Posted on 10/02/2011 11:03:31 AM PDT by opentalk
The fruits of the “Arab Spring.”
CAIRO, Egypt, September 30 (CDN) —A group of hard-line Muslims attacked a church building in Upper Egypt this afternoon, torching the structure and then looting and burning nearby Christian-owned homes and businesses.
The 3,000-strong mob of hard-line and Salafi Muslims gutted the Mar Gerges Church in the Elmarenab village of Aswan, then demolished much of its remains, multiple witnesses at the scene said. The mob also razed four homes near the church and two businesses, all Christian-owned. Looting was also reported.
Michael Ramzy, a villager in Elmarenab, said the attack started shortly after Muslims held their afternoon prayers. “Imams in more than 20 mosques called for crowds to gather and destroy the church and demolish the houses of the Copts and loot their properties,” Ramzy told local media.
The Mar Gerges burning is the third church in Egypt in seven months to be burned down by a mob. Additionally, numerous other churches have been looted or otherwise attacked this year including a New Year’s Eve bombing at the Two Saints Church in Alexandria that left 23 dead and scores critically wounded.
I don’t have the tendency to make myself ever so clear on these type of threads.
And I get way too far too mad. MAD. Mad, I say.
There is nothing in me, or you (apropos) to dissuade how I really feel about the BS hypocrisy that wastes the lives (and extended families) of our children.
Comes out sideways. My mouth. My a$$.
Let me tell you something, FRiend...you don’t have a monopoly on that, and I mean that, starting from me and going outwards into the FR community.
Thanxs for that rl. And thanx again Jim for the fair warning.
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