British Muslim Organizations Condemn ISIL Extremism
Foley, a photojournalist who was kidnapped in Syria by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2012, was beheaded by a fighter who is believed to be a British citizen from London.
The group released a video of Foley’s death on Tuesday, in which the British man, whose face is concealed by a black balaclava, beheads him. The executioner identifies himself as “John.”
Following the release of the video on social media, Muslims all over the UK condemned the action, calling the acts ‘barbaric’ and ‘unislamic’.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), one of the UK’s biggest representative bodies for Muslims in Britain, called the action ‘reprehensible’ and condemned the group’s ‘psychopathic violence’.
“We are horrified at the abhorrent murder of James Foley. ISIL [now the Islamic State] has murdered this man for no reason at all,” an MCB spokesperson said.
“ISIL does not speak for Islam, and has been repudiated by all Muslims. Their message only appeals to those who are easily duped by their twisted message purporting to be Islam. They seek to glamorize their violence, and unfortunately, the media has a part to play in adding to that glamor.”
The MCB urged media organizations not to give the group ‘undue exposure’ beyond conventional reporting, as the group ‘craved the oxygen of publicity’.
Source: RT
