{"id":43325,"date":"2017-02-20T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=43325"},"modified":"2017-02-20T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:15:33","slug":"%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%b4-%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%b4%d8%b1-%d8%a2%d8%ae%d8%b1-%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%85%d9%81%d8%ac%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%b4-%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%b4%d8%b1-%d8%a2%d8%ae%d8%b1-%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%85%d9%81%d8%ac%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State extremists threaten to eliminate Egypt\u2019s Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) on Sunday released a new propaganda video, threatening to eliminate Egypt\u2019s Christians\u00a0and\u00a0vowing to \u2018liberate Cairo\u2019.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The video also shows the last statement of a man it said was responsible for the deadly bombing of a Coptic cathedral in Cairo on 11\u00a0December, that killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Abu Abdallah al-Masri, the alleged bomber of the St Mark\u2019s Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic papacy, appeared in the video encouraging\u00a0jihadists\u00a0all over the world not to give up.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Orthodox Copts, who comprise about 10 percent of Egypt\u2019s 90 million people, are the Middle East\u2019s largest Christian community.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">The masked militant also promised Islamists jailed in Egypt that they will be freed soon, when ISIS\u00a0\u201cliberates\u201d Cairo.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">\u201cTo my brothers in captivity: rejoice, you believers, do not falter or grieve. I swear to God we will very soon liberate Cairo and free you from captivity. We will come bearing explosives, I swear we will, so rejoice you believers,\u201d al-Masri said.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Although ISIS claimed responsibility for the cathedral\u2019s attack in December, the Egyptian government said that the bomber was a supporter\u00a0the Muslim Brotherhood movement. However,\u00a0the Brotherhood condemned the attack and accused Sisi\u2019s administration of failing to protect the church.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #424242; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">ISIS called for eliminating Egypt\u2019s Christians, describing them as \u201capostates\u201d and \u201cenemies of Allah\u201d.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3o-kSFeGpc\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) on Sunday released a new propaganda video, threatening to eliminate Egypt\u2019s Christians\u00a0and\u00a0vowing to \u2018liberate Cairo\u2019. The video also shows the last statement of a man it said was responsible for the deadly bombing of a Coptic cathedral in Cairo on 11\u00a0December, that killed at least 28 people, mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74,39],"tags":[3682,3870,7577,7575,7574,7576,132,4481,3549,268,643,7572,7573,7571],"class_list":["post-43325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","category-videos","tag-christians","tag-egypt","tag-eliminate","tag-extremists","tag-islamic-state","tag-threaten","tag-132","tag-4481","tag-3549","tag-268","tag-643","tag-7572","tag-7573","tag-7571"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43341,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43325\/revisions\/43341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}