ISIS and other fundamentalist movements that terrorize and oppress people are something I would like to see the world be rid off. Buddhists can't, without going against the most fundamental values and precepts taught by Shakyamuni Buddha condone killing or say that it is "good." However, even certain Mahayana teachings present circumstances where a bodhisattva will take it upon themselves to kill a bandit to save the life of others and prevent the miscreant from doing any further evil deeds to their own karmic detriment. This, of course, can open the way to rationalizing all kinds of killing as acts of transcendent compassion. Nevertheless, even those stories make it clear that the bodhisattva, in killing an evildoer, are also doing an "evil" deed with karmic repercussions. Such things are done with a seriousness, sobriety, and awareness of consequences foreseen and unforeseen.
Therefore, to be gleeful, make up things about one's now dead enemy so as to emasculate them and display one's own toxicity is repugnant. Reading the article below made me think of the more mature attitude expressed in the Tao Te Ching. May we someday have a leader who will have such poise and maturity:
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 31
Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them.
Therefore followers of the Tao never used them.
The wise man prefers the left.
The man of war prefers the right.
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.
On happy occasions precedence is given to the left,
On sad occasions to the right.
In the army the general stands on the left,
The commander-in-chief on the right.
This means that war is conducted like a funeral.
When many people are being killed,
They should be mourned in heartfelt sorrow.
That is why a victory must be observed like a funeral.
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Trump says al-Baghdadi died 'screaming and crying.' U.S. officials aren't sure how he knows that.
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