According to CNN this morning, ISIS is planning to release a video today threatening to slaughter the 150 Christians they captured yesterday in Syria if the coalition airstrikes don’t stop:
CNN – ISIS is holding many more Assyrian Christians hostage than previously thought — and it is reportedly planning to release a message Wednesday threatening to kill them.
Osama Edward, founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network, told CNN that the extremist group is now believed to have 150 hostages, citing the latest information from the network’s team on the ground.
Initial estimates put the number seized at between 70 and 100 people, among them women, children and the elderly.
The video message will be directed to President Barack Obama and other members of the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, Edward said from Stockholm, Sweden.
The Assyrians were kidnapped early Tuesday from villages near Tal Tamer in northeastern Syria.
Edward, who has family in the area attacked by the terror group, said the latest information from the ground indicated the hostages had been moved to an ISIS-controlled location.
The activist organization Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently also said on Twitter that ISIS has moved a number of Assyrian captives to Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold.
The last message received from the hostages was a text from a kidnapped woman to her husband, Edward said. She said the kidnappers were interrogating the hostages about whether the women were members of local militias.
This is horrible. Just stop what you are doing for a second and imagine if you were one of them, knowing that certain horrible death may be right around the corner with potentially no one coming to help.
It’s unbelievable for me to try and imagine this. It causes me to pray that God would stir up other Christians to wage a crusade against these barbarians, that they would slaughter these Islamo-Nazi bastards and send them to hell where they belong and that these God would be glorified through it all, so that the world would see there is one true God and His name is JESUS and he isn’t anybody’s messenger.
Amen.