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Ex-Obama DHS Adviser: ISIS Gave Coptic Christians What Was Coming to Them

Relatives of victims react next to coffins arriving to the Coptic church that was bombed on Sunday in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017.
Relatives of victims react next to coffins arriving to the Coptic church that was bombed on Sunday in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

A former senior member of President Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council has reportedly commented on the Islamic State's killing of Egyptian Christians by implying that Coptic Christians got what was coming to them.

Since the end of last year when the Islamic State claimed responsibility for bombing a Coptic church in Cairo, there has been a drastic increase in Coptic Christians being targeted and killed by extremists in Egypt. Most recently, a total of 45 people were killed in church bombings claimed by the Islamic State that took place in Tanta and Alexandria on Palm Sunday.

The Islamic State also recently signaled that there will be more attacks against Christian gatherings in Egypt. In an article published in the latest version of its English-language magazine, Rumiyah, Muslims have been advised to stay away from Christian gatherings in Egypt, as well as gatherings for the army and police. The magazine also tried to state that the killing of "belligerent" Christians is justified under Islam, saying that Christian blood is "waste."

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Mohamed Elibiary, who once served as a member of the DHS' Homeland Security Advisory Council, took to Twitter to comment on the latest Islamic State magazine, The Daily Caller News Foundation reports.

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