Psaki: “We are not going to put new labels” on victims.
Update to this story.
Via PJ Media:
State Department press secretary Jen Psaki stressed the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS wasn’t just an issue of religion, even when confronted with the pope’s words on the murders.
Pope Francis today said a Mass for “our 21 Coptic brothers, slaughtered for the sole reason that they were Christians.” […]
Asked about the pope’s reaction in a phone call today with reporters, and asked specifically “does the administration agree” the men were killed because of their faith, Psaki said she was “not going to put new labels or — or, certainly, argue with comments of the pope.”