals who steered their kid down the wrong way. They could just be parents who love their son no matter what idiotic decisions he’s made. I am speaking as a parent myself. You can train your kids to the best of your ability. In the end, they have a life to lead and decisions to make. You only hope the lessons you taught them stick before they get in real trouble.

As for going to Beirut, I have been there and though it’s been more than 30 years ago, I don’t think much has changed. It’s not a place I would ever advise anyone to go without being heavily armed and having a lot of friends with you who are also heavily armed. Even then, why go? If he wanted to help the poor and disadvantaged, that’s very good and very admirable. However, you can do that right here in America. There are many church charitable groups that go on ‘missions’ to the poor and disadvantaged and help them out here. There’s Habitat for Humanity and many more good groups doing good work for the poor right here in America. I think I would feel better if my son told me he’s going to West Africa to help fight Ebola than going to Beirut to help refugees.

In the end, it brings to mind the line from the Indiana Jones 3 movie when the bad guy chose the wrong chalice. As the Knight Templar said, “he chose poorly”. It cost him his life....

[defconw]

I have a question for our military guys and gals. According to the article he joined the Rangers in 2006, is that a unit you can just join or do you have to be in the Army for a certain amount of time? Can you be a Ranger at 18? Secondly he was deployed and discharged honorably in 2007 for medical reasons? Sounds like Psychiatric problems to me. Not buying the timeline.

[TexasRepublic]

I guess the naive kid found the meaning of life, and the national IQ went up a fraction of a point.

[bgill]

There are plenty of community organizer jobs right here in the US. Just ask hussein.

[A CA Guy]

Must have come from a wealthy family. Who has the time or means to search for the quest of a purpose in life?

[isthisnickcool]

Kassig read their book. He embraced their book. Their book says they can cut his head off. That’s their take on it. It did not matter that Kassig thought the book said otherwise since he embraced the book and thought that protected him. What mattered is that the guys with the knives believed that their book gave them the right to say that Kassig was not what Kassig said he was.

islam is called a religion, it is no more a religion than the Crips and the Bloods are. It is no more a religion than MS13 and the list goes on are.

Unfortunately for Kassig it appears that he believed everything he read in the Koran without understanding what what he was reading meant to the “real” followers. He was wrong headed about everything now he is no headed...

[John W]

Get it right, per liberal puke and former Indy Star columnist now writing for WTHR, Bob Kravitz——

Bob Kravitz @bkravitz · 16 hours ago
Very nice of the Oak Ridge Boys to mention Kassig before the national anthem, but his name is Abdul Rahman, not Peter. Respect it.#ColtsWTHR