There was widespread condemnation of the videotaped beheading by ISIS of American aid worker Peter Abdul-Rahman Kassig. Kassig had been captured in Syria in October of last year, and is the fifth Western hostage that ISIS claims to have beheaded since August. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, denounced the killing as “anti-Islamic.” Kassig’s parents said their son had begun a sincere conversion to Islam prior to his abduction, and they asked for prayers.