Egypt: 50,000 Muslims led by sword-wielding men march through Christian areas, chanting that country would be "Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians"

And making sure the Christians didn't vote in the referendum. More on this story. "Fear keeps Egypt's Christians away from polls," by Hamza Hendawi for the Associated Press, December 18 (thanks to Betsy):

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) - A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum on an Islamist-drafted constitution they deeply oppose, residents say. The disenfranchisement is hiking Christians' worries over their future under empowered Muslim conservatives.

Around a week before the vote, some 50,000 Islamists marched through the provincial capital, Assiut, chanting that Egypt will be "Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians." At their head rode several bearded men on horseback with swords in scabbards on their hips, evoking images of early Muslims conquering Christian Egypt in the 7th Century.

They made sure to go through mainly Christian districts of the city, where residents, fearing attacks, shuttered down their stores and stayed in their homes, witnesses said.

The day of the voting itself on Saturday, Christian voting was minimal - as low as seven percent in some areas, according to church officials. Some of those who did try to head to polling stations in some villages were pelted by stones, forcing them to turn back without casting ballots, Christian activists and residents told The Associated Press this week.

The activists now see what happened in Assiut as a barometer for what Christians' status will be under a constitution that enshrines a greater role for Shariah, or Islamic law, in government and daily life. Even under the secular regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Christians complained of discrimination and government failure to protect them and their rights. They fear it will be worse with the Islamists who have dominated Egypt's political landscape since Mubarak's ouster in February 2011.

"When all issues become religious and all the talk is about championing Islam and its prophet, then, as a Christian, I am excluded from societal participation," said Shady Magdy Tobia, a Christian activist in Assiut. "If this does not change, things will only get worse for Christians."....

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And in Alexandria, even BBC is disquieted:-


"Egypt referendum divisions run deep in 'Islamist' Alexandria"


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20787084

only 50000? there seems to be some improvement here,no?
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Will the islamophobia ever end in Egypt?.

I've said it before, I'll say it again:

Any Christians in Egypt who have the means to leave, better get their behinds out of there.

It's only a matter of time before Cairo closely resembles Mogadishu.

"Any Christians in Egypt who have the means to leave, better get their behinds out of there."---

Yep, and especially cause the West is not gonna help them, the West only helps the Muslim Brotherhood and other islamonazi groups. The West just doesn't care about the victims of islamonazism.

Two observations.

First, the byline of this article - 'Hamza Hendawi for the Associated Press'.

Somehow I doubt that 'Hamza Hendawi' is a Coptic Christian. So, unless he is a closet apostate, there is no way that he could be completely fair to the Christians, or able to fully enter into their mounting terror.

Second, the account of the voting day:

"the day of the voting itself on Saturday, Christian voting was minimal - as low as seven percent in some areas...Some of those who did try to head to polling stations in villages were pelted by stones, forcing them to turn back without casting ballots'.

And who, pray, threw those stones? There is only one possible candidate: Muslim villagers.

Let's rewrite the sentence in question, 'Muslims threw showers of stones at some Christians who did try to go to polling stations in villages, forcing them to turn back without casting ballots'.

Another sentence: 'Even under the secular regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Christians complained of discrimination and government failure to protect them and their rights.'

Correction: 'Even under the somewhat less fervently Islamic regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Christians suffered frequent and sometimes severe persecution from Muslims and the government did little or nothing to protect them and their rights'.

As the levels of persecution increase in Egypt, will the Copts be allowed to resettle in the West, or will refugee status be allocated only to Mohammedans fleeing Mohammedan violence?

If the Copts are not offered sanctuary in the West, who will either give them the means to defend themselves or take the responsibility for their murder and enslavement at the hands of the jihadis? Where will we in the West go when the Mohammedans insist on establishing the dhimma here in the West?

If the Churches will not raise their voices in protest at the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt out of brotherly love, then they at least might do so in anticipation of the fate that looms over them as well.

obama slimed into office again because he has media who show their swords and throw their stones, bare their sharp teeth and unfairly, shred the opponents.

who makes the TRADES for rich sports guys? maybe those people should make trades for CHRISTIANS to get out of Egypt, and trade some moslems to go back to egypt. bye bye.

Egypt: 50,000 Muslims led by sword-wielding men march through Christian areas, chanting that country would be "Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians"
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*50,000*? There's another "tiny minority of extremists"...sarc/off

More:

And making sure the Christians didn't vote in the referendum. More on this story. "Fear keeps Egypt's Christians away from polls"
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Apologists tell us that democracy will "look different" in the Muslim world—perhaps *this* is what they had in mind?

More:

Around a week before the vote, some 50,000 Islamists marched through the provincial capital, Assiut, chanting that Egypt will be "Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians." At their head rode several bearded men on horseback with swords in scabbards on their hips, evoking images of early Muslims conquering Christian Egypt in the 7th Century.
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And why not? That's *exactly* what they want Egypt—and all of Dar-al-Islam—to return to.

More:

Some of those who did try to head to polling stations in some villages were pelted by stones, forcing them to turn back without casting ballots, Christian activists and residents told The Associated Press this week.
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More of the fruits of that "Arab Spring"...

More:

The activists now see what happened in Assiut as a barometer for what Christians' status will be under a constitution that enshrines a greater role for Shariah, or Islamic law, in government and daily life. Even under the secular regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Christians complained of discrimination and government failure to protect them and their rights. They fear it will be worse with the Islamists who have dominated Egypt's political landscape since Mubarak's ouster in February 2011.
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Egypt under Mubarak was still a Muslim state, and Christians *were* discriminated against and targeted for violence—but now things *are* likely to become much worse under the "Islamists"—especially if they are backed by a full Shari'ah state, s it appears they will be, given that they are intimidating Copts, secularists, and liberals—all the Egyptians who might be expected to vote "no" on this constitutional referendum.

It's time for Operation MXMF (Merry Christmas, Mother --).

This is how the Muslims oppress and / or eradicate the original inhabitants of the countries they conquer. And here's a remarkable aricle on the Samaritans, the very same Samaritans repeatedly mentioned in the Bible. As early as the 5th century, they numbered over a million. If allowed to live in peace, they would surely reach at least 20 million by now. Who knows? Maybe, even 100 million. So, what happened? Islam happened. Two centuries later, the Muslim Arabs had conquered the region, and the Samaritans' numbers began dramatically and catastrophically decline. This is a very rare piece in the MSM that dares to tell the truth about what happened to those non-Muslim people under the Muslims: segregation, discrimination, abuse, persecution, coersion, forcible conversions to Islam. The rapidly dwindling community clinged desperately to their religion, and its commandment not to marry outsiders increasingly led to inbreeding, which in turn caused birth defects and severe health problems. At the brink of extinction, they have been saved by the Jews. The Israeli geneticists and other doctors, the best in the world, have healed the almost totally destroyed ancient people and eradicated birth defects and health problems that imperiled its very existance. Israel is like the life-giving streams of water mentioned in Psalm 1:3:


http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/09/world/la-fg-israel-gene-testing-20121209

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

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