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Egypt: Muslim mob again attacks church honoring Christians killed by Islamic State

Apr 7, 2015 8:25 pm By Robert Spencer

Egyptian Christians memorialOne would almost get the impression that these Egyptian Muslims haven’t gotten the message that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. John Kerry, call your office. An account of the first time it happened is here. “Muslim groups attack Egyptian Copts over church honoring Christians killed by ISIS,” by Steven Edwards, FoxNews.com, April 6, 2015:

Relatives of the Coptic Christians beheaded last month by jihadists in Libya – their deaths immortalized in a gory video set against the backdrop of a Mediterranean beach – are facing new extremist-Muslim violence as they seek to build a church to honor their murdered loved ones.

An angry mob in the Upper Egyptian village of Al Our – the proposed site of the church because it was home to 13 of the 21 Christians murdered in the mass “beachfront” decapitation – descended on the community’s current church after the midday Islamic prayer Friday and chanted that they’d never allow construction of the new place of worship to begin, witnesses told Egyptian activists in the U.S.

Things turned far uglier after nightfall, the witnesses said, as a smaller number of individuals threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the church, injuring several people, and setting cars ablaze, including one that belonged to a relative of one of the victims of the Libyan massacre.

“The police came, but after the attack,” said Mina Abdelmalak, a Coptic Christian living in Washington who is in close contact with the witnesses to the events in Al Our. “There were already cars on fire. People had been bloodied. Stones and bricks had been thrown.”

Some protesters also appeared at the family home of massacre victim Samuel Alham Wilson, but, in a gesture that provided some hope, were chased off by Muslim neighbors when the protesters started throwing stones.

Copts are the native Christians of Egypt, accounting for about 10 percent of the country’s 88 million people.

While they have traditionally faced varying levels of persecution in the mainly Muslim country, the Copts of Al Our — a village on the Nile about 125 miles south of Cairo — have additionally been in deep mourning since the Islamic State released its video Feb. 15 showing the beheading of the Christians — 20 of them Copts, the other from Ghana.

The 13 from Al Our – like their fellow Christians with whom they died – had gone to Libya to seek work because their poverty-stricken home communities offered none or little that was viable.

Abdelmalak told FoxNews.com that the Al Our Copts had sought permission from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to build a church to honor the loss of their loved ones and the others who died with them.

Until recently, such high-level permission was necessary to carry out even minor repairs on churches in Egypt, while similar permissions are not necessary for the building of mosques.

But the Friday attacks on the Copts have driven a further wedge between the village’s Christian and Muslim communities — and are seen as particularly insensitive in light of the losses suffered because of the massacre in Libya.

“This is a classic issue in Egypt,” said Abdelmalak. “Even after you struggle to get permission from the president to build a church, you still have to face the mob, which rejects the idea of having a church built in their neighborhood.”

A Coptic news Facebook page displays pictures of men with facial injuries it says they suffered during the attack on the church.

“I fear that the security [services] will as usual issue a report saying that the situation in the village [is so bad] that [they] will not [now] allow us to build a new church,” says the author of the entry, according to a translation from Arabic.

After receiving presidential permission for construction, the Coptic community bought some land, but local Muslims objected to its positioning at the entrance to the village, according to Daily News Egypt, which publishes in English.

A new location outside the village is now eyed following a meeting between Muslim and Coptic residents that the regional governor brokered.

“This has been effectively imposed on the Coptic residents,” Abdelmalak said. “Dictates to the Christian community are always presented as agreements.”

A report in Arabic in the al-Masry al-Youm newspaper said “tens of residents” protested against the building of the new church, despite presidential approval for the project.

“Witnesses from the village said protesters repeated chants saying, ‘Whatever you do, there won’t be a church on the ground.’”…

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  1. Renee says

    Apr 7, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    I honour the christians who called out to Christ in their hour of death.
    These muslims are driven by anger, rage and jealousy, yes, because the message of the gospel shines a bright light revealing the darkness of islam.

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 7, 2015 at 10:20 pm

      Very good comment
      One minor technical issue though.
      Envy might be a better choice of words in reference to Muslims

      jealousy — (maintaining or guarding something that one has)
      envy — (covetousness for something one does not have)

      Either way is ok though.

      • Renee says

        Apr 8, 2015 at 10:15 pm

        Thank you for the correction

  2. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 7, 2015 at 9:52 pm

    It will be a long struggle for modern minded Egyptians to reclaim ground from a fanaticised population who voted in the ‘year zero’ Muslim Brotherhood. Any political leader with a backbone should be proud to have their photograph taken standing beside Mr Sisi whose administrations task is herculean. If you care for religious minorities, women’s rights, reasonable people or Egyptian antiquities then the Sisi route is the only one available at present and it’s not the time to just wait around to see what unfolds.

  3. Jerry says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 3:23 am

    Islam:

    A religion invented by a genocidal paedophile plundering warlord in order to recruit plunderers to his marauding bands.

    Decent human being even of pagan religions, as well a atheists have inborn revulsion against harming, let alone killing others of their own species.

    Blasphemy and heresy are at the core of Islam for the following simple reasons:

    All life and all creatures were created by G-d. These include even all those we do not particularly like.

    G-d created all diversity, so it must have suited his purpose.

    G-d is almighty and does not require protection from others, especially humans, especially not from those who allegedly do not believe in him or do not express the belief in manner recognised by others.

    The call for Jihad is preposterous because it could only be justified if G-d is powerless, lost his power or have abdicated in favour of a criminal desert warlord or his followers.

    Thus following the Islamic Jihadi model is actually testimony not to an unshaken belief in an omnipotent single almighty creator but, on the contrary, lack of of proper faith in him.

    So why was Islam invented?

    Because it’s founder wished to overcome human decency and compassion in the recruits, through criminalising all those who did not join him in his criminal pursuits and thus giving false justification
    for his criminal acts and atrocities.

    Being allowed to plunder and keep four fifths of the proceeds, rape and take sex and other slaves was part of the incentive.

    A fake paradise was invented to allay the fear of death among the gullible followers.

  4. particolor says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 6:18 am

    Big reward for Copping one for Mo !! 72 Hot Nanny Goats ! 🙂

  5. Lioness says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 11:50 am

    Muslims are so tolerant. We should learn from them and chant “no mosques” in the US and Canada. Could that be interpreted as Islamophobic?

  6. walt says

    Apr 8, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    When o when will the chuches here speak up to the “outside world” on behalf of their persecuted bretheten?
    Maybe just for one week the lighted sign could be used for that purpose.
    I think we could make it one week without a silly little pun.

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