International reporter admits to making up President Putin's statement

Russian reporter Remi Maalouf, who posted President Putin's shocking quote "Forgiving terrorists is God's job, sending them to God is my job" has apologized and admitted that it was not the Russian president's quote.

The entire online community is currently buzzing and reeling over an extremely harsh statement said to be made by Russian President Vladimir Putin when talking about IS terrorism and the Syrian war: "Forgiving terrorists is God's job, sending them to God is my job."

The statement, which is said to be the Kremlin leader's determination, spread like wildfire and created the "Putin phenomenon" on all popular social networks. However, no one has yet verified whether this statement was his or not, only that people continuously cite the source from the Twitter of a Russian female reporter named Remi Maalouf.

She is currently a reporter for the prestigious RT (Russian Today) news agency, which is published globally in three languages: English, Arabic and Spanish.

Mr. Putin's statement was quoted from the Twitter of a Russian female reporter.

After Remi Maalouf's tweet was widely circulated on Twitter, major news agencies and newspapers such as Fox News and The Straits Times also competed to report on this shocking statement by the Russian leader.

Major media outlets also rushed to report the news.

After posting the shocking statement above, Remi's account was flooded with questions from people around the world about its origin, where Putin said it, when, the specific time... However, not long ago, Remi posted another tweet apologizing for her foolishness in making up the above statement, affecting the media around the world.

"Social media is dangerous! The Putin quote was taken from a Facebook post by me, which was a mistake. I apologize."

This incident is similar to the 2002 case of US General Norman Schwartzkopf. At that time, people were abuzz about a statement that was "similar" to the current controversial statement of Mr. Schwartzkopf when speaking about the historic September 11 event: "I believe that forgiving them is God's job, our job is to arrange that meeting."

Many young men and women, after hearing this saying, suddenly became crazy admirers of General Schwartzkopf. However, no one can be sure whether the American general really said this or it is just a military legend. All we know is that this saying has gone down in history, and even a movie once used this as a classic line.

According to Young Knowledge