Obama Says Kassig Beheading an 'Act of Pure Evil'
The U.S. aid worker is the sixth foreign hostage to be executed by Islamic State militants.
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Islamic State extremists beheaded an American aid worker in “an act of pure evil,” President Barack Obama said in a statement yesterday following release of a video from the militant Sunni group.
The video shows the severed head of Peter Kassig, who converted to Islam and took the name Abdul Rahman, Obama confirmed in his statement, issued from Air Force One as he returned from a trip to Asia. Actions such as beheadings “represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith which Abdul Rahman adopted as his own.”