On Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, the terrorists who call themselves an Islamic State released a lurid video showing the decapitation of 21 Egyptian laborers working in Libya. Taken hostage in January, largely because they were Coptic Christians, their execution was couched in the language of medieval apocalypticism.
Labeling their horrendous act “a message signed in blood to the people of the cross,” the fanatics promised further vengeance on the “hostile Egyptian Church,” along with a final confrontation with “Rome.” Denouncing the Copts as “crusaders,” they claimed the deaths were a response to supposed mistreatment of an alleged convert to Islam who was the spouse of a Coptic priest.
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