ISIS burns a US pilot alive

As I'm sure many will remember, in 2015, a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot whose plane crashed was taken prisoner by ISIS and later burned alive, with the video uploaded online.

Suppose it had been a US plane that was shot down or crashed due to mechanical failure, and a US pilot had met that fate? How would the American government and people have reacted to a video of an American pilot being burned alive?
 
Here's an interesting twist: What if the pilot was Muslim-American? How would conservatives react? I'm sure they'd still be outraged that an American pilot was killed by ISIS, but how would this affect Islamophobia ITTL?
 
Here's an interesting twist: What if the pilot was Muslim-American? How would conservatives react? I'm sure they'd still be outraged that an American pilot was killed by ISIS, but how would this affect Islamophobia ITTL?

Probably they think that he was only just one of few good Muslim.

But burning of American pilots probably would cause nationwide rage and perhaps more bombing campaign.
 
The Republicans would find yet another thing to criticise Obama for. Maybe a few Republican primary candidates would call for putting boots on the ground in Syria?
 
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