Posted on 07/22/2015 6:23:23 AM PDT by marshmallow
At sundown each day during Ramadan, which ended on 17 July with the Eid-al-Fitr celebrations, observant Muslims customarily broke their fast at their evening iftar meal by eating dates.
A week prior, on the evening of 10 July, 16-year-old Fawzi Osama was on the street in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria, handing out dates to those hurrying home before sundown. In a country that is 90 per cent Muslim, nearly every passer-by was, almost by definition, Muslim.
Osama, however, is a Coptic Christian, and in each small plastic bag of dates he also had included a slip of paper containing a Christian message.
Before the night was over, an offended bystander had stopped Osama and taken him to a nearby police station. The irate Muslim demanded the minor be charged with offending Islam and attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity, according to the Arabic-language news website Al Bawaba.
Madr Masr, a two-year-old independent news website in Cairo, reported that the printed material inside each bag included this message: “The Lord knows all that occurs, for He is the mighty Knower. He can carry on his shoulders all that is oppressive and exhausting and bring comfort and joy, for He loves you very much.”
Madr Masr published what it said was a photo of one of the bags containing the message. The photo, according to Madr Masr, had separately first been posted on Facebook by someone else. The slip of paper included a link to a Christian website with evangelistic content.
Two of Osama’s Christian friends who learned of his predicament hurried to the police station that same evening, only to also be detained.
“Upon arriving to check on my friend Fawzi, the police at the police station took hold of my ID and mobile, and we were likewise detained,” Stephen.....
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Religion of Pieces. Head here, torso there, arms over there, and legs way over there.
No peace and tolerance for you!
You’ve almost described a suicide bomber. Only difference is that the torso is turned to a pink mist and the head and shoulders have the skin rolled up and peeled back. Seeing it in person is worse than the description.
And yet muslims glorify it.
It is their raison d’être.
The world’s most intolerant, hate filled ideology.
Walking the walk
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For sure.
I wonder when the beheading will occur. Prayers for this young man and his faithful friends.
Brave young man. Prayers for him.
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