Alan Henning video appeal to IS by [two high-profile UK] imams

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

Two high-profile imams in the UK have made a direct appeal to Islamic State to free British hostage Alan Henning.

In a YouTube video, Shakeel Begg and Haitham al-Haddad said there was no justification for holding the 47-year-old, who was captured in Syria.

Mr Henning, a taxi driver from Eccles in Salford, was delivering aid when he was seized last December.

Holding him captive is "totally haram (forbidden)" under Islamic law, the clerics said.

The clerics say the video is aimed at IS militants in Iraq and Syria and its supporters in the UK.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29289304

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Video posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017216285

[karynnj]

1. It would be good if this could work to free this man, who by any definition,

was there to help people. (This is not to say that the journalists held do not similarly deserve release - they do. ) Best wishes that appeal succeeds and spares this man and his family from what they are now going through and the worse things they fear.

[Lenomsky]

2. +1

[cosmicone]

3. This is very good and has been sorely needed

We need more Muslim religious leaders to speak out like this against the fanatic loons. I applaud the two imams who have raised their voice courageously despite the grave danger they face.

Coexistence should be the word for all religious fanatics for the future and all should give up the stupid pipe-dreams of an Islamic or a Mormon or Catholic or a Baptist world. We can all keep our faith privately without destroying the ones who don't follow it.

[Amonester]

5. I agree to all these statements and I hope the clerics will continue to post more videos like it.

But the criminals out there have committed numerous crimes already, and they should be held to pay for them (somehow), even if it would be difficult to sort out who did or did not commit them (that would be perhaps impossible to discern).