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Egyptian Church confirms 21 killed in Libya after Islamic State issues video
Yahoo ^ | February 15, 2015

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).


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1 posted on 02/15/2015 2:43:51 PM PST by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

Prayers for these new martyrs. Catholic ping!


2 posted on 02/15/2015 2:44:27 PM PST by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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“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.


3 posted on 02/15/2015 2:46:33 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: NYer

And where is the U.N. and Amnesty International? Oh right, they’re too busy bashing Israel to help here.


4 posted on 02/15/2015 2:48:31 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: chajin

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.


5 posted on 02/15/2015 2:56:20 PM PST by WVNan
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"Safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for."

Gee...I wonder when they picked up on the 'crusaders' term.

/S

6 posted on 02/15/2015 2:58:07 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: EinNYC

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?


7 posted on 02/15/2015 2:58:11 PM PST by 353FMG
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8 posted on 02/15/2015 3:02:17 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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9 posted on 02/15/2015 3:02:57 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: chajin

Yes! I hope to be found worthy to stand with them.


10 posted on 02/15/2015 3:03:40 PM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: NYer

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?


11 posted on 02/15/2015 3:04:56 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends


THIS GRAPHIC IS HORRID, BUT TRUE. SCROLL BY IF YOU'RE EASILY UPSET.




These subhumans need to be blown off the map.

12 posted on 02/15/2015 3:08:51 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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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!


13 posted on 02/15/2015 3:08:54 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: faithhopecharity
...guess where this is leading?

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.

14 posted on 02/15/2015 3:12:57 PM PST by Gritty (Islam is not a peaceful religion. It never has been. It never will be .- Franklin Graham)
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Expecting Barry’s response in 3....2...1...never


15 posted on 02/15/2015 3:13:16 PM PST by machogirl
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To: Gritty

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.


16 posted on 02/15/2015 3:17:25 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Gritty

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...


17 posted on 02/15/2015 3:19:43 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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Incredibly, some nutcases on FR have stated that support for Middle East Christians “needs to go”.


18 posted on 02/15/2015 3:27:13 PM PST by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: Gritty

“...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.


19 posted on 02/15/2015 3:28:24 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: NYer

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.


20 posted on 02/15/2015 3:36:59 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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