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Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 05/23/2010 9:01:27 AM PDT by Cindy
"Coptic Christians Voicing Frustration With White House As Persecution Widens in Egypt"
By YOUSSEF IBRAHMIM, Special to the Sun
SNIPPET: "The leaders of Coptic Christians, whose community is facing growing persecution in Egypt, say they have been unsuccessful in efforts to gain a hearing from the White House or other parts of the Obama administration."
SNIPPET: "They say they are frustrated by the current administration in Washington, particularly after President Obama’s overture to the Muslim world via a speech at Cairo. In the speech Mr. Obama President apologized for America’s misdeeds to Muslims, stating that he came “to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.” Coptic leaders say that even while reaching out to Muslims the administration has turned a deaf ear to the pleas Arab Christian minority in the very country where he delivered his apology to Muslims.
“The Obama administration’s benign neglect of Arab Christians, is putting freedoms and human rights in the whole Middle East at risk,” is the way it was put in an interview with the Sun by the president of the U.S. Copts Association, Michael Meunier, who is headquartered in Washington “Friendships with Muslims has been the Obama Administration’s opening theme from his first day in office and in that famed Cairo speech in which he extended a hand to all Muslims in partnership.”
Mr. Meunier added that that the president’s failure to speak as extensively about the persecution of Arab Christians was a departure from American policy and a grave error. “We have no problems with American friendships with Islam and Muslims, but it cannot be accomplished at the expense of our rights as Egyptian Christians and Arab Christians, and as the very lives of our people there are endangered,” Mr. Meunier told the Sun."
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Cut off funding for Egypt.
No surprise here, zero hates Christians....
The Muslim in the oval office despises Christians.
He admitted he is a Muslim, its the Media that is in the closet.
“The Obama administration’s benign neglect of Arab Christians, is putting freedoms and human rights in the whole Middle East at risk,”
It’s not benign.
Much better put.
why is this in “religion”
Bears repeating: “It’s not benign.”
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The Egyptian military was like the Turkish military in that the Muslim religion had little influence. That is now changing.More and more, mid and upper level unit commanders are “encouraging” their subordinates to openly incorporate Muslim religious practices.
These people are having wives and daughters raped and then convert or die ultimatums , their churches and businesses being burned, the oppression is terrible..yet nothing but silence from the WH and the press.
If the situation was reversed the powers and the press would be all over this.
The only bigotry allowed is against Christians and Jews....Muslims, gays , illegals,perverts of any kind are welcomed with tolerance.. the peoples of God they want done away with .
Our presence must sting their conscience
The bottom line, what has been for a very long time, is that the Coptic are on their own.
And they are much worse off than are the Paleos in Israel, because while the Israelis would ignore the Paleos, with a live and let live attitude, if the Paleos would just stop trying to kill Israelis; in Egypt, the Coptic are surrounded by people who want to destroy them utterly.
So the only real choice left for the Coptic is to resist or die. Nobody is going to bail them out. They have to train the Muslims like they would train a dangerous dog: don’t snap at me or I’ll get you.
They are too weak to fight fair, or even to call it a fight. But they have to condition the Muslims to leave them alone. They have to raise their children to believe that Muslims are the enemy, and to smite them if there is a chance, and a good chance to get away clean.
And they have to be very sneaky, as well, because they will get no sympathy from anyone. The police won’t protect them, because they are Muslims, too. So they are also the enemy.
It also means that Coptics will have to support each other in doing this. They have to work together, and even be beaten, tortured or killed without implicating another Coptic.
This is no game, and will have to go on for decades.
The Arab People were among the first to hear the Gospel, some of them from the Apostles Themselves. These Christian Communities are very ancient and have survived the Romans, The Rise of Islam, The Ottoman Empire, Napoleon, World Wars, The British Mandate, and now Radical Islam.
They have very little support worldwide, even from the Christian Churches! Most people don’t even have a clue they exist at all.
Some, granted, are Christian in name only, but that does not keep them from being horribly persecuted by the Muslim Majority.
These People deserve our consideration, or at the very least, our prayers.
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