Early last week in a terrible atrocity against mankind, ISIS killed Jordanian pilot First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh. This is nothing new necessarily. ISIS has been slaughtering journalists and other prisoners for months now, but the way that they carried out this execution is what may be the end of ISIS. Not necessarily going to go into specifics, First Lieutenant Moaz al-Kazabeh was essentially burned alive. The severity of this execution is hopefully the final straw towards an all-out attack on these militants.

Obviously, Jordan made quick work at avenging this atrocity. Not only did they promptly execute two known ISIS members that they had captured, but they also initiated an all-out offensive to effectively wipe out these terrible militants.

In an air offensive aptly named “Moaz the Martyr”, the Jordanian Air Force bombed ISIS fifty six times in just three days. The main targets for these bombings were logistic centers, arms depots, and known hideouts of ISIS members. The total headcount of ISIS members killed in these raids is yet to be announced, but the attacks were extremely successful.

Other than the toll taken on ISIS via these air raids, there was also another negative effect against them: agreement. That’s not really something associated usually with the Middle East, but after that execution of Moaz al-Kasasbeh, the Middle East showed small signs of unification. Muslims from all over are starting to think the same way. It relates to the idea that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, but it is at least some sort of unification. Muslims everywhere are seeing that these militants aren’t real devout Muslims, just terrorists tyrannizing the Middle East.

It’s been said many times that these terrorists are by no means Muslim. The proof is in this execution. The Koran states that the burning of someone should only be done to a prisoner who has defected from Islam in order to convert to Christianity or any other religion. Moaz al-Kasasbeh was a Muslim simply fighting to defend his homeland and the fact that ISIS treated him as anything else has enraged the Muslim world.

I believe that the reason that these terrorists have continued to be in power is because the rest of the Muslim world viewed them only as extremely conservative people of their same religion. Now that the Muslim world has some viable proof of ISIS’s misguided practices of Islam, I think it is only a matter of time before ISIS is a thing of the past.