Attacks on Egypt churches: 1 dead (17+ Injured DURING Worship)

CNN & AP ^ | April 14, 2006

[HHKrepublican_2]

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- One person is dead and more than a dozen others wounded in attacks on worshipers today at three Coptic Christian churches in Egypt. The simultaneous assaults in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria were carried out during Friday Mass by knife-wielding assailants. Police have set up checkpoints but the attackers got away. At least two of 17 people hurt are in serious condition.

[AntiGovernment]

The CNN.com-headline is: Knife-wielding men attack worshippers in Egypt

You immediately know that Christians are the victims. Prayers for these people and let's hope that they finally decide to fight back against the Islamo-fascist menace.

[Paloma_55]

Clearly, this demonstrates the war in Iraq has failed and it is George Bush's fault!


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[GrandEagle]

More news from the religion of peace.

[Archon of the East]

When can we finally say out loud that this is a war between western civilization and Islam?

[Pyro7480]

Ping!

[JamesP81]

The simultaneous assaults in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria were carried out during Friday Mass by knife-wielding assailants Islamopsychos.

Gotta have truth in advertising people.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

That CNN headline would be very misleading, because most people assume that Egypt is 100% Islamic, not knowing that 10% are (still) Christian. Hence unless they specifically state "Christian worshippers", CNN probably deliberately ignores the fact that it is Muslims killing Christians, as it has been since the 600s, and gives the impression it is poor innocent Muslims being killed.

Another fact they prefer not to deal with is that the Muslims are undertaking a new "final solution" by oppression and expulsion of all remaining Christians, just like they expelled or killed all remaining Jewish people in those countries in the late 1940's (AFTER Islamic-allied Nazi Germany did the same).

It is absolutely guarenteed that there WILL continue to be a civilizational war between the Muslims and the rest of the world, over the next several thousand years. But if our own media outlets mislead us by pretending it isn't happening, or that it is somehow our own fault, that just emboldens the Islamists.

[FormerLib]

Their tactics were so successful in riding Kosovo of its Christians so they'll be trying the same here. Guess they'll feel confused when Bill Clinton doesn't start bombing the Christians unless they're banking on a Hildebeast presidency.

[Savage Beast]

Is this what's called ethnic cleansing?

[conservativecorner]

Religion of peace my arse BUMP!

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

That CNN headline would be very misleading, because most people assume that Egypt is 100% Islamic, not knowing that 10% are (still) Christian. Hence unless they specifically state "Christian worshippers", CNN probably deliberately ignores the fact that it is Muslims killing Christians, as it has been since the 600s, and gives the impression it is poor innocent Muslims being killed.

Another fact they prefer not to deal with is that the Muslims are undertaking a new "final solution" by oppression and expulsion of all remaining Christians, just like they expelled or killed all remaining Jewish people in those countries in the late 1940's (AFTER Islamic-allied Nazi Germany did the same).

It is absolutely guarenteed that there WILL continue to be a civilizational war between the Muslims and the rest of the world, over the next several thousand years. But if our own media outlets mislead us by pretending it isn't happening, or that it is somehow our own fault, that just emboldens the Islamists.

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"Next several thousand years?????" How do you know?

Islamists remind me of the "Christian Identity" zealots, and their counterparts in every branch of monotheism.

The One Who is "The Way and the Truth and the Life" is the only respite from this confusion. Truth is not merely a doctrine, or a creed, or a "set of axioms". Truth is a Person, connection with Whom provides us the benchmark for balancing Truth with Love, Ambition (Zeal) with Humility, and Suffering with Glory.

[NYer]

AP - Fri Apr 14, 9:11 AM ET The unidentified son of a victim who was killed, reacts at Egyptian security at the Saints Coptic Church in the city of Alexandria, Egypt Friday, April 14, 2006. Knife-wielding assailants attacked worshippers at three Coptic churches in the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during Mass Friday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen, police officials said. (AP Photo)

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[NYer]

YAHOO NEWS

Three knife-wielding Muslims attacked worshippers at Coptic churches in Egypt's second city of Alexandria, killing one and wounding at least 12.

The assailants, each armed with two knives, mounted almost simultaneous attacks on churchgoers in three separate neighbourhoods and were later arrested, a police official said on condition of anonymity.

"The attacker stormed the church armed with a knife and shouted 'There is no God but Allah' and 'Allah is the greatest' before stabbing the worshippers," one of the Mar Girgis church employees told an AFP reporter on the scene.

"We closed the doors of the church as soon as he started attacking the worshippers and we fought back with sticks but he tried to flee through one of the church's underground passages," said the witness, who asked to be named only as Ibrahim.

An hour after the incident, a mass was being held to appease the neighbourhood's shocked Coptic worshippers. Security forces sealed off the areas where the attacks took place and set up checkpoints across the Mediterranean city.

The simultaneous attacks on Egypt's minority Coptic Christian community marred the run-up to the Orthodox Easter celebrations starting in a week's time and were the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in Egypt in six months.

Friday's victim, Noshi Atta Girgis, died of his wounds in hospital, a medical source said. He was among at least three people attacked at the Al-Quidissin church east of Alexandria.

The other assault took place at the Al-Adra church in the eastern suburb of Abu Kir. At least three people were said to have sustained serious injuries.

In front of the Mar Girgis church, a distressed woman called for the attacks to be avenged.

"They will see. Do they think we're cowards? They will see that we have the means to defend ourselves," she shouted, as several other worshippers were in a state of hysteria.

"We cannot enter their mosques and kill them, yet they can come to our churches and kill us without any problem. Where are the police and the government? Do they think our blood is cheaper than theirs?," cried another woman, Nadia Lofti.

"The people who do this want us all to convert to Islam. We are a minority and the government should give us more protection," she added.

Egyptian Copts in the overwhelmingly Muslim country typically attend weekly mass on Friday, which is also the Muslim holy day and marks the beginning of the weekend.

They make up an estimated 10 percent of Egypt's population of 73 million and complain of discrimination by the regime.

Coptic faithful, religious leaders and intellectuals expressed fear of further harassment following the spectacular surge of the country's leading Islamist opposition party in November-December parliamentary elections.

The deadliest recent clashes occurred in October 2005 when Muslim protestors attacked a church in Alexandria which they accused of having hosted a play they deemed offensive to Islam and killed three people.

A 19-year-old Muslim who stabbed a nun during the rioting was sentenced to three years in jail in February.

A string of lesser incidents have been reported in different parts of the country in recent months, fuelling fears of growing sectarian strife.

In January, a Coptic Christian was badly wounded when Muslims tried to torch a house that Copts were using as a church without approval from the authorities. He later died of his wounds.

[B Knotts]

Yes, in fact, I think it is. I recall reading that the Copts are not only a religious group, but are different ethnically from the majority Muslim Arab group. The Copts are, I think, the original Egyptians.

[veronica]

Islamosavages CANNOT be "democratized." We deny this at our peril.

[M. Espinola]

Egyptian police guard the Saints Coptic Church, seen in the background, at the city of Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, April 14th, 2006. Knife-wielding assailants attacked worshippers at three Coptic churches in the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during Mass Friday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen, police officials said. (AP Photo)

[stm]

This kind of puts a dampner on their "Christians faith-bound to eradicate Muslims" spin doesn't it?