After the foiled suicide attack on the ancient temples of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt—a tourist designation—the Islamic State has promised a “fiery summer” for the Christian Copts and Sisi government.
The jihadi group vowed to unleash a number of suicide bombers—or “martyrs”—to target both groups.
Abu Zayid al-Sudani, a leading member of the group, tweeted the following on his account: “The bombing of Luxor, a burning summer awaits the tyrant of Egypt [President Sisi] and his soldiers, and the worshippers of the cross. This is just the beginning.”
In Christianity, martyrs shed their own blood to witness to Christ. In the Mahometan death-cult, “martyrs” shed the blood of others, as witness to the depravity of Mahomet.
A little-remarked, but alarming feature of the situation is, that Christian words are being debased and made useless and meaningless by being applied to non-Christians. “Fundamentalist” has a precise meaning in Christianity; so does “martyr” – to apply the Christian words and concepts to entities in Islam which are not accurately described by those words, impoverishes the description not only of Christianity but also of Islam, by misrepresenting Islam. We cannot know our enemy and take precautions against it, if we misdescribe it. Such inaccuracy is indefensible and downright lazy, when it is not dishonest. No wonder that politicians and public figures are so abysmally ill-informed about Islam.