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- Protesting Egypt's abuse of its ancient Christian communities outside the UN headquarters in New York last week.
1 posted on 05/05/2011 4:39:33 PM PDT by bronxville
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To: bronxville

It’s a Million-Copt March!

Copts are cool.


2 posted on 05/05/2011 4:42:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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Crucifying the copts
Mideast Christians under siege
Last Updated: 12:41 AM, December 23, 2010

It’s shaping up to be a bad Christmas for one of the oldest Christian sects in the Middle East, where Christianity was born — and an even bleaker future for Egyptian Copts.

Police fired live ammunition last month at Copts protesting the government-halted construction of a house of worship, the Church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Michael Archangel, supposedly for failure to acquire the proper permits. At least 100 demonstrators were arrested, 60 injured — and a 19-year-old Christian student died from a gunshot wound. The anger quickly spilled to émigré Coptic communities from Australia to Europe to midtown Manhattan.

The attack on Egypt’s Christians go far beyond denial of church permits, said Magda Gendy, who participated in the peaceful East Side demonstration along with thousands of other Egyptian-American Copts last week. Increasingly, Christian girls aged 12 to 16 are being kidnapped, forced to marry Muslim men and convert to the religion of their “husbands,” she told me.

But while Copts — 10 percent of Egypt’s mostly Muslim population of 80 million — have always suffered discrimination, this incident presents a new and dangerous turn.

“Before, it used to be just the Muslims” who attacked their Christian neighbors, Gendy said. “Now it’s the government.” Copts blame the district’s governor, Sayyed Abdel Aziz, a former army general.
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“Before, it used to be just the Muslims” who attacked their Christian neighbors, Gendy said. “Now it’s the government.” Copts blame the district’s governor, Sayyed Abdel Aziz, a former army general.


3 posted on 05/05/2011 4:43:08 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: bronxville

The UN? It falls on deaf ears!


4 posted on 05/05/2011 4:45:23 PM PDT by Radio Free American? (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: bronxville
Man, there is the potential for a huge bloodbath when they show up to protect their Cathedral. Murdering a huge number of them and then claiming the Copts started the violence is the easiest way for the new regime to win points with the Muslim Brotherhood. You know the Muslim Brotherhood, those people who wouldn't have much of a role once the “Muslim Spring” tossed out the bad, bad, man who was in charge?
6 posted on 05/05/2011 5:26:19 PM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is insane but kept medicated and on golf courses to hide it)
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