Yesterday Jihad Watch reported on the murder of Samaan Shehata, but the initial report was light on detail, and had some of the facts wrong. This account is much fuller.
Warning: this video is graphic. A persecuted Christian from Egypt sent it to me with the note: “It is heartbreaking, not for the faint hearted.”
Indeed it is.
Meanwhile, Egyptian authorities appear to have taken a page from their counterparts in the West, claiming that the jihad murderer who killed Bishop Samaan was “mentally ill.” This is an extraordinarily common excuse for jihad activity in the West, but it is rare to see it trotted out in a Muslim country.
“Coptic Orthodox Bishop Killed outside Cairo, Egypt,” Morning Star News, October 13, 2017:
CAIRO (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Orthodox bishop from Upper Egypt was slain outside Cairo, Egypt yesterday.
The assailant struck Bishop Samaan Shehata in the head, neck and torso with a machete in the El Salam area near El Marg District on the outskirts of Cairo, according to local reports. Shehata was born in 1972.
While a security spokesman said the suspect, Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim, was mentally ill, neighbors reportedly denied this, saying he was a Muslim who had been “radicalized” a year ago. Since then, they said, Ibrahim had begun praying in the street, shouting loudly and calling Christians infidels.
The suspect walked calmly out of the warehouse after killing Shehata, according to security camera footage. Captured by people on the street and now in custody, Ibrahim had reportedly approached Shehata wielding the large knife while the bishop was waiting for another clergyman in his car.
Visiting from his Church of St. Julius Akfazi in Ezbet Girgis village, in Beni Suef Governorate, Shehata was waiting for another priest, the Rev. Beimen Moftah, when Ibrahim accosted him and attacked him, eyewitnesses told local press. Reports conflicted on whether Moftah, of the Church of the Arch Angel Malak in Ezbet Francis, Mattay village, was injured, but he did reportedly confront the assailant.
Stabbed in the neck and torso near the Virgin and Bishop Shenouda El Daeiry church, the wounded Shehata fled on foot into the warehouse, according to security camera footage obtained by El Youm el Sabe News agency, which shows the assailant following with the machete.
Police said eyewitnesses reported that the assailant had seen Shehata in his car, forcibly stopped him, ordered him out and then started to stab him in the neck and torso. Shehata fled, and the attacker followed him into the warehouse and finished his attack there with several blows to the head, they said.
Shehata’s driver, identified as Gerges Kamel, reportedly said the bishop had gotten out of the car to retrieve his cell phone at the warehouse when the assailant stopped him and stabbed him in the side, neck and skull. Kamel said the assailant used the bishop’s blood to form a cross on his forehead, according to a local newspaper.
An ambulance didn’t arrive until 90 minutes after the assault, according to Kamel, who added that the bishop was alive for half an hour after being struck and could have been saved if the ambulance had arrived timely.
He denied that the suspect was mentally ill….
R Russell says
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints
D.Pugh says
Amen and Amen
Voytek Gagalka says
Mental illness epidemic must have reached at last Mohammedan country! They should be careful with such “easy explanation,” however, lest we would suspect and assume that all of them are affected by that said “illness”: Ideology devised by their “prophet” indeed is causing their minds to explode with irrationality on the daily basis!
gravenimage says
Yes–funny how prone pious Muslims are to “mental illness”…
LeftisruiningCanada says
Demons tend to make it look so…..
John Forbes says
NOT A MENTION OF THIS IN THE WESTERN MEDIA THAT I CAN SEE !
MENTAL ILLNESS INDEED – LINDA SCOTT IN THE NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA ) WILL SIGN UP FOR THAT EXCUSE !
NO ONE IN THE WEST SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & NOT DOES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IT SEEMS ??
TOO BUSY GROVELLING TO ISLAM TO BOTHER WITH THE SLAUGHTER OF COPTS IN EGYPT !
A LONG WAY AWAY FROM THE FINE FISH/LAMB & BEEF /WINE MEALS IN THE CATHOLIC VATICAN !
Bee says
Even Christians in the West don’t appear to care one iota. If you post a photo of a kitty, plenty of upticks, but post something like this, or a photo of an elderly person who has been seriously beaten up by muslims, or anyone else for that matter, and being hospitalised, and not one single reaction from family and friends. Says it all about today’s societies.
Greyhound Fancier says
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Westman says
It appears that holding too many of the Quran’s and Hadith conflicting passages as, simultaneously true, leads to the mental illness of, “total submission, disorted reality, and the destruction of rational thought”. In the Korean war this phenomenon was given the name of Brainwashing.
Muhammad (or his 7-8th century creators) was a master of brainwashing. The greater the brainwash, the more prone to use violence becomes the potential jihadi.
Pablo says
It is quite strange that these mentally ill Muslims rarely kill an Imam.
Salome says
Mentally ill Christians also rarely kill Imams.
gravenimage says
Mentally ill Christians are much less likely to kill *anyone* than are Muslims.
MTMLA says
In Islam it’s ok for a muslim to murder a non believer, but it is no ok for a muslim to kill another muslim.( even though they do it all the time). So , if the jihadi kill a Christian he’ll not be punished or it will be a light punishment just for show…
Linde Barrera says
Islam= barbaric cruelty. Allah=Satan the devil. May Bishop Shehata RIP with Jesus and may his murderer be severely punished.
Sons of Liberty says
Coptic Christians have been persecuted in Egypt for a long time by Muslims this is just the latest horrible attack. The Egyptian men who were beheaded in Libya by ISIS awhile back, …went there to look for WORK , because Christians are discriminated against and it is hard to find work to support their families. They had NO MONEY to PAY THE JIZYA demanded by the ISIS KILLERS and so they were told they had to become MUSLIMS. They were beheaded because they refused to give up their FAITH IN CHRIST. Another Christian man who owned a shop was TOLD not to sell alcohol and was later MURDERED . Do you think you will SEE STORIES LIKE THESE on 60 MINUTES ? No, all we see are the lies about Islam on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN. They are the taqiyya mouth piece for MUSLIMS.
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims have been oppressing and slaughtering Coptic Christians for over 1300 years now. It is a testament to their bravery that any survive at all.
t. says
You said it best, Sons of Liberty!
“It is a testament to their bravery that any survive at all.”
Absolutely true, gravenimage!
gravenimage says
Thank you, t..
MTMLA says
PBS also describes Islam in positive colors. I have never seen so much love affair with Islam as post 9/11, everywhere in the west starting with the politicians…and this muslim loving creep dressed in pope’s costume. They are all in the oil rich muslim nations’ pockets .
notmoron says
Islam is mental illness
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
Memory eternal.
Greyhound Fancier says
May light perpetual shine upon him!
Jf says
Islam is the Mental Illness.
Tom says
Jihadist = Lunatic
Radical Islamist = Lunatic
Anyone who supports either of the above = Mentally ILL
I think that just about covers over a billion people according to western leaders and police.
gravenimage says
Graphic video from Egypt: Muslim chases, stabs Coptic bishop to death, authorities claim killer “mentally ill”
…………………………
Notice that *no one* on the street tries to stop the pious Muslim killer. No one even yells at him.
LeftisruiningCanada says
God rest this Christians soul, he lived in a far harder place than most of us know.
The raging hatred of Islam may kill every last one of us infidels on the face of the earth, and yet lose in the long run. Christ the Lord will return and set things aright.
And that’s the difference isn’t it – as much as this one video, and every other like it, causes a Christians anger to rise and bring thoughts of engaging in acts of vengeance to fight back, we don’t have a mandate to do so from our Leader, who we trust to bring all to account Himself. Muslims do however have such a mandate. In their poor deluded eyes, that makes us the weaker party. In reality, it shows the utterly desperate position of failed and frustrated hatred and malice, afire with every wicked concept and desire, that forms the source and foundation of Islam.
If you as a Muslim might read this, you need to look to Christ Jesus right now and forsake what you must realize to be the evil of your prophets religion. Compare the lives and words, and call upon Isa bin Mariam tonight. You know He will answer.
mortimer says
WHAT THE EGYPTIAN MEDIA are actually saying without knowing it is that ISLAM IS CAUSING MENTAL ILLNESS.
The MOTIVE of Islam is the HATRED DIRECTED TOWARDS DIRTY KUFAAR identified as the doctrine of Al Walaa al Baraa, a canonical, ‘essential’ doctrine (usul ud-deen).
The METHOD used to implement ISLAMIC HATRED is called JIHAD. Jihad is any action, whether VIOLENT or deceptive that REMOVES the human rights and civil liberties of DIRTY KAFIRS and women.
The CHIEF human right is the right TO LIVE. Sharia law says that KAFIRS have no right to live per se, but that by paying jizzya, Muslims may spare them one year at a time.
Most Westerners and many Mulsims are unaware of the JIZZYA DOCTRINE or realize it is STILL IN EFFECT.
The basic point is the the dirty KUFAAR do not deserve even to live, let alone have other human rights.
shoehorn says
Sure he’s mentally ill … he’s from the Religion of Mental Illness.
religionofpeace says
Islamic mental illness patient only know nothing, besides killing infidels, praying for Allah, raping infidel women, throwing gays out of building, jihad attacks and promoting Sharia law.
What are the different between Muslim and Islamic mental illness patient ?
gravenimage says
Just that the mentally ill are seldom so violent.
FYI says
The Bishop is a martyr for Christ.
allah’s islamic way:”thou shalt kill the unbelievers” sanctioned by koran 2:191
God’s way;”I am the lord thy God Thou shalt not kill”
The Sixth Commandment prohibits intentional deliberate murder,especially of the innocent and the defenseless.
Neither allah in his koran nor muhammed in his life nor muslims appear to understand that.
If the koran teaches something that is contrary to God’s Commandments,what do you do?
Do you follow allah’s warped teachings and commit murder?
OR
Do you follow God’s Original Commandments prohibiting murder?
Horseman says
“A martyr for Christ.” Not all that comforting when you realize that acts like this will be repeated over and over again by the “mentally ill.”
duh swami says
Islam creates psychotic episodes in the pious…The term mentally ill’ is an umbrella over chaos…It may be accurate but it is not precise…
The authorities don’t tell us what kind of mental illness the terrorist has, because they don’t know…
Mo says
I am so sick of this demonic ideology of Islam! How many people like this poor man have to suffer such horrendous deaths before we say ENOUGH?!
This ideology has no place in any civilized country. NONE. Enough already!
Adrian says
So why is this video of a murder getting 4 times as many Likes as Dislikes on YouTube?
gravenimage says
It is hard to tell–it may be Infidels glad that this is at least being covered–or it may be mostly pious Muslims glorying over the murder of an innocent Christian.
Infidel says
These are the animals we are supposed to give refuge!!!
tgusa says
If Dexter were to choose a religion it is a safe bet that islam would be it.
gravenimage says
I never watched the show, but didn’t Dexter just go after violent criminals–murderers and such?
Islam is far less civilized than that.
tgusa says
Yes he did. But if he chose he would be a convert, and we all know what that means.
gravenimage says
Muslims deliberately target the innocent and vulnerable.
Politicianphobia says
The 21 year old Muslim who brutally beat the 75 year old in Windsor while she was walking on Trail is no doubt mentally ill, the poor Muslim. The Muslim in Toronto who ran across the street and stabbed an 83 year old lady in the head, is probably mentally ill, the poor Muslim. The 34 year old Muslim man that walked up behind a 13 year old boy, who was on his way to the local variety store in Windsor, Ontario and beat him on the head with a hammer and then sat down on the ground beside the kid is probably mentally ill, the poor Muslim. The young Muslim man who stabbed the off duty, fireman in the head multiple times while he was drinking tea in a cafe in Toronto, and later died of his massive head injuries, is probably mentally ill, the poor Muslim. The 21 year old, Muslim boy from Mississauga, who was planning an attack in the US, parents say he has mental problems, the poor Muslim……………………….shhhhhhh you are not supposed to talk about the poor, sick bastards. They are all victims so shush your mouths.
murad says
“mental illness t seems they have learnt a lot from the west. The only ones worse than them are the western Traitors.
t. says
I agree, murad!
nicholas tesdorf says
Well, he is mentally ill as he is a Muslim.
Murad says
No, muslims are not ill. They are evil yes. They have always behaved this way. That’s why they have usurped 57 countries and recently all the continents. And Traitors enable them any way they can.
wool says
I tthink my brothers and sisters Christians Orthodox come to Ethiopia so as to save your life.political islam is ddangerous .
Mahendra Singh says
They are simply doing what Mahomet did.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.