Posted on 10/28/2020 6:34:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the benefits of Adel Guindy’s new book, A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, is that it implicitly answers an important question: how and why did non-Muslim nations become Islamic? In this case, how did Egypt go from being overwhelmingly Christian in the seventh century to being overwhelmingly Muslim in the twenty-first century?
To understand the significance of this question -- and because pre-Islamic Egypt’s profoundly Christian nature is often forgotten -- a brief primer is in order:
Before Islam invaded, Egypt was home to some of Christendom’s earliest theological giants and church fathers, including Clement of Alexandria (b. 150), Origen the Great (b. 184), Anthony the Great, father of monasticism (b. 251), and Athanasius of Alexandria (b. 297), the chief defender of the Nicene Creed, which is still professed by all major Christian denominations. The Catechetical School of Alexandria was the most important ecclesiastical and learning center of ancient Christendom.
Writing around the year 400, and further indicative of how thoroughly Christian pre-Islamic Egypt was, John Cassian, a European, observed that “the traveler from Alexandria in the north to Luxor in the south would have in his ears along the whole journey, the sounds of prayers and hymns of the monks, scattered in the desert, from the monasteries and from the caves, from monks, hermits, and anchorites.”
Some Europeans, such as the British historian and archaeologist Stanley Lane-Poole (d. 1931), even claim that Coptic missionaries were first to bring the Gospel to distant regions of Europe, including Switzerland, Britain, and especially Ireland. Most recently, both the oldest parchment to contain words from the Gospel (dating to the first century) and the oldest image of Christ were discovered in separate regions of Egypt.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Look at the African city of FEZ.
Moslems attacked FEZ because the Christians would not convert. They killed every person, then dipped their white cup shaped hats in the blood of Christian Martyrs. And, that is why the Egyptian FEZ hat is Red.
Hope you Shriners are paying attention. Your silly little hat celebrates the death of Christians.
Remember when Obama’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt nearly sparked a genocide against the Copts?
I guess a fez isn’t cool.
Thank you for the history lesson. I’d never heard of this.
I guess a fez isn’t cool.
Thank you for the history lesson. I’d never heard of this.
Fez nonsense.
Article makes sense, Christianity may have flourished by winning hearts and minds, but Islam has always needed to take ‘more definitive’ steps to assure their domination.
As recently as mid-20th century Egypt was majority Christian.
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Every majority moslem nation is moslem because of conquest, butchery and forced “conversions”. Every. Single. One.
“Egypt: How a Fiercely Christian Nation Became Fanatically Islamic”
That’s an easy question. Christians have an unending supply of other cheeks to turn, and Muslims are more than happy to slap them around.
Or, IOW, terrorism works, especially with people who refuse to defend themselves.
RE: That’s an easy question. Christians have an unending supply of other cheeks to turn, and Muslims are more than happy to slap them around.
Somebody should properly explain this teaching of Jesus. What ever it means, it does not and cannot mean that Christian nations cannot use force to defend themselves against invaders.
My phone doesn’t like that website. Keeps crashing. Looks interesting though.
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