"[Their] fury, encouraged by the imam, was sparked by the rumor that the Christians have begun to build a new place of worship."
Apologists often insist that no one pays attention to stipulations on unbelievers such as those which appear in the Pact of Umar. Really? Here are about 3000 people in Egypt who missed that memo.
"Crowd of 3 thousand Muslims attack a Coptic Christian community, 25 injured," from Asia News, March 13:
Cairo (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The toll from an attack on the Coptic Christian community that took place yesterday in the north-western province of Mersa Matrouh, Egypt is 25 wounded, including women and children. A crowd of around 3 thousand Muslims attacked the faithful gathered in prayer in a building adjoining the local church. The fundamentalists fury, encouraged by the imam, was sparked by the rumour that the Christians have begun to build a new place of worship.
Around 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Muslims - a group of Bedouins and Salafi fanatics - started throwing stones at a construction site, which they believe in reality will be a new church. Local witnesses reported that security forces present were not sufficient to contain the attack. The police fired tear gas and arrested a dozen people, including Muslims and Christians. Only this morning, reinforcements arrived from Alexandria, thanks to which the Coptic faithful trapped inside the building could return to their homes.
At the moment of the attack the Christian prayer house contained four priests, one deacon and about 400 parishioners. Christians say that the building under construction, in fact, is a nursing home and said they were "terrified" by the latest attack. The local imam Shaikh Khamees intervention during Friday prayers has helped to foment the anger of Muslims. He emphasized the duty to fight against the "enemies" of Islam and stressed that "we do not tolerate the Christian presence in our area."
Reverend Matta Zakarya confirms that this morning there was a summit between the leaders of the local church, state security forces and even some Muslims. "The Coptic are scared - he stresses - especially women and children who were inside the building and witnessed the assault."
In Egypt, the Coptic Christian community is about 10% of the population in a country with an overwhelming Muslim majority, which discriminates against the Christian community. It is the victim of violence, caused by a sharp rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Sometimes the basis of many attacks there are disputes over land ownership and disputes for women, but they soon become sectarian clashes."
One more exhibit to be entered into evidence in the case against muslims and islam and their inadmissibility and incapability to enter and live in the free world , our country and our neighbor hoods. The cost in money, freedom and lives is too high to continue to allow this cancer to grow in our societies .
Prepare, islam's assault is here, from their rapid demographic assault, to thier terrorism, to their legal intimidation, to their stealthy sabotage to their frantic race to develop and amass nuclear weapons, the evidence is abundantly clear , prepare.
Resist it with all your might and with all your means.
Islam is at war with us , we all have to fight back, our governments efforts fall short.
AMEN wakingwest!
Every story like this makes it more and more clear that Izlam is, at its heart, INCOMPATIBLE WITH FREEDOM. Oil and water have an easier time coexisting.
Still, the mainstream media ignores this, because the fear of kicking up a hornets nest with muslim groups.
But I will say I am encouraged, since more and more people are wary of the mainstream providers, and searching out the truth for them selves.
ps, I will include fox in that regard, since a Saudi prince owns 8% of the company, and looking to buy more.
Truth is, must admire how the muslims, playing the demographic game, business savvy, and political acumen, to destroy our democratic ideals from within.
It just shows freedom must be watered with the blood of patriots regularly. But patriots for democracy, not based on any political position right or left, and certainly not based on a religion. I am looking at the christian dominionists here - like sarah palin.
""[Their] fury, encouraged by the imam, was sparked by the rumor that the Christians have begun to build a new place of worship."
Of Course the Muslims, encouraged by imams, protest bitterly when the people of other countries want to ban minarets and new mosques..Islam is the religion of hippocracy...
It seems like the Islamic imams and other clerics absolutely want to deny Christians their religion of choice..Islam doesn't want to allow people
"choices".
'Jihadwatch', unlike MSM, has an impressive archive on Christian Copts in Egypt -who need support:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-search.cgi?search=Egypt+copts&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20
To Kian Mead
It just shows freedom must be watered with the blood of patriots regularly. But patriots for democracy, not based on any political position right or left, and certainly not based on a religion. I am looking at the christian dominionists here - like sarah palin.
You’re either a not very clever troll or totally thought disordered.
First:
There’s no evidence that Palin has anything to do with the dominionists, as if they’re of any use to anyone.
Second:
There are plenty of atheists, like myself, who simply consider Islam to be a putrid murder cult and focus on that bigoted ideology as the main danger to human rights everywhere.
Third:
Democracy, as the word is commonly understood, is actually an elective junta where the people have no meaningful power.
I’m afraid that our dubious salvation, if and when it ever comes, will arise from a series of coups d’etats throughout Europe and North America. This will occur at about the time that most of those countries develop into some greater or lesser version of modern day Lebanon.
lol
If you do not think sarah palin is a dominionist, check out her church, you tube videos of her exorcism, her links with the constitutional party, ect ect.
Inherent in democracy, is free speech, right to assembly and respect for individual rights and separation of powers from religion. It is the enlightenment view of democracy.
To define it any differently, is not democracy, but the law of the majority beating down the minority - as what happened in Iran and Palestine. Or even the minority holding sway over the majority.
I’m afraid that our dubious salvation, if and when it ever comes, will arise from a series of coups d’etats throughout Europe and North America.
I am glad there is someone who shares the opinion I have been holding for years. An opinion voicing of which caused some professed defenders of the West against Izzlum turning away from me like from a leper.
I would have asked you if you, having a choice between seeing the West going muhammedan or preventing it by supporting such a scenario (series of coups d'etats), would chose former or latter, but I am afraid your "incorrect" answer would be censored (as it happened to me in the past)
From the article - "A crowd of around 3 thousand Muslims attacked the faithful [Christian Copts] gathered in prayer in a building adjoining the local church. "
Three thousand Muslims. They were incited by the local imam: a lying demagogue. They threw stones in what clearly could have become a full-scale pogrom.
*Three thousand Muslims*. Massing, throwing stones, howling, threatening murder and mayhem, in just one neighbourhood in Egypt. We have seen other reports of other, similar mobs, attacking the Christians, in other parts of Egypt; and of similar 'flash mobs', massing in an instant, numbering in the hundreds or in the thousands, often well-armed and acting on what appears to be a pre-arranged plan, going on the rampage against Christians in Indonesia and in Pakistan.
Must be that 'tiny minority of extremists' the spin-doctors keep telling us about...
That's where I'll file this story, I think: in my 'tiny minority of extremists' file, along with all the other stories about massive, maddened Mohammedan mobs rioting and smashing and burning houses and churches and robbing ...and, very often, raping and killing people.
Billery and Obama are too busy scapegoating Israel
to find the time to comment on superfluous mass slaughter of
Ibos and Yorubas in Nigeria, Copts in Egypt, Christians in Pakistan, etc., etc..what with their 'busy' schedule
it simply does not allow them time to include potentially embarrassing and 'insulting' criticisms of Islam (that might lead to hurt feelings from Morocco to Indonesia and loss of support for Obama from the Nation of Islam and no more campaign payoffs from the Saudis to the Clintons) when there is some good ole' anti-Semitism and 'insult' hurdling at Israel that clearly focuses all their 'serious' attention.
A video with the building that was attacked took the daz after the attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auv76Tvik4w&feature=player_embedded
the video was downloaded from here: http://www.coptic-news.org/video/pages/Mabna_Matroo7_2.html
ok, im tired. I hope you understand the previous comment. just click the links