By Nourhan Magdi, The Cairo Post The beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff “tarnishes the image of Islam and Muslims,” Egyptian Dar al-Ifta stated Wednesday. The United States government confirmed early Wednesday that the leaked video showing the slaying of a second American journalist by the Islamic State is authentic, through the U.S. National Security Council on Twitter. Sotloff, a 31-year-old freelancer who was abducted in 2013 in Syria, was murdered two weeks following the beheading of journalist James Foley Aug. 19. Sotloff also held Israeli citizenship, Israeli deputy spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Paul Hirschson confirmed Wednesday on Twitter. IS has a reputation for publishing videos of murdering captives, which has recently been replicated by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a Sinai jihadist group in Egypt, in a recent video on Aug. 28 showing beheading of four Bedouins it claimed they had spied for Israel. “Whatever these murderers think they’ll achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven, they have already failed,” Obama said in a press conference Wednesday morning. In the video showing the beheading, called “A second Message to America”, U.S. President Obama was criticized twice for his recent air strikes…
Egypt’s Top Islamic Authority Condemns Beheading of US Journalist
September 3, 2014
