Source: CNN
(CNN) — Last night, a video emerged of the execution of American journalist Steven Sotloff, at the hands of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ISIS, the extreme jihadist group that has illegitimately declared the establishment of a militant “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq.
This latest execution video follows that of a similar crime committed against another U.S. journalist, James Foley, a fortnight ago. Like the first “Message to America,” this latest video ended with the executioner threatening to behead another captive non-combatant, this time a Briton.
First and foremost, it is imperative that we do not allow the traction that these videos have gained in the West to eclipse ISIS’s other inhumane actions.
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