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from Part I - Methodology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
Let us now fast forward. On 12 February 2015, Islamic State released a video showing the beheading of twenty Egyptian Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian – all migrant workers – who had been kidnapped in the city of Sirte, in Libya, to ‘avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church’. Less than a week later, on 21 February 2015, Pope Tawadros III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, announced that the twenty-one murdered Copts would be commemorated as martyr saints on 8 Amshir of the Coptic calendar, which is 15 February of the Gregorian calendar.2
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