Muslims join hunt to identity Foley killer

British Muslim leaders urged people to contact police if they knew the man with an English accent who appeared in a video showing the beheading of a US journalist.

The Muslim Council of Britain, the largest Muslim umbrella group in the country, condemned the “abhorrent murder” of James Foley in Syria and called for united action by Muslims to stop the “poison of extremism” infiltrating their communities.

“We condemn unreservedly [the Islamic States’] psychopathic violence, whether it is on minorities, on civilians, or on fellow Muslims,” the council said in a statement.