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On 15 February, a video was released showing their murder by beheading. This was not the first time that Coptic Egyptians in Libya had been the subject of abuse for political reasons, a pattern that goes back to the 1950s. [6] In 2014, a militia group in eastern Libya declared its affiliation with IS and then took over parts of Derna in late 2014.
The persecution of Copts and discrimination against Coptic Orthodox Christians are historic and widespread issues in Egypt. Their treatment is indicative of the poor status of Christians in the Middle East more widely, despite the fact that the religion is native to the Middle East, and that Christianity in Egypt dates back to the Roman era . [ 1 ]
On February 12, 2015, the ISIL released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Copts migrant workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill to "avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church". [27]
The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out on the eve of 7 January 2010, in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi.The massacre occurred at the hands of Muslim gunmen in front of the Nag Hammadi cathedral, as Coptic Christians were leaving the church after celebrating the midnight Christmas Divine Liturgy.
The terrorists said he would be dead in one day if the bombings did not end. Titled "A Message in Blood for the French Government," the latest in a series of westerner beheading videos from Middle ...
The Foley video cut out from his beheading just as the knife touched his throat to show only his head sitting on top of his lifeless body, Sotloff's execution was much more graphically depicted.
The mujahedeen then blames Obama for his death and threatens to behead another journalist if the American military does not stop bombing missions. Foley's head and face are shaved of any hair, and ...
On September 24, they carried through on threats to behead him after a 24-hour deadline passed. [30] The beheading was captured in a video titled "A Message of Blood for French Government." [31] [32] Alan Henning (August 15, 1967 – c. October 3, 2014) was a British humanitarian aid worker. [33] Henning was the fourth Western hostage killed by ...