Over at FrontPage Mag, via RaymondIbrahim.com, I discuss the latest assault on Christianity in Libya, an armed attack on a church:
Last Thursday, a Coptic Christian church located in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by armed Muslim militants. Initial reports indicate that at least one priest, Fr. Paul Isaac, was injured, as well as his assistant. It is the second church in Libya to be attacked in two months. Earlier, on Sunday, December 30, an explosion rocked a Coptic Christian church near the western city of Misrata, where a group of U.S. backed rebels hold a major checkpoint. The explosion killed two people and wounded two others, all Egyptians.
Such attacks rarely if ever occurred under Col. Gaddafi.
There are currently few details. Based on countless examples from past experience””including centuries of demonstrable continuity””there were likely loud cries of “Allahu Akbar!” with an exuberant sense of Islamic supremacism in the air. As for motivation, it was likely sheer anti-Christian sentiment. For where else are Christians being Christians than in church””where they are being as apolitical as they are being spiritual, simply trying to worship their God in peace, only to be attacked yet again.
At any rate, here is one more piece of solid evidence to validate my observation from last week””that the recent spate of arrests of Christians in Libya on the accusation that they are “missionaries” is a pretext for simple, good old-fashioned Christian hate. After all, this armed attack on a Christian church in Benghazi occurred right around the same time 100 Christian Copts were arrested and tortured, their heads shaven and their tattooed crosses burned off with acid…. Continue reading.