Glenn Beck, the owner and operator of media website TheBlaze.com, spoke out in support of FOX News' decision to make available in its website the full video of the execution of Jordanian fighter pilot Lt. Mouath Al-Kaseasbeh.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria released on Tuesday a 22-minute video that showed the brutal execution of a man believed to be Lt. Al-Kaseasbeh.
While other media outlets decided not to upload the video to their websites, FOX News chose to release through its website the full 22-minute video without censoring the final five minutes that showed the gruesome burning of the Jordanian pilot. While it did not air the full footage in the Fox News Channel, FOX nevertheless broadcasted a photograph of Al-Kaseasbeh in flames on "Special Report by Bret Baier."
FOX's decision received intense criticism from public personalities, The Guardian reported. Critics claimed that FOX was promoting ISIS propaganda, as Twitter accounts related to the ISIS are using FOX's link to promote the video.
Officials from FOX News defended the decision, stating that they only want their readers to "see for themselves the barbarity of ISIS."
Beck apparently agrees with FOX News.
"I believe it is important for the world to see them," Beck's statement at The Blaze said. Beck also said that society has been "lured into a poppy field" and that people are "fast asleep as grave danger quickly approaches."
"It is time to wake up. This is the enemy of all mankind," Beck's statement urged.
He called on people of all faiths to open their eyes to the terror of the ISIS.
"Jews, gentiles, straight, gay, black, white, western, eastern, atheist, Christian or Muslim — It is time you recognise what you are up against, look it square in the eye and call it by its name: evil and a plague on mankind," Beck concluded.
