Baqouba (Iraq): A 14 year old Assyrian Christian boy named Ayat Taariq was beheaded in a factory by Muslim insurgents on October 21, 2006, a missionary of the At Anycost Jesus Mission in Iraq reported.
Ayat Taariq was employed as a mechanic at an electrical agency in Baqouba. On arriving at work to begin his 12-hour shift, a group of masked Islamists met him and demanded his identification card. The card indicated that Tarriq was a Christian.
It was reported that the Islamists then taunted Taariq, and asked him if he were a “Christian sinner.”
Reports said that when the young man held by his faith, the Islamists reponded with anti-Christian chides and bullying. In the end, the boy was beheaded by the Islamists amidst shouts of “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar Valillahil Hamdu.”
The boy is survived by his ailing mother, and two younger siblings. Ayat Taariq was the only earning member of the family.
This report was edited.
