Catholic Priest Beheaded In Syria By Islamist Rebels
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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 1, 2025 19:28
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Which Muslim jihadist terror groups do you sympathize with? Signy likes Hamas, PLO, and Hezbollah because they mostly kill Jews in Israel. No one likes dead Jews more than Signy. Just ask her.
Last time I checked I was pretty much a pacifist. Which Righties also rage in hatred against. Ah yes, I remember the vitriol around the Iraq war.
Here's a thought, how about you stick to the topic and try to make sensible comments relating to what you're posting instead of spitting out this all encompassing vitriol at anyone who expresses views on the leftist spectrum. If you actually have a point, other than 'all people who express left winged views are evil' it would be good to hear.
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So eating the heart ( or was it the liver, like it matters all that much ) of a dead / dying soldier wasn't enough to disgust the civilized world, the fanaticals decided they needed to go to the old stand by , and saw ( no, not w/ a big scimitar ) off the heads of a Catholic priests and some others.
How much money are we giving these guys again, and why ? Maybe Sen. McCain can get the beheader's autograph, if he can't get his picture taken w/ him.
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The footage, said to show Father Francois Murad, 49, as the victim in a brutal summary execution by foreign jihadists is likely to be an older video that bares no relation to the death of the Catholic priest.
Father Murad "died when he was shot inside his church" in the northern Syrian Christian village of Ghassaniyeh on June 23, three separate local sources told the Telegraph, who did not wish to be named.
Claims that Father Murad was one of two men to be decapitated by a foreign jihadist group went viral, the outrage expressed in blogs and articles worldwide.
The footage posted on YouTube shows three men kneeling on the ground surrounded by a group of foreign jihadists, now thought to be a group of Chechen rebels. The crowd whips itself into frenzy and screaming "God is great" some of the rebels slaughter two of the prisoners.
The film is too grainy to be able to confirm the identity of either of the victims as Father Francois. While the video's title refers to the killing of a priest and a bishop, none of the participants in the actual video refer to any such actions, and only accuse the victims of being collaborators and 'shabiha', a reference to pro-government militia members.
Father Pizzaballa, a colleague in the Franciscan Friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, to which Father Francois belonged, told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that none of their priests were the victims in the video.
"None of our priests have died in this manner. All our priests are alive. Reading the reports circulating in the media I conclude that they have mixed up events," he said.
Peter Bouckaert, Emergencies Director for Human Rights Watch said: "Confusion may have arisen because of the appearance of this video around the same time that the news came out that Father Francois had been killed.
"Human Rights Watch has been conducting an in-depth investigation into this video, and it looks like it may have been filmed in a different location several months ago, long before Father Francois was reportedly killed."
Yasser, a Syrian activist who has been researching the killings in the video said that the incident took place "months" before the priest's death.
Several other Syrian sources, that asked not to be named, confirmed this account.
The Vatican news agency confirmed that Father Francois was killed on June 23 but said the "circumstances of the death are not fully understood".
Two days after Father Francois was killed in Ghassaniyeh, the Custody of the Holy Land issued a press release saying Islamist groups on the Sant Antonio church shot the father dead. The press release said he had been given a funeral and buried.
"Islamists attacked the monastery, ransacking it and destroying everything.
When Father Francois tried to resist, defending the nuns, rebels shot him," the release stated.
The resort town of Ghassaniyeh, in Syria's Latakia province, which was visited by the Telegraph, has fallen under the control of the extremist jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra.
Father Francois was thought to be one of the last remaining Christian inhabitants.
Two months ago four Italian journalists were kidnapped by Jabhat al-Nusra as they filmed inside Father Francois' church, which had recently been desecrated. Susan Dabbous, one of the kidnapped journalists, reported that Jabhat al-Nusra had referred to Father Francois as "a spy".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10153954/Pr
iest-beheaded-in-Syria-video-actually-shot-dead.html
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Meanwhile a bit of reality about Syria
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The Syrian civil war is an ongoing armed conflict in Syria between forces loyal to the Syrian Ba'ath Party government and those seeking to oust it. The conflict began on 15 March 2011, with popular demonstrations that grew nationwide by April 2011. These demonstrations were part of the wider Middle Eastern protest movement known as the Arab Spring. Protesters demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has held the presidency in Syria since 1971, as well as the end of Ba'ath Party rule.
In April 2011, the Syrian Army was deployed to quell the uprising, and soldiers fired on demonstrators across the country.[63][64] After months of military sieges,[65] the protests evolved into an armed rebellion. Opposition forces, mainly composed of defected soldiers and civilian volunteers, remain without central leadership.[66] The conflict has no clear fronts, with clashes taking place in many towns and cities across the country.[67] The Arab League, United States, European Union, and other countries condemned the use of violence against the protesters. The Arab League suspended Syria's membership because of the government's response to the crisis, but granted the Syrian National Coalition Syria's seat on 6 March 2013.[68]
Until middle 2012 the armed conflict had not reached the biggest cities of Damascus and Aleppo.[69] Late 2011 marked growing influence of the Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra within the opposition forces, and in 2012 Hezbollah entered the war in support of the Syrian army.[70][71] The regime is further upheld by support from Russia and Iran, while Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan transfer weapons to the rebels.[72]
In June 2013, the death toll was updated to 92,900–100,000 by the United Nations.[46][47] According to various opposition activist groups, between 75,365 and 100,195 people have been killed,[39][44][49][73] of which about half were civilians,[74] but also including 61,000 armed combatants consisting of both the Syrian Army and rebel forces,[39] up to 1,000 opposition protesters[43] and 1,000 government officials.[40] By October 2012, up to 28,000 people had been reported missing, including civilians forcibly abducted by government troops or security forces.[75] According to the UN, about 4 million Syrians have been displaced within the country and 1.5 million have fled to other countries.[76] In addition, tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned and there are reports of widespread torture and terror in state prisons.[77] International organizations have accused both government and opposition forces of severe human rights violations.[78] UN investigations have concluded that the government's abuses are the greatest in gravity, frequency and scale.[79
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LONDON — An opposition monitoring group that has tracked Syria’s widening civil war said Wednesday that more than 100,000 people had died in the 27-month-old conflict, with pro-government forces taking far more casualties than rebels seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, while civilians accounted for more than one-third of the overall fatalities, the biggest single category.
The group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britain and relies on a network of activists in Syria for its information, put the total number of dead at 100,191 since the Syrian revolt began in March 2011. That is several thousand more than the newest United Nations count of almost 93,000 by the end of April, a number distilled from a pool of 263,055 reported killings by researchers who eliminated those lacking detail and crosschecked to remove duplicate reports. The final number, the researchers and the United Nations said, was therefore conservative.
Rami Abdul Rahman, the founder of the Syrian Observatory, said in a telephone interview that his number — 100,191 — came from adding together the daily tallies his organization has kept since the beginning of the uprising.
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The crowd whips itself into frenzy and screaming "God is great" some of the rebels slaughter two of the prisoners.
Oh boy, God sure IS great, ain't he !!!
And this is how Muslims, be it in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq or Saudi Arabia show their admiration to the big fellah in they sky!
Yay God!
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Nice cherry picking there. I suppose reading and understanding articles where there is more than a couple of lines is something you are not yet up to yet. Maybe when you get to Grade 4 you'll learn to take in whole paragraphs and one day, you may even be able to write a couple.
Keep trying. C- for effort.
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Nice cherry picking there. I suppose reading and understanding articles where there is more than a couple of lines is something you are not yet up to yet. Maybe when you get to Grade 4 you'll learn to take in whole paragraphs and one day, you may even be able to write a couple.
Keep trying. C- for effort.
Nothing I said was incorrect, so actually I get an A+. Though it really wasn't much 'effort' at all, I freely admit.
Not real sure why you're getting bent out of shape here. The men beheaded really WERE beheaded, by a mob of blood thirsty Muslim zealots. Can't deny that now, can ya ?
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Here's a challenge for you, Rap. Write in a couple of paragraphs on what you believe is happening in Syria, including who is fighting who, possible causes, involvement of other countries. I'd like to see if you can demonstrate any complex understanding of any issue.
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Here's a challenge for you, Rap. Write in a couple of paragraphs on what you believe is happening in Syria, including who is fighting who, possible causes, involvement of other countries. I'd like to see if you can demonstrate any complex understanding of any issue.
I can demonstrate plenty of understanding of lots of complex issues.
But I'm not amused by your 'challenge', so no thank you.
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Yet to see it. Pick any issue. Any one. I don't care which, and see if you can explain what you think is happening. Because I really don't think you have ever demonstrated any more complex thinking than....
All Muslim bad
All Muslim want kill Christian
Ugh
I'd so love for you to prove me wrong. I welcome a healthy debate with someone on the right who can be articulate and thoughtful. I've had them in RL, just not on these boards. not recently anyway.
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