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Egypt: Monks lie before bulldozers to protect monastery from workmen screaming “Allahu akbar”

Mar 3, 2015 3:14 pm By Robert Spencer

Egypt_Coptic_monks in front of bulldozersThe road project “threatens an archaeological area that stretches around a church dating to the fourth century,” as well as the monastery’s water supply. The fact that the workmen were screaming “Allahu akbar” indicates that they were just thrilled at the prospect of harming an installation of Infidels.

“Coptic monks scramble to protect ancient monastery,” The Archaeology News Network, February 27, 2015 (thanks to Block Ness):

Marking just the latest of a long dispute which arose around a road project threatening to demolish an archaeological site, Coptic monks are literally willing to put their lives on the line.
According to Fides, the project to build a road that should unite the city of Fayoum to an oasis area crossing the territories around the Coptic monastery of St. Macarius, threatens an archaeological area that stretches around a church dating to the fourth century.
Ninety-two kilometers from Cairo, the Monastery of St. Macarius is located in Wadi el-Natrun, the ancient Scetes. In Christian literature, the Scetes refers to one of the three early Christian monastic centers located in the desert of the northwestern Nile Delta.
In addition to the monastery itself, the project also threatens its water supply of the monastery and some cultivated areas belonging to it.
The monks, in recent days, launched an initiative of non-violent resistance. They lied in the path of bulldozers working on the project, led by workers who approached the monastery lands shouting “Allah Akbar.” …
The monastery was founded in 360 A.D. by St. Macarius the Egyptian, a spiritual father to more than 4,000 monks of different nationalities, such as Egyptians, Greeks, Ethiopians, Armenians, Nubians, Asians, Palestinians, Italians, Gauls and Spaniards. Among the monks are men of letters and philosophers, and members of the aristocracy of the time, along with simple illiterate peasants. Since the fourth century, the monastery has been continuously inhabited by monks.

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Filed Under: Coptic Christians, Egypt, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Scetes, St. Macarius Monastery, Wadi el-Natrun


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  1. nacazo says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    OK, where is Sisi????

    • Baucent says

      Mar 4, 2015 at 1:31 am

      Exactly. This persecution of Coptic Christians has been going on for centuries. A recent news report of the murder of the 21 men in Libya said the Copts “were usually construction workers”. The reason for that is they are not allowed to have other better paid jobs. They must work as laborers.

      • Gwhh says

        Mar 5, 2015 at 12:14 am

        Egypt.

  2. [FA] says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    Palestinians in 360 AD? Can someone show me a map from that era with Palestine on it? Or do we just change history as we see fit?

    • mariam rove says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 3:53 pm

      Muslims change anything and everything to fit their cause. M

    • AnneM says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 5:13 pm

      Doing what their god, the devil tells them to do.

      • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

        Mar 3, 2015 at 10:52 pm

        Amen to that Anne! Satan is allah.

        The rest all follows, quite naturally…

    • Ricky Black says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 5:40 pm

      I think the Romans turned in into Palestine after they tore down the 2nd Temple and band the Jews from Jerusalem, to degrade the Jews

      • Beagle says

        Mar 3, 2015 at 6:52 pm

        Yes, Palestine was the name of the Roman province. It was selected to offend the Jews who lived there I think. Or, that is a story I read.

        • John says

          Mar 4, 2015 at 12:27 am

          Philistine is synonyms with Palestine. The arch enemy of Israel and her tribes in many biblical stories.
          Arab’s refer to the region as the Levant. There is no letter P in Arabic.

        • marcy watson says

          Mar 4, 2015 at 9:39 pm

          Look up the root words for palistine……its main meaning comes from the word Tyrant and Invaders.

    • Jerry says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 5:56 pm

      Palestinian Muslims are very ingenious.

      They invent their history retrospectively.

      Going back two thousand years.

      Their technique is called Taqiyya.

      It perfectly follows Mohammedanism since a desert criminal warlord invented a story that he is a prophet, then invented a satanic deity he call Allah.

      A true God, of course, does not need anyone to commit murder in his name, or in the defence thereof.

      A true God does not need people to coerce into believing in him as he can provide them with knowledge, even a certainty of his existence.

      Good people have no need to fear a true God, because he is not their enemy.

      Islam is of course too twisted in its lies to make any sense.

      • The Countess says

        Mar 3, 2015 at 6:59 pm

        “A true God does not need people to coerce into believing in him as he can provide them with knowledge, even a certainty of his existence.”

        Very well put.

    • Laura says

      Mar 4, 2015 at 6:10 am

      Read again, you have misunderstood.

  3. No Fear says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    Whenever I hear “Allah u Akhbar” I know that something bad is about to happen to a ‘non-muslim’.

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    If all religion people and atheists do not unite against Islam, we all be picked off by them one at a time.

    • Nicu says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 11:10 pm

      You are absolutely right ! but NOBODY stops these devils ! Why ?

      don’t they care or are they like a rabbit in front of a snake ? WE the people must unite if our governments are to gutless .

      PEGIDA !

  5. John says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    Could you imagine the international out cry and mobs of whinging Muslims on the streets if Christians were trying to bowl through a Muslim holy site crying Jesus is the son of God?

  6. Longjok says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    Now let me get this right. These monks and their monastery, and religious practices revering the prophet Jesus, date from 236 AD. Muhammad came along HUNDREDS of years later, and his followers believe its ok to destroy a pre-existing religion based on the life of THEIR second most important prophet? Are these people rational at all?

    • Angemon says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 6:08 pm

      Muslims believe that Isa (their equivalent to Jesus) was a muslim teaching the same message as muhammad, and that his followers twisted his message into the Christianity we know today.

  7. Salah says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 2:30 am

    After 14 centuries of evil Islam change cannot happen overnight. There’s always a grey zone between black and white.
    One needs to be stupid not to realize such an obvious reality.
    Egypt is on the right path, in fact, Egypt is the ONLY country whose people has peaceably crushed and defeated the Islamist vermins: the Muslim Brotherhood and their sympathizers.

  8. TH says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Scetes was one of the most important monastic sites during the 4th century monastic movement to the desert which began in Egypt. Monasticism, which began in Egypt, spread to the West when St. Athanasius was exiled and went to Rome and was accompanied by several monks. He also wrote the LIfe of St. Anthony of Egypt, perhaps the most famous of all ancient Egypptan monks, which became a bestseller and was read by St. Augustine in the 5th century. It is difficult to exaggerte the importance of monasticism in the history of the Church, both East and West. The muslims probably brought the road close to the monastery and Church precisely to cause trouble for the monks.

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