Christians massacred
New ISIS horror video
ISIS terrorists released their latest blooddrenched video on Sunday, showing the shootings and beheadings of two groups of Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
“You will not have safety even in your dreams until you accept Islam,” says a masked fighter with a pistol, who insists Christians must convert to Islam or pay a tax prescribed by the Koran.
“Our battle is a battle between faith and blasphemy, between truth and falsehood.”
Earlier in the video, a different speaker says Christians in Mosul, Iraq, were given the choice of embracing Islam or paying a tax.
“The Islamic State has offered the Christian community this many times and set a deadline for this, but the Christians never cooperated,” the speaker says.
So, victims were then rounded up to pay the ultimate price, being executed by gunfire in a desert and by beheadings on a beach, the video shows.
The sickening propaganda video was released almost exactly two months after 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were beheaded by extremists.
In the latest recorded executions, about 12 victims appear to have been lined up and shot to death in the desert. Another 16 appear to have been massacred on the beach.
It was not immediately clear who the captives were or when they were captured.
Ethiopia was unable to confirm its citizens were killed in the footage but condemned the “atrocious act,” a government official said.
The video shows the men at the coast wearing orange jumpsuits and being held at the neck by fighters in combat uniforms with balaclavas covering their faces.
It switches back and forth between the two mass executions.
The footage was released on sites and socialmedia accounts officially linked to ISIS.
Ethiopia long has drawn the anger of Islamic extremists over its military’s attacks on neighboring Somalia, whose population is almost entirely Muslim.
“To the nation of the cross, we are back again on the sands, where the companions of the prophet, peace be upon him, have stepped on before, telling you: Muslim blood that was shed under the hands of your religion is not cheap,” the narrator says.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria controls about a third of those countries and has bred offshoots in other countries.