Posted on 01/01/2011 7:22:16 AM PST by NYer
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt – A powerful bomb, possibly from a homicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged from a New Years Mass early Saturday, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly 80 in an attack that raised suspicions of an Al Qaeda role.
The attack came in the wake of repeated threats by Al Qaeda militants in Iraq to attack Egypt's Christians. A direct Al Qaeda hand in the bombing would be a dramatic development, as Egypt's government has long denied that the terror network has a significant presence in the country. Al Qaeda in Iraq has already been waging a campaign of violence against Christians in that country.
Police initially said the blast came from an explosives-packed car parked outside the Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city. But the Interior Ministry later said it was more likely from a bomber who blew himself up among the crowd.
Both tactics are hallmarks of Al Qaeda and have been rarely used in Egypt, where the government crushed an insurgency by Islamic militants in the 1990s. Though the government of President Hosni Mubarak denies an Al Qaeda presence, Egypt does have a rising movement of Islamic hard-liners who, while they do not advocate violence, adhere to an ideology similar in other ways to Al Qaeda. There have been fears they could be further radicalized amid growing sectarian tensions between Egypt's Muslim majority and Christian minority.
Nearly 1,000 Christians were attending the New Year's Mass at the Saints Church, said Father Mena Adel, a priest at the church. The service had just ended, and some worshippers were leaving the building when the bomb went off about a half hour after midnight, he said.
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When Christians start bombing mosques after Friday services, the Leftist media will be outraged...but this just isn’t of interest to them.
Religion of Peace. Go figure.
God bless the Coptic Christians. They have suffered enormously because of their beliefs. It is difficult for those of us born/raised in the USA to begin to understand all they have suffered thru the millennia. Rest the souls of those killed, and comfort the survivors and families.
Mohammedans celebrating New Year the way they know best.
Pray that Jesus will prevail in their hearts and turn them away from such meaningless, genocidal savagery.
They must be made to realize that Mohammed, being a pirate, a mass murderer, a torturer, a slave-trader, a polygamist, a pedophile, a rapist, a liar, a truce-breaker, an unspeakably cruel tyrant, and a genocidal savage, was possessed of Satan.
All these behaviors are obviously Satanic in nature, even to the most ignorant of people. Satan hates humanity because of mankind’s special place in God’s plan. Satan was never able to submit to that.
I’ll be waiting for Muslims around the world condemn this violence and to defend Christians.
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. ... ", NIV.
I lump the mainstream media with the above too. With their silence they condone it.
One needs to be reminded now and then about the justification for the Crusades.
There is only one kind of “good” Muslim.
It’s time for muzzies to start worrying their mosques.
The war is going to happen sooner or later...may as well get it over with now.
Maybe this could be an episode in Katie Couric’s Muslium Bill Cosby show.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2650092/posts
Thank you for the reminder! The muslims are determined to eliminate christianity, one country at a time. What began in the Middle East, has now spread to Africa and even Europe. It is just a matter of time before they begin attacking churches here in the US.
New Year's blessings to you and your family.
Another sad commentary on Christianity in that part of the world.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/4sePxqRNvPc?rel=0
(rolls eyes) I suppose it was just too much trouble for you to search for the story before posting a dumb opinion.
Amen. I pray for Christians and Jews in muslim lands every day.
Their lives are intolerable under the heel of islam.
It makes one wish there were a poison pill with which to target muslims.
mooslim credo: I love you. I will kill you and your children. Boom! Slash!
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