Victimization of Egypt's Christians Worse After Revolution

There's nothing revolutionary about replacing one dictatorship with a dictatorship that's much worse.

What are the relative incidences for Copts being kidnapped and held for ransom vs. Muslims being kidnapped and held for ransom?

It's going to get worse, Allah will see to it...

This shows that Egypt must be a particularly ugly society. Back under Mubarak, they scapegoated the Copts, now the persecution is out in the open. I suppose this is what must happen when an Islamic society runs out of Jews.

And we call this the "Arab Spring!"

Off-topic, a great article about Islam's contribution to science, and Barack Obama's contribution to ignorance:

David Wood introduces the article thus:

Frank Tipler is a world-class mathematician, physicist, and cosmologist. Here are his thoughts on some popular claims about Islamic contributions to physics and astronomy.

PJ MEDIA--In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President Barack Obama claimed: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar University — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing.”

Obama is not much of a “student of history” if he believes this. Almost every advance he attributes to the Muslims was due to someone else.

The non-Muslim Chinese invented the magnetic compass and printing (Gutenberg invented not printing, but movable type). The non-Muslim Hindu Indians invented algebra and the decimal numbering system. The non-Muslim European Christians invented the university.

I can’t address advances in medicine, but I have studied the history of astronomy and physics. The Muslims contributed nothing.

All modern physics descends from Galileo (1564 -1642); all modern astronomy from Copernicus (1473-1543). If you study Galileo’s works carefully, as I have, you see that he started with the achievements of the Greek mathematical physicist Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC). If you study Copernicus’ works carefully, as I have, you will see that Copernicus’ great book On the Revolutions is essentially a heliocentric re-working of the geocentric astronomy textbook by the Greek Ptolemy (c. 90 AD – 168 AD). Copernicus mostly used even Ptolemy’s data for the positions of the planets. Note the dates for Archimedes/Galileo and Ptolemy/Copernicus. It is as if the Muslim world never existed. As far as their fundamental contributions to physics and astronomy, it did not.

If one reads history of science textbooks prior to about 1980, one will find very little mention of Muslim “contributions” to physics and astronomy. This is reasonable, because there weren’t any. In the past generation, however, political correctness has dictated that Muslims be given credit for discoveries they did not make.

Certainly, the Muslims were a conduit for the discoveries of others. The word “algebra” is indeed derived from an Arabic word. The books of Archimedes and Ptolemy used by Galileo and Copernicus were indeed translations into Latin from the Arabic. But let us never forget that Archimedes and Ptolemy wrote their books in Greek, not Arabic. They were Greeks, not Muslims.

Most of the names for the brightest stars are of Arabic origin, because the names of these stars given in Ptolemy’s textbook were never translated from the Arabic. But do you think that the Arabs were the first humans to observe Rigel and Betelguese, the first and second brightest stars in Orion?

The reason Muslims never developed fundamental physics is because the leading Muslim theologians declared the idea of fixed physical laws to be heretical. The Qur’an (verse 6:64) states: “The Jews have said, ‘God’s hand is fettered.’ Fettered are their hands, and they are cursed for what they have said. Nay, but His hands are outspread; He expends how He will.” The standard Muslim interpretation of this passage has been that there cannot be unchanging physical laws because Allah may change the laws at any moment. In 1982, the Institute for Policy Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan, criticized a chemistry textbook by saying: “There is latent poison present in the subheading Energy Causes Changes because it gives the impression that energy is the true cause rather than Allah. Similarly it is unIslamic to teach that mixing hydrogen and oxygen automatically produces water. The Islamic way is this: when atoms of hydrogen approach atoms of oxygen, then by the Will of Allah water is produced.” The implication is clear: next week, Allah may change his mind about water being a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. With this sort of worldview, how could one possibly be a scientist?

The cosmology of the Qur’an is obviously geocentric, and as a consequence, Al-Azhar University, which Obama singles out for praise in his speech, still teaches Ptolemaic astronomy.

There was one truly great “Muslim” physicist, the Nobel Prize winning Pakistani, Mohammed Abdus Salam. I put “Muslim” in quotes, because Salam belonged to the Ahmadi sect of Islam, a sect that accepts modern science. But in 1974, the Pakistani parliament declared the Ahmadi sect heretical, and its members are currently being persecuted in Pakistan. Contemporary Muslim historians generally do not list Salam as an important Muslim scientist. Had he remained in Pakistan, he quite possibly would have been killed.

During the Cold War, it was commonplace for leftist academics to attribute many discoveries to scientists in Communist countries, discoveries that had actually been made in the West. So now leftist academics attribute to Muslims discoveries that had actually been made by others.

I never expected to hear a president of the United States do so.

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How we ignored the facts, and elected a muslim pos POTUS:

In June 2007 Abunimah

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426

recalled: “When Obama first ran for the Senate in 2004, the Chicago Jewish News interviewed him on his stance regarding Israel’s security fence.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125656#.TnESsHZlYjw

He accused the Bush administration of neglecting the ‘Israeli-Palestinian’ situation and criticized the security fence built by Israel to prevent terror attacks: ‘The creation of a wall dividing the two nations is yet another example of the neglect of this administration in brokering peace,’ Obama was quoted as saying.”

Also in 2007, Abunimah said: “The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing. As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, ‘Hey, I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.’ He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and U.S. policy, ‘Keep up the good work!’”

President-elect Obama chooses the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group to recite a prayer during his January 2009 inauguration:
Obama selected Ingrid Mattson --

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1470

then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA),

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178

a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386

that had previously been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror-funding case --

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6204

to recite a prayer during his inauguration ceremonies in January 2009. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological forebear of both Hamas and al Qaeda,

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211

openly promotes the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate and is bitterly hostile towards Israel. Not only did Obama fail to ask Mattson to explain ISNA’s links to the Brotherhood and Hamas, but he sent his senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett,

http://www.humanevents.com/2011/02/08/obamas-muslim-brotherhood-ties/

to be the keynote speaker at ISNA’s national convention later that year.

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Pulled From Here:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/

Of course, all this pre presidential data linking the obomination POTUS to pro palestinian, anti-Israeli beliefs was buried by the islamoleftist media.

Jews who still strongly support this muslim mole of a president are betraying Israel.

Anybody who calls themselves an American should be ashamed of supporting obama, the first muslim pos POTUS in our nation's history.

Check out these articles:

"In the Koran those sent to Hell acquire Black Faces"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/07/18/in-the-koran-those-sent-to-hell-acquire-black-faces/

"Skanderbeg,Albanian Prince,pretended to be Muslim for more than 20 years,Retracted and fought the Turks"

http://www.antisharia.com/2011/07/31/skanderbegalbanian-princepretended-to-be-muslim-for-more-than-20-yearsretracted-and-fought-the-turks/

To keyboard this in a more clear way then before it needs to be restated that one of the reason the so many Muslims in Egypt as well as in other Islamic countries have such a strong dislike and sometimes even hate for Christian is because the imams and mullahs are filling the minds and hearts of the people in the mosques with terrible and awful yet untrue and false things aboout Christians and Christian doctrines these Muslims clerics really don't care if the things they tell the people are true or not just as long as they keep speaking evil of Christians and Christianity.
The Bible explains about such false teachers as these imams and mullahs. For in Second Peter 2:12. it reads "They speak evil of things they do not understand and will utterly perish in their corruption." [NKJV]

It also should be noted the in this Bible context the word "perish' does not mean "Loss of being but loss of well being." As in going to ruin by ending up suffering forever in the fires of hell.