“According to our correspondent, the explosives belt discovered on the dead assailant suggested an even more deadly attack was planned.”
Of course. It’s never enough. “Kill them wherever you find them” has neither limit nor expiration date.
“Egypt attack: Nine dead in gun attack on church near Cairo,” BBC, December 29, 2017:
Nine people died when gunmen tried to storm a church south of Cairo, but were intercepted by police, officials say.
Three of the dead were police who were on duty at Mar Mina church.
One attacker was killed and his explosives belt was defused. Another gunman managed to escape.
Security services announced plans this week to protect festivities around the New Year and Coptic Christmas. They include the deployment of rapid reaction forces and jamming equipment.
Friday’s attack appears to have taken place when police patrolling the church noticed two men behaving suspiciously, reports the BBC’s Radwa Gamal in Cairo.
They approached the men, who began firing. There are reports that several people were wounded, two critically.
According to our correspondent, the explosives belt discovered on the dead assailant suggested an even more deadly attack was planned.
Egypt’s Copts have in the past accused authorities of only token gestures to protect them and this incident will not help calm tensions, she says….
Michael Copeland says
Coming soon, to a church or synagogue near you…..
mortimer says
Precisely, and the churches in Egypt already take precautions to keep jihadists out. The gunmen killed 3 cops… probably killed them first.
All Western churches from now on will have to place plain clothes armed guards near the doors of large churches.
I bet St. Peter’s in Rome has several plain clothes armed guards ready to shoot to kill jihadists, but the pope would not admit it and he may not want to think about it. The pope probably wears a vest or he should.
Western clergy should stop their denials regarding the malevolence in Islam. Eastern clergy are not deluded.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“I bet St. Peter’s in Rome has several plain clothes armed guards ready to shoot to kill jihadists”
They don’t all wear the eye catching clown outfits 🙂
Ron says
Why is it that Robert Spencer is essentially the only voice who consistently relates the violent and deadly deeds of Muslims to the violent and deadly teachings of the doctrine of Islam? If the mainstream media, institutions of learning, politicians and religious leaders weren’t such cowardly chicken shits and had the balls to report the obvious truth as Jihad Watch does instead of attributing these actions on mental illness, I believe lives would be saved. Fear of reporting the truth may save the politically correct individual from losing their job, but is ultimately placing the rest of us in danger.
Sons of Liberty says
Absolutely , Ron ! This has been going on for almost 1400 years and according to David Wood over 270 MILLION people have been KILLED in the name of Islamic Jihad ! WHY the HELL do we ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE ? Muslims SHOULD BE BANNED from ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY , as Poland , the Czech Republic and Hungary ARE DOING ! In 1915 , 1.3 MILLION Armenian Christians were MURDERED by the Ottoman Turk Empire and I guess the world didn’t really care …which was followed by the Holocaust 25 years later . If the world won’t STAND UP against EVIL this will lead to another holocaust !
Sons of Liberty says
The despicable Muslims in Turkey even tried to COLLECT on the INSURANCE POLICIES of the murdered Christians written by American insurance companies .
MFritz says
The first address to blame in these cases is THE EGYPTIAN STATE. It fails to protect its citizens, it fails to denounce these cowardly murders and it fails to persecute the imams responsible.
What ISIS says and does is not as important to a muslim in Egypt AS WHAT HIS FUCKING IMAM NEXT DOOR AGREES WITH. Never forget this.
Walter Sieruk says
The violent and vicious Muslims who are jihadists of ISIS in their murderous persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
Sons of Liberty says
AMEN !
Robert Browning says
No way. Our Muslim brothers would not do that. Had to be Jews.
IQ al Rassooli says
No one writing here is asking the most important question of ALL: Where are the voices of Christian leaders in the WEST?
Why is pope Francis ALWAYS more concerned about Muslims than Christians?
How is it possible that over 1.2 billion Catholics follow Francis like dumb sheep even when he tells them “I have not found any AGGRESSIVE verses in the Quran”?
The very Quran that has OVER 100 verses INCITING the followers of Muhammad (MUSLIMS) to SLAUGHTER Infidels/ Kuffar if they do NOT Submit to SHARIA?
I never blame Muslims for their actions because their agenda to rule the whole world under Sharia has been publicly and clearly declared for 1400 years.
The GUILTY are our own Criminally Negligent ELITES who Aid and Abet the Muslims
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
LeftisruiningCanada says
It’s possible to catch NPR coming out of Washington State round where i live.
I agree with the opinion that it’s not a very good station.
NPR: “Some Christians were killed by a Gunman (MUHAHAHAHAHA), moving on…..
LeftisruiningCanada says
Very glad this one didn’t turn into the much worse attack those Practitioners of Peace intended it to be.
Thank the Lord, please keep them safe.
Lydia Church says
As long as evil islam is alive, they will continue to kill Christians and make martyrs out of us.
dumbledoresarmy says
I reached the conclusion some time ago that Islam was like a blend between the Thuggee Cult (or the Aztec ritual-mass-murder system) and an organised crime syndicate/ ‘family’ (with the dhimma system being basically an extortion / ‘protection’ racket). Only worse than either the Thuggees, the Aztecs, or the Mafia or any other organised crime syndicate one might care to mention.
If ever any non-Islamic country has the guts to come right out and identify Islam as such – and then take appropriate action, *exactlly* as was done, in the past, with the Aztec system and the Thuggees, and as has to be done to restrain entities such as the Mafia, then we would be on the way to winning the global war of infidel self-defence against the Jihad.
This thing is a *monster*. I’ve had it with Islam. I don’t want this system in my country. It’s ugly, viciously-cruel, as totalitarian in its goals and practices as North Korea. It programs its most devout followers with a toxic blend of megalomania and malignant narcissism.
I want it OUT and I want it kept OUT.
Cheer Bear Girl says
I am so sick of the lie that Islam means peace. That myth has to die! That stupid myth is killing Christians and non Christians alike.