Egypt Ethnically Cleansing Coptic Christians

SiliconMagician · Oct 13, 2011

The flight of the Copts (should the current flow of emigrants grow) would be a bigger deal. There are more than 8 million Copts and the outflow since March has amounted to slightly more than one percent of the total. Should the numbers wishing to leave increase (not unlikely after the recent violence in Cairo), it is not clear where many of them could go. The pattern in the Middle East in these circumstances has been that the wealthier and better connected Christians get out, while poorer ones experience massacres and forced conversions.
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http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/10/12/arab-spring-leads-to-second-exodus/

Talk about hypocrisy!

DennisTate · Aug 15, 2013

I liked the explanation given by this writer as to why the Copts were being targeted!!!!

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam...rotherhood-persecution-of-christians-ignored/

And why has the persecution reached unprecedented levels? Because the Muslim Brotherhoods Mohamed Morsi was ousted by a revolution that saw as many as 30 million Egyptians, most of them Muslims, take to the streets. But of course, the Brotherhood does not want to admit that Muslim majorities do not favor their rule, so they scapegoat the already-hated Christians, portraying them as fundamental to the ousting of Morsi. Any number of Brotherhood leaders from the general guide, Mohammed Badie, to the groups spiritual father, Sheikh Yusif al-Qaradawi, all of whom publicly denounced the Coptic pope for being supportive of the revolution and supposedly even killing Muslims are responsible for this rise in persecution of Copts.
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waltky · Aug 15, 2013

Granny says dem Mooslamics is takin' it out onna Christians...

Egyptian Islamists Target Christian Churches in Wave of Apparently Coordinated Attacks
August 15, 2013 -– Some supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president directed their wrath at the country’s Christian minority Wednesday, in what activists described as “the worst coordinated attacks on Egypt’s Coptic community in modern history.”

Largely eclipsed by the military’s crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo and resulting loss of life, more than 20 churches in a number of provinces were reported to have been targeted for arson and other attacks. Through the day news reports and social media posts drew attention to individual incidents and it soon became apparent that a concerted campaign of coordinated attacks was underway. Most of the targeted churches were Coptic Orthodox, but Catholic churches were also attacked as well as at least one Protestant church. One of the groups monitoring the situation through contacts on the ground, the Australian Coptic Movement Association (ACM), released a list of 16 churches and related sites attacked, and said the true figure could reach 40. Those it listed included six churches and the house of a parish priest in Minya province, south-west of Cairo, among them a Church of the Virgin Mary which the ACM reported had been “totally demolished.”

Three churches were torched in Sohag province further to the south, a church, convent and school were set alight in the eastern province of Suez, as were a church and Bible Society premises in Fayoum province, west of the capital. It also reported assaults at a church in Alexandria. According to Egypt’s independent Mideast Christian News service, eyewitnesses to one of the church attacks in Sohag reported seeing Muslim Brotherhood supporters hijack a fire truck to prevent it from attending the fire. “These attacks on the Copts is unprecedented in the modern era,” Bishop Anba Suriel of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Melbourne, Australia, wrote on his Twitter account. “Will the world continue to standby passively amidst this injustice?” An hour later, citing reports of more than 20 separate attacks, he tweeted again, “Where is the army?”

Ramez Atallah, general director of the Bible Society of Egypt, said two “very beautiful, fully equipped” Bible Society bookshops, in Minya and Assiut, were among the buildings that were torched and destroyed. “Fortunately we were closed today, fearing such an attack, so none of our staff were injured. The attackers demolished the metal doors protecting the bookshops, broke the store windows behind them and set the bookshops on fire,” he said. Atallah said this was the first time the Bible Society had been victim of such attacks in its 129-year history in the country. “We are in deep distress following the coordinated attacks on Coptic Christians throughout Egypt,” ACM said. “There has been little or no police or military protection at all in southern Egypt.”

It said the government had failed to protect Christians despite Islamists’ threats and incitement over recent weeks. “The pro-Morsi supporters and Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been inciting hatred and violence against Egypt’s Coptic Christians and now we are seeing those threats acted on in an unprecedented way. “Western leaders have also failed to take the issue of Coptic persecution seriously and seem to be more interested in protecting the rights of those who persecute Christians.” Last week more than a dozen Egyptian human rights groups accused Islamists of inciting violence against Christians and the interim government and security forces of not protecting members of the vulnerable minority or acting against the perpetrators.

- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/egy...ntly-coordinated-attacks#sthash.l0nXXArq.dpuf
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DennisTate · Aug 27, 2013

Sometimes taking a look at the bigger and bigger picture can help.

I try my best to tie this all in with the threat of rising ocean levels.......production of hemp for hemp oil.....and a plan for peace in the Middle East based partly on an ancient Islamic prophecy that in the latter days the deserts of the Islamic nations would be turned green somehow????!!!!

http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...gypt-what-we-can-do-about.html#post1062987223

LowKey · Aug 27, 2013

Pay attention folks.. This is how we end up supporting military dictators in far off lands.

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