Posted on 01/18/2005 6:04:06 PM PST by Tarpaulin
An Egyptian family in New Jersey --- mother, father, and both daughters, including an eight year old girl --- were found in their home last Friday, their bodies bound and their throats cut. Why? Because the father criticized Islam:
Hossam Armanious, his wife Amal Garas and their daughters, Monica (8) and Sylvia (15) were found murdered in their New Jersey home. The reason this family was so brutally murdered appears to be that they were outspoken critics of Islam. The family was bound and tortured, before their throats were slit in accord with the instructions for executing nonbelievers, as detailed in the Koran: (47:4) "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly [on them]."
They were Coptic Christians, an Egyptian sect of Christianity especially hated by Muslims for their refusal to convert to Islam. Hossam Armanious had received death threats from Muslims. According to a family friend, one of the threats read, "You'd better stop this bull, or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you. Sylvia was especially brutalized, apparently due to the tattoo of a Coptic cross on her wrist. The girls throat was not only slit, but she was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and wrist where she bore the sign of her faith.
It remains to be seen how our news media will deal with this horrific slaying. Will this brutal and sensational crime receive as much coverage as the Laci Peterson murder? Will this terrorist attack be treated with the same awe and fascination as the Kobe Bryant case? Will we have 24/7 legal analysis, breaking news, interviews, investigations, magazine racks filled with pictures of the slain, an absolute media frenzy? Or, will this gruesome event be glossed over, whitewashed and quickly forgotten for reasons of political correctness?
The day will come when our secularists will long for some fundamentalist Protestants to be around to persecute them with the "scientific theory" book inserts.
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