Posted on 08/19/2013 4:45:01 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) – Some supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president directed their wrath at the country’s Christian minority Wednesday, in what activists described as “the worst coordinated attacks on Egypt’s Coptic community in modern history.”
Largely eclipsed by the military’s crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo and resulting loss of life, more than 20 churches in a number of provinces were reported to have been targeted for arson and other attacks.
Through the day news reports and social media posts drew attention to individual incidents and it soon became apparent that a concerted campaign of coordinated attacks was underway. Most of the targeted churches were Coptic Orthodox, but Catholic churches were also attacked as well as at least one Protestant church.
One of the groups monitoring the situation through contacts on the ground, the Australian Coptic Movement Association (ACM), released a list of 16 churches and related sites attacked, and said the true figure could reach 40.
Those it listed included six churches and the house of a parish priest in Minya province, south-west of Cairo, among them a Church of the Virgin Mary which the ACM reported had been “totally demolished.”
Three churches were torched in Sohag province further to the south, a church, convent and school were set alight in the eastern province of Suez, as were a church and Bible Society premises in Fayoum province, west of the capital. It also reported assaults at a church in Alexandria.
According to Egypt’s independent Mideast Christian News service, eyewitnesses to one of the church attacks in Sohag reported seeing Muslim Brotherhood supporters hijack a fire truck to prevent it from attending the fire.
“These attacks on the Copts is unprecedented in the modern era,” Bishop Anba Suriel of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Melbourne, Australia, wrote on his Twitter account. “Will the world continue to standby passively amidst this injustice?”
An hour later, citing reports of more than 20 separate attacks, he tweeted again, “Where is the army?”
Ramez Atallah, general director of the Bible Society of Egypt, said two “very beautiful, fully equipped” Bible Society bookshops, in Minya and Assiut, were among the buildings that were torched and destroyed.
“Fortunately we were closed today, fearing such an attack, so none of our staff were injured. The attackers demolished the metal doors protecting the bookshops, broke the store windows behind them and set the bookshops on fire,” he said.
Atallah said this was the first time the Bible Society had been victim of such attacks in its 129-year history in the country.
“We are in deep distress following the coordinated attacks on Coptic Christians throughout Egypt,” ACM said. “There has been little or no police or military protection at all in southern Egypt.”
It said the government had failed to protect Christians despite Islamists’ threats and incitement over recent weeks.
“The pro-Morsi supporters and Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been inciting hatred and violence against Egypt’s Coptic Christians and now we are seeing those threats acted on in an unprecedented way.
“Western leaders have also failed to take the issue of Coptic persecution seriously and seem to be more interested in protecting the rights of those who persecute Christians.”
Last week more than a dozen Egyptian human rights groups accused Islamists of inciting violence against Christians and the interim government and security forces of not protecting members of the vulnerable minority or acting against the perpetrators.
I hope for the filthy wretched fanatical system to be wiped from the earth and all of it's subjects be free from the death grip it has on their soul!! I dream of a day when all those enslaved by this evil will be set free!! But I also look for the day when Muslims here in the USA are treated the same as Christians in Muslim countries. The Holy Bible doesn't tell Christians to lie down and be slaughtered while their Churches are being burned to the ground by a knuckle-dragging neanderthal Muslim mob.
Islam doesn't work for America so rip it out and send it flying over to the middle east like a flying carpet. While we're stamping out Islam in America we should also stamp out the race pimp posturing that is going on like a wildfire in this nation without ANY provocation on the part of the non-negroes.
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See how crazy this situation has become?
Muslim: Kill the Infidels, burn their churches and synagogues, rape their women, execute their menfolk, dig up their dead and mutilate their remains, stone them, burn them and cut their heads off!!!
Non-Muslim: Yours is a religion of hate...
Muslim: Ahhhhhhhyyyyeeeeeeee! You are an Islamophobe! You Racist, intolerant person! What about your rule of law, your tolerance, ah! You are vile animals...
Muslim: Kill the Infidels, burn their churches and synagogues, rape their women, execute their menfolk, dig up their dead and mutilate their remains, stone them, burn them and cut their heads off!!!
Non-Muslim: Yours is a religion of hate...
Muslim: Ahhhhhhhyyyyeeeeeeee! You are an Islamophobe! You Racist, intolerant person! What about your rule of law, your tolerance, ah! You are vile animals...
By Damien McElroy
2:29PM BST 19 Aug 2013
Ashraf ElKholy told the Telegraph that the Muslim Brotherhood offered Egypt a stark choice that it either exercise power or it would assert itself with violence. When the military-backed interim government displaced the Muslim Brotherhood’s popularly elected leader, Mohammad Morsi, the organisation opted for confrontation with the state.
“There is no difference with what David Cameron did to deal with the demonstrations here in London,” he said. “If the demonstrators don’t have any weapons, the police could have reached them and taken them into custody. Nobody would have been hurt. But when the demonstrators have pistols and guns and the police are lined up with guns pointing at them, the authorities have to defend themselves. That is the difference.”
Speaking in Egypt’s embassy in a Mayfair townhouse, Mr Kholy compared the one-year rule of Mr Morsi to the Islamist takeover of the Iranian state after the 1979 revolution and said that, like Nazism, the Muslim Brotherhood ideology sought to dominate Egyptian society.
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” .
Western Christianity is supposed to be tolerant, therefore we must tolerate Islam. Islamists are not Westerners, therefore they do not need to live by that rule.
Much like how conservative politicians must be above reproach in their sexual lives, but Democrats can have interns fellate them in their offices, and it's just private activity.
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