Coptic Christian Slaughtered in New Jersey, Islamic Militants Suspected

Story dated 16 January 2005

I would like to know why this story isn't getting more coverage. This could be our 'Van Gogh murder' and the national press is nearly silent on it (by 'nearly silent', I mean I have to exert effort to find the story). Here is the story. A Coptic Christian of Egyptian extraction and his family (a wife and two daughters) were savagely murdered in their New Jersey home sometime after Thursday evening of last week. The father was very outspoken about his religion and "engag[ed] in fiery back-and-forth with Muslims on the Web site paltalk.com." He "had recently been threatened by Muslim members of the Web site" who told him, "You'd better stop this bull---- or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you." Now he's dead. Even the FBI has to admit that it has some likely suspects in this case, especially in light of what was found at the scene of the crime. "This is not a robbery," Fred Ayed, the deacon at St. George and St. Shenouda Church said. "We found all of the jewelry in the house. They didn't take anything." Sylvia, one of the daughters (and at least as outspoken as her father) was found horribly mutilated, "and stabbed... in the wrist, where she had a tattoo of a Coptic cross." Religious hatred fits these circumstances as a motive and militant Islamists make likely suspects. Do your duty, F.B.I. -- or have you forgotten how after persecuting so many people who have harmed no one?

posted by The Sovereign Editor | 3:18 PM

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