The Coptic Christians suffered more under Mubarak than Iraqi Christians did under Saddam. Saddam left them alone in many ways.
You know why? Because Saddam was fully in charge in Iraq while Mubarak also tried to suck up to the Muslim Brotherhood just to keep the peace.
Saddam knew that he had nothing to fear from the Christians — Mubarak was willing to sacrifice them. Mubarak was a cowardly a-hole and Egypt will get another one, only this one will be bigger.
I remember the day Anwar Sadat was assasinated. The Muslim Brotherhood carried out the killing. Remembering the news, always assumed Mubarak was in on it.
“The Coptic Christians suffered more under Mubarak than Iraqi Christians did under Saddam. Saddam left them alone in many ways.
You know why? Because Saddam was fully in charge in Iraq while Mubarak also tried to suck up to the Muslim Brotherhood just to keep the peace.
Saddam knew that he had nothing to fear from the Christians — Mubarak was willing to sacrifice them. Mubarak was a cowardly a-hole and Egypt will get another one, only this one will be bigger.”
The Coptic Christians suffered more under Mubarak than Iraqi Christians did under Saddam. Saddam left them alone in many ways.
You know why? Because Saddam was fully in charge in Iraq while Mubarak also tried to suck up to the Muslim Brotherhood just to keep the peace.
Saddam knew that he had nothing to fear from the Christians — Mubarak was willing to sacrifice them. Mubarak was a cowardly a-hole and Egypt will get another one, only this one will be bigger.”
The Coptic Christians suffered more under Mubarak than Iraqi Christians did under Saddam. Saddam left them alone in many ways.
You know why? Because Saddam was fully in charge in Iraq while Mubarak also tried to suck up to the Muslim Brotherhood just to keep the peace.
Saddam knew that he had nothing to fear from the Christians — Mubarak was willing to sacrifice them. Mubarak was a cowardly a-hole and Egypt will get another one, only this one will be bigger.”
Exactly. Saddam was a type of proper secular leader for ME society which is a pot of snakes and has to be handled that way. These people are driven by hate most of the time and their idea of liberty is a freedom to kill infidels. Other freedoms aren’t considered at all. Saddam had his answer on that. He just chopped islamists’ heads off. He also killed everyone suspected to sympatiseing islamists. A lot ‘ve been told on his handling of Kurds but try to be in Saddam’s shoes for a moment. Kurds are run by a commies and they has a goal to ruin both Iraq and Turkey to built a socialist state on their territory.
If you have a bit softer liberal approach like Mubarak did and stop repressing dissent there it ends up the way it did in Iran and now Egypt. Iraq hasn’t change to better place in this regard after Saddam removal as well. It won’t stand a month after coalition troops withdrawal.
Christians are not like that and that is the reason their suffering under Saddam wasn’t so hard.