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Friday, February 6, 2015
Event after event across the Eastern hemisphere leaves one wondering if there is any humanity left in the world. In Syria and Iraq you have ISIL militants beheading journalists or burning captives to death. In Egypt bombs are going off in shopping areas, where innocent men, women, and children gather innocently. In the Nigerian news, the words ‘hacked to death’ are used far too often.
It has come to the point in Egypt that you cannot even enjoy your Kentucky Fried Chicken without a Molotov cocktail being thrown at you. Yes, that is right, the KFC in Menoufia was fire bombed with a Molotov cocktail and then the assailants opened fire on the eating establishment. One person was killed and another was wounded. A Zinger sandwich and Rizo spicy were also injured in the attack. Last week, ISIL’s Egypt affiliate claimed responsibility for attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula that killed at least 30 people, including two children.
In Libya earlier this week, gunmen attacked the Al Mabrook oil field in a remote area of the desert, killing 12 people. The 12 people were not just killed, most were beheaded according to reports. Of those killed in the attack two were Filipino and two were Ghanaian nationals, the rest were Libyan nationals. One French official and another Libyan official said Islamic State militants were behind the attack. The Al Mabrook attack was just one of many and follows last week’s deadly assault on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram fighters have taken their brand of inhumanity across borders, most recently into Cameroon where they killed 100 people in the town of Fotokol. The Islamist fighters hacked and burned their way through the town, murdering people in their homes and in mosques. Many of the dead were found with their throats slit, according to Cameroon’s L’Oeil du Sahel newspaper.
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