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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.…