Yahoo Canada News - "HORRIBLE PHOTOS reveal ISIS marched 21 Coptic Christians to beach, beheaded them all" Image via Twitter/ @trscoop / The Right Scoop
Posted on 02/15/2015 2:43:50 PM PST by NYer
Yahoo Canada News - "HORRIBLE PHOTOS reveal ISIS marched 21 Coptic Christians to beach, beheaded them all" Image via Twitter/ @trscoop / The Right Scoop
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians kidnapped in Libya, violence likely to deepen Cairo's concerns over security threats from militants thriving in the neighboring country's chaos.
Egypt's state news agency MENA quoted the spokesman for the Coptic Church as confirming that 21 Egyptian Christians believed to be held by Islamic State were dead.
In the video, militants in black marched the captives, dressed in orange jump suits, to a beach the group said was near Tripoli. They were forced down onto their knees, then beheaded.
The video appeared on the Twitter feed of a website that supports Islamic State, which has seized parts of Iraq and Syria and has also beheaded Western hostages.
A caption on the five-minute video read: "The people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian church."
Thousands of Egyptians have traveled to Libya in search of jobs since an uprising at home in 2011, despite advice from their government not to go to a country sliding into lawlessness.
Before the killings, one of the militants stood with a knife in his hand and said: "Safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for."
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called a seven-day mourning period and an urgent meeting of Egypt's top military commanders, state television reported.
The Coptic Church said it was confident the Cairo government would seek justice. Al Azhar, the center of Islamic learning in Egypt, said no religion would accept such "barbaric" acts.
The families of the kidnapped workers had urged Cairo to help secure their release. In the southerly Minya Governorate, relatives screamed and fainted upon hearing news of the deaths.
CONCERNS ABOUT LIBYA
Sisi has repeatedly expressed concerns about militants based in Libya who are seeking to topple his government.
Those militants have made contact with Sinai Province, a group operating from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that has changed its name from Ansar Beyt al-Maqdis and pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
The group has killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police since the army toppled Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
With Libya caught in a chaotic power struggle between two rival factions operating their own governments, Western officials fear Islamist militants are taking advantage of the turmoil to strengthen their presence.
A number of Islamist militant groups have been active since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 left Libya without a strong central government. A few have declared ties to the radical Islamic State and claimed high-profile attacks over recent weeks in what appears to be an intensifying campaign.
Last month, Islamic State claimed responsibility when at least two gunmen stormed into the five-star Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, killing nine people, including an American security contractor and a Frenchman.
Fears that the crisis in neighboring Libya could spill across the border have prompted Egypt to upgrade its military hardware. French President Francois Hollande has said Egypt will order 24 Rafale fighter jets, a naval frigate and related military equipment in a deal to be signed in Cairo on Monday worth more than 5 billion euros ($5.7 billion).
Prayers for these new martyrs. Catholic ping!
“I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:4)
May we be counted worthy to stand with them.
And where is the U.N. and Amnesty International? Oh right, they’re too busy bashing Israel to help here.
I used to wonder about “those who did not receive the mark” but one day I realized that Muslims wear the headband with the “an shala” written on them. I believe that the beast is Islamism. We were never thinking like middle Easterners and interpret things with our Western Cultural understanding. It seems lately that things are becoming more focused.
Gee...I wonder when they picked up on the 'crusaders' term.
/S
U.N. and Amnesty International have become muzzie and anti-Christian tools that we, the US, still contribute to.
Without our contribution, they could not exist i.e. we are perpetuating this evil.
Will the next prez, even if he were a Pubbie, change all that?
Yes! I hope to be found worthy to stand with them.
meanwhile, our ruling elite has sold us out
and
continues to import millions of people from IslamoNazi lands
into
Europe and USA
guess where this is leading?
It’s good to see President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi doing this. AND ... this guy is the one that Obama wants to replace with the Muslim Brotherhood!
It is not a guess but a certainty. Anywhere the devotees of Mohammed and the Koran have congregated has always ended in destruction, pain, and death for those around them, including other Muslims but especially the kafir.
We'd better get ready for it because we are going to get our full measure of this Demonic madness here at home before we eradicate it on our shores - if we can rise to the occasion.
Expecting Barry’s response in 3....2...1...never
Egypt needs to send in their armored brigades and air force to set things to right. Lets see the IS fight real soldiers not civilians and woman. Let Egypt bring order (with a littel help from her new Russian Friends). Maybe France could lend in some help as well. Obama will do nothing but try to block any actions.
and we may not rise to the occasion of defending ourselves
they’ve pretty much already taken hold in “our” government
and
you may note that even the most outrageous civil disorder or rioting meets with little or no police/prosecutorial/judicial response in many areas (so there’s no cost for anyone who wants to participate in riots, loot and steal and robbing people at will, etc.)
we will see. maybe Americans may still wake up...
Incredibly, some nutcases on FR have stated that support for Middle East Christians “needs to go”.
“...We’d better get ready ...”
We have already opened the gates allowing these people into the U.S., and Obama is parlaying that with bringing in 75,000 “refugees” from Syria. The WH is guarantying bloodshed on main street America - and John-Q-Public stands silent like sheep before the slaughter.
New headline.
Subhuman savages murder 21 Christians.
There is no hope for the media. They have chosen to favor subhuman savages and to abandon normal people.
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