Savages obeying their savage commands: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4).
More when available. “Internet Video Purports to Show Beheading of US Reporter Steven Sotloff by Islamic State Group,” Associated Press, September 2, 2014:
Internet video purports to show beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff by Islamic State group.
UPDATE: More detail here: “Video Appears to Show ISIS Execution of Second American Steven Sotloff,” by Lee Ferran, ABC News, September 2, 2014:
A new video appears to show the execution of Steven Sotloff, the second American killed by a self-professed member of the Islamist terror group ISIS.
In the video, which appeared online today, Sotloff addresses the camera, saying, “I’m sure you know exactly who I am by now and why I am appearing.”
“Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for preservation of American lives and interests, so why is it that I am paying the price of your interference with my life?” Sotloff says calmly as the black clad militant holds a knife casually at his side.
The video then cuts to the militant who makes a statement saying that as long as U.S. missiles “continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”
Sotloff was seen last month in a very similar video that appeared to show the execution of American journalist James Foley.
lookmann says
This savagery calls for extremely punitive action from the civilized world.
Are they up to it?
mariam rove says
Are you kidding? Look who is in the White House. M
jihad3tracker says
ISIS does not realize that this and the Foley killing will only bring more formerly clueless Westerners into whatever a coalition response turns out to be.
2 lives extinguished producing massive counterforce against the perpetrators. Anticipating rightfully cynical JW readers here slamming my optimism : I know that the slaughter is much larger than Sotloff and Foley.
My point is that using non-anonymous persons like those men serves to focus attention on the rest of Islam’s pathology — ISIS + Boko Haram + Al-Shebab + Al-Qaeda.
Jake says
I believe the true destination of those videos are radical Islamists all over the world;
The Islamist viewers are supposed to get excited by IS’s barbaric actions and join forces.
gravenimage says
I believe you’re right, Jake.
These horrific beheading videos are Jihadi porn.
Dr Evil says
Steven Sotloff beheaded: What is it like to be held hostage by Islamic militants? Australian survivor Warren Rodwell, psychologists and others say much the same thing. Buffoons is one word used to describe the captors. Sort of casts your mind back to Dr Evil of Austin Powers’ fame, threatening to destroy the world if $1 MILLION dollar is not paid. Wake up, Jihadi John.
SpiritOf1683 says
The real message going out from this is that the West is weak and pussified. ISIS realises that, and Muslim tails haven’t been up like this for the best part of 500 years. They can smell weakness, and our weakness is all too permeating now.
SpiritOf1683 says
The real message going out from this is that the West is weak and pussified. ISIS realises that, and Muslim tails haven’t been up like this for the best part of 500 years. They can smell weakness, and our weakness is all too permeating now.
Tommy Guns says
R.I.P. Steven Sotloff. Let’s hope no more Westerners end up like this. Please, stay safe.
Don McKellar says
There is only one thing we can certain of: those deceptive lying muslim spokesmen and delusional leftist idiots who filled his mother’s head full of lies about Islam so she could make that tragic and pointless video plea will now proclaim that ISIS isn’t Islamic and they aren’t “real” muslims. There will be no examiniation by the MSM on why her plea failed and why those conmen and idiot advisors were so wrong about Islam and their advice to his mother.
Don McKellar says
I guess that makes two things we can be certain of.
Julian says
Quran (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
Jaladhi says
US will still not go after ISIS leadership for the fear of offending Muslims! PC culture breeds cowardice!!
Emilie Green says
Gee, I guess that Islamic scholar, Moms Sotloff, just couldn’t get through to the new caliph.
gravenimage says
Emilie, I take your point—but I’m not going to sneer at the desperate efforts of a mother to save her child from being savagely murdered.
voegelinian says
As Hugh Fitzgerald put it recently:
Her video plea was never going to be heeded. ISIS are not your old fashioned story-book caliph capable of being moved by a mother’s faith, or Sherherezade’s stories.
voegelinian says
Just noticed Hugh had a typo there — should be “Sheherazade” (Galland’s translation of “Thousand and One Arabian Nights” (first published 1704) has Scheherazade).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35969/35969-h/35969-h.htm
voegelinian says
It wasn’t Hugh, it was another contributor to the Iconoclast blog, “Esmeralda Weatherwax”.
gravenimage says
I’m well aware of this, Voegelinian. I’m sure these Jihadists just love seeing an Infidel woman desperately begging them for mercy.
But of all the Western cluelessness we see when it comes to Islam, given the circumstances this is one of the things I am least apt to condemn.
And of course, even that “old-fashioned Caliphate” was more likely to be merciful in Infidels’ fantasies such as Mozart’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio” than in real life.
MacUalraig says
I’m with you here. The mother displayed strength. She tried in the only way she thought she could to save her child.
Myxlplik says
Steven had to learn the hard way, Muslims suffer at their own hands, due to their violent religious ideology. Helping Muslims score political victim points due to their own retarded belief system is silly, dangerous, and counter productive.
The press is really to blame for the delusional ideas and false ideas they spread about Islam being a peaceful religion. I don’t really have much sympathy for them when they get beheaded or gang raped in these foolish misguided errands they send themselves on. Just one less person out there spreading half truths and lies, and if it’s a Muslim who silences them them, then I hope they appreciate the irony.
I do feel bad for his mother though, but I’m thinking of re-wording a Willie Nelson song…. Let’s call it, “Mothers Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Islamic Apologists”.
Karen says
Here is the proper translation of Koran 47:4 from Everyman The Koran translated from Arabic by J. M. Rodwell published by J. M. Dent London Charles E. Tuttle Vermont 1909: “When ye encounter the infidels STRIKE OFF THEIR HEADS till ye have made a great slaughter among them, and of the rest make fast the fetters (shackles)… ransomings”
voegelinian says
Interesting how the three more honest translators — Rodwell, Palmer and Sale — all have “strike off heads”. I’m not sure what’s the relevant Arabic word for “heads”, but I found it of interest that the word for “strike” is a different form of the same word used for “beat” in the infamous wife-beating verse, 4:34.
As a Muslim on an Islamic study website puts it with sanguine (pun intended) matter-of-factness:
With regard to the finger tips, necks, faces and backs, daraba means to cut, to slash and to strike [Al Quran 8 (Surat Al Anfal): 12 Arabic word used in the verse is fadribu and Al Quran 47 (Sura Muhammad): 4 Arabic word used in the verse is fadarba and Al Quran 47 (Sura Muhammad): 27 Arabic word used in the verse is yadribuna] ; whereas, for the rest of the verses [16 (Surat Al Nahl): 76, 16 (Surat Al Nahl): 112, 66 (Sura At Tahrim): 11; 43 (Sura Az Zukhruf):57; 17 (Surat Bani Israil): 48; 2 (Surat Al Baqarah): 26, 16 (Surat Al Nahl): 74; 2 (Surat Al Baqarah): 60; 3 (Surat Al-i-Imran): 112; 4 (Surat An Nisa): 94 and 37 (Sura As Saffat): 93], daraba means to impel, to shock, to slap, or to damage so as to precipitate the desired impact which is relevant to each respective situation, action or interaction (Chastising Women: A Means to Resolve Marital Problems. Dr. AbdulHamid AbuSulayman).
voegelinian says
http://www.studying-islam.org/forum/topic.aspx?topicid=2825&pg=3
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Will the workplace violence never end???
awake says
This barbarism is fully encompassed in Islamic doctrine, but expect the queue of Islam apologists denouncing any correlation to begin any second now.
Rumor has it that the next target is a Brit, to try to dissuade the UK from joining the US in air strikes against ISIS.
Champ says
Savages obeying their savage commands: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4).
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Stating that they are “savages” is quite fitting since the unholy quran instructs mohammedans to commit such evil courtesy their unholy god allah (satan).
Yeah they claim that this beheading is all obama’s fault, butof course that’s just a smoke screen. This savagery is in the quran …and the evil quran was written long before obama was even born. And I’m no fan of obama, but making this crime about him is typical mohammedan cowardice, trickery and deceit.
gravenimage says
Breaking: New Islamic State video purports to show beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff
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I’ve been so worried that Steven Sotloff would be the next victim of savage beheading—and so it is.
My thoughts and prayers are with this poor man and his loved ones.
gravenimage says
Steven Sotloff was almost certainly killed by the same vicious Jihadist who murdered fellow American Journalist James Foley—”Jihadi John” (or “Beatle John”), who is probably a Muslim rapper from England.
The next threatened victim is Briton David Cawthorne Haines. He was working security for an aid group when he was kidnapped a year and a half ago.
Damn savages.
tpellow says
Front pages for Wednesday of most of U.K national press-
http://news.sky.com/story/1329184/wednesdays-national-newspaper-front-pages
TJ Wolfe says
Is it just me, or is anyone else skeptical of the videos released of the western journalist beheadings, considering the only people that have the original videos are a group called the Site which is an American based intel group!
Beagle says
The beginning of beheading ‘truth’erism. Why, given the hundreds of undisputed beheadings of non-Americans, do you find it hard to believe? It is possible the IS Dreamworks team spliced things together, possibly some footage shot at different times. Or, are you actually saying the notorious head-hackers are suddenly faking it completely?
It doesn’t surprise me. The denial never ends. There are no ‘wake-up calls’ for many. Nor will they ever ‘get it.’
gravenimage says
Beagle wrote:
The beginning of beheading ‘truth’erism. Why, given the hundreds of undisputed beheadings of non-Americans, do you find it hard to believe?
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Right you are, Beagle. Pious Muslims have beheaded victims all over the world—yet we are supposed to believe that this has been trumped by “American intel” in order to ‘make Islam look bad’. Good grief…
JFMurfy says
Are these ISIS gangs/terrorist fighting a Jihad… collecting extortion (Jiziyah), murdering other Muslims and Non-Muslims, decapitating… in the name a of religion as they envision it… I find it really disturbing that a religion would issue edicts such as this, even though these clowns are into any law that lets them behave like animals, they are not fighters…
Until World of Muslim Nations, et al rewrite…re-educate, this forever will be a problem in the Muslim world and points beyond.
via Wikipedia
“Quote: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jiziyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. “
MacUalraig says
I left a comment for J3Tracker, now it’s gone.
If I’m UA just say so.
Joan in Houston says
What do you mean by “UA” ??