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Libya: Mass grave found of Christians murdered by the Islamic State

Dec 31, 2018 9:15 am By Robert Spencer

No one will pay much attention to this. After all, it isn’t as if something serious, such as “Islamophobia,” were being committed.

“Mass grave of Christians killed by Islamic State found in Libya,” Catholic News Agency, December 30, 2018:

MISRATA, Libya – A mass grave of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by the so-called Islamic State group in 2015 has reportedly been unearthed in Libya.

The bodies have been exhumed and will be eventually repatriated to Ethiopia, the Libyan interior ministry says.

Libyan government authorities found the mass grave Dec. 23 after obtaining information from arrested Islamic State members. The grave appears to be located on a farm near the coastal city of Sirte, 170 miles southeast of Misrata.

Islamic State gained control of Sirte in 2015, but United Nations-backed forces regained control of the city in December 2016 after months of deadly fighting.

According to the Libyan Express newspaper, a propaganda video posted to social media in April 2015 appeared to show the Islamic State members shooting and beheading the Ethiopian Christians, who were all wearing orange jumpsuits, on a beach. The Christians were in Libya to seek work as migrant workers, according to International Christian Concern.

The 2015 incident happened just months after Islamic State members executed a group of nearly two dozen Coptic Christians; a mass grave containing their bodies was found last October….

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  1. Indiana Tom says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 9:27 am

    More of the fruits of the Arab Spring in Libya.
    You know Mummar in his later years was not so darn bad.
    Yeah, I know about Lockerbie, but that was earlier.

    • ronyvo says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 8:35 am

      Indian: Muslims are Muslims. That means they are extremely hateful people. I would not give my back to any of them.

      • Indiana Tom says

        Jan 1, 2019 at 12:19 pm

        Yes, they are all bad.
        OK, so which do you prefer…
        Secular dictator.
        ISIS fundamentalist dictator.
        Choose.

        • Carolthe 1st says

          Jan 2, 2019 at 9:54 pm

          It’s said muslims require a heavy hand to save them from themselves.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 9:35 am

    Mr. Spencer’s headline accurately says “murdered”.
    The Catholic News Agency article misleadingly says “executed”.
    There is a difference, and it is as well to observe it.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 31, 2018 at 9:42 am

      Yes. “Executed’ implies they had authority and it was justice at work, as opposed to slaughter of innocent people by a group of lawless moslims engaging in terror.

      • Crusades Were Right says

        Dec 31, 2018 at 7:34 pm

        Personally, I think “martyred” is the best word to describe what happened to them.

    • Rufolino says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 4:00 am

      No comment from the Vatican, I notice, about these martyred Christians. (Apologies for my cynicism.)

  3. somehistory says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 9:38 am

    hilary should be so proud. And what’s-his-face, too. They wanted it to happen, made arrangements and saw it through. How many more victims will be found? How many more to suffer?
    Judgment will come to them, even if some say it’s too late.

    • Michael Almond says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 7:36 am

      So right. “hillary and what’s his face.” Sorry brother, you didn’t go far enough. “Creators of the Islamic State.”

    • Joe says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 7:51 am

      Yep. The US Air Force was fighting for the terrorists. Everyone should remember that this was BO’s war. He did not have congressional approval. The terrorists would have never won without BO’s help.

  4. Logic&Reason says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 11:01 am

    Izlombies.

    Infected by an evil mind virus found in canonical text.

  5. Stefan cel Mare says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    It is like Mike Tyson been spit on face and he just smile. This can happen if he is blind. In any other case, the one spitting will die fast. This is how west act…because is blind and too busy with what beer is the best.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Dec 31, 2018 at 5:51 pm

      Stefan, dear … beer is the greatest ….many are studying y’all and are not blind … and y’all will taste fire

      • Stefan cel Mare says

        Dec 31, 2018 at 8:28 pm

        Who will deliver the fire to be tasted?
        For the west to wake up it is necessary a strong shake…like generalized civil war, hunger or other forms of brutality born from own stupidity, perversity, social autism, indifference in front of visible dangers.
        The western society need to come with feet back on earth, in real life….or just disappear from history.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Jan 2, 2019 at 10:05 pm

          Most Dangerous Global Virus: Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome (THE SAAD TRUTH_104)

  6. Guy Jones says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    Fruits of Obama and Hillary’s feckless and incompetent U.S. foreign policy — undertaking the manifestly idiotic and boneheaded decision to overthrow — via a transparently contrived pretext — a totally compliant and cooperative Qadaffi, who was effectively keeping a lid on Islamic jihadism in the area, and, thus, predictably destabilizing the entire region and creating a power vacuum for ISIS and assorted jihadists to exploit.

  7. Battle says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 12:49 am

    Micheal Copeland: Good one.

    Crusades Were Right: Good one.

    • Crusades Were Right says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 7:30 pm

      @Battle: Cheers!

  8. KWJ says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 10:56 am

    I guess in the hierarchy of victims and all the obsessive race talk, black, Arab, brown Pakistani and white Iranian Christians don’t matter as much as Islamophobia and migrants from dangerous places in Central America.

    Being targeted for one’s religion by Muslims for 1,400 years is no big deal regardless of the race. I guess the EU and leftists don’t want to upset the Muslims or the OIC will think they’re siding with Christians because they themselves are Christians. We should be helping them, then again, we didn’t even help the Rwandan Genocide nor Sudan’s mass killing. It isn’t convenient and we have no “vital interests” in helping them. But Islamophobia, must arrest people for free speech even while clerics preach hatred of infidels inside Western countries.

    I’ve noticed that here on YT I see more black Christian speakers posting their links to their videos on videos regarding Islam. I check them out and even though I’m not religious, they’re pretty uplifting and the choose good passages out of the Bible. Just a thought. I should get the links.

  9. TKF says

    Jan 2, 2019 at 1:41 am

    Islam is evil and inhuman. Islam must be DESTROYED.

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