Sunday, February 15, 2015

#RealIslam: Islamic State jihadists release video showing beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya

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."

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According to the Obama, this is just a random act of violence committed by random folks against other random folks, with no religious affiliation whatsoever.

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Among other things.