Kerry: ‘The Real Face of Islam is a Peaceful Religion’ (+video)

Photo Credit: AP / Lucas Jackson

Photo Credit: AP / Lucas Jackson

By Brittany M. Hughes.

One day after the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) released a video showing the brutal beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff–the second American journalist ISIS has decapitated on video–Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech saying that Islam is a “peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings,” and that ISIS is not “the real face of Islam.”

“I want to take advantage of this podium and of this moment to underscore as powerfully as I know how, that the face of Islam is not the butchers who killed Steven Sotloff. That’s ISIL,” Kerry said at a ceremony honoring Shaarik Zafar, who was just appointed as the State Department’s special representative to Muslim communities.

“The face of Islam is not the nihilists who know only how to destroy, not to build,” he said. “It’s not masked cowards whose actions are an ugly insult to the peaceful religion that they violate every single day with their barbarity and whose fundamental principles they insult with their actions.”

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Photo Credit: Fox News

Does Obama have the guts to stop tyrants and Islamist terrorists?

By Michael Goodwin.

A friend who somehow remains a supporter of Barack Obama believes the president soon will announce major pushbacks against Russia and the Islamic State.

“I think he’s going to surprise people with how strong he is,” the friend says.

Alert the media. After years of delay and denial, a strong pushback would come as a surprise not just to Americans, but to our allies and adversaries around the world.

It was probably no coincidence that North Korea paraded three Americans it is holding before TV cameras. Who knows what their fate will be?

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