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Libya: Islamic State abducts 86 Eritrean Christians

Jun 8, 2015 3:03 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic State LibyaThese Eritrean Christians must have provoked them, right? If only they had stayed quiet and not provoked these poor, oppressed Muslims, all would have been well. This is the lesson Western Christian leaders want us to learn: stay quiet and we’ll be okay. That’s what Muhammad Atta told the passengers on his doomed airplane on September 11, 2001, and it’s still good advice, isn’t it? Certainly it is the dominant view in the Church and the secular culture in the West today: submission and surrender in exchange for survival. We are living in the Age of Cowardice.

“ISIS abducts dozens of Eritrean Christians in Libya,” by Carey Lodge, Christian Today, June 8, 2015:

As Islamic State tightens its grip on Libya, 86 Eritrean Christians have reportedly been kidnapped in the country.

Human rights activist Meron Estefanos said that the Christians were migrants, the majority of them from city of Adi Keih, and were trying to make their way to Europe. Of the 86, a number were children and at least 12 were women. They were taken in a dawn raid on June 3 while travelling in a truck to Libyan capital, Tripoli.

According to Estefanos, who co-founded the International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, eyewitnesses said those travelling in the vehicle were divided by their religion, and six Muslims were released by the jihadists. “IS militants asked everyone who is Muslim or not and everybody started saying they are Muslims,” she told IBTimesUK. “But you have to know the Koran, and they didn’t.”
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Three Christians allegedly managed to escape, though it is not clear if their whereabouts are known. Estafanos told The Times: “We are trying to get them to a safe place, but there is no safe place in Libya.”

In an interview with the Libya Herald, Estafanos added that many migrants are now trying to avoid Libya en route to Europe because of ISIS’ growing influence. She also said that a video released by the jihadist group in April purporting to show the beheading of 28 Ethiopian Christians had been edited. A number of Eritrean Christians were also killed at the same time, she said.

It is now feared that Islamic State’s latest abductees are facing the same fate.

Speaking to Radio France Internationale in April, Eritrean Catholic Priest Father Mussie Zerai said that Ethiopians and Eritreans were a key target for militants in Libya because the majority of them are Christians.

“Christian people, especially from Eritrea and Ethiopia, are discriminated against in Libya because of the religion issue,” he explained. Speaking of the beheadings, Zerai added: “It’s not the first time, it’s not new — discrimination or bad treatment, all these things. But it’s the first time they are targeted in this way. They are killed by ISIS because they are Christian. This is the first time.”…

It won’t be the last.

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Libya, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Adi Keih, International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, Meron Estefanos


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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    According to Estefanos, who co-founded the International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, eyewitnesses said those travelling in the vehicle were divided by their religion, and six Muslims were released by the jihadists. “IS militants asked everyone who is Muslim or not and everybody started saying they are Muslims,” she told IBTimesUK. “But you have to know the Koran, and they didn’t.”

    All according to the quran, which teaches that non-muslims would try to pass as muslims for fear of their lives, having no chance to run away:

    quran 9:56-7

    And they swear by Allah that they are from among you while they are not from among you; but they are a people who are afraid.

    If they could find a refuge or some caves or any place to enter [and hide], they would turn to it while they run heedlessly.

    Isn’t the “religion of peace” wonderful?

    • mortimer says

      Jun 8, 2015 at 6:50 pm

      Thanks. A very appropriate verse…so callous and merciless.

  2. somehistory says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    It should be put in the faces of those who criticize anyone for *provoking* a muslim that just being alive and not being muslim is enough to *merit* death, but esp if one is a Christian who is a provocation just by being alive.
    Every time Mr. Spencer and Ms. Geller are criticized for provoking muslims to violence, they should point out accounts such as this…quote those who are trying to help Christians leave the danger areas and see it first hand…the faith of Christians…even those who are afraid…is a *provocation.*
    Those who criticize won’t listen….but they won’t be able later to say they didn’t have a chance to hear.

  3. Lesley says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    We all know that Islam is a religion of peace… so I guess I should worry that these poor captured Eritrean Christians will lose their lives (and their heads) because of climate change -?-

    /sarc off/

    • Angemon says

      Jun 8, 2015 at 8:34 pm

  4. mortimer says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    Christians: the most persecuted group in the world.

  5. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 8, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    The competing elected political groupings in Libya are in disgrace for not brokering a power sharing deal to fight ISIS with a united front. They share a similar shame as the Russian and U.S. diplomatic outfits in Syria where ISIS is experiencing the luxury of facing off against a fractured and competing foe. Anyone who is in a position to give these blockheads a talking to has my blessing.

  6. boakai ngombu says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    there’s nothing great about the Koran. its murderous teachings kill the souls of those for whom Jesus died.

    these folk wish to stop the thunderous praises given the Living God for His grace and salvation through faith in the Savior and Lord, Jesus. and they force people to subjugation under the SHARIA – an enslavement tool – manufactured by humans, supposedly because the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) says so in the Koran.

    this devious compilation of the rantings of Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) brings death, does not build up and cannot assure salvation for anyone.

    what a waste, this “poetry” is.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 11:53 pm

      To boakai ngombu- Thank you for your inspiring post of 3:44 pm. Well stated.

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