“There is anger among the Christians because they feel their blood has been made cheap.” Their blood was already cheap. “The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim.” — ‘Umdat al-Salik, o4.9
“Egyptian Christian’s murder sparks sectarian tension,” from Deutsche Presse Agentur, September 17 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Cairo – A large crowd of angry Coptic Christians gathered in front of a church Wednesday in the Egyptian town of Bagur, following the murder of a Christian shopkeeper and the stabbings of two others, police said….
“There is anger among the Christians because they feel their blood has been made cheap,” Archbishop Stefanos, head of the Mar Girgis (St George) Coptic Church in al-Bagur, told dpa.
He said that a man repeatedly stabbed local shopkeeper George Abdu, 63, in the abdomen and the neck, killing him, then fled on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
The archbishop said that the killer drove 4 kilometres to the village of Bamahai and repeatedly stabbed a cobbler, who suffered wounds to the head and lung.
The suspect then drove to another nearby village, Mit Afifi, and stabbed a third Christian man, Hani Barsum, in the neck. Barsum and the cobbler were hospitalized, Stefanos said….
Wednesday’s attacks resembled a string of attacks in April 2006 in Alexandria that led to bloody street clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean city.
In that incident, according to police accounts, a sole, “mentally deranged,” Muslim man stabbed three parishioners in a church, then attacked worshippers at two other churches. One 78-year-old man died from his wounds….
“Mentally deranged” — of course! We always hear this in connection with incidents like these. And certainly stabbing and attacking random people in churches is not what anyone would term “normal” behavior. But the possibility that such a man might be acting from a sense of outrage caused by Islamic teachings — specifically the idea that these Christians are not submissive and hence have forfeited their right to live in rebelling against the rule of the Muslims — is not even considered.