He ventured to Syria to tell the stories of those whose lives have been torn apart by war.
But in doing so, Kenji Goto suffered his own gruesome fate — apparently becoming the latest foreigner to be decapitated by ISIS.
A newly distributed video from ISIS appears to show the beheaded body of the Japanese journalist. It came one week after a video surfaced featuring Goto holding a photo of what appeared to be the corpse of his fellow Japanese captive, Haruna Yukawa.
Setting my anger and disgust over this latest ISIS act aside for a moment, what kind of father (of a three week old infant, no less) leaves his family voluntarily to go to the most dangerous part of the globe? If he has, apparently, no regard for his own safety, what about the responsibility of fatherhood and family?
His fate undeserved, I wonder what kind of man Goto really was?
A bit more than gets reported on CNN may be seen in this review:
http://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2015/2/1/memory-eternal-human-rights-activist-and-yes-christian-journalist-kenji-goto-is-gone