UK Muslim body slams ISIL ‘psychopathic violence’

Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has slammed the “psychopathic violence” committed by the ISIL cult, calling for an orchestrated attempt by Muslims to halt the “poison of extremism” infiltrating their communities.

The condemnation by Britain’s largest Muslim organization was made in a statement on Thursday following a video release of the beheading of US journalist James Foley by an allegedly British ISIL militant.

“We condemn unreservedly their (ISIL’s) psychopathic violence, whether it is on minorities, on civilians, or on fellow Muslims,” the MCB said while condemning the killing of Foley and adding that all Muslims reject ISIL.

“We are horrified at the abhorrent murder of James Foley,” said the MCB, adding that the group “does not speak for Islam, and has been repudiated by all Muslims.”

In addition, Iqbal Sacranie, an adviser to the MCB, said Britons from across the country’s communities had to prevent young men from being lured by radical ideologies.

“This is a problem that affects all of us and it will only be dealt with more effectively if all of us are working together on this,” said Sacranie, adding, the Muslim community was pushing the message that “this is totally alien to Islam.”

The remarks by the Muslim Council of Britain come as British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that it is “likely” that the executioner of the 40-year-old US journalist who was kidnapped on November 22, 2012, in Syria is a British citizen.

Around 400 Britons are believed to have gone to Syria over the last two years to engage in the foreign-backed militancy in a bid to fight along with militant groups.

The ISIL terrorists, of whom many are foreign fighters, currently control parts of eastern Syria and Iraq’s northern and western regions, where they have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including the mass execution of civilians and Iraqi security forces.