Muslim
groups across Britain united on Saturday to join Prime Minister David Cameron
in condemning the beheading of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State
insurgents, with one leading cleric calling it a "despicable and offensive
act".
Prayers
for the 47-year-old taxi driver from Salford in northern England were said in
mosques throughout the country at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival.
Cameron
called Henning a gentle, compassionate man who had simply tried to help others.
Britain would do all it could to destroy his killers, he said.
Speaking
after meeting the heads of Britain's armed forces and intelligence agencies,
Cameron said in a broadcast message: "we will use all the assets we have
...to defeat this organization which is utterly ruthless, senseless and
barbaric in the way it treats people."
Henning
had been held captive in Syria for nine months before a video was posted on
YouTube on Friday showing him kneeling before a masked knife man against a
desert setting.
The
masked man spoke briefly with the same southern British accent as that of the
killer of previous hostages widely dubbed "Jihad John".
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