IN PICTURES: Relatives of Egyptian Christians killed by ISIS speak out

Al-AOUR, Minya Egypt - The residents of al-Aour, a dusty village in Minya governorate some 250km south of Cairo, are struggling to come to terms with their loss. Last week, 13 residents of the village, all of whom were Coptic Christians, were executed by Islamic State fighters in Libya.

When news of the executions broke (IS released a graphic video of the killing on the Internet) women and children in homes across the village, which is home to 2,500 Christians, could be heard screaming.

When I visited al-Aour last week, people were sad and dismayed at the killings. Others seemed proud, calling the fallen "martyrs" and "heroes".

"I am happy for my relatives. They had faith in God. They had faith in Jesus Christ. And that is what matters,” Bishop Feloubes Fawzy, 43, who lost his nephew and four of his cousins, told Middle East Eye.

CHRISTIANS - a word apparently not in the president’s vocabulary - are being massacred by MOSLEM TERRORISTS - a phrase also not in the president’s vocabulary.

The president’s only response is to increase the number of Moslems allowed into the US.

Reports indicate that Syrians are entering at a rate four times any previous number, while ISIS targets American shopping malls!

Praise the lord and pass the ammo

Is their something in their collective that prevents it?

What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

...certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life...

“keep and bear” BUMP!

#declareyourindependenceidiot

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