It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations, when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack and prevent them.
After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be built in al-Our to honor the Copts decapitated by the Islamic State in Egypt, and after Muslims rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence because Copts got a license to renovate one of their dilapidated churches in Gala’ village, Muslims are now attacking and preventing Christians from meeting in one of their homes to worship and pray.
In Tulihat Village, in Sohag—where Muslims rose in violence because the government permitted the Copts to repair their church—Arabic media report that, “Extremist Muslims prevented Copts from offering prayers in one of the Coptic homes in the village.” It is worth noting that back in the 1990’s, the Christians of Tulihat tried to build a church but were attacked and prevented by rioting Muslims.
In related news, Muslims in Minya, Upper Egypt, attacked Coptic Christian homes, including by throwing stones at them, after Friday’s Islamic prayers yesterday. The particular grievance here is that a young Coptic teacher and five others reportedly insulted Islam on Facebook. The teacher is currently under arrested.
Peggy says
. O.K.? But maybe you , Maria and Justin don’t like al-Sisi , and then your remark is all to clear .
Pffft , Justin , you are only interested in blaming the West . Is that your JIHAD ?
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Ernie, we have to place blame where it belongs.
Do you dispute anything that Justin has said? Do you dispute that US ordered NATO to bomb Christians in Serbia in order to help the Muslims?
Do you dispute that Christians are persecuted in ME so much that they will be either killed or expelled soon enough and the west is still doing nothing about that and on the contrary importing hundreds of thousands of MUSLIM “refugees”?
What exactly isn’t the west guilty of and why should we not put the blame on the west? Maybe if more of us do and hold the west accountable for creating conditions around the world where Islamic State thrives we might actually force the west to fix the problem and save some non Muslim lives.
Do you dispute that the west has made laws to shackle us and minimize the risk of a revolt agains them? We are too scared to even debate this issue because our jobs could be on the line and we will be ridiculed and called racist.
So tell us again how the west should not be blamed for all this.
Ernie says
The NATO did bomb Serbia . After dictator Tito died , Yugoslavia’s peoples wanted their freedom/self-determination . It became a powerstruggle , WAR . Serbia was against the division of Yugoslavia into smaller self-determent entities , and tried with all it’s power to prevent this . Ethnic and religious identities divided the peoples , and along these lines the wars ( Bosnia and Kosovo) were fought . Christians and Muslims fought each other as in the old days . Ethnic cleansing was the method for the different parties to grab as much territory for themselves as they could , with all it’s atrocities . Serbia wanted to dominate all other entities . The war did not only involve Orthodox Christians and Muslims , but Roman Catholic Croatians aswell . Even Croatian Roman Catholics and Orthodox Serbians fought each other . So Christians were fighting/murdering ( and cleansing ) among themselves !!!!!!!!!!! Serbia wanted ALL of former Yugoslavia , and the West decided it was ENOUGH ! To curb Serbia’s ambitions it intervened and yes , it bombed Serbia . Ofcourse I understand the hate of Orthodox Christian Serbs and their allies ( Russia ), they were stopped in their ambitions , ( grabbing and dominating it all) . And yes , lots of people died , got maimed , wounded , uprooted etc. War is a very , very dirty business . And now many Orthodox Christian Serbs hate the West for eternity , as they hate “the Turks”.
Ernie says
P.S. Peggy , and so Justin , Maria and maybe yourself are more interested in criticizing/blaming the West then fighting islamo-fascism . You will never forget ( and that’s fine) , and you’ll never forgive . ( and that’s wrong , from an Christian perspective, besides , we’re supposed to fight the same enemy , so instead of waging war on the West on this blog it would be more constructive to focus on our mutual interest . Thank you ! ) .
Spot On says
We are being held to account for our lovely corrupt Washington government. Obama has taken corruption to a new level. Arab oil money has bought plenty of our politicians like they bought the Clintons and we are catching the flack from this. (The Clintons love being bought.)
The fact is that almost every war now has Muslims on one side of it. Muslims love war and they love to kill Christians and Jews but Christians are easier to kill. They would kill anyone here (except Muslims) if they had the chance. Justin and Maria speak like they had a Clinton bomb dropped on their head. Clinton would do the same to you and me too if he could profit from it.
Washington could change but Muslims will always be evil everywhere, everytime.
Maria says
Ernie what do you mean Forgive and forget? I will forgive and forget when NATO take there Bases out of Kosovo and Bosnia and when the West stops Supporting Turkey and starts helping middle eastern Christians don’t tell me to keep quiet while Christians in the middle east are dying everyday just because they not western White protestants don’t mean they are better then them. I am not waging war on the West its your own western Government doing that by supporting those evil terrorist and ignoring there crimes
terry says
“so instead of waging war on the West on this blog it would be more constructive to focus on our mutual interest . Thank you ! ) ”
Ernie, there is nobody here, waging war on the west. Meanwhile we’re many trying to diagnose this unique problem correctly.
I think the following analogy will shed more light about what is being discussed here. In medicine there are two fundamental and very clear concepts-first, to treat any disease effectively you have to diagnose it correctly. Second, there are two sides for any infectious disease. On one hand, the infectious or causing agent and on the other hand the immune system, responsible of defending the body and overcoming this bacteria, virus, amoeba, prion or any other microorganism causing the infection.
When a disease or health problem is diagnosed correctly, only then the health care provider would know the exact nature of the infectious agent and whether there is also any weakness or break down in the functioning of the immune system which either contributes in part to or actually bear the whole responsibility for the development of this disease.
In a healthy person with a fully functioning immune system, many infectious agents won’t be able to get foot in the body or if they do, will be overcome very quickly. Meanwhile these same infectious agents can wreak havoc and even cause mortality in a person with a compromised immune system or one which is not functioning properly.
In this later case in the last paragraph, the health care provider would not only prescribe a remedy to fight the infectious agent but usually several remedies, pharmaceutic and/or natural to stimulate, boost and support the immune system, without which any amount of drugs administered to fight the infectious agent would be useless.
Actually, and this has been proven repeatedly in many cases, stimulating, boosting and supporting the immune system would be more than enough to getting rid of the the infection without any need for any drugs to fight it.
I believe this is the case here, regarding the west’s response to Islam. The immune defense system of the west is not only compromised, in facing Islam, but it seems, insanely so, to be actively participating in creating a very comfortable, hospitable and nourishing environment to this invading agent and everyday making it easier for this later, to successfully complete its conquering and domination of the western hemisphere!!
That’s what Maria, Peggy and Justin are trying to emphasize here.
Sam says
Hey are you okay they feared fanatics, not prevented get facts right first.
Gene says
This is the future of western countries in Europe and elsewhere, if they don’t wake up and realize Islam is not a desirable or tolerable ideology in a free society.
TheCountess says
To all on this site commenting.
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R Cole says
This is in part where Muslims fears come from in the west – for example they say westerners who don’t want shari’a law [as the law of the land] would prevent Muslims from doing things like facing Mecca when they pray.
What seems like an absurdity – has real basis in how Christians and other non-Muslims are governed under the shari’a across the Islamic world.
For example in Egypt it is illegal for Copts to hold prayers in a private home – it is called an unauthorized prayer session – even when praying over the sick or dying – the priest risks arrest.
And they are not alone – in Algeria – at least one European Catholic priest has been jailed for holding unauthorized prayer sessions – with Christian African migrants.
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But crucially – the way the indigenous Copts are treated – in a country that was once predominately Christian – under Islamic law the same would be done to us. You have to be in complete denial [with freedom of religion/conscience you are allowed to] but with all the beleaguered Christian and non-Muslim groups across the Islamic world – this is a billboard for what Muslim groups have in store for us. It’s Koran 9:29
Mark says
BBC2 aired a programme called ‘Kill the Christians’ last night (15th April). It is predominantly about Islamic militants persecuting Christians and makes mention of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians.
When the programme focused on the Maronites in the Lebanon it made the statement of the Crusaders ‘reclaiming’ the Holy Land’. Not ‘conquering’ but ‘reclaiming’. For the BBC this is refreshing and welcome.