Posted on 03/08/2011 6:49:01 PM PST by marshmallow
Islamic Mob Burns Down Church in Egypt
A Muslim mob in a village south of Cairo last weekend attacked a church building and burned it down, almost killing the parish priest after an imam issued a call to "Kill all the Christians," according to local sources.
The attack started on Friday evening (March 4) in the village of Sool, located in the city of Helwan 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Cairo, and lasted through most of Saturday. A local imam, Sheik Ahmed Abu Al-Dahab, issued the call during Friday afternoon prayers, telling area Muslims to kill the Christians because they had "no right" to live in the village. The attack started several hours later.
The Rev. Hoshea Abd Al-Missieh, a parish priest who narrowly escaped death in the fire, said the clamor of the church being torn apart sounded like "hatred."
"I was in the attack, but I can’t describe it," he said. "The sound of the church being destroyed that I heard – I can’t describe it, how horrible it was."
According to villagers, the mob broke into the Church of the Two Martyrs St. George and St. Mina, and as they chanted "Allahu Akbar [God is greater]," looted it, demolished the walls with sledgehammers and set a fire that burned itself out the next morning. Looters removed anything valuable, including several containers holding the remains of venerated Copts – most of whom were killed in other waves of persecution – then stomped and kicked the containers like soccer balls, witnesses said.
After the fire went out, the mob tore down what little remained of the church structure. The group of Muslims then held prayers at the site and began collecting money to build a mosque where the church building once stood, said the assistant bishop of Giza the Rev. Balamoun Youaqeem.
"They destroyed the church completely," he said. "All that was left is a few columns and things like that. As a building, it’s all gone."
During the fire, Al-Missieh was trapped in a house near the church building that was filling up with smoke. He faced a difficult dilemma – choke or burn to death in the house, or face an angry mob of thousands screaming for blood.
"When the smoke was too much, I told myself, ‘I am dying anyway,’ so I decided I would go out and whatever happened, happened," Al-Missieh said.
When he went outside, a man with a rifle told the priest to follow him. At first Al-Missieh was reluctant, he said, but the man fired off two rounds from the rifle and told the crowd to step away.
"No one will touch this man, he is with me," the priest remembered the man yelling at the mob. Al-Missieh was taken to a house where he met three other workers who were at the church when it was attacked. The men all relayed stories similar to the priest’s.
Friday’s attack was another in a long list of disproportionate responses in Egypt to a rumor of an affair between a Muslim and a Copt. Earlier this month, Sool villagers accused a Muslim woman in her 30s and a Coptic man in his 40s, both of them married, of being involved with each other. On Wednesday (March 2) a village council of Coptic and Muslim leaders convened and agreed that the man should leave the village in order to avoid sectarian violence.
The next day, the woman’s cousin killed the woman’s father in a fight about the honor of the family. The same day, the cousin died of wounds he sustained in the fight. By Friday, Al-Dahab, the local imam, had blamed the entire incident on Christians in the village and called on all Muslims in Sool to kill them.
Because of the attack, Copts in Sool fled to adjacent villages. The women who remained in the village are now being sexually assaulted, according to Youaqeem, who added that he is receiving phone calls from women in the village begging for help. Those reports have not yet been independently confirmed.
The building is not important...we Christians know, the people are the church. The Lord will have His way with the pagan Muslims.
Pacifism sounds great. But it’ll get you killed.
“...and began collecting money to build a mosque”. Sound familiar to anyone near ground zero in New York?
“Allahu Akbar [God is greater]”
I think the more correct translation is “Allah is great(er)”. I don’t think it’s the same god that Christians and Jews worship.
BLOODY SAVAGES!!
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Allowing these barbaric, genocidal savages to enter our country for any reason, let alone to live and work here, and to bring their satanic lunatic death cult with them, is suicidal.
Only a demented, degenerate, depraved, decaying society would allow such vermin to set foot on their soil.
Kill all Muzzies first. It is you or them This is war.
Islam is a religion of peace.
> I think the more correct translation is “Allah is great
> (er)”. I don’t think it’s the same god that Christians
> and Jews worship.
“Allah” is the satanic moon idol of the Arabian desert, chosen by the rabid pedophile pirate Mohammed for the deity upon which to found his satanic death cult.
Allah commands his followers to kill for him.
Yahweh, the God of Israel, Isaac, and Abraham, chose the Jews for His Special People.
Yahweh sent His beloved Son Y’shua to die for us, so that we may be liberated from the penalties of sin.
“Where the Spirit of the Lord (Yahweh) is, there is LIBERTY!”
2nd Corinthians 3:17
Very, very different God.
These are the same Coptic Christians who helped put these radicals in power while proclaiming them a better alternative to Mubarak.
Islam is a religion of peace.
Only a demented, degenerate, depraved, decaying society would allow such vermin to set foot on their soil..
The Founding Fathers were wise indeed. The Second Amendment is the difference between being a victim or being a victor. The Constitution never goes out of style.
Yet there are many who refuse to see that. Drives me crazy!!!
Muslim = Islam = Muhammad = Sharia = Violent World Domination
check out www.politicalislam.com This web site was created by Dr. Bill Warner, Phd. - a Patriotic American.
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What are you talking about? The Church only reluctantly supported the “revolution” after it was fait accompli.
What individual people did was without the approval of the Church and against the majority of the Coptic people who are just trying to survive under very difficult circumstances.
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