Islamic State shoots and beheads 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya: video

[oberliner]

A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the video, but the killings resemble past violence carried out by Islamic State, an ultra-hardline group that has expanded its reach from strongholds in Iraq and Syria to conflict-ridden Libya.

The video, in which militants call Christians "crusaders" who are out to kill Muslims, showed about 15 men being beheaded on a beach and another group of the same size, in an area of shrubland, being shot in the head.

Both groups of men are referred to in a subtitle as "worshippers of the cross belonging to the hostile Ethiopian church"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/20/us-mideast-crisis-islamicstate-killings-idUSKBN0NA0IE20150420

Christians are really suffering the world over at the hands of these psychopaths.

[AuntPatsy]

1. Horrific, I swear people will use any excuse to excuse their murderous tendencies...

[Ron Green]

2. These acts have become fodder for Fox News and

CNN. As long as they can run these stories they don't have to talk about ALEC.

[demosincebirth]

3. Do we just excuse and not run stories about these horrendous atrocities by Isis?

[Ron Green]

4. "If it bleeds it leads" is always going to be a part of it,

but horrendous atrocities perpetrated by Wall Street ought to get just as much air time.

[demosincebirth]

6. I was kind of agreeing untill "but horrendous atrocities perpetrated by Wall Street." Sorry, you

lost my vote with that comparision

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Sorry people's lives are interfering in your politics.

[Fumesucker]

7. Is the woman who dies trying to self induce an abortion any less dead?

There's horrible stuff going on all around everywhere, some of it gets on the news and some doesn't.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. Sorry reality in the here and now are getting in the way of your abstractions. nt

[Ron Green]

9. Abstractions? People dying from lack of access to health care?

Beheadings on a foreign shore may be more horrific, but they're no more real than the toxic world of disaster capitalism. You're going to see only one of those stories on the teevee, however.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. Sorry I cared about the wrong people. nt

[Ron Green]

12. Can't you care about both? Even if the "news" doesn't?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

14. "Can't you care about both?"

Normally I do but people whined.

It's as if I read a story about a woman confronted by a home invader smoking a cigarette and I'm being chastised for not taking a firmer stance against second-hand smoke.

[Fumesucker]

10. Shall we go into why ISIS exists?

Without the Iraq war no ISIS, no beheadings, other than Saudi Arabia of course but that's different, it's legal.

This just goes to show that the Iraq war was a colossal mistake, by far the biggest mistake of the 21st century so far.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

13. Who said otherwise?

Not that going into Libya helped -- which is where this incident originated. But apparently some needless, fraudulent wars are worse than others and some victims aren't as important.

Whatever, man. If you want to trivialize the deaths of real people to score cheap political points for a different set of politicians who are just as self-serving and manipulative knock yourself out. The high moral dudgeon act doesn't phase me.

People were murdered. Wave your pom-poms.

[Fumesucker]

16. Doesn't it bother you that they are doing this for the attention?

The more you give them what they want the more they are likely to do this sort of horrible thing.

We screw up everything we touch in the ME, we don't have any idea what we are doing and every time we get involved we make things worse, usually much worse.

[oberliner]

17. Bothers me more that they are slaughtering innocent people

People should not be beheaded just because they are Christian.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

18. Or they're doing it to kill everyone who isn't like them.

[kelliekat44]

15. Where is the outrage about this in RW media and the uber evangelicals here? I guess those

slaughtered were not "Christian" enough?