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.
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It is past time. In fact, we should make it a pastime.
He will indeed.
The death toll, now, is reported as 21.
Did an Egyptian Christian cracka a joke about Muhammad? Why is the Egyptian government turning a blind eye?
From the Pacific to Europe - actual civilization is fighting against the borg.
Further ask them this: what the hell side are you on, boyo. Your neck is on the line as is your family.
Study Islam and shove its core values down his throat during class.
Friggin academic clowns. They've never worked a day in their lives, they can not get fired, they live in a safe inoculated bubble full of people like themselves. Full of theories and BS. These people and their peers would last two days in the real world and deep down inside they know it.
I agree and thank you for the ping Clintonfatigued.
What I want to know is how did they get their horses and buggies across the Atlantic? You think maybe they went up through Alaska instead and across to Russia? Seems like Sarah would have said something ...
The denigration of Coptic Egyptians really began under Nasser when nearly all were deprived of jobs in the government sector and in Nasser’s Arab Socialist Union. There were a few Coptic fellow travellers like the anti-Semite Boutros Boutros Ghali, even while no new Coptic churches were allowed, and the attacks on Christians which began in Upper Egypt at Assiut and surrounding area were allowed without interference. Since then, tens of thousands of Copts have emigrated to Australia, Canada and the United States, where, unlike Muslim immigrants, they can be depended upon to make excellent citizens.
Even the title of this AP article is written to shield readers from the facts.
“Bomb hits Egypt church” reads like “tornado hits town”
The headline should say “Church in Egypt bombed at New Year’s Mass.”
Ya everyone knows it was those Egyptian Amish....
It basically is too late. There isn’t going to be any peace, joy, love, freedom, or health until the leftists and muslims are totally eradicated from the planet. The infection has reached the critical point.
breeding isn’t going to do anything except give the Muslims and leftists more fodder. There is no point in bothering with civilization until the vermin start to diminish in numbers and influence. At this point, there may not be any peaceful options left.
“The same has been going on in Iraq too, only about half of their original 800,000 Christians are left.”
The biggest failure in the war has been the failure to protect them.
I add my Prayers to Yours, TAZ.
My heart goes out to Christians and Jews suffering in muslim countries.
Muslims keep saying but... but... but... the crusades...well, I say LET’s bring them back...didn’t do the job properly the last time.
We visited the Coptic enclave in Cairo a couple years ago known as “garbage city”. The Copts collect Cairo’s garbage. sort it and feed the food spoils to their pigs. When the “swine” flu scare was on the ignorant mooslims killed all the Copt pigs without compensation. The mooslims have a history of degrading and often killing all non mooslims. mooslim credo: I love you. I will kill you and your children. Boom! Slash!
That’s going to be a two way street one of these days. Someone will go off on a mosque full of worshipers. Do you think the media would cover it?
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