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A man purported to be Islamic State captive Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh is seen standing in a cage in this still image from an undated video filmed from an undisclosed location made available on social media on February 3, 2015. Islamic State militants released the video on Tuesday purporting to show Kasaesbeh being burnt alive, and Jordanian state television said he was murdered a month ago. Reuters could not immediately confirm the video, which showed a man resembling the captive pilot standing in a black cage before being set ablaze. REUTERS/Social media via Reuters

An Australian extremist shared a photo on social networking websites that showed people watching an Islamic State video on a big screen. The video showed the apparent execution of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh who had earlier been burnt alive in a cage by the militant group.

The public screening of the IS propaganda video was held in Syria. It was Australian-Somali militant Yusuf Yusuf who posted on his Facebook page that it was “movie night in the heart of the Khalifa.” He shared a photo on Facebook that showed people watching the video projected on a big screen.

“Burn kafir (nonbeliever) burn,” the post says. When he was asked if Islam allowed burning a man alive, he said that people should be punished for their actions. “Punish the kufar like they punished us ... an eye for an eye akhi,” Sky News quotes him.

Yusuf is a former university student who was based in Melbourne. The Jordanian pilot was captured on Christmas after his F-16 had been shot down while it was flying over Syria. IS used the pilot for the negotiation of an exchange for probable suicide-bomber Sajida al-Rishawi. The Iraqi militant had a role to play in the deaths of 60 people in Amman in 2005.

Jordan was quick to respond to the apparent execution of their pilot. It promptly declared that it would execute al-Rishawi. Army spokesman Colonel Mamdouh al-Ameri said in a televised address that the “revenge” would be as big as the calamity that had hit Jordan. Jordan announced that Ziad Karbouli, who worked closely with deceased al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, would also be executed. Jordan’s King Abdullah hailed Lt Kasasbeh a hero and called on his country to “stand united.”

The Daily Telegraph reports that Yusuf, like other Australian extremists in the Middle East, regularly talks about winning a race to Jannah, or paradise. He travelled to in 2014 with model friend Sharky Jama. While Jama says that he is presently based in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Yusuf claims that he is in the IS defector capital of Raqqa. Yusuf wears Converse sneakers as he awaits his “last minute alive.”

Contact the writer: s.mukhopadhyay@IBTimes.com.au