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To: Mrs. Don-o
"Keep in mind that 90% of the opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is Muslim, and such Muslims have stepped forward to protect the Christian churches"

What are you talking about?

I don` see no muslim police nor muslim army troops guarding any churches in Egypt or there would be 52 still standing.

If 90% of the opposition is muslim how did these terrorists win the elections?

Egypt will go the way of Indonesia with a muslim govt that talks big but churches get burned up, Christian girls get raped in the streets, and cathedrals get bombed anyway coz

MUSLIM GOVTS DO NOT PROTECT CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Show me ONE muslim country that now has armed govt guards around churches.

Never bring an unarmed human chain to a RPG/firebomb attack.

12 posted on 08/20/2013 9:41:11 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: bunkerhill7
"I don` see no muslim police nor muslim army troops guarding any churches in Egypt or there would be 52 still standing."

You may have noticed that Egypt is a country in internal turmoil just now? The army can't be everywhere, nor are they in firm control. After the army struggled to secure sites in northern Egypt --- Alexandria, Port Said, Cairo --- clearing out Muslim Brotherhood strongholds and protest camps, MB spporters were swarming down and attacking or torching the churches, schools, convents and Christian orphanages, many of them in the southern deserts.

"If 90% of the opposition is muslim how did these terrorists win the elections?"

Morsi picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million, giving him about 51 per cent of the vote. His competitor, Ahmed Shafik, a cabinet member under Hosni Mubarak, received 12.3 million. More than 800,000 ballots were invalidated, raising charges of fraud. About 90% of Shafik's (anti-Muslim Brotherhood) votes were Muslim, and maybe 95% of Morsi's (pro-MB) votes were Muslim. It is suspected that many of the invalidated ballots were Christians; plus many Christians did not vote.

I don't know which way the seculars split, nor how many of them there are.

"Egypt will go the way of Indonesia with a muslim govt that talks big but churches get burned up, Christian girls get raped in the streets, and cathedrals get bombed anyway "

Nobody knows what's going to happen. It could get worse, it could get better. Egypt desperately needs to get the tourists back, which means I think that Al-Sisi will clamp down hard on the more incendiary elements, and at least create the appearance of restoring Christian churches. Remember that ancient church and monastic sites and historic-archaeological digs are also tourist magnets.

"MUSLIM GOVTS DO NOT PROTECT CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD"

Not so. Mubarak protected Christians in Egypt; so did Saddam Hussein in Iraq, ironically. I would say Borneo (Link) is a good example of Christians' rights being respected, but that's a little complicated because Borneo is an island, not a country, and three different countries have jurisdiction over it: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.

"Show me ONE muslim country that now has armed govt guards around churches."

Can't say how swift or effective or total the protective cover will be, but --- as of now --- Al-Sisi says the army will protect the churches in Egypt (Link).

Is this actually going to happen? I don't know. I don't have a personal surveillance network to do intel for me. Coptic Pope Tawadros has thanked and sided apparently with the army (As-Sisi), but it playing this very cautiously: "What did Pope Tawadros say? (Link)

13 posted on 08/20/2013 12:11:19 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." - Oscar Wilde)
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