By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--February 17, 2015
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"The disputed fate of the 21 Coptic Christians abducted in Sirte, Libya is now clear and visible for all to see on video: while holding them down, Islamic State members shove their fingers in the Christians' eyes, crane their heads back, and slice away at their throats with knives--all in the name of Allah and Islam, all as the slaughtered call out on the "Lord Jesus Christ." "Earlier, the BBC had falsely reported that 13 of these now slaughtered Copts were "released." (Such downplaying of Muslim persecution of Christians is, of course, standard for the BBC.) "In the video, the lead executioner waves his dagger at the camera while boasting of the Islamic State's savagery: "Oh people, recently you have seen us on the hills of as-Sham and Dabiq's plain [Syrian regions], chopping off the heads that have been carrying the cross for a long time. And today, we are on the south of Rome, on the land of Islam, Libya, sending another message." "He adds: "We will fight you until Christ descends, breaks the cross and kills the pig" (all eschatological actions ascribed to the Muslim "Christ," Isa). "As opposed to the Obama administration's reactions to Islamic State beheadings of Americans and others--namely, strong assertions that such actions are not Islamic--Egyptian President Sisi responded to the slaughter of Egyptian citizens by immediately sending fighter jets to bomb Islamic State targets in Libya. "What did these Coptic Christians--or, as the Islamic State refers to them, "The Humiliated Followers of the Coptic Church"--do to deserve such treatment? According to Catholic Pope Francis, "They were killed simply for the fact that they were Christians. It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians!"Only one blogger, David Domet, of Vox Cantoris, who has contacts in Syria, including the Maspero Youth Union, listed the names of the 21 slaughtered. They are:
"It will comfort you to know that as they were being slaughtered they could be heard praying the Lords Prayer and shouting out "Ya Yassou'a" -- Oh Jesus!"The indisputable comfort in the last words on Earth of the 21 so brutally slaughtered should never be let to die. The last words they uttered should be picked up and kept alive by repetition of Christians worldwide. The victory against ISIS isn't that they turned the sea red, or that the message of cowards behind masks goes Hollywood viral over YouTube. The victory against ISIS isn't even in waiting in the false hope that deceitful world leaders will finally find the courage to identify Islamic terrorism by its own name. Victory against ISIS is in the words of the Lord's Prayer and in the words, : "Lord Jesus Christ", "Ya Yassou'a!" "Oh Jesus!" True words that mattered centuries ago and still matter more than ever today.
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