ISIS has been carrying out series of
attacks on Christians in other to show their Strength and utter in a new war of
religions. Below here are series of attacks carried out by ISIS on the
Christian race.
ISIS declared an all-out war on
Christianity when its fighters beheaded 21 Coptic Christians in Sirte, Libya,
in February 2015. "You have seen us [in Syria] chopping off the heads of
those carrying the cross [and now] we will fight you altogether," a masked
fighter with a North American accent stated in gruesome video featuring waves
of blood flowing northwards into the Mediterranean. The message could not have
been
clearer: the "Crusader" enemy and all Christians were now seen as one and the same and all needed to be exterminated.
clearer: the "Crusader" enemy and all Christians were now seen as one and the same and all needed to be exterminated.
In March also, the U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry characterized the ISIS campaign against Christians and
minority religions in areas under its control as a genocide.
Not only has the group driven out
Christian populations from cities such as Mosul, but it has targeted them for
death across the Middle East, including in Egypt where a local Islamic State
affiliate has assassinated Coptic priests. In Nigeria, ISIS affiliate Boko
Haram killed more than 4,000 Christians last year and attacked almost 200
Churches, according to figures compiled by a Nigerian Christian
Organisation.
Also in March, suspected ISIS militants in
Yemen carried out an attack on a Catholic retirement home in Aden -- and a
Pakistani Taliban splinter group which has been supportive of ISIS targeted
Christians in a Easter attack in a park in Lahore , killing 69 people.
It turned out most of the victims in
the Lahore attack were Muslim, as were a third of those killed in the Nice
truck rampage earlier this month, exposing ISIS to potential criticism among
jihadis that it is shedding the blood of Muslims.
By going after churches, ISIS and its
supporters are singling out Christians, and trying to usher in a new war of
religions.
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