France: Wheelchair-Bound Christian Preacher Stabbed In The Neck, Murdered While Broadcasting Live By Muslims

Revolting silence. Doesn’t even make the newswires.

Ashur Sarnaya, a Christian Assyrian preacher in a wheelchair who had escaped Iraq after fleeing Islamic persecution, was murdered yesterday by Islamists in France, where he lived. A horrific video shows his throat being slit live on TikTok. For years, people who fled Islamic violence and sought refuge in the democratic societies of the West have been warning us about these waves of brutality that corrode our open, trust-based societies. The inhuman fascist ideology that destroyed the Middle East has now taken root here—and the Left is actively nurturing it.(Maral Salmassi)

Heartbreaking, an Assyrian Christian refugee and preacher in a wheelchair, Ashur Sarnaya, was hacked to death with a machete by three Islamists during a religious TikTok live stream in Lyon, France.

He had fled Islamic persecution in Iraq and was known for criticizing Islam. pic.twitter.com/ICTH7NeETc

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) September 11, 2025

But it some bacon outside a mosque…….

France: Wheelchair-bound Iraqi Christian stabbed in the neck and killed while broadcasting live on social media

Sep 12, 2025 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A Middle Eastern Christian was stabbed in the neck while speaking about the Christian Faith on social media. He had previously received threats from Muslims over his videos.

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

“Lyon: Wheelchair-bound Iraqi Christian Murdered Live,” translated from “Lyon : un chrétien Irakien en fauteuil roulant assassiné en plein live,” Aleteia, September 11, 2025:

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Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old wheelchair-bound Iraqi belonging to the Assyrian-Chaldean community of Lyon, was murdered on the evening of September 10th while broadcasting a live video on social media. Deeply committed to his Christian faith, this “very kind” and “deeply religious” man was stabbed in front of his home in the 9th arrondissement.

A “very kind” and “deeply religious” man: this is all we know for now about Ashur, a 45-year-old Iraqi man murdered on the evening of Wednesday, September 10th in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon. This wheelchair-bound man, a member of the Assyrian-Chaldean community and a regular at the Saint-Ephrem parish in Lyon, was stabbed in the neck while broadcasting live on social media. “He often made videos about faith; he liked to talk about the Christian religion,” Georges Shamoun Ishaq, president of the Assyrian-Chaldean Association of Lyon, told Aleteia. “He was a very kind, discreet person who had no problems with anyone, but we don’t know much more,” he confided.

In a video clip, viewed by AFP and still online Thursday morning, Ashur Sarnaya appears with a bloodied face. A man allegedly waited for him at the bottom of his building before stabbing him “in the carotid artery” with his weapon and fleeing, according to Le Progrès. A witness filmed a young man leaving the scene from behind, wearing dark clothing and a hood over his head, who was identified as a possible perpetrator. Contacted by neighbors, emergency services found the man in cardio-respiratory arrest and were unable to revive him. Ashur had lived in an apartment building in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon with his sister for about ten years. The latter spoke to RMC and BFM TV. She says she was alerted by friends who were watching her brother’s TikTok live while she was out shopping. “When I got home, I saw that all my friends had called me several times. They told me to go see what was going on. When I arrived, he was dead. He was on the ground, there were lots of people, the police, the firefighters…”, she recounts.

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In his videos, Ashur spoke in particular about the Christian religion and discussed his disagreements with Islam. One of them, published in March, reported intimidation and threats related to this content. Several comments left