Christian beheading victims are marched to the beach in Libya to be murdered by Islamist militants on Sunday. (Daily Mail photo)
Posted on 02/16/2015 10:42:22 AM PST by a fool in paradise
The 21 men beheaded on a Mediterranean beach in a video released by Islamist savages Sunday were killed because of their Coptic Christian faith, by men who proclaimed the reason for the murders before the whole world. And the White House won’t say the word.
Christian beheading victims are marched to the beach in Libya to be murdered by Islamist militants on Sunday. (Daily Mail photo)
“The United States condemns the despicable and cowardly murder of 21 Egyptian citizens in Libya by ISIL-affiliated terrorists,” a statement issued by the White House said.
“ISIL’s barbarity knows no bounds. It is unconstrained by faith, sect, or ethnicity. This wanton killing of innocents is just the most recent of the many vicious acts perpetrated by ISIL-affiliated terrorists against the people of the region, including the murders of dozens of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai, which only further galvanizes the international community to unite against ISIL. “
Typical of the Obama White House, the statement waffles on the one central fact of the matter. The men butchered on the beach weren’t just Egyptian “citizens.” And they weren’t just “innocents.”
They were Christians, murdered for their faith. And the murderers made no bones about it. The sick propaganda movie describes the victims as “people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian [Coptic] church.”
But the White House remains stubbornly, deliberately obtuse.
Fortunately, not every world capital is as constrained.
In England, Prime Minister David Cameron issued a statement saying he was “appalled by the murder of Christians in Libya, a simply barbaric and inhumane act.”
And in Rome, Pope Francis denounced the murders for what they were.
“Their only words were: ‘Jesus, help me!’ They were killed simply for the fact that they were Christians,” he said while addressing visiting clergy from the Church of Scotland, according to Reuters.
“The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out be heard. It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians!”
But for the Obama White House, Islamist terrorists – acting in the name of their faith – have nothing to do with Islam. And Christian victims – chosen for specifically for their faith – have nothing to do with Christianity.
Because President Obama can’t call them “Christians.”
The first name I heard this group call themselves was ISIS. I'm not giving them the benefit of a name change. It's ISIS until they are destroyed, which I hope is soon.
He's a Muslim.
Saw a photo this morning from a different angle. All the guys in orange jump suits, with their personal beheaders standing at their shoulders, were also sporting crosses on the front of said jump suits.
obungler sure has everyone fooled by not mentioning that the victims were Christian.
LOL...I am glad i gave you a chuckle!
:-)
You mean he even bothered to make a statement?
Did he then go straight to the golf course?
yes it does!! :)
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Look. The only reason Obama avoids using the word Christian or Jews as victims of ISIS is to soften the horror.
He is an apologist for the terrorists.
There is simply no other explanation that I can think of.
Christians and Jews are the fiends of his narrative. So it would spoil it all to let on how this little bitty varsity league ISIS was chopping their heads off when not burning them in cages.
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