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Christians on PalTalk Chat Service Tracked by Radical Islamic Web Site BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS - Special to the Sun January 31, 2005 A radical Islamic Web site systematically tracks Christians on PalTalk.com, an Internet chat service on which a New Jersey man received a death threat two months before he and his family were murdered. The password protected Arabic Web site, at the address www.barsomyat.com, features pictures and information about Christians who have been particularly active in debating Muslims on PalTalk. One page from barsomyat.com features a group of photographs of a Syrian Christian, "Joseph," who now lives in Canada....

<p>When a family of Egyptian immigrants was murdered in Jersey City recently, the media’s response was to wring its hands about anti-Muslim bias. But the truth is more complicated, and reveals the media’s own bias--against America.</p> <p>Anti-Muslim bias had nothing to do the killing of the Armanious family; they were Coptic Christians. It wasn’t the religion of the victims that concerned the press; it was the religion of the suspected murderers.</p>

A week ago, Jersey City police, responding to calls from anxious friends and relatives, came upon a horrific scene: a family of four stabbed to death. What made this murder even more disturbing was its possible motive and the authorities’ attempts to downplay that motive. The victims were Hossam and Amal Armanious and their daughters, Sylvia and Monica. They were Coptic Christians who had emigrated from Egypt“in part to escape religious persecution.” As the wife’s uncle told the Bergen Record (NJ), Hossam Armanious “had sensed a rise in anti-Christian extremism” in their native land. After their arrival, the family, especially...

We are becoming paralyzed to do what self-preservation demands By Rabbi Aryeh Spero Radical Islam has shown that they are going to do in America to "infidels" what they do back home. Will the A.C.L.U., Human Rights Watch, and Center For Constitutional Rights attempt to thwart necessary police efforts by claiming it constitutes "racial profiling" and "group harassment"? http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It appears that the binding and throat-slashing of an entire Christian family in Jersey City was a Koran-instructed " ritual murder" by American jihadists against someone who dared to express an opinion about the Koran unacceptable to home-grown Islamic cell-operatives...

Amman (AsiaNews) – About 15,000 Christians from Jordan and the Holy Land came today to the shores of the Jordan River to the spot where, according to tradition, Jesus was baptised. They travelled to the holy site, which is just a few kilometres south-west of the Jordanian capital of Amman, to celebrate the Feat of the Theophany.The high point of the event was a holy mass celebrated at 10 am by Mgr Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, with seven leaders of other Churches with a presence in the Holy Land such as the Melkite, Armenian, Maronite, Chaldean, Coptic...

A press release from the American Coptic Union: The American Coptic Union, and Egyptian Coptic Christians are shocked and disturbed by the latest Jersey City Police, and Hudson County Prosecutor Office report, "No Proof of Religious Hatred in JC Family Slay" that was the report title by "1010 WINS". The report denied the religion factor of the massacre, despite the fact that the Cross-Tattoo was cut, and slashed, on the late martyr Sylvia’s hand. In addition, Mr. Edward DeFazio, Hudson County Prosecutor’s report, never mentioned the facts that Egyptian Christians are facing a vicious terror campaign from the Arab-Islamic government...

I want you to try to imagine how the major media might cover the following story. A Muslim family of four, known for boldly proselytizing the Islamic faith in the shadow of where the World Trade Center stood before Sept. 11, 2001, is bound, gagged and murdered execution-style, throats slit, jewelry left behind. I don't know about you, but I can almost envision the Page 1 New York Times coverage of this apparent "hate crime." I can almost hear the hand-wringing pundits fretting about this undeserved, unwarranted backlash against innocent Muslims. I am almost certain a week after such an...

A note on the Armanious case At Jihad Watch we have received a large number of inquiries, both sober and frenzied, about the Coptic family found murdered in Jersey City last week. As is well known, the Copts in Jersey City and elsewhere have many suspicions about this crime. But when they have voiced these suspicions, they have been frequently denounced as Islamophobes; an all-purpose term of abuse used to silence criticism of Islam and of Muslims. And Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio is dismissive of the idea that the killings were religiously motivated: &#8220;Is it possible? Yes. Do we...

A note on the Armanious case At Jihad Watch we have received a large number of inquiries, both sober and frenzied, about the Coptic family found murdered in Jersey City last week. As is well known, the Copts in Jersey City and elsewhere have many suspicions about this crime. But when they have voiced these suspicions, they have been frequently denounced as “Islamophobes” – an all-purpose term of abuse used to silence criticism of Islam and of Muslims. And Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio is dismissive of the idea that the killings were religiously motivated: “Is it possible? Yes. Do...

Investigators probing the slaughter of a family of devout Egyptian Christians believe they may have been victims of a bloody vendetta that predates their immigration to the United States 10 years ago, The Post has learned. We're trying to develop their history right now," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday of the brutal quadruple slaying. The bodies of Hossam Armanious, 37, his wife, Amal Garas, 37, and their daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8, were found Jan. 14 in their Jersey City home. All four had been bound, gagged and fatally stabbed in the neck.

Since the initial reports of the ritualistic butchering of the Coptic Christian Armanious family, the mainstream media have been remarkably silent. Barely a whisper, if that, has been murmured over their airwaves, online or in the print media. If there is any real ongoing investigation (in the spirit of fairness I assume there is), next to nothing is being reported. Shortly after the murders, conflicting reports were disseminated to the public. One account advised that the father Hossam Armanious had his “pockets turned inside out” and money from his wallet had been removed but, jewelry was left in the home. Commenting on...

"The heads of the family has been separated from their bodies (they have been beheaded) at their home at Jersey" The message below has appeared in Arabic on a Muslim bulletin board. (Thanks to Kemaste for the link, and Ali Sina for arranging for the translation.) In The Name Of Allah the Most Gracious The Most Merciful The Honourable Brothers/ Peace upon You Under the title “Muslim-Christian boil over N.J” The Associated Press wrote about the incidents that happened in the New Jersey of America after the Muslims killed a Christian American family from an Egyptian origin after an article...

WE HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY AND HE IS US: How many times it would it take a committed Christian family getting their throats sliced before Christians in a diverse middle eastern community in America would grow silent in sharing their faith with their Muslim brothers? Charles Johnson at LittleGreenFootballs has the latest on the slain New Jersey family. And it appears that they had been influential in helping "convert Muslims to Christianity" as LGF put it. It also needs to be noted that the neighborhood where these slayings took place happens also to be the center of the Islamic operations of Sheik Abdul...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The dirty looks and shouted slurs started in 1993 after Muslims living here helped plan the bombing that damaged the World Trade Center just across the Hudson River. They intensified after Sept. 11, 2001, when Muslim hijackers destroyed the twin towers. Now a third wave of anti-Muslim sentiment is washing over New Jersey's second-largest city, sparked this time by reports that the murders of an Egyptian Christian man, his wife and two young daughters might have been carried out by Muslims angered by messages the man posted in an Internet chat room. The strife is particularly...

A close friend of the Coptic Christian brutally murdered in New Jersey along with his family, Hossam Armanious, is the source of this information, which comes to you exclusively from Jihad Watch: The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur'an 3:28: "Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful -- he that does this has nothing to hope for from Allah --...

Inside information on the New Jersey murders A close friend of the Coptic Christian brutally murdered in New Jersey along with his family, Hossam Armanious, is the source of this information, which comes to you exclusively from Jihad Watch: The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur'an 3:28: "Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful -- he that does this has...

POSTED: 8:51 pm EST January 20, 2005 JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The dirty looks and shouted slurs started in 1993 after Muslims living here helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center. They intensified on Sept. 11, 2001, when Muslim hijackers brought down the twin towers just across the Hudson River. Now a third wave of anti-Muslim sentiment is washing over New Jersey's second-largest city, sparked this time by reports that the murders of an Egyptian Christian man, his wife and two young daughters might have been carried out by Muslims angered over postings the man made in an...

January 20, 2005 Inside information on the New Jersey murders A close friend of the Coptic Christian brutally murdered in New Jersey along with his family, Hossam Armanious, is the source of this information, which comes to you exclusively from Jihad Watch: The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur'an 3:28: "Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful -- he that...

PLEA FOR CALM Muslims fear accusations will stir tensions among Coptic Christians Thursday, January 20, 2005 By Bonnie Friedman Journal staff writer Arab and Muslim leaders yesterday called on members of the media to refrain from inflaming religious tensions within the Egyptian community in coverage of the recent murder of a Coptic Christian family in Jersey City. The remarks came during a news conference on the Jersey City waterfront in which Coptic representatives were noticeably absent.

As I read about the brutal slaying of a Coptic Christian Egyptian American family in New Jersey today in the Boston Globe, I began to feel sick, physically sick. Sometimes, there is just so much stupidity, hate and anger to have the courage, or just even the motivation, to say anything to confront it all. It seems like all is futile, that the horrible, the extreme, the hateful, are destined to win, and we simply have to resign ourselves to losing out and watching horrible crimes committed in the name of defending our faith. We Muslims quickly cry out and...