Beheadings no longer shocking enough?
Not as much attention by the media on this week's beheading of South Korean Kim Sun-Il as on Nick Berg's or Paul Johnson's murders. Partly the reason is that Kim was not an American, but might it also be that we are getting jaded about Islamofascist brutality?

Joe Gandelman thinks the terrorists will start looking for new kinds of victims.

They will likely raise the bar of barbarity to get publicity and continue to shock with the same impact. So far the victims have been males in their 30s and 40s. Will they choose a woman -- or a child? Or a group?

Prominent Saudi cleric Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah al-Humaid, in a sermon at Muslim Friday prayers in Mecca's Grand Mosque, reportedly denounced hostage-taking and murder as grave sins under Islam.

"Killing a soul without justification is one of the gravest sins under Islam, it is as bad as polytheism," the cleric said. "Whoever kills any person under our protection will not go to heaven. The blood of people under our protection is forbidden ... they are on par with Muslims," he added.