Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as "human shields"

Ahram Online ^ | Friday 7 Jan 2011 | Yasmine El-Rashidi

[The_Reader_David]

Lest anyone continue to say either that there are no moderate Muslims in any meaningful sense, or that we are at war with Islam, rather than with Salfism as represented by Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhoods and in a cold war with the Ta'ajilis who run the Iranian regime, here is a bit of good news from Old Calendar Christmas.

[fullchroma]

a glimmer of hope. thanks for posting.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Lest anyone continue to say either that there are no moderate Muslims in any meaningful sense, or that we are at war with Islam...”

I’ll keep saying it. You go right back to sleep.

[WellyP]

Those who took a chance by forming human shields deserve the greatest respect and thanks from ALL of us!.

[MsLady]

I’m sure there are moderates that hate the violence. But, frankly up until I read this article they were pretty quite except for one or two here and there. I’m glad they are finally stepping forward.

[MsLady]

I totally agree!!! I doubt any of them will ever read this post but, I’m putting it on here anyway. Thank you and may God bless you.

[Prospero]

Egypt, where 80 percent of the world's Arabs live, is one thing. Pakistan, where a governor was just assassinated by his own bodyguard for suggesting leniency for a Christian woman sentenced to death for "blasphemy" is quite another.

Even Israel is at "peace" with Egypt, for the moment. Let's see how willing Cairo is put heat on "the Brotherhood," like they used to.

It's encouraging, with a long, long way yet to go.

[RitaOK]

Thank you for this special post! We are all in need of a little comfort right now. These Egytian Muslims show more courage there than we do here. And remember the Iraqis risking life and limb to vote, thrilled with their purple finger. We are taught that from all nations will come the children of God, and what a bonafides these have certainly earned.

[RitaOK]

Thank you for this special post! We are all in need of a little comfort right now. These Egytian Muslims show more courage there than we do here. And remember the Iraqis risking life and limb to vote, thrilled with their purple finger. We are taught that from all nations will come the children of God, and what a bonafides these have certainly earned.

[353FMG]

Perhaps there are moderate Muslims in Egypt, but I doubt that we have any of them in the States. I haven’t seen any Muslim openly protest the murders of Christians in Egypt and Iraq.

[dog breath]

May all men stare down the darkness and refuse to bow down to it, any light is welcome in this world. I do not hate all Muslims for a person is born to the faith of their fathers, I only hate what evil is done in the name of their religion. A new age of enlightenment is to be encouraged.

[muawiyah]

You can't be "moderately moral" ~ you are either a righteous person or you are not. It's kind of a quantum processing sort of thing.

Sometimes there are Moslems who waken from their sleep.

[Yardstick]

A beautiful gesture by Egypt’s Muslims.

Islam would be fine if it could get its radical fringe from 20% down to 0.2%.

[grapeape]

If this was such a great event then where are the pictures? They should have put this out in a press release. Every Drug taking journol-communist would salivate over such an event and it would be everywhere.

This smells like a hoax.

[Springfield Reformer]

I am glad there was an outpouring of Muslim support for Coptic Christians, but to the extant Islam is defined by its founder and its textual authority, Western Judeo-Christian civilization is in irrevocable conflict with Islam. At best, there can only be a temporary lull in the conflict, but it cannot be more than temporary until Muslims en masse disown violent jihad and the texts which support it. Until then, the operation of natural law may from time to time produce a sense of common humanity that results in good events like this (and they are good and I welcome them), but a long term peace is not possible without divine intervention and a wholesale repentance from the sin of jihad.

[Springfield Reformer]

I don’t think so. This is being carried by a lot of press. Google “Coptic Christmas Mass.” The American left is not interested in the story because it is dissonant with their Middle East narrative, which insists on vilifying Israelis and Christians. They don’t even “see” a story if it doesn’t support their worldview. I for one am not surprised.

[Shadowstrike]

This, and the responses to it (for the most part), gave me cold chills. The trust is terrifying. This borders on the Jews 'trusting' the Nazis were taking them to the showers. The basic tenent of Islam is that it must rule the world. How soon will it be before the ones "protecting" are the ones "attacking" ?

[Uncle Miltie]

Wow! This is about the second decent thing Muslims have done since 9/11/2001.

[cherry]

can the human race save itself.....well,maybe....

[wideminded]

Egypt, where 80 percent of the world's Arabs live

The 80% figure is clearly too high. Even if you only look at a few of the other major Arab countries such as Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, not to mention the smaller population Arab countries and all the Arabs living in many other countries, the percentage in Egypt comes out to be much lower than 80%.

Wikipedia says that there are about 300 million Arabs of which 82 million live in Egypt, so that makes Egyptian Arabs not even 30% of the total.

Apparently it is not always 100% clear who is an Arab.