Chattanooga’s Egyptian Community Concerned After Libyan Air Strikes

CHATTANOOGA,TN, (WDEF)-Smoke fills the area over ISIS strongholds in Libya after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued retaliation air strikes Monday.

The order came after the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by ISIS members shown in a graphic video.
 
Here in Chattanooga Egyptian Americans are angry and upset.

Mohamed Ismail Ahmed, Egyptian’s Abroad For Democracy,"Made up movement, terrorist group, just to justify the dictatorship in the middle east we are all against Isis."

Ismail Ahmed believes clamping down on recruitment of young Egyptians by ISIS will help stop the violence and turmoil in his country.

He added that it is not just Christians who are being targeted and feels religious terrorism is destroying the middle East, Africa and parts of Asia.

"Hundreds of Muslims are being burned alive, in Burma we need to talk about them too, if we are able to do that we are going to see, stability, sorry we are going to see more balance."

His organization Egyptian’s Abroad for Democracy  has spent the past month traveling throughout the US demanding that Egyptian families be given a chance to speak out against extremism.

There are now more than a quarter of a million Egyptians in the US and some also question the ability of  President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in removing ISIS from their country once and for all."

Jimmy Nasr, Chattanooga based Egyptian,"Innocent people got killed Christian, Jewish, Muslim, what we see I believe every month or so in Egypt something happen, the way the guy over there is still in a chair, I think this guy is a pirate."

  The President has begun evacuating Egyptian nationals from Libya.
     He’s received support from Russian President Vladmir Putin.