Dinner first, then the violence. Post-revolutionary Egypt still employs Orwell-worthy "reconciliation sessions" to intimidate Christians into submission. "Muslims Attack Christian Village in Egypt -- 1 Murdered, Homes Looted and Torched," by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, August 9:
(AINA) -- Muslims attacked Christians in the village of Nazlet Faragallah, in the southern Egyptian Minya province, on Sunday evening. The attack continued until the early hours of Monday morning, August 8. One Copt was murdered and homes were looted and torched when Muslims from Nazlet Faragallah together with Muslims from four neighboring villages started their violence at approximately 8 PM, after breaking their Ramadan fast.
According to eyewitnesses, thousands of Muslims entered the village from all sides, firing automatic weapons (mostly in the air), looting and throwing Molotov Cocktails at several homes. "They even destroyed our irrigation pumps," said one witness.
The first attack was on the house of Father Youanes, pastor of St. George Church, which lies at the head of the village. He was beaten and his home was looted and torched.
Maher Nassif Tobias (50), an employee at the local council, was murdered in his home. He was found by his son. His house was completely looted, including his livestock.
Security forces arrived 4 hours after the attack began and there were too few of them. "They only had batons in their hands, and were unable to control the situation," said a Coptic village resident. "Our village is surrounded by corn fields. The Muslims came into the village to loot and quickly disappeared in the fields, the police could not follow them. They were coming from all directions at the same time."
Nazlet Faragallah has 8000 inhabitants, 80% are Copts and 20% Muslims.
The events were preceded on Saturday by an altercation caused by Muslims harassing Christian girls as they came out of a church service in the late afternoon. Stones were hurled by Muslims at the church, breaking five windows. A "reconciliation" meeting took place. Some 200 Copts staged a sit-in in front of St. George's Church on Sunday afternoon to protest against Muslim attack on the church.
In a statement tonight, the security authorities in Minya said the Muslim attack on Nazlet Faragallah was caused by a group of Copts, headed by Haddar Ishaq, firing at Muslims as they came out of the mosque on Sunday afternoon. Copts in the village denied this claim.
Three Muslims were arrested yesterday and three Copts today. None of the Copts were involved in any incident, and one of them had broken his leg two weeks before. "Security is doing its balancing act again," said one of the villagers. "They will use these Copts, who were arrested at random, to bargain for their freedom in exchange for village Copts giving up their rights during the 'reconciliation' meeting."
It was reported that Muslim women walked the streets today, warning that after breaking the Ramadan fast the men would come to finish the Christians off, but this did not happen, as security was present in large numbers in the village and preparations were being made for another "reconciliation" meeting to take place on August 9.
A two-pronged approach, giving Christians the choice to accept the terms of "reconciliation," or expect more mob violence.
Meanwhile, Ekmeleddin Insaneglouglou and Buraq Hussein's Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are busy working in order to stamp out intolerance of this sort of muslim savagery and barbarism in civilized countries.
I think it is logical.
After-all, who likes it being a perpetual slave.
That-not-with-standing, I think it's time that Buraq Husein Osabama, the people that believe in nothing, who call themselves liberals and their cohorts in the business of sharia, should please, take advantage of their broken positions in the government to send some simple public message to their fellow Muslims at this time of Ramadam.
“Those who starve and fast for the mere reason to please the eyes of man, and their Slave-Master- 'Allah’ should not be allowed to turn the anger and blame of their captivity on innocent children Free people”.
Main stream rags BBC and and all pro-sharia agents in Washington and New York: …please, take note
They sent their women out to do their threatening for them? No, I don't believe it. I will not believe it.
It would seem obvious that the primary Christian response to news of this sort would be to pray for the Copts who are being so fiercely persecuted. But the persecuted Copts and other Christians minorities throughout the Middle East and South Asia seem to be almost entirely off the radar screen so far as prayer intentions are concerned. How can Christians justify such indifference and/or ignorance concerning the plight of their coreligionists?
The Church, and by this I mean then entire fractious collection of denominations and non-denominations, must be united at least in concern for these people who are suffering. The Church, and by this I mean the Faithful, need to make the protection of religious minorities around the world the issue of our time.
It's like my "hidden" Qur'an says, "Never attack the kafir on an empty stomach". I have spoken and my words are not the wind.
- Abdullah Bhullah, the wacky mullah.
Christians are called to love and forgive, but they are not expected to be fools. It takes standing up against evil twice to get both cheeks slapped. Christians should not hate or incite hatred, but there is no sin in defending oneself and others. Christians need to remember that one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shall not MURDER." The original Bible (not rewritten by Muhammad 600 years after Jesus) says there is a time to kill, and that murder is defined by a malicious intent to kill (Numbers 35). Jesus emphasized that God looks at the heart and knows the intent, even saying that looking "with lust" at a woman is adultery (notice Jesus did not say the woman should be stoned simply because a man looks at her with lust). The Bible also says that Esther was put in a position of influence with the King to save her people, and that was done by an edict that the Jews could defend themselves, thus thwarting a massacre.
Of course, with jihad having to be framed (rationalized, as there is no reasonable justification) as defensive (in defense of Muslims, Muslim honor, Islam, Muhammad, etc., etc.,) to be legal under Sharia law, any action or reaction by non-Muslims to jihad will be construed as attacking Islam. What is meant by that Islamic concept is for non-Muslims to "submit" to Islamic/Muslim domination and to not fight against it. It also enables Muslims to terrorize, plunder, rape, and kill with impunity under Sharia law.
Islam: the religion that sacralises open, shameless, vicious thuggery.