Sharia forbids Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men. As such, what should be a private matter between two people becomes a point of tension driven by the sense of entitlement inherent in Islamic law to "dominate and not be dominated."
"Egypt Muslims stone Coptic churches in sectarian clash," from Agence France-Presse, October 24:
CAIRO -- Muslims students stoned Coptic Christian churches and homes in a southern Egyptian village on Saturday after four Muslims suspected of killing a Copt were kept in custody, police said.
The unrest began when the prosecutor extended the detention of the Muslims in the village of Dairut who are suspected of killing an elderly Copt in his home last week, a police official said.
Stone-throwing Muslim students and Copts clashed before police deployed in the town, the official added.
The men in custody had allegedly sought to attack the Coptic man's son, who was dating a Muslim girl and was rumoured to have passed out a CD with explicit pictures of her. Instead they found only the father at home.
Copts account for six to 10 percent of Egypt's 80-million population. They complain of discrimination and have been the targets of sectarian killings and violence.
You can really sense that Muslim hate any interaction with peoples of other religions...well, maybe with the exception of attacking and killing them..
Observe the very typical weaselwording engaged in by AFP, in order to diminish Muslim responsibility for the violence.
"Stone-throwing Muslim students and Copts clashed before police deployed in the town...".
Translation: 'Mobs of Muslims throwing stones attacked the Copts...'.
And this:
"Copts account for six to 10 percent of Egypt's 80-million population. They complain of discrimination and have been the targets of sectarian killings and violence."
They only 'complain' of discrimination? This is worded in such a way as to belittle the Copts' predicament - to represent them as whingers. Has anybody at AFP even *bothered* to do some research on how Muslims have consistently treated the Copts, from the moment of the Muslim invasion of Egypt, right up to and including the present day?
If AFP had any guts and brains at all, it would have written something like this: 'Copts account for six to ten percent of Egypt's 80 million people. Because they are Christians they are consistently discriminated against, and even attacked and killed, by the Muslims."
DDA said:
Again, DDA has completely nailed it. A perfect analysis of how this should have been stated in the MSM (AFP, in this case).
Well done!
AFP quite often makes Reuters or AP look good in comparison. AFP should be known as the news service of pablum and pandering.
Did hear I Jerry Seinfeld say "Butrous Butrous Butrous BUTROUS Ghali" ????
See like the Jews (Chomsky et al), there are self-hating Copts too !