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Christianity under attack as violence sweeps Egypt

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EGYPT-POLITICS-UNREST-CHRISTIANDozens of churches and monasteries have been burned and attacked, a Virgin Mary statue decapitated and several Christians killed in the past few days of unrest in Egypt.

The violence against Christians has been the underbelly to the ongoing public clash between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and interim government and security forces

The Associated Press reported that dozens of Christian churches have been hit with Molotov cocktails since Wednesday, when government security officials disbanded a couple of high-profile sit-ins staged by Muslim Brotherhood members who are supporting ousted former President Mohammed Morsi.

Israeli newspapers reported about 80 churches and Christian places of worship have been attacked. Sunday Mass was cancelled in the town of Minya for the first time in 1,600 years, the Blaze reported.

Christian businesses and homes in the town are facing similar dire circumstances. One Christian resident told an AP reporter that Islamists “painted a red X on Muslim stores and a black X on Christian stores [and] you can be sure that the ones with a red X are intact” compared to the destroyed facilities marked with black paint.

A video on YouTube shows Minyan men greeting each other with handshakes and smiles while a Christian church burns in the background. And in the same region, Islamists forced three nuns to parade through the streets like “prisoners of war,” AP reported.

Two other women at the same school as the nuns were “sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob,” AP reported.

Others of Christian faith have been killed, “including a taxi driver who strayed into a protest by Morsi supporters in Alexandria, and another man who was shot to death by Islamists in the southern province of Sohag,” a security official who requested anonymity told AP.

Washington Times

Photo: A picture taken on August 18, 2013 shows the Amir Tadros coptic Church in Minya, some 250 kms south of Cairo, which was set ablaze on August 14, 2013. Egypt’s Christians are living in fear after a string of attacks against churches, businesses and homes they say were carried out by angry supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. As police dispersed Morsi supporters from two Cairo squares on August 14, attackers torched churches across the country in an apparent response. AFP PHOTO / VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG

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40 responses to “Christianity under attack as violence sweeps Egypt”

  1. rossoferrari Avatar
    rossoferrari

    Animals sons of animals. No other words will describe their deeds. I ask why!!!
    Cowards sons of cowards, they had an opportunity to run a democracy, they failed miserably.
    A muslim regime from within is keen on eradicating them, yet they go after the Christians who are forgiving. Liars sons of liars, the coran did not teach you to kill: I thought you are a religion of peace. Instead you have demonstrated that you are a religion of hatred and deceit. Keep at it and hopefully you exterminate yourselves by yourselves. Bastards sons of bastards, no explanation to your doing. You give no choice but to say keep at it till every one is gone to meet their 72 virgins.

    1. lebanesesam Avatar
      lebanesesam

      Well said Rosso – I would like to add, what does the Christians have to do with the whole thing? It was the army guy SiSi who started this – bunch of khanazeer. I think the khanzeer is halal in my eyes compare to these savages

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        We cry for the days of the great Agha Khan … even the elephants are gone.

    2. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      Their 72 Catholic nuns.

      1. rossoferrari Avatar
        rossoferrari

        And you are one of them

  2. rossoferrari Avatar
    rossoferrari

    Animals sons of animals. No other words will describe their deeds. I ask why!!!
    Cowards sons of cowards, they had an opportunity to run a democracy, they failed miserably.
    A muslim regime from within is keen on eradicating them, yet they go after the Christians who are forgiving. Liars sons of liars, the coran did not teach you to kill: I thought you are a religion of peace. Instead you have demonstrated that you are a religion of hatred and deceit. Keep at it and hopefully you exterminate yourselves by yourselves. Bastards sons of bastards, no explanation to your doing. You give no choice but to say keep at it till every one is gone to meet their 72 virgins.

    1. lebanesesam Avatar
      lebanesesam

      Well said Rosso – I would like to add, what does the Christians have to do with the whole thing? It was the army guy SiSi who started this – bunch of khanazeer. I think the khanzeer is halal in my eyes compare to these savages

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        We cry for the days of the great Agha Khan … even the elephants are gone.

    2. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      Their 72 Catholic nuns.

      1. rossoferrari Avatar
        rossoferrari

        And you are one of them

  3. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
    Maborlz Ez-Hari

    ttuum

  4. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
    Maborlz Ez-Hari

    ttuum

  5. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
    Maborlz Ez-Hari

    These thugs are like pigs in mud, they are swimming in their filth. Their actions are demonic and their reasoning is only explainable by their peers. Once they enter that state of mind they are in a trance like a fly on shit nothing can be done to correct their beliefs other than to have a strong dictator treat them like the scum they are. Give them freedom and they will ruin everything around them, put them in a pen and step on their necks and you will have some form of control and order. Democracy is not for all people, and captivity is needed for some who do not belong in a society that is civilised. Cleaning up this mess will need the assistance of some son of a bitch who is made of steel, then we might have some sort of civil atmosphere.

    1. dateam Avatar
      dateam

      Further one needs to ask who is funding all of this…its just insane.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        But the insanity will continue. It’s too late. Like the anarchy of the French Revolution.
        The Egyptians got it wrong after Mubarak went. They were barely prepared.

      2. master09 Avatar
        master09

        Why not just say what on your mind, I will say it for you America and Israel there.
        Funding or no funding this is not the Christians faults simple…but while we are at it lets do what we have been taught. The crap teachings will bring out the crap out of people….The ME will be finished by it’s own people SIMPLE.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          It doesn’t need any funding at all. 😉 Funding is only required for better infrastructure … they would rather tear it all down. Unless it’s a Mosque of course.

        2. dateam Avatar
          dateam

          I was going to say gcc countries actually….mb has always been funded by qatar…the saudis fund the salafis….The saudis dont like the mb…who said it was the christians fault anyway? all the minorities have been attacked there.

        3. dateam Avatar
          dateam

          The Muslim Brotherhood’s brand of Islam and Islamic politics differs from the strict Salafi creed, Wahhabiyya, officially held by the state of Saudi Arabia. Despite this, the Brotherhood has been tolerated by the Saudi government, and maintains a presence in the country.Aside from tolerating the Brotherhood organization, and according to Washington Post report, the then Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef denounced the Brotherhood, saying it was guilty of “betrayal of pledges and ingratitude” and was “the source of all problems in the Islamic world”.

          In 1997 Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mustafa Mashhur told journalist Khalid Daoud that he thought Egypt’s Coptic Christians and Orthodox Jews should pay the long-abandoned jizya poll tax, levied on non-Muslims in exchange for protection from the state, rationalized by the fact that non-Muslims are exempt from military service while it is compulsory for Muslims. He went on to say, “we do not mind having Christian members in the People’s Assembly… [T]he top officials, especially in the army, should be Muslims since we are a Muslim country… This is necessary because when a Christian country attacks the Muslim country and the army has Christian elements, they can facilitate our defeat by the enemy.” According to The Guardian newspaper, the proposal caused an “uproar” among Egypt’s six million Coptic CThe Brotherhood’s stated goal is to instill the Qur’an and Sunnah as the “sole reference point for …ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community … and state.” The movement is known for engaging in political violence, claiming responsibility for the installation of Hamas. Muslim Brotherhood members are suspected to have assassinated political opponents like Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha.christians.

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      The only problem with that thought seems to be finding a ‘Benevolent Dictator’ these days. One who does everything to ‘grow’ his country (or Kingdom) for the sake of all, as well as his own pocket, while maintaing laws which apply to all the people in it – fairly.
      Have there been any other ‘Solomons’ ??
      Perhaps the only one close to it is the King of Jordan. And ‘they’ want to whack him down too.
      ‘Benevolent Dictators’ also have one other problem … they die like the rest of us … and there is no guarantee that a son will be like a father or have the same dreams of benevolence – of running a benevolent country. ( Syria is a good example of bad being followed by worse.)
      A really benevolent person is rarely also a good businessman, obviously; although there may be some, other businessmen attempt to take them out of the picture.

      So … we need a ‘system’ which grows in it’s ability to adjust to the constant dying of humans, and changes of thought and human experience, on a planet which accomodates that for now.
      So far, the only ‘system’ which appears to do that is found in the various democratic concepts.
      And they are Still being ‘adjusted’.
      And some only believe they are democratic. 😉

  6. Maborlz Ez-Hari Avatar
    Maborlz Ez-Hari

    These thugs are like pigs in mud, they are swimming in their filth. Their actions are demonic and their reasoning is only explainable by their peers. Once they enter that state of mind they are in a trance like a fly on shit nothing can be done to correct their beliefs other than to have a strong dictator treat them like the scum they are. Give them freedom and they will ruin everything around them, put them in a pen and step on their necks and you will have some form of control and order. Democracy is not for all people, and captivity is needed for some who do not belong in a society that is civilised. Cleaning up this mess will need the assistance of some son of a bitch who is made of steel, then we might have some sort of civil atmosphere.

    1. dateam Avatar
      dateam

      Further one needs to ask who is funding all of this…its just insane.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        But the insanity will continue. It’s too late. Like the anarchy of the French Revolution.
        The Egyptians got it wrong after Mubarak went.

      2. master09 Avatar
        master09

        Why not just say what on your mind, I will say it for you America and Israel there.
        Funding or no funding this is not the Christians faults simple…but while we are at it lets do what we have been taught. The crap teachings will bring out the crap out of people….The ME will be finished by it’s own people SIMPLE.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          It doesn’t need any funding at all. 😉 Funding is only required for better infrastructure … they would rather tear it all down. Unless it’s a Mosque of course.

        2. dateam Avatar
          dateam

          I was going to say gcc countries actually….mb has always been funded by qatar…the saudis fund the salafis….The saudis dont like the mb…who said it was the christians fault anyway? all the minorities have been attacked there.

        3. dateam Avatar
          dateam

          The Muslim Brotherhood’s brand of Islam and Islamic politics differs from the strict Salafi creed, Wahhabiyya, officially held by the state of Saudi Arabia. Despite this, the Brotherhood has been tolerated by the Saudi government, and maintains a presence in the country.Aside from tolerating the Brotherhood organization, and according to Washington Post report, the then Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef denounced the Brotherhood, saying it was guilty of “betrayal of pledges and ingratitude” and was “the source of all problems in the Islamic world”.

          In 1997 Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mustafa Mashhur told journalist Khalid Daoud that he thought Egypt’s Coptic Christians and Orthodox Jews should pay the long-abandoned jizya poll tax, levied on non-Muslims in exchange for protection from the state, rationalized by the fact that non-Muslims are exempt from military service while it is compulsory for Muslims. He went on to say, “we do not mind having Christian members in the People’s Assembly… [T]he top officials, especially in the army, should be Muslims since we are a Muslim country… This is necessary because when a Christian country attacks the Muslim country and the army has Christian elements, they can facilitate our defeat by the enemy.” According to The Guardian newspaper, the proposal caused an “uproar” among Egypt’s six million Coptic CThe Brotherhood’s stated goal is to instill the Qur’an and Sunnah as the “sole reference point for …ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community … and state.” The movement is known for engaging in political violence, claiming responsibility for the installation of Hamas. Muslim Brotherhood members are suspected to have assassinated political opponents like Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha.christians.

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      The only problem with that thought seems to be finding a ‘Benevolent Dictator’ these days. One who does everything to ‘grow’ his country (or Kingdom) for the sake of all, as well as his own pocket, while maintaing laws which apply to all the people in it – fairly.
      Have there been any other ‘Solomons’ ??
      Perhaps the only one close to it is the King of Jordan. And ‘they’ want to whack him down too.
      ‘Benevolent Dictators’ also have one other problem … they die like the rest of us … and there is no guarantee that a son will be like a father or have the same dreams of benevolence – of running a benevolent country. ( Syria is a good example of bad being followed by worse.)
      A really benevolent person is rarely also a good businessman, obviously; although there may be some, other businessmen attempt to take them out of the picture.

      So … we need a ‘system’ which grows in it’s ability to adjust to the constant dying of humans, and changes of thought and human experience, on a planet which accomodates that for now.
      So far, the only ‘system’ which appears to do that is found in the various democratic concepts.
      And they are Still being ‘adjusted’.
      And some only believe they are democratic. 😉

  7. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    “The United States is not at war with Islam,” Obama declared. I say OK? The Christians say we are not at war with Islam… The latest visit by the pope to Lebanon was a mission of peace, don’t you say? But Islam is at war with us. Shall we turn the other cheek and say to them, do your best! for I will do mine by praying for you… In the meantime, where are they those called moderate muslims? Is there such a thing? Or do you sit there in silence and watch pretending it is none of your business?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M7FeLf8HM4

    1. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      ‘Moderate’ Islam is THE lie … they (and particularly the Al@@ui dogs) say it’s O.K. to lie whenever you want to. Just turn a page or two, ‘moderate’ disappears.

  8. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    “The United States is not at war with Islam,” Obama declared. I say OK? The Christians say we are not at war with Islam… The latest visit by the pope to Lebanon was a mission of peace, don’t you say? But Islam is at war with us. Shall we turn the other cheek and say to them, do your best! for I will do mine by praying for you… In the meantime, where are they those called moderate muslims? Is there such a thing? Or do you sit there in silence and watch pretending it is none of your business?

    1. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      ‘Moderate’ Islam is THE lie … they (and particularly the Al@@ui dogs) say it’s O.K. to lie whenever you want to. Just turn a page or two, ‘moderate’ disappears.

  9. Btru2u Avatar
    Btru2u

    A drop of blood of a believer is more sacred than a thousand churches or mosques for that matter.
    Israel must be happy with he division they have created.

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      Then burn the mosques and leave the churches be.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Or take them all down like Assad is doing. :-))
        But of course, it’s the loss of the ‘ART’ which we decry …
        It’s no different than the ‘foaming-at-mouth’ crowd who beat a conductor and burned coaches of a train, because it hit a bunch of school-children who were crossing the tracks at the same time that the train was using them. Bad train indeed.
        Imagine the all-around idiocy in that one … and as always it is the children suffering with the lack of education.

    2. Constantin7 Avatar
      Constantin7

      Not that I want to defend Israel, but Israel has nothing to do with all this, but I am sure they’re watching the events carefully and say” let them kill each other”. I don’t think you mean churches or mosques, I think you mean churches period. Btru2u, you are too much brainwashed by Islam and its legends to distinguish right from wrong or good from evil. Your religion stole from you your human reasoning.

  10. Btru2u Avatar
    Btru2u

    A drop of blood of a believer is more sacred than a thousand churches or mosques for that matter.
    Israel must be happy with he division they have created.

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      Then burn the mosques and leave the churches be.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Or take them all down like Assad is doing. :-))

    2. Constantin7 Avatar
      Constantin7

      Not that I want to defend Israel, but Israel has nothing to do with all this, but I am sure they’re watching the events carefully and say” let them kill each other”. I don’t think you mean churches or mosques, I think you mean churches period. Btru2u, you are too much brainwashed by Islam and its legends to distinguish right from wrong or good from evil. Your religion stole from you your human reasoning.

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