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Egypt: Muslims planned jihad massacre at Easter celebrations today

Apr 19, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

What better day than when Christians are rejoicing?

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60)

An update on this story. “Egypt Announces Foiled Easter Attack,” International Christian Concern, April 16, 2020:

04/16/2020 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – After Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected militants in Cairo on Tuesday, the Ministry of Interior also shared that the suspected terrorist cell was plotting to attack the country’s Christians this upcoming Easter weekend. April 19th is the date that many Orthodox Christians, including Egypt’s Coptic Christians, celebrate Easter.

While the authorities said that they have found ammunition, weapons, and explosives, it is not clear how they determined that an attack on Coptic Christians during Orthodox Easter was forthcoming by this particular group of suspected militants. Any attempt at violence which is foiled is indeed praiseworthy, yet it is important to remember the context.

Egypt has routinely been accused by multiple human rights groups of using charges of terrorism to cover up dissidence. They’ve also been condemned for killing everyone during counter-terrorism raids, making it impossible to conduct due process of law and a thorough investigation. The government has also used attacks against Christians, particularly during the Easter period, to seize increases of power at the expense of civil rights. Because of COVID-19, churches are not hosting Easter celebrations this year….

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  1. Templer says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 1:23 pm

    Good old religon off pecace hateful devel cult off isatin more like

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 1:39 pm

    Why do Muslims attack churches on Easter? Their motive is both theological and political.

    By attacking churches on the holiest day of the Christian year, Muslims mean to destroy Christian faith and to demonstrate the political supremacy of Islam. Even more, the jihadists hope to impose the Pact of Omar, prohibiting churches from worship ‘in a high (loud) voice’ or so loud that Muslims may hear it.

    Indeed, the Koran is a direct attack on the kerygma. Koran 9.30 says that Allah should fight Christians to the death because they believe in the divinity of Christ, namely that Christ is the second person of the Trinity. The resurrection of Christ is the great miracle of Christianity which demonstrates the Christ is divine.

  3. GreekEmpress says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 1:56 pm

    Just wanted to wish all my Orthodox brothers and sisters “kalo Pascha”.
    Wishing you a Blessed Easter today!
    Christos Anesti!!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2020 at 12:13 am

      Hear, hear! Happy Easter to all who celebrate today!

  4. Tony Naim says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    During the first 3 centuries, the underground Christian church ,outlawed by the Roman authorities, organized itself in 5 eparchies:
    Alexandria,Jerusalem,Antioch,Constantinople and Rome. Until the Rebirth of Israel, Rome was the only eparchy left free from Islamic domination.
    The Orthodox Coptic church, one of the oldest , has shown great resilience and heroism against overwhelming odds , to prevail in the face of the savagery and the darkness of radical Islam.
    Hail to all Greek Orthodox Christians of the East, for keeping their faith alive, in Egypt, Jordan,Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon.
    Christos Anesti !!!!!

    • Michael Copeland says

      Apr 19, 2020 at 3:09 pm

      St Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria is on the site of the church founded by St. Mark, the Gospel writer, in AD 42, and is where he was buried.

  5. FYI says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    In the midst of a pandemic too..

    Meanwhile, the Globalist NWO pope francis says “the coronavirus may be nature’s response to people’s failure to take Climate change seriously”

    Climate change?What on Earth has the COVID-19 disease/coronoavirus got to do with Climate Change?

    Right:so it has nothing to do with the Chinese Communist party’s catastrophic failure to warn the world,the conveniently accident-prone wuhan BSL-4 lab which is known to have been researching coronavirus..?

    Bill Gates will be telling everybody they MUST take the vaccine,everybody on the planet apparently needs to have a digital identity{Why?so the Globlaists can control everybody of course..}:pope francis will no doubt be giving that his blessing.

    See ID2020

    And the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine winning Scientist Luc Montagnier,the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 :he says it is a man -made virus and he would surely know.
    We can’t trust the WHO or the UN or..pope francis either{Population control people invited to the Vatican etc}

    • Jayell says

      Apr 20, 2020 at 3:27 am

      Climate change?What on Earth has the COVID-19 disease/coronoavirus got to do with Climate Change?

      Well, apparently the warmer weather reduces the potency of the virus, or kills it, or something (or so I heard?). So let’s have a lot more global warming! That should please Pope Francis!

      • gravenimage says

        May 3, 2020 at 1:35 am

        Actually, at this point the Coronavirus has flourished in cold weather, hot weather, and temperate weather. Weather does not appear to affect it at all. Some have claimed that the disease will magically disappear when Summer hits in the northern hemisphere, but this is baseless.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 12:14 am

    Egypt: Muslims planned jihad massacre at Easter celebrations today
    ……………

    Bloody thugs. Just glad they were stopped in time.

    • Jayell says

      Apr 20, 2020 at 3:46 am

      I’m actually beginning to find these muslim tactics quite boring. They’re starting to become tediously predictable. These ‘devout individuals’ clearly just looking out for opportunities to make themselves appear the biggest malicicious, destructive prats on the planet under the misguided impression that it’s going to win them some kind of respect, but it just makes them look like what they are – superannuated backstreet thugs who are only still around after 1,400 years because there wasn’t a police force around at the time to nick their so-called ‘prophet’ whilst he was ‘doing Allah’s will’ – or whatever excuse he’d dream up in his wildest epileptic fantasies.

      • James Lincoln says

        Apr 20, 2020 at 10:43 am

        Jayell says,

        “I’m actually beginning to find these muslim tactics quite boring. They’re starting to become tediously predictable.”

        That is likely the response intended.

        The jihadi’s want their attacks to become so “routine” that the media stops covering – even the medium-size attacks….

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 20, 2020 at 10:49 pm

        Something can be boring and horrifying at the same time.

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