Who are Kāmīliyā Shahhāta and Wafā’ Qustantīn: the two women ISIS is slaughtering Copts in Egypt in revenge for?

Websites connected to ISIS reported that the organization’s fighters had kidnapped and slaughtered 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. They said the kidnappings came as revenge for Muslim women who were exposed to persecution at the hands of "the Copts in Egypt." The extremist organization specified in their newspaper "Dābi’," that these kidnappings came as revenge for Kāmīliyā Shahhāta and Wafā’ Qustantīn as well as "other sisters who have been tortured and killed by the Coptic Church in Egypt."

Shahhāta and Qustantīn were two Christian women who disappeared from their husbands, who were members of the Coptic Clergy, and reportedly converted to Islam. The Coptic Church asked for security forces to return them to their families, suggesting they had been forced to convert against their will. Shahhāta later appeared with her husband on a Christian TV channel to confirm that she had not in fact converted. However, in the case of Qustantīn, Former President Husnī Mubarak ordered that she be given over to the Church and has not appeared since. Some reports have suggested that the Church ordered her execution, but her brother told a newspaper in 2008 that she is living with her family in peace.

(16 February, 2015, CNN Arabic, No Author Mentioned)

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