One thing is certain: the Islamic State will continue to advance, and will continue to terrorize Infidels and take hostages, until it is stopped. It is not going to calm down, because it believes itself to be carrying out the dictates of divine law. Its leaders are not going to read the Qur’an and suddenly realize that they overlooked all the moderate bits. The Islamic State is going to keep on going, and keep on growing, until someone has the wherewithal and will to stop it.
“ISIS video claims beheading of Steven Sotloff,” Al Arabiya News, September 2, 2014:
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven Sotloff, according to the private terrorism monitoring group SITE.
A masked man in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, who the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off “this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State,” the monitoring service said.
The footage, identified by private terrorism monitor SITE and seen by AFP, shows 31-year-old freelance writer Steven Sotloff dressed in orange and on his knees in a desert landscape.
The masked militant condemns U.S. attacks on the ISIS and cuts Sotloff’s throat. He then introduces a second captive, identified by name and said to be British.
“I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State,” the militant says, in apparent reference to a previous video in which U.S. journalist James Foley was murdered.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he had not been aware of the report before taking the podium at his daily briefing, but added that the administration’s “thoughts and prayers” were with Sotloff’s family.
“The United States, as you know, has dedicated significant time and resources to trying to rescue Mr Sotloff. I’m not in a position to confirm the authenticity of that video or the reports at this point obviously since I just walked out here but it appears the video that has been released is something that will be analysed very carefully by the U.S. government and our intelligence officials to determine its authenticity,” Earnest told reporters.
U.S. state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that if the video is genuine, “we are sickened.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the purported beheading of the U.S. journalist as “absolutely disgusting, despicable act.”
Psaki said it’s believed that “a few” Americans are believed to still be held by the Islamic State but would not give any specifics, according to Associated Press.
Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the Sotloff family, confirmed the death.
“The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately. There will be no public comment from the family during this difficult time,” Barfi said….
John C. Barile says
Barack will continue to lead from behind, while crisis compounds crisis.
John C. Barile says
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/08/27/letter-parents-aaron-carson-vaughn-seal-team-vi-please-resign-mr-president/
richard shetman says
Christians and Jews will continue to be decapitated by Muslims because their role model is Muhammad who personally decapitated 600-900 unarmed Jews in 627. Do not underestimate the need of Muslims to emulate Muhammad and his decapitation of infidels. Decapitation is foundational to Islam..and Obama and Cameron and their enablers refuse to see it.
cliffface says
Christians believe their front man healed and what science is showing with the placebo effect then maybe he did.
Buddhists front man decided material objects were not the way to success.
The Jews have been at the forefront of Islamic hate since day one.
Muslims front man is best remembered for chopping heads ,stealing assets and forcing victims into slavery so they may as well have chosen one of the many narcissistic rulers that lived previously .
Until Islam sorts fact from fiction and admits that reform is required to evolve just as all others before us have had to accept that not all we are told is the absolute unchangeable reality then yes some elements are going to keep chopping heads and believing it is perfectly normal.
If we want to wait for God to decide who is right and who is wrong then we might need to allow a couple of thousand more years.
We will all know the answer sooner than we wish anyway .
Maybe there is an answer or maybe we are all happy to waste what we have now waiting to find out.
If I was God I would just stamp humanity “reject” and start again, so it’s lucky im not.
Mike says
No doubt this Jihadi is another one of “the testosterone driven young men, no different from the drunks at Sydney’s Kings Cross,” according to Sydney’s mayor Clover Moore, when asked of her opinion of the Muslim Hyde Park riots in response to the film about Mohammed. Australian head chopper Khaled Sharrouf was one of those “testosterone filled young men”at Hyde Park. What does the good Lord Mayor have to say now?
cliffface says
Mike it is not testosterone that drives these clowns it is heads filled with lies from an early age and then addiction to crystal meth and other drugs as they struggle to put into perspective the daily lives they live as compared to the over exaggerated lies they are told in the mosques.
It is when reality and fantasy collide and the drugs just help the fantasy seem real.
That’s how you get a Khaled Sharrouf from an otherwise normal kid.
Lots of people smoke meth but few wish to slay innocents so I think we see where the real problem lies.
And before someone Yells “disenfranchised” note that all youth feel disenfranchised at some point in fact everyone on the planet feels it at some point.
Blow away the smoke people Islam is the problem and the excuses have to stop.
Wtf? says
These are the actions of a doomed society. This was their one last shot at reviving Islam across the world but it is failing miserably. The need for foreign fighters who appear to do the most gruesome acts to gain favour with the towel heads is laughable. Have you noticed it’s gone very quiet since the bombing has started, the rescue of the Yashidis, the reclamation of the dam, the seizure of the oilfield fields and now the liberation of Ameril? Why? Because these gutless turds and now fighting opponents who are armed and angry. When Mosul and the rest of Iraq is liberated I would not want to be one of the collaborators/citizens of that city when the Shia militia get there! Lol
cjk says
They are winning .
WVinMN says
ISIS boasts the largest military in the ME, they are beyond rich and killing with impunity. But yeah, we managed to rescue some people trapped on a hill and take away a dam from ISIS control. Yay….
umbra says
isis will eventually run out of supplies and munitions (for heavy equipment and weapon). At that point, its capacity to assault and capture additional territories (particularly fortified ones) would be severely diminished. It will have to source supplies, munitions and spare parts from outside its territories, either through looting or the black market. The only reasonably reliable and relatively secure black market supply route that can handle heavy equipment is through turkey.
Ha Meshuga says
They havent come up against proper opposition yet, a proper army with the know how, hardware and desire, hence why the US and the UK are being imported by the Iraqi and Kurdish governments…..they will one day soon face an opposing force that will deliver them an eternal nakba……
cliffface says
Tragic yes unexpected no.
Journalist must stop putting themselves in positions of personal harm which may lead to others being put at risk trying to save them.
Getting a story great ! being the story not so smart.
These Syria -Iraq Islamist invaders have only one desire and that is to kill anyone or anything it is just a pleasure for them be it a journalist a mother or a child.
Stop trying to get that big story because we really don’t want to read about it if it is going to cost more lives.
They are Satanic Islamic Zombies that need to be exterminated not given 15 minutes of fame.
RIP anyone that falls into the hands of these murderous soulless islamists.
Mid East Pete says
Only another 17 beheadings and ISIS will have equalled Saudi Arabia’s record of 19 beheadings since the beginning of August.
gravenimage says
Are you joking? ISIS has been *lining the streets of Mosul with severed heads*. I’m afraid the terrible murders of James Foley and Steven Sotloff are just the tip of the iceberg.
Salah says
“The Islamic State is going to keep on going, and keep on growing, until someone has the wherewithal and will to stop it.”
This “someone” will never ever do anything about ISIL. We, the people, need to stand up and throw this “someone” out of office, bring him to justice and, if convicted of high treason, execute him with his whole gang of traitors.
That’s what they did in Egypt.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
pumbar says
If the next video is of a Briton being murdered then who are the press going to refer to as British? That’ll have their knickers in a twist.
Charli Main says
I expect the British MSM will fall back on their time honoured tradition of describing the head choppers as ” British Asians”.
pumbar says
Hmm, that bloke isn’t Asian by a long shot…
Anushirvan says
Islamic Slaughterhouse has quite a productive schedule !
David says
That was interesting, on the 5:00 pm channel 10 news in Australia today, on the reporting of the Steven Sotloff beheading the caption across the screen was : “Muslims behead another captive”. Not “I.S.”, not “Islamist Militants”, just “Muslims”. David Cameron & all the other apologists who keep saying I.S. has nothing to do with Islam wouldn’t have liked that caption. I smiled when I saw that caption, good work Channel 10.
SpiritOf1683 says
That’ll be the day when the BBC calls these headchopping savages Muslims. They still call them ‘militants’. Only briefly, when the 7/7 atrocity occurred in London, did they mention the T word, and that is only because it was in the UK. They wouldn’t have mentioned that T word had 7/7 happened in tel Aviv instead.
dumbledoresarmy says
That *is* interesting.
Perhaps you should write to them and commend them on calling it like it is.
RKM says
Right now I want to say words to this man: David, you are a son of the Free World.
I cannot imagine your terror at this moment. The sunlight of the morning is on my face, and the saltwater is in my hair. On the East Coast it isn’t afternoon and I’ve walked on the water already by the grace of the engineer of this place.
Haines, I pray for you calm and peace and forgiveness above all. Take pride that you’re among the questioners, a society that will allow the sure to enslave them until they absolutely have to resist.
I want you to know that although you may release yourself HERE…. your mind can be a place of beauty and refinement that you will take with you.
I don’t want you to die, I wish the NSW, DF, GSG & SAS knew where you were so they could get you, and exercise all the violence of action necessary to eliminate the totalitarians imprisoning you.
I’m praying at this moment you do not live in your atomic body, but beyond that.
I’m praying that AKUA has you in the palm of its hand, that the TAO envelops you in it’s borderless no-mind!
gravenimage says
Islamic State threatens to behead British hostage David Haines
………………………
Bloody savages.
David Haines provided security for an aid group in Syria—this is Jihad against *aid groups*. He is married and has a young daughter.
Mo says
Where have all these hostages been all this time and why have we not heard much about them until now? (At least, I had not heard of them. Maybe I’m just not keeping well enough informed.)
More importantly, how many more are there?
And I guess MOST importantly, what are we going to do about it?
(I’m afraid the answer is… not much.)