The children were traveling with their parents to pray at an ancient monastery in central Egypt. Many suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
Islamic prayer was forced upon these innocents before their massacre; jihadis often pray and frequently shout “Allahu akbar” as they inflict atrocities upon infidels; nonetheless, deceptive arguments are still made purporting to separate jihadists from their religion.
As Jihad Watch reported earlier:
Ramadan begins today. It is the month of jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently. And so because murdering Infidels who are considered to be at war with Allah is a pious act, there is generally more bloodshed during Ramadan than during the rest of the year.
Directly following headline news of jihadist massacres, Islamic supremacists and their far-left allies often express sympathy, but it seldom takes long for them to resume accusing truth-tellers of victimizing Muslims and perpetuating the “Islamophobia” narrative.
“Coptic Christian attack: 10 of the 29 dead ID’d as children heading to monastery to pray”, Fox News, May 27, 2017:
Ten of the 29 victims killed in Friday’s ambush attack on a bus transporting Christians to a monastery south of Cairo were identified as children, a top bishop told The Wall Street Journal.
As many as 10 masked attackers in three SUVs stormed the bus dressed in military uniforms and demanded that the passengers recite the Muslim profession of faith, witnesses said. Then, the gunmen opened fire.
The children were traveling with their parents to pray at an ancient monastery in central Egypt. Many suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest, Bishop Makarios, a Coptic clergyman in Minya Province, told The Journal. Three children on board the bus reportedly survived.
Survivors claimed the killers left behind flyers about the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which begins Friday evening. Local media also reported that the attackers were recording video themselves.
The attack came on the eve of the start of the Muslim holy month. It was the fourth attack targeting the country’s Christian minority since December, and it came on the same week of the suicide bombing in Manchester, where children were believed to be the target.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Friday ordered retaliatory military strikes in Libya in response to the ambush. Sisi said that suspected ISIS militants attacked the bus.
Ten of the 29 victims killed in Friday’s ambush attack on a bus transporting Christians to a monastery south of Cairo were identified as children, a top bishop told The Wall Street Journal.
As many as 10 masked attackers in three SUVs stormed the bus dressed in military uniforms and demanded that the passengers recite the Muslim profession of faith, witnesses said. Then, the gunmen opened fire.
The children were traveling with their parents to pray at an ancient monastery in central Egypt. Many suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest, Bishop Makarios, a Coptic clergyman in Minya Province, told The Journal. Three children on board the bus reportedly survived.
Survivors claimed the killers left behind flyers about the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which begins Friday evening. Local media also reported that the attackers were recording video themselves.
The attack came on the eve of the start of the Muslim holy month. It was the fourth attack targeting the country’s Christian minority since December, and it came on the same week of the suicide bombing in Manchester, where children were believed to be the target.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Friday ordered retaliatory military strikes in Libya in response to the ambush. Sisi said that suspected ISIS militants attacked the bus.
“I direct my appeal to President Trump: I trust you, your word and your ability to make fighting global terror your primary task,” el-Sisi said.
Trump reportedly affirmed U.S. support in a White House statement. “America stands with President Al Sisi and all the Egyptian people today, and always, as we fight to defeat this common enemy.”
The airstrikes hit bases in Libya where the attackers had trained, the country’s military said.
Egypt’s Copts, the Middle East’s largest Christian community, repeatedly have cried out for help from discrimination, as well as outright attacks, at the hands of the country’s majority Muslim population. Coptic Christians account for about 10 percent of Egypt’s 93 million people.
Ayman Ezzat, a rickshaw driver, told The Journal that blamed the massacre on el-Sisi, saying the president hadn’t done enough to protect the Christians…….
Robert says
For centuries, Egypt had a massive Christian population; some scholars believe it had a majority of Christians.
When Islam invaded Egypt, it killed many Christians, raped the women, tortured many, and sold many/most of the survivors into slavery. It was the beginning of an horrendous history of atrocity, that continues to this day.
The invaders are still working with the same worldview and set of values; they use the threat of violence or actual violence to control the subject populations, including the Coptic Christians.
The attack was prompted because some Mohammedans were outraged by the a group of Christians were acting. The Christians were on a bus trip to a holy shrine when they were slaughtered. The faithful Mohammedans saw the Christians as fair targets, because their sacred book, the Quran, forbids subject-people from practicing their own religion openly — and the Christians were going to the shrine to pray.
The Mohammedans killed these people, including many children, because they committed the ‘crime’ of openly worshipping their God. This is the religion of peace at its essence.
Greyhound Fancier says
Isn’t it amazing that the Copts have not lost their faith? Thanks be to God!
Tom says
Once again the radical representatives of that wonderful
peaceful religion Islam, have targeted the most innocent and vulnerable defenseless children with their cowardly war on Christians and non believers.
Uncivilized, barbaric and evil are words too good to use on these pieces of camel dung that committed this terrible act of violence.
I pray that each and every one of those involved in this attack on children die of the most painful disease imaginable and that their supporters in Islam suffer the worst pestilance that can possibly happen.
Enough is enough it is time for the good people in the muslim community to stand up and defy the hatemongers within their community.
Stand with us, and be welcomed, or be counted as one of the supporters of Jihad and be dealt with accordingly when the time comes.
Greyhound Fancier says
This won’t stop until the leaders of the civilized world put down their collective foot.
Hindu American says
I wonder how many candles will be lit, how many muslims will bow at the site of the carnage for photo ops and how many spontaneous peace marches with fresh-faced children holding up neatly printed placards be held in Egypt this week? My guess, zilch!
WPM says
You got that right the world of all faiths and people believing in no God have to ban together to not accept this Nazi devil faith of Islam.
Tom says
The west needs to support Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in his fight to return Egypt to a secular nation where Christians and other minorities are protected and able to practice their religious beliefs without threat of being killed by the muslim majority in the name of Islam.
A secular Egypt could be the light that the middle east needs in their fight against Islamic terror in the form of ISIS and the muslim brotherhood.
Richie says
Absolutely zero mention of this bombing in the liberal media in the US
Seabird says
RCH-Isn’t it true that the Mumbai killers were being directed to murder by phone from a member of the Pakistani Govt. (ISI).?
Our “ally”, Pakistan, what a _______ joke.
Cora Quaid says
I am outraged and broken-hearted at this atrocity against an ancient Christian people. The muslim population of Egypt and their president el-Sisi should be woefully ashamed of themselves in this so called holy month of Ramadan. How could they allow this to happen so soon after the murderous attack on Coptic Christians on Palm Sunday. Shame, shame, shame on every muslim who does not speak out against this evil.
A European says
These days many people from Protestant churches flocked to Wittenberg, Germany. Wittenberg is the town where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the castle church, thus setting off the Reformation. There were many festivals to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, many church Services, very much singing and a lot of speeches, but no one mentioned the latest Muslim atrocities against the Christian Copts, no one had the courage to tell the truth about Islam.
However, Martin Luther who dealt theologically with Islam in his sermons while the emperor Charles V was meeting the Ottoman Turks on the battlefields and -in 1529- at the gates of Vienna, had a clear stance on Islam. To sum up his views on Islam one must say that…
-Islam is not from God, it is not the word of God. Islam is just a set of beliefs, laws and customs that had been made up by human beings. Nothing else. (God had contradicted himself, if Islam would be his word, his religion. God said in the New Testament that Jesus Christ is the son of God, the one who died on the cross for our sins. How could he tell Mohammed about 600 years later that Jesus is not the son of god, that he is not the saviour of mankind, that he did not die on the cross. God does not contradict himself, he tells no lies, he is the truth, Islam must be wrong therefore),
-Islam serves the devil, it is just a tool in the hand of Satan who wants to undo the work of Christ,
-Islam is thus bent on the annihilation of Christendom. That is the ultimate goal of Islam,
-God allows Muslims to drive Christians into submission to islamic rule, because many Christians are wicked now, they have lost their faith and they deny Christ, and Islam is a kind of divine punishment to false Christians,
-Every Christian must fight Islam, but he must do so in a spiritual way. Renewal of faith, repentance for his sins, a true Christian lifestyle and prayers are the weapons the Christian is supposed to use,
-While a Christian is not permitted to take up arms in order to defend or propagate his faith ( there is no such thing as a Christian crusader killing infidels for Christ’s sake), it is the duty of any Christian leader to protect his people and to fight for his country. If a Christian joins the army the ruler is about to muster for that purpose, he is free to do so.
Why do Protestant church leaders not take to heart the warnings of Martin Luther, why do they not comply with his teachings about Islam, why do they not ask him for guidance in all matters regarding Islam?
There is one more thing. Luther told us that the battle against Islam can’t be won by the sword. It is a spiritual warfare Christians must engage in ( Ephesians 6,10-17). Expose the lies of Islam, prove the falsehood of its teachings, denounce the barbarity of its laws and customs, tell the truth about this dissolute, child-molesting and genocidal man called Mohammed, and keep always in mind that Islam is not from God. In the Gospel of saint John, chapter 14, verse 6 Jesus Christ says: “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me.”
shone says
@European, I as a devoted Catholic could agree with you on most of your comment, but there is a little glitch. There is no way that anyone of the members of the churches will ever give such a speech against lies of death cult named islam. No one is dare to do so. Why? Because they are afraid of reaction of “peaceful” muslims, or SJW’s or totally corrupted media. Because no one wants to be called racist or bigot, or something like that. The whole agenda is to impose collective sense of guilt of being Christian. And media, SJW’s and fear are doing their job very well. Further more, as a Catholic, I feel bad when I see the picture of pope John Paul the II on which he is kissing a book of lies! Is this dam oil so valuable that we must respect those butchers and liars? No, it is not. If we want this damn oil, why we just don’t take it? Not to pay homage to the them, and finance our own damnation? And that is why I do not think that the struggle is just on a spiritual way. It needs both ways to deal with the death cult, spiritual and material. But first we all must stop to pretend that everything is all right, and that our respect for muslims will stop this bloodshed. It won’t! We mast regain our confidence and defend what is right. if they, the followers of the cult of Satan find that offensive, then there is only one way to solve once and for all. War.
Baucent says
Somebody knew this group of Coptic Christians were traveling to the monastery and tipped off the Jihadists. The group had just passed a Police station when they were ambushed.
Jenny H says
I’m amazed and awed by the tenacity and courage of the Coptic Christian population of Egypt.