A video released by the Islamic State shows fighters from one of its so-called provinces in Libya beheading 21 Egyptian Copts. The fighter then says that the Islamic State and its allies will continue to fight the “Crusaders” until Jesus comes again. After the men are beheaded, the English-speaking fighter raises his knife to the water and swears that the Islamic State will conquer Rome. The Islamic State claimed in Dabiq that the kidnapping of the 21 Egyptian men came “almost five years after the blessed operation against the Baghdad church.” That attack was launched in late 2010 by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the predecessor to the current Islamic State. The Islamic State has accused al Qaeda of being soft on Iran, as well as the Shiites in Iraq and Yemen.