Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 7 dead
AP via Breitbart ^ | DECEMBER 31, 2010 | BY MAGGIE MICHAEL

Posted on 12/31/2010 7:29:17 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

CAIRO (AP) - A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early Saturday, killing at least seven people, officials said. After the blast, enraged Christians emerging from the church clashed with police and stormed a nearby mosque, prompting fights and volleys of stone throwing with Muslims, police and witnesses said—a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt.

Nearly 1,000 Christians were attending the Mass at the Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, said a priest at the church, Father Mena Adel. The service had just ended, and worshippers were leaving the building when the blast went off, about a half-hour after midnight.

"I was inside the church and heard a huge explosion," Adel told The Associated Press. "People's bodies were in flames."

The blast came from a car parked outside the church, but police said they were still investigating whether the car had been rigged with explosives or if a bomb had been placed under it. Witnesses reported seeing the charred chassis of the destroyed car, with the remains of several bodies nearby and dozens wounded.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement that seven people were killed and 24 wounded. Alexandria's governor, Adel Labib, put the death toll as high as 10.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. Labib immediately blamed al-Qaida, pointing to recent threats by the terror group's branch in Iraq to attack Christians. It was not clear, however, if Labib had firm evidence, and he may have intended more to deny any homegrown Muslim-Christian tensions in Egypt.

"The al-Qaida organization threatened to attack churches inside Egypt. This has nothing to do with sectarianism," he told TV.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbomb; christian; christianpersecution; church; churches; coptic; egypt; globaljihad; immigrantlist; immigration; jihad; killingchristians; muslim; muslims; persecution; wot
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-86 next last
To: wild74
Thank you for saying it before I did. It is their perverted cult. Every muslim is a threat. They have stated such. Yet the U.S. is pouring more and more of these "students" into my country. No one is reporting on the missing 450 that all took off at one time when they were supposed to leave.
21 posted on 12/31/2010 8:04:38 PM PST by mirkwood (Palin-Bolton 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Merrittk

I know. I hate it especially when those young, white Amish Americans pose as Islamic terrorists when they do this...just hacks me off. [/dripping sarcasm]


22 posted on 12/31/2010 8:05:25 PM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

It must have been the joyous singing. And no prostitutes.


23 posted on 12/31/2010 8:08:42 PM PST by MaxMax
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

I must have missed the UN’s statement condemning the murders of Christians by Muslims in 2010. Anyone got a link? /s

Seriously, what’s the body count for the year? Anyone in the MSM care?


24 posted on 12/31/2010 8:14:48 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LeoWindhorse
I mean that utterly and totally REFORM , in every way or disappear from the fabric of humanity forever

Let's stick to the disappear part.

It is the only way.

25 posted on 12/31/2010 8:17:38 PM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

Prayers for suffering innocents.


26 posted on 12/31/2010 8:20:27 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibFreeOrDie; Jet Jaguar; LeoWindhorse
Anyone got a link?

Sorta. Kinda.

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

27 posted on 12/31/2010 8:28:53 PM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

Let’s see, the Muslims blow up some Christians coming out of Mass, and when the Christians get mad and start shouting and throwing things at the mosque, this is “a sign of the sectarian anger that has been plaguing Egypt.”

The press makes me sick to my stomach.

Prayers for those poor Christians.


28 posted on 12/31/2010 8:46:11 PM PST by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LeoWindhorse

Ok...let’s wait for the 1 billion moderate muslims to condemn this before we damn them. Ok...we wiated long enough (because it never happens, dfoes it?)


29 posted on 12/31/2010 8:47:24 PM PST by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

Stones vs bombs and guns. Hey Christians of the world, wanna all die? This is how.

And breeding too. You’re giving up guys, and I’m on the outside of this fight.


30 posted on 12/31/2010 8:52:17 PM PST by Tolsti2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

Ah, such a piece-ful religion.


31 posted on 12/31/2010 8:55:51 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
Coptic Christians and their church were one of the earliest Christian sects to emerge as the good word Christ brought mankind spread through the Mediterranean lands. Coptics were in Egypt long before Mohammed started Islam and were one of the peoples of the Book who were to be said by him to be tolerated and left alone by Muslims.

The present Muslim radicals and terrorists choose to ignore that direction and are killing Christians of all sects who still live in Islamic majority lands. If there are good Muslims left in the Muslim lands, why do not they restrain the radicals and terrorists who act against Mohammed's directions?

32 posted on 12/31/2010 8:58:07 PM PST by RicocheT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar; CatholicEagle; 0beron; cobyok; surroundedbyblue; shurwouldluv_a_smallergov; ...
+

Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.

33 posted on 12/31/2010 9:00:26 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: narses

Prayers for the families affected by this...


34 posted on 12/31/2010 9:47:33 PM PST by srajan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

The strife looks a tad more than “sectarian.”


35 posted on 12/31/2010 9:50:18 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo

Agree


36 posted on 12/31/2010 10:02:32 PM PST by Shark24
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
And stupid "Americans" put a muzzie in the WH and commies and sex perverts in Congress.

Sounds like we need to deal with the enemy at home before its too late,

37 posted on 12/31/2010 10:09:02 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: anglian
If Muslims were being gunned down and bombed in western mosques by Christian fanatics, there would rightly be a tremendous outcry”

Maybe it's time to find out if that conjecture is true.

38 posted on 12/31/2010 10:12:37 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (The 0 admin thinks it is above the law.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks Jet Jaguar.
39 posted on 12/31/2010 10:14:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
Stretch yo arse on this one Obama admin..condemn this one ...now. Happy New Year Nappy.
40 posted on 12/31/2010 10:20:52 PM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-86 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson