SEVERAL years ago I warned of the danger and rise of Islamic State in this paper and others, which was ignored.

Well we know what next happened. For my trouble I got an envelope through my door which contained a live bullet and a threatening letter.

Here is what it said: "Do not write anything more about Islamic State or suffer the consequences. Our faces will be the last thing you ever see, our voices will be the last thing you ever hear. 'Allahu Akbar'."

I got visits from the police, CID, and someone from MI5, I think. Their advice 'Don't antagonise these people!'

Well, I repeat what I said before, 'they are cowards, murderers, rapists, enslavers of women and children. The 'Jihadi Brides', I've no sympathy for them. If they wanted a man are there no Muslim men in Britain?

They wanted to join Islamic State, they can rot in hell. On Jihadi John, he got carried away with his image and stated he would fight anyone to the death with his bare hands.

This from a man armed with a large knife who could only kill people who were bound and kneeling.

I said I would go to Syria and fight this coward and renewed my passport to this end. Kurdish friends here relayed this to the Syrian Kurds who taunted him on social media till he accepted.

It was to happen in the town of Kobang, just over the Turkish border in Syria.

I was not worried. The Kurds were to provide armed back-up if needed.

I hold grades in Judo, Ju Jitsu and Karate and was a soldier and of course I did not have the health problems I have now and was a bit younger.

The day after I detailed my intentions in this paper his true identity was revealed, Mohammed Emwazi, a computer nerd from London. Could not burst a balloon with his bare hands. He went on the run and was supposedly killed by three drone strikes.

He was a coward and mass murderer, but show me the body.

'The evil that men do lives on after them', said William Shakespeare.

BILL BISHOP,

Ballingry.