Posted on 04/21/2021 7:20:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
Nabil Habashi Khadim, 62, was an esteemed merchant and philanthropist. He was kidnapped on 8 November last and killed with a Kalashnikov shot to the head. His murder was posted online by the jihadist movement who accused him of having contributed to the construction of the only Christian place of worship in Bir Al-Abd,
Cairo (AsiaNews) - The Islamic State (IS, formerly Isis) has executed an Egyptian Orthodox Coptic Christian, killing him with a bullet to the head in an execution filmed and posted online yesterday on the jihadist group social channels and shared by numerous users and platforms.
The victim, already considered a "new martyr" by the country's Orthodox, is an esteemed intellectual and businessman: 62 year-old Nabil Habashi Khadim who was kidnapped on November 8 in the city of Bir Al-Abd, in northern Sinai. In the video he is seen being shot in the head with a Kalashnikov while kneeling on the ground.
Local sources report that the man had contributed to the construction of the only Christian place of worship in the city, the church of the Madonna dell’Anba Karras (Our Lady). This is also one of the reasons that led the jihadist commando to kidnap him.
In the video, one of the executioners belonging to the local Daesh cell (Arabic acronym for IS) explicitly accuses the man of having contributed, even financially, to the construction of the church just before pulling the trigger and executing him. The jihadist group also accuses the Church of "collaboration" with the Egyptian army, police and secret services.
Still others link the timing of the killing to the upcoming Easter holidays, which fall on May 2 for the Coptic Orthodox.
Witnesses say that Nabil Habashi Khadim, the latest in a "long line of North Sinai martyrs" was an esteemed......
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Savages. We got ours they got theirs.
Wait... there is ISIS terrorists 30 miles as the crow flies from the Suez Canal, but they are doing petty thug **** like executing old men in cold blood?
The “Big Picture ****” seems to have died with Osama Bin Ladin.
They are back to Stone Agers be Stone Agin’.
“Savages. We got ours they got theirs.”
Biden would say, “Well, we have our culture, they have theirs”. He made a similar statement about the massacre of Ulghurs by the Chinese.
“executing old men in cold blood?”
62 is an old man?
Situational ethics on bidets part. The pols are great for it.
The retirement age in Egypt is 61, so they think 62 is an old man.
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