(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Asked whether he believed ISIS fighters would kill more hostages Cameron said they would have to be hunted down to be stopped.
The ISIS extremists who have beheaded another Western hostage are deaf to reason and must be destroyed British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday as Muslims worldwide were urged to pray for the victim on one of Islam’s holiest days.
Cameron speaking after a security briefing at his rural retreat Chequers said Friday’s slaying of 47-year-old English aid worker Alan Henning demonstrated that ISIS militants were committed to inflicting horror for horror’s sake.
Asked whether he believed ISIS fighters would kill more hostages Cameron said they would have to be hunted down to be stopped. He declined to say whether Britain would extend its involvement in US-led airstrikes on the ISIS group to Syria where the hostage killings are believed to have happened.
“The fact that this was a kind gentle compassionate and caring man who had simply gone to help others the fact they could murder him in the way they did shows what we are dealing with” Cameron said. “This is going to be our struggle now. ... We must do everything we can to defeat this organization.”
Henning a taxi driver from the town of Eccles in northwest England was abducted minutes after his aid convoy entered Syria on Dec. 26. He was the fourth Western hostage to be killed by ISIS since mid-August following two American journalists and another British aid worker. In their latest video Henning’s killers linked their action to a vote Sept. 26 in British Parliament to deploy the Royal Air Force against ISIS positions in Iraq but not Syria.
Muslim leaders across Britain urged worshippers worldwide to pray for Henning and peace in the Middle East as they gathered at mosques to celebrate Eid Al Adha Islam’s annual “festival of sacrifice.”
“Millions should be praying today for Alan Henning a good and honorable man” said Muslim peace activist Shaukat Warraich speaking outside a mosque in the central English city of Birmingham.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry denounced what it called a “barbaric and savage act that fully contradicts Islamic religion tenets and the simplest human and ethical rules.”
Britain’s former army chief of staff Lord Dannatt called for British air power to be deployed in Syria as well as Iraq. “Dealing with half a problem is not going to solve the problem” Dannatt said.
The video mirrored other beheading videos shot by the ISIS group and ended with a militant threatening a 26-year-old American hostage Peter Kassig.
“Obama you have started your aerial bombardment of Sham (Syria) which keeps on striking our people so it is only right that we continue to strike the necks of your people” the masked militant in the video said.
National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden confirmed that ISIS militants had Kassig.
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