“Milad’s sister, Madonna Malek, told Worthy News that their family paid a ransom, but because he was the only Christian in the group, his kidnappers refused to release him and violently pressured him to convert to Islam.”
Imagine the international outcry if the roles were reversed here, which they would not be and should not be. But this story will pass unnoticed. It’s just another one. The larger implications are never a matter of consideration.
“Egyptian Christian Martyred in Libya,” by Bella Agnello, International Christian Concern, November 6, 2026:
In early October, a 20-year-old Coptic Christian was kidnapped and killed at the hands of the Islamic State group.
Milad Malak lived in Sebarbay, Egypt, and served as a church deacon at a local Coptic church. However, because of the country’s economic decline, he traveled to Libya on Sept. 2 to find work.
He made a day’s journey with two Muslim friends and arrived in Zliten, where they stayed with other Egyptian migrant workers. On the morning of Oct. 4, ISIS militants kidnapped them.
The captors subjected the group to abuse while they held them hostage for ransom money. Milad’s friends were released after their families paid a $4,700 ransom. They are now receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Egypt.
Milad’s sister, Madonna Malek, told Worthy News that their family paid a ransom, but because he was the only Christian in the group, his kidnappers refused to release him and violently pressured him to convert to Islam.
Milad stood strong in his faith until the end. He told his persecutors, “Even if you cut me into pieces, I would never renounce my faith.”
When the militants realized they could not force him to abandon his God, they killed him….
somehistory says
The young man had the promise of a resurrection…a call from death by Jesus Christ….and he will live again.
His family can trust in this as he trusted it. His words remind me of the three young Hebrews in captivity in Babylon who were told to bow to the huge image of gold but refused. They said if they were thrown into the fiery furnace, they would not bow down to the image.
The murderers will face Divine Justice. They will reap as they have sown.
Wellington says
Two Muslim friends? Yes, there is much else to this story but this in and of itself is a red light big time.
One could have had two Nazi friends back in the 1930s—or two Communist friends during the Cold War—or two BLM friends quite recently, and so on. But so what?
Be careful who your friends are. Yes, they might be wonderful with you but if a friend adheres to a malevolent and freedom-crushing ideology (none more evidentiary of this than Islam) that person is no real friend if for no other reason (and there are others) that such bad judgement by such friends is dispositive that true friendship does not exist and whatever friendship does is a phantom friendship.
Ideology matters. Including where real friendship is concerned.
somehistory says
I questioned that line too, Wellington, wondering if they stabbed him in the back when the other adherents came on the scene. How much would their ‘friendship’ matter to them?
Wellington says
Even assuming, somehistory, that this man’s two Muslim friends were on the up and up they are nonetheless still woefully ignorant, and ignorant friends, to the extent one wishes to keep such “friends,” should be treated with warily and with the intention to dissuade them from their ignorance.
Also, Muslims treating other Muslims badly, as in this instance it seems, is par for the course and indicative in just one more way of just how screwed up and malicious Mo’s warped creed really is.
somehistory says
Sure, Wellington, we can believe that his friends were ‘on the up and up.’ They were abused by their fellow muzzies, after all. That shows how little muzzies care for even their own kind. They like to use their fellow feelings when giving an excuse for their terror attacks…revenge and all that. But when push comes to shove, they don’t mind doing some damage to other muzzies.
I still question how the murderers found that the young man was the only Christian.
Would not he have looked physically about the same? Was he wearing something that said he was not muzzie and they questioned him?
Christians don’t stand much chance of life and freedom of any sort when they live where muzzies control things.
abu taleb says
True, you can not trust muslims, but still there is no proof that his muslim friends betrayed him. His family had some information abt his refusal to cnvert to Islam must have come from his friends.
Ahmadiyah people are killed because they are using the name of Islam (muslims’ claim), here we have ISIS who are using the name of Islam, and no muslims claim they are not musllims, even some muslims declare akegiance with ISIS. It should prove to muslims that ISIS is indeed very Islamic, and the muslims who still adhere to Islam will certainly go to hell.
Rob Porter says
Canadians will never hear this story in their pathetic media. It would be so ‘Islamophobic.
somehistory says
“They had him crucified: Christian convert faces torture, execution in Egypt for leaving Islam”
““They tried to remove his cross tattoo. They tortured him. They had him crucified the whole time that he was there,” Sophia, the fiancée of Said Mansour Rezk Abdelrazek, an Egyptian convert to Christianity who faces the possibility of execution, told The Jerusalem Post, describing the abuse he has endured after being charged as punishment for leaving Islam.
Abdelrazek was arrested in July 2025 and has been detained by Egyptian authorities since then. His lawyer, Said Fayez, confirmed on Tuesday that Egyptian prosecutors are pursuing the “maximum penalty,” either execution or 25 years’ imprisonment. According to the NGO Coptic Solidarity, Abdelrazek faces charges of contempt for Islam, inciting public disorder, disseminating false information, and joining a banned terrorist organization that allegedly does not exist.
Fayez’s office has asserted that the terrorist organization authorities have accused him of belonging to is entirely fictitious and that the charges actually stem from his refusal to “renounce Jesus.”
Sophia, whose last name is omitted upon her request, has also confirmed that Egyptian authorities have yet to identify the alleged terrorist organization and further alleged that at least 180 other Christians are being held by the authorities on similarly dubious charges.
Australian-Egyptian Sophia first met Abdelrazek on social media and soon fell in love, meeting in person in 2021.”
There is a lot more to the story for any who wish to know how, when, why…..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/they-had-him-crucified-christian-convert-faces-torture-execution-in-egypt-for-leaving-islam/ar-AA2h3qAR?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6af279dc11c0429fb02072708a6c75da&ei=43