Aqsa Mahmood

A car drives near a flag belonging to Islamic State militants at the end of a bridge in southern Kirkuk.

Muslim leaders in Scotland say ISIS has ‘no right to call itself Islamic’

September 15, 2014Conflict

Over the weekend, the militant group ISIS posted a video showing another beheading. This time, it was of a Scottish aid worker. Muslim leaders in Scotland have banded together to reject the group’s claim to Islam. Terrorism, they say, twists their religion’s teachings.

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