Posted on 01/09/2011 8:27:47 PM PST by The_Reader_David
thank you for posting. this makes me hopeful.
It is probably where 80% of the Coptic Christians live.
The Arab press, all the Arab press, is government controlled. The newspapers and radio and TV outlets are nothing more than government propaganda organs, most especially anything published or broadcast in English.
We have a number of Arabs and a few Copts in our parish. They are unanimous in approaching these recent “thousands of human shields” stories with a great deal of skepticism.
Wow! This is about the second decent thing Muslims have done since...
610 AD.
And where are those pictures from the Egyptian press?
Muslims who on rare occassion awake, have just read the entire koran, the sunnahs, and hadiths for the first time.
The rest either actively seek the death of all those who do not believe as they do (major sect. subsect: mosque, imam), are completel;y ignorant of their own ‘religion’, or are lying. Find the moderate.
If the story happened, it would be reported loudly here:
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
http://www.memri.org/content/en/main.htm
Muslims defending the weak? Who’d a thunk it?
You got me there. I would assume that the left would want to play this up because of their pretend love of all things peaceful.
If you read the comments, you'll notice I took a rather respectful approach to the Human Shield people, and got into a battle royal over it.
I do think that if the Shield People are sincere, they'll be challenged promptly, and in a costly way, by other Muslims. It could turn quite grim. We ought to pray for them: and I mean pray to the Most Blessed Trinity, the One True God.
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as "shields" to Egypt's threatened Christian communityMost of Egypt's Moslems are MINOs; the country has spent nearly a human lifetime under single party secularist socialist rule, and they've got their eye on the possibilities for making better lives for themselves and their children. The gov't permits the Islamic Brotherhood to operate (I think that group remains officially banned and illegal) so it can keep an eye on the bastards, and there are jihadist paramilitary camps in remote areas, but the main problem in Egypt is Saudi Arabia, which funds terrorism throughout the world, not least in Egypt.
Muslim source. No pictures. Call me skeptical about the “thousands” who showed up.
Ping to a relevant article:
“Muslim Million Man March In Support Of Executing A Christian Mom”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2656101/posts
I’m not surprised about Pakistanis behaving that way. I only actually expect moderation from Muslims who either have been influenced both by the cosmopolitan live-and-let-live attitude that prevailed in much of the Ottoman Empire following the formal abolition of legal dhimmitude and the jizya in the 19th century—the odd anti-Christian pogrom excepted—and by Ba’athist pan-Arab nationalism, or are Shi’ites who have not embraced the lunatic Ta’ajili sect that dominates Iran.
The professional classes in Pakistan are largely of the second sort—moderate Shi’ites—but the vast bulk of the population (and about half of the ruling class drawn from the Sunnis, the kind who make up the faction of the ISI that supports the Taliban) are bad news.
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