Posted on 04/09/2017 6:56:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The ISIS terror group has claimed responsibility for two separate Palm Sunday bombing attacks at Coptic Christian churches in Egypt that have killed 37 people and injured more than 100.
The first blast happened at St. George church in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, where at least 26 people were killed and 71 others wounded, officials said.
Television footage showed the inside of the church, where a large number of people gathered around what appeared to be lifeless, bloody bodies covered with papers.
A second explosion was later reported at St. Mark's Cathedral in the coastal city of Alexandria, leaving at least 11 dead, and 35 injured. The attack came just after Pope Tawadros II -- leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria -- finished services, but aides told local media that he was unharmed.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks via its Aamaq media agency, after the group recently released a video vowing to step up attacks against Christians, who the group describes as "infidels" empowering the West against Muslims.
'CHRISTIANS ARE OUR FAVORITE PREY,' ISIS SAYS
The blasts came at the start of Holy Week leading up to Easter, and just weeks before Pope Francis is due to visit Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.
"Either a bomb was planted or someone blew himself up," provincial governor Ahmad Deif told the state-run Nile TV channel, Sky News reported.
The attack in Tanta was the latest in a series of assaults on Egypt's Christian minority, which makes up around 10 percent of the population and has been repeatedly targeted by Islamic extremists.
Grand Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Egypt's Al-Azhar — the leading center of learning in Sunni Islam — condemned the attacks, calling them a "despicable terrorist bombing that targeted the lives of innocents."
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Just another point they have in common with America's Left.
The religion of blow them to pieces
Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated
Somebody teach these people to write.
It sounds like the church killed 37.
And CAIR and all the other Muslim apologists will be on TV saying “we are afraid of Islamophobia....not all Muslims are bad.....we decry this violence that we support with our money and so on....”
‘CHRISTIANS ARE OUR FAVORITE PREY,’ ISIS SAYS
Just another point they have in common with America’s Left.
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And neocons. And Globalism generally. They all drink from the same cup.
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