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In the final part of the video (4'15" to 5'01" of the video), the speaker declares; "and we will conquer Rome, by Allah's permission, the promise of our Prophet, peace be upon him," pointing his knife toward the sea, while the captives' blood pooled into the Mediterranean coast. [8]
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 ]
The Copts viewed the Arab Muslim invasion and occupation of Egypt as a punishment from God against the Byzantines. Thus, for the Coptic bishop John of Nikiû who was contemporary of the Arab invasion of Egypt, the Muslims were sent by God to punish the rulers for their erroneous Chalcedonian doctrine, which ultimately cost the Roman Empire its ...
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 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 same century also saw the Copts become a religious minority. During the 14th and 15th centuries, Nubian Christianity was supplanted by Islam. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the larger body of ethnic Egyptian Christians began to call themselves Coptic Orthodox, to distinguish themselves from the Catholic Copts and from the Eastern Orthodox ...
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 ...