President Obama says ISIS' brutality and killing
of Peter Kassig represents no faith
of Peter Kassig represents no faith
President Obama said that the Islamic State and the Levant’s “brutal” act of killing Peter Kassig (Abdul-Rahman) “represents no faith,” and that the time Kassig gave to help others is what made him better than those who took his life.
“Like Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff before him, his life and deeds stand in stark contrast to everything that ISIL represents. While ISIL revels in the slaughter of innocents, including Muslims, and is bent only on sowing death and destruction,” said President Obama.
On Sunday, ISIL released a video showing the beheading of Kassig. The White House confirmed the authenticity of the video later on that day, and it was reported on Monday that Maxime Hauchard, a Frenchman, is the person in the video who executed Kassig. ISIL kidnapped Kassig while he was working as an aide worker in Syria.
Kidnappings have become a big business for terrorist groups like ISIL. The terrorist organizations use the kidnappings of foreigners as a way to make money.
There have been reports of some countries, as well as some corporations, paying the ransom.
However, the U.S. has a “don’t negotiate with terrorist policy” because the country sees the paying of the ransom as funding the terroristic activities the U.S. doesn’t support.
Despite knowing what the U.S.’ policy is, ISIL has continuously asked the U.S. to pay a ransom in exchange for the release of Americans held captive.
And in each instance, the U.S. has refused. Instead, the U.S. has decided that the best way to fight the terrorist organization is by working with its allies and expanding air strikes, targeting and weakening ISIL’s strongholds.
It is a policy that has come under fire by the president’s critics who say that the U.S. needs ground troops, and not advisers, in Iraq in order to nullify the threat that ISIL continues to pose.
President Obama has ordered 1500 troops to Iraq to assist the Iraqi military with their fight against ISIL, and he has asked Congress for additional funding in order to expand the fight against ISIL.
“Like Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff before him, his life and deeds stand in stark contrast to everything that ISIL represents. While ISIL revels in the slaughter of innocents, including Muslims, and is bent only on sowing death and destruction,” said President Obama.
On Sunday, ISIL released a video showing the beheading of Kassig. The White House confirmed the authenticity of the video later on that day, and it was reported on Monday that Maxime Hauchard, a Frenchman, is the person in the video who executed Kassig. ISIL kidnapped Kassig while he was working as an aide worker in Syria.
Kidnappings have become a big business for terrorist groups like ISIL. The terrorist organizations use the kidnappings of foreigners as a way to make money.
There have been reports of some countries, as well as some corporations, paying the ransom.
However, the U.S. has a “don’t negotiate with terrorist policy” because the country sees the paying of the ransom as funding the terroristic activities the U.S. doesn’t support.
Despite knowing what the U.S.’ policy is, ISIL has continuously asked the U.S. to pay a ransom in exchange for the release of Americans held captive.
And in each instance, the U.S. has refused. Instead, the U.S. has decided that the best way to fight the terrorist organization is by working with its allies and expanding air strikes, targeting and weakening ISIL’s strongholds.
It is a policy that has come under fire by the president’s critics who say that the U.S. needs ground troops, and not advisers, in Iraq in order to nullify the threat that ISIL continues to pose.
President Obama has ordered 1500 troops to Iraq to assist the Iraqi military with their fight against ISIL, and he has asked Congress for additional funding in order to expand the fight against ISIL.
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