Posted on 01/17/2011 7:16:58 PM PST by lbryce
On New Year’s Eve there was a murderous attack on a Coptic Church in Alexandria, Egypt in which 23 Christians were killed and many dozens were wounded. Last week a Christian was shot on an Egyptian train and five others were wounded. The murders in Alexandria drew far more international interest than many other attacks on Copts in recent years. They also gained far more attention than other recent lethal attacks on Christians in countries such as Iraq, Pakistan or Nigeria.
One wonders whether this event might be a tipping point for the Western world. Are Western governments and Christians finally starting to interest themselves a bit more seriously regarding the fate of Christians in the Muslim world? If so, this took quite a long time. Back in 1994, Israeli Middle East expert Mordechai Abir had already summed up the Copts’ situation in one sentence: “Egypt has been unable to combat the hate of fundamentalist Muslims toward the Copts who are true remnants of the original Egyptian population.”
From 1992 to 1998, Islamic extremists in Egypt are thought to have killed well over a hundred Copts. Thereafter, the largest murder took place in 2000 when 20 Copts and one Muslim were killed after violence broke out in El-Kosheh, a town a few hundred kilometers south of Cairo. There were a number of attacks of Copts and much harassment in the following years. On 6 January 2010, after Christmas mass, three Muslim gunmen killed six Copts and a Muslim policeman in Nagaa Hammadi near the South-Egyptian town of Qena.
Besides being a possible turning point, the Alexandria murders raise many important issues which go beyond this major incident. Some of these are of special importance to Israel and the Jews.
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It is open season on Christians.
We know that.
The only thing that is stopping an all out attempt to “drive the Jews into the sea” is that the repercussions are still an unknown to the Islamofascist. Even with Zero in the WH.
Europe is lost to the Muslims. America is the last best hope for the world. And we are holding on by our fingernails. IMO
Christianity has been under full scale assault for at least 3 decades. The USSC has proven that they can use any excuse to deny rights to Americans. Especially Christians.
Don’t want to inflame the Muslims by point out the obvious. [/s] In the view of the Elites (who know so much better), better to just blame Israel and keept their head in the sand otherwise. What a sorry a$$ bunch our so called leaders are. And I guess were not much better for keeping them in power. The West deserves everything that’s coming to it.
If they succeed, doesn’t that render the whole endangered species act and other such crud obsolete? After all, extinction itself will be extinct...
Ooops, wrong thread...
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