A screencap from the video. Yahoo/Reuters.
ISIS has released a video showing the beheading and shooting of 30 Ethiopian Christians. Yahoo/Reuters. The victims, called "crusaders" by ISIS, were executed in Libya. Half of the men were killed via beheading on a beach while the other half were shot in the head in a different location. The Ethiopian government condemned the attack and offered to bring back any Ethiopians from Libya. This is not the first attack ISIS has conducted in Libya. Earlier this year they executed 21 Egyptian Christians and attacked a hotel. The ISIS fighters in the video claimed that no Christian is safe unless they convert to Islam or pay a religious tax to ISIS.
My Comment:
Looks like ISIS is back to committing atrocities again. In the chaos that is post-Gaddafi Libya, they have found an opening to attack Christians. I've talked before how Christians still face discrimination and violence in the Middle East and Africa and this latest attack just proves the point further. Fortunately it seems as though the old "Christians can't be discriminated against" meme has died out, at least in the public consciousness. I'm sure there are still some people in the Social Justice crowd will still try to do some mental gymnastics to say that it is still impossible to discriminate against Christians because they "have all the power" but I doubt that anyone is still listening to them now.
And it isn't like Libya is the only place this is happening. ISIS is attacking Christians and other religious minorities wherever they can find them. Everyone knows about their attacks on the Yazidis in Iraq, but they also attacked Christians, Druze and Shia Muslims. And ISIS is far from the only group doing this. Al-Qaeda is as well and even some governments are responsible for attacks on Christians.
As for ISIS it is disturbing how fast they were able to gain a presence in Libya. I don't think they are a major force there but they have used the chaos as an opportunity to gain a toehold. They have taken some territory and committed some very brutal atrocities. And nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
It's also becoming clear that there are parts of the world that it is just not safe to go because of radical Islam. Why anyone would want to go to war torn Libya is beyond me but I am guessing people think the money they can get working there is worth the risk. The article didn't say why these Ethiopians were in Libya in the first place, but my guess is that they were working to rebuild they country. That is, to say the least, a very bad idea, even if the pay is good. It's just not worth the risk of being attacked by radical Muslims.
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