The following picture stills are from a new propaganda video issued by the Islamic State. It shows several captured Kurdish Peshmerga fighters being humiliated and in cages awaiting their execution by burning — like the Jordanian fighter pilot before them. It should be noted that burning humans alive, while common throughout Islamic history — see this particularly graphic anecdote from almost a century ago — was especially reserved for apostates (see the “burning fatwas“). And to the Islamic State, the Pesherga captives, just like the Jordanian pilot, are seen as apostates from Islam fighting the true caliphate. After all, Kurds are Sunni, and by resisting the Islamic State, they “expose” their apostasy — or so IS logic goes.