Interesting. ISIS kills Egyptians, and we saw this from Egypt’s president
(Reuters) Islamic State released a video on Sunday that appeared to show the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that his country would respond to the deaths as it saw fit.
Speaking on national television hours after the release of the video, Sisi said Cairo would choose the “necessary means and timing to avenge the criminal killings”.
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.
They were brutally beheaded.
(Fox News) Egypt’s military said Monday that it had launched airstrikes against ISIS-affiliated militants in Libya after a video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages surfaced Sunday.
A spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command announced the strikes on state radio Monday, marking the first time Cairo has publicly acknowledged taking military action in neighboring Libya, where extremist groups seen as a threat to both countries have taken root in recent years.
The statement said the warplanes targeted weapons caches and training camps before returning safely. It said the strikes were “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers.”
“Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them,” it said.
Huh.
https://twitter.com/hanktastic1776/status/564636797167079424
#ISIS burns Jordanian Pilot Air Strikes #ISIS Beheads Egyptian Christians Air Strikes #ISIS Beheads American Obama Plays Golf
— AppSame (@AppSame) February 16, 2015
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Has Moochelle come up with a hashtag yet?
I did not think that Egypt cared that much about Coptic Christians. It seems they have been persecuted by the Egyptian government on many occasions
So anyone in favor of opening our borders to christians being oppressed in muslim countries?