ISIS Kills More Coptic Christians in Libya
Posted on Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 10:33:04 PM EST
Tags: ISIS, Libya (all tags)
In a fairly confusing 29 minute video (I'm not providing the link), ISIS militants in Libya executed several Ethiopian Coptic Christians. Here's Reuter's article on the killings.
Why is it confusing? There appear to be two sets of killings, one at a beach and one in an un-scenic field. The beach killings are similar to those a few months ago of Egyptian Coptic Christians. At first I thought it was a flashback, but the killers are wearing different clothes, and the victims are different. There's no indication of when the men in the field or the second beach group were killed.
The White House has issued this statement.
The leader in this video is the same American sounding English speaker in the Egyptian Coptic video. [More...]
He gives a little talk, explaining that Christians who convert and pay a tax won't face any harm from him. But to not accept Allah is unacceptable. Apparently, these aren't the only seized Ethiopian Christians, just the ones who wouldn't convert and pay. [More...]
The video covers a lot of topics. There's some English translation. It begins with ISIS's version of Christian history. There's a religious advisor in it who appears to be Anas Al-Nashwan, who used to be with al Qaida in Afghanistan.
The killing scenes at the end are very brutal. The group in the field are all shot simultaneously. Then it switches to the beach and those victims are beheaded. It's the most graphic closeup of beheadings I've seen yet. Truly horrible.
I think the point they are making is that they are not out to kill, but to convert. But anyone who resists conversion will be killed.
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