People still can't forget what happened last February 15, 2015, when members of the Islamic State released a chilling video showing the beheading of 21 migrant workers they kidnapped from Sirte, Libya.
These Coptic Christians came from different villages in Egypt, and refused to give up their faith in God just to evade death. Two of the victims' mother recently told Egyptian Anglican Archbishop Mouneer Anis that she is extremely proud of her sons' heroic acts and she thanks God they did not renounce Him in their final moments.
"I gave my two sons to Jesus," she reportedly told Anis, according to Virtue Online. "I thank my God that my two sons did not denounce Jesus; it is an honour and privilege that they died faithful."
Anis lauded the bravery of the Christian men as they were facing death, instead affirming their faith with the words "Oh, Lord Jesus" as the radical jihadists were cutting their throats.
"They were ordinary labourers with no theological education, but they were not going to denounce Jesus," he said.
The Islamic State earlier said that they kidnapped these 21 men in order to "avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church." After the video of their gruesome murder was shown, a message flashed on the screen: "The filthy blood is just some of what awaits you, in revenge for Camelia and her sisters."
The group was referencing Camelia Shehata, a Coptic Egyptian woman and wife of a Coptic priest who Islamists believed had actually converted to Islam and was being held against her will by the Coptic Church. However, Shehata denied their claims.
The killer in the video then said, "We will conquer Rome, by Allah's permission," as he pointed his knife towards the sea.
