“They took offence at the fact that a Christian fired in the air against them, and they stormed his home and shot him to death before taking his body away and hacking it into parts.” The message that many will take away from this is not Stand Up to This Barbarity, but Do Not Give Offense to Muslims.
“Arson mobs in Egypt turn rage on Christians,” by Hala Jaber in the Sunday Times, August 18 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
WHEN a furious Muslim mob burst into the largely Christian area around his home in Minya, 150 miles south of Cairo, Alexander Tawss, 60, a barber, grabbed his gun and fired in the air to try to scare them away.
It proved a fatal error.
“They took offence at the fact that a Christian fired in the air against them, and they stormed his home and shot him to death before taking his body away and hacking it into parts,” Ayoub Youssef, 40, a Coptic Christian priest, said yesterday.
Then the mob dumped Tawss”s remains in a graveyard.
“We have not been able to visit the graveyard to collect his body parts and to this day he has not been given a burial,” Youssef said.
“It is a ploy to get his family or any one of us to go to the graveyard and then kill us, too,” he said….