On Feb. 15, 2015 in Libya, the Islamic State released a video depicting 21 Christians being decapitated. While sitting atop and holding their tied victims’ bodies down, Islamic State members shoved their fingers in the Christians’ eye sockets, craned their heads back, and sliced away at their throats with knives. (WARNING: Graphic Images)
Raymond Ibrahim Some of the Christians could be seen mouthing, “Oh, Lord Jesus Christ,” in the seconds before having their heads carved off. To commemorate their martyrdom, Coptic Solidarity issued a press release summarizing what happened:
Two important points arise when reflecting on these 21 martyrs: Muslims everywhere are still persecuting and slaughtering Christians for their faith, and the Western establishment is doing everything in its power—which is considerable—to conceal this fact.
On the first point, consider this: in July 2011, I began to compile a monthly “Muslim Persecution of Christians” report (published by the Gatestone Institute). Every one of these now 137 reports contain one or two dozen accounts of the bombing, burning or banning of churches; the rape and forced conversion of Christian women; murderous attacks on and long prison sentences for so-called apostates and blasphemers; generic but institutionalized discrimination and exploitation; and, of course, the outright slaughter of Christians.
Here, for example, is a very short sampling of the most recent (and currently unpublished) report, covering January, 2023:
- Democratic Republic of Congo: On Sunday, Jan. 15, Muslims bombed a Pentecostal church during a baptism: at least 14 Christians were blown to pieces and 63 wounded.
- Nigeria: During various attacks, Muslims slaughtered approximately 60 Christians, raided churches, and kidnapped women and children (based on several January reports: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here).
- Uganda: On Jan. 2, a group of Muslims slaughtered a Christian man, after 13 Muslims converted to Christianity following a theological debate in which he had participated. (In December, Muslims sprayed a Christian pastor’s face with acid, causing him to lose most of his vision, and, in a separate incident, forced poison down the throats of another pastor and a Christian couple, recent converts from Islam.)
- Spain: On Jan. 25, a Muslim migrant screaming “Allahu akbar” stabbed a Christian sacristan to death and seriously wounded a priest.
- Burkina Faso: On Jan. 2, gunmen assassinated a Catholic priest in the Muslim majority nation.
- Pakistan: On Jan. 11, Muslims murdered a poor, struggling Christian farmer, for having the temerity to confront them about trespassing on his farm and stealing his crops.
- Sudan: On Jan. 23, Muslims shot dead Ibrahim Kandr, a Sudanese-American pastor and four other Christians.
- Israel: A group of Palestinian “youth” hurled stones at two churches in Jaffa, and beat and pepper sprayed the elderly Coptic priest of one of the churches.
These are just some of the accounts to arise in one month, January 2023.
More than a decade’s worth of such reports, totaling for between one and two thousand such incidents, gives the lie to the widespread notion that it is only professional “terrorists” of the Islamic State’s ilk that persecute Christians. To be sure, what “ISIS” put Christians and other religious minorities through was horrific; but before and after ISIS, Christians experienced and continue to experience less “spectacular” forms of persecution at the hands of “everyday” Muslims, including Muslim individuals, mobs, clerics, and, of course, Muslim authorities at every level of state (police, local governors, judges, etc.).
Also in 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) slaughtered and beheaded 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
In the video, an ISIS terrorist affirms that they will continue killing Christians until “polytheism” is destroyed, that is, until the belief in the Trinity is destroyed.
A masked man wielding a gun says that Christians must convert to Islam or pay a special tax as prescribed by the Quran. The video then alternates between images of captives in the south who shot dead and others in the east to the beheading on a beach.
Which brings us back to the martyrdom of the 21—and the role of the malfeasant media. As opposed to most of the stories listed above, and the dozens like them that surface each and every month—all of which habitually receive scant if any reporting by the so-called mainstream media—the execution of the 21 martyrs, due to its “spectacular” and theatrical nature, received ample coverage by the alternate media. Whenever that happens, the mainstream media has no choice but also to carry the story, lest their disregard become tooobvious.
But they did so by dismissing the slaughter of the 21 as being perpetrated by “terrorists” who have “nothing to do with Islam,” an otherwise “peaceful religion” which they had hijacked for their own nefarious agenda.
Back in 2019, the Islamic State affiliate (ISWAP) in Nigeria filmed and posted online the beheadings of 11 Christians in their latest “Message To Christians All Over The World.”
NY Post The Islamic State has released a video which purportedly shows the brutal execution of 11 blindfolded Christians in Nigeria, the day after Christmas, in revenge for the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and IS spokesman Abdul-Hasan al-Muhajir, accordign to Ahmad Salkida – a journalist who was first sent the video.
The barbaric act that was clearly timed to coincide with Christmas, according to reports.
“This is a message to Christians all over the world,” a masked man says in the one-minute video posted online late Thursday by the terror group’s Amaq news agency. No details were given about the victims, but ISIS said they were “captured in the past weeks” in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, according to the BBC. One captive was shot dead while the other 10 were beheaded.
Below is the censored Twitter video which shows the lead-up to the beheadings but not the actual beheadings.
11 Nigerian male Christians including soldiers, Aid workers & civilians abducted by Islamic State Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiyah #ISWAP were on Christmas day Beheaded excluding one who was shot execution style.
N.B (Edited Video only posted for research, Intel purposes) pic.twitter.com/UU8i9n7lxW
— Edward (@DonKlericuzio) December 26, 2019
Moreover, and to underscore the “priorities” of the media, they spent six times more coverage obsessing over the killing of a gorilla.
Got that? Carving off the heads of 21 Christians because they refused to recant their faith is six times less “newsworthy” for the media and establishment than the inadvertent killing of an animal (one not even on the endangered species list).
This may also explain why those who did hear about the slain 21 never heard about what happened two months later in Libya: the Islamic State released another video of their members butchering 30 more Christians, Ethiopians.
And who could forget the American and British aid workers who were savagely beheaded by ISIS in Syria:
But the mainstream media are not merely guilty of ignoring the widespread specter of Muslims persecuting Christians. They sometimes actually cover for it. For example, before the Feb. 15, 2015 video of the 21 martyrs appeared, the BBC had falsely reported that the majority of those now slaughtered Copts were “released.”
Same with social media. Facebook regularly shadow bans my articles on Muslims persecuting Christians and once openly banned me for writing about—you guessed it—the 21.
Thomas Richard says
….and they loved not their lives unto the death….” Revelation 12:11.
Uncle Adolf says
Thank you for reporting on this and for keeping all the graphic details. This site isn’t sadism like Bestgore, but the brutality needs to be seen so that hopefully our people of the West wake up and start voting, mobilizing, and acting against this invasion. These savages don’t belong in civilized nations.
BareNakedIslam says
Is Bestgore still around? I used to get Muslim beheadings videos from there once in awhile.
Ramez Fekry says
To quote Egyptian El-Azhar’s and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Imams and Sheikhs, “We are living in the final couple of decades of the Third and Global Wave of Jihad El-Talab, let’s all play our part to rid the world 🌎 of shirk, especially ‘cross worshipping’ shirk. Rest assured, the bloodied heart of the ‘cross worshipping’ corpse of a religion will soon beat for the last time!”
F*ck all Moslems, especially El-Sissy!
Ricky says
For all we know this could have been a CIA operation we never know who the good or bad guys are anymore
BareNakedIslam says
No, it wasn’t. Muslims excel at this stuff. At one point I had hundreds of Muslim beheading videos.
Aaaa says
I never knew that 😞 what a cruel fate for those innocent people
BareNakedIslam says
Not surprised, these are the kinds of stories that quickly get scrubbed from the internet. I had a lot of videos of the beheadings but they were scrubbed.too. Glad I decided to save the still shots.