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Africa North
Militants kill Christian in Egypt's Sinai, second in a week
2017-02-17
[Ynet] Suspected Islamic turbans bumped off a Coptic Christian teacher on his way to school in northern Sinai on Thursday, the second killing of a Christian in less than a week in the turbulent region, officials said.

The 50-year-old Gamal Tawfiq was shot in the head by two turbans on a cycle of violence who were following him as he walked from home to work at El-Samran School in the morning in the city of el-Arish. A security official said the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
's affiliate in Sinai is suspected in the killing.

A school official confirmed Tawfiq's death to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named but declined to give details.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  the second killing of a Christian in less than a week

Can't keep pace with Chicago.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-17 11:29  

#1  Well, killing Jews - at least in that particular part of the world - is kinda hard nowadays, so lions of Islam have to compensate.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-17 02:31  

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