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Islamists Blame Jews for Coptic Church Bombing
Investigative Project ^ | January 3, 2011 | IPT News

Posted on 01/03/2011 6:08:19 PM PST by Ooh-Ah

The New Year's Eve suicide bombing at an Egyptian Coptic church that killed 21 people is stoking fears of a new onslaught against Christians by radical Islamists. In response, some radical Islamists are turning to their great bogeyman to deflect attention - the Zionists.

"Mossad behind Egypt church blast," Iran's official television outlet, Press TV, said in a headline Sunday. All the evidence points to a Zionist plot, the article said.

First, "it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act." In addition, Press TV reported that "the fresh plot by terrorists to target churches is an organized Zionist scenario aimed at creating a rift between Muslims and Christians."

Christians are expressing fear the attack marks a widening of attacks by radical Islamists, which have increased dramatically in Iraq. Dozens of people were killed after terrorists took more than 120 Christians hostage in a Baghdad Catholic church in late October.

Egyptian authorities are investigating a radical Salafi Sunni group in Alexandria, London's Telegraph reports. The story notes that al-Qaida in Iraq issued a statement two weeks ago encouraging attacks on Copts. The targeted church appeared on a list of 50 Coptic churches in Egypt and Europe published a month ago by Shumukh al-Islam, a group tied to al-Qaida.

Al-Qaida threats against Christians have spread as far as Canada.

Rather than address the threat directly and offer assistance to stem it, Islamists are building their scapegoat. The rhetoric can't be dismissed as solely the rantings of crazy Iranian mullahs. A Muslim Brotherhood official, an Egyptian lawyers group and Lebanon's grand mufti have all said the same thing, though they offer varying motives.

"The Mossad carried out the operation in a natural reaction to the latest uncovering of an Israeli espionage network," the lawyers group said during a rally for the attack's victims sponsored by the Egyptian Bar Association.

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council in Egypt condemned the attack, calling it an evil action. Moneim Aboul al Fattouh Abdel said it could not have been done by Egyptians, though he allowed the perpetrator might be the Mossad or someone else of trying to sabotage Egypt.

"This assault...is not an individual internal Egyptian act, but a criminal act with Zionist...finger prints that want to sow hatred among Muslims and Coptic Christians," said Lebanon's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani.

The Brotherhood's English-language website summarized an interview spokesman Mohamed Morsy gave Al-Jazeera. In it, he cast the attacks as an attempt to undermine Egyptian unity, questioning whether Israel wants to undermine that. "In whose benefit and major interest is it to destabilize Egypt's stability and safety?" he asked.

The Press TV report painted an idyllic image of life for Christians in Egypt, but a doctor treating the wounded from last weekend's suicide bombing disagreed. Many Copts, frustrated by a lack of government action to protect them, are thinking of leaving the country, Dalia Nabil told the BBC.

"A lot of us think that this is a plan to make Christians go away from Egypt. The planner is al-Qaida," Nabil said.

The reaction is consistent with radical Islamist behavior in the wake of damaging episodes both large and small. For example:

American Islamist leaders are not immune from playing the Zionist card, either.

A coalition of American Islamist groups issued a statement condemning a 2001 raid on a Texas computer business for alleged ties to Hamas. "American Muslims view yesterday's action as just one of a long list of attempts by the pro-Israel lobby to intimidate and silence all those who wish to see Palestinian Muslims and Christians free themselves of a brutal Apartheid-like occupation. We believe the genesis of this raid lies not in Washington, but in Tel Aviv."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Society of North America, Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Association for Palestine, Muslim Alliance in North America, Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Muslim Students Association were among the groups signing on to the statement.

The raids led to the successful prosecution of the company, Infocom, and five brothers who helped run it for laundering money for Hamas chief Musa Abu Marzook and violating sanctions against Libya and Syria.

Zaid Shakir, co-founder of Al-Zaytuna College in California, has repeatedly cast the 1993 World Trade Center bombing "as undertaken by Zionist forces to give proof to their allegations concerning the magnitude of 'Islamic fundamentalist' terrorism, and as a pretext to intensify their anti-Islamic propaganda campaign in the U.S. media."

When a radical online group called RevolutionMuslim threatened the producers of "South Park" for an episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit, two CAIR officials hinted that the hand of Zionists was lurking in the shadows.

"Most suspect the group is fraudulent," CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab wrote in a Chicago Tribune column. "Its mysterious leader, born Joseph Cohen, is an American Jew who converted to Islam in 2000 after living in Israel and attending an orthodox rabbinical school there."

National spokesman Ibrahim Hooper dismissed the threat, saying "most Muslims suspect they [Revolution Muslim] were set up only to make Muslims look bad."

Zachary Chesser, one of the men behind the threats, entered guilty pleas in October to charges related to the South Park incident and for conspiring to provide material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christians; egypt; iran; islamists
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1 posted on 01/03/2011 6:08:22 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
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To: Ooh-Ah

It’s always the jug!

That’s from a jewish parable.

If a jug falls from a window sill
and hits the paving stones, the jug
breaks.

If a stone falls from the window sill
on to the jug, the jug breaks.

It’s always the jug!


2 posted on 01/03/2011 6:14:42 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

At some point Iran should be turned to glass.

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3 posted on 01/03/2011 6:18:05 PM PST by bigheadfred (As a rapturous voice escapes I will tremble a prayer and I'll ask for forgiveness...)
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To: Ooh-Ah
First, "it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act."

Without question, this has to be one of the most morally bankrupt, satanic, scum-sucking lies in the history of the world.

4 posted on 01/03/2011 6:19:16 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Is this the same church where shouts of Allahu Akhbar were heard outside?


5 posted on 01/03/2011 6:22:44 PM PST by tunedin
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To: Ooh-Ah

>> ME Press: “it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act.”

Propaganda to assuage the shame instinct experienced by normal humans.


6 posted on 01/03/2011 6:29:20 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

They keep killing us. So when do we so the same?


7 posted on 01/03/2011 6:30:07 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Real Conservatives stay sober and focused)
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To: Cisco Nix

“They keep killing us. So when do we so the same?”

I know what you mean but take heart, we win in the end.


8 posted on 01/03/2011 6:37:00 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
"Evil Juuuuuuuuuice!"
9 posted on 01/03/2011 6:43:58 PM PST by Vigilant1 (The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.)
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To: driftdiver

I’m completely done with Moslems. I’ve been waiting patiently for them to reform their murderous brethren. I get pretty upset when I think back to the way it was in the world before Yasser Arafat et al.

These people have always been genocidal slime. It’s time for the civilized world to deal with the issue.


10 posted on 01/03/2011 6:53:13 PM PST by GunsAndBibles (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Ooh-Ah

this began with the obamanation’s statement that “muslims” were hurt as were christians. He did not say Jews were hurt. He gave the muslims a pass with that statement!


11 posted on 01/03/2011 6:56:08 PM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: GunsAndBibles

We’ve been at war with the slime for 1400 years.


12 posted on 01/03/2011 6:57:55 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: tet68

The way I heard it was “Whether the stone hits the jug or the jug hits the stone, it’s bad for the jug.” I should add that some don’t like this saying, as it seems to claim that the sensitive shouldn’t fight.


13 posted on 01/03/2011 7:02:51 PM PST by firebrand
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Ooh-Ah.
The New Year's Eve suicide bombing at an Egyptian Coptic church that killed 21 people is stoking fears of a new onslaught against Christians by radical Islamists.

14 posted on 01/03/2011 7:05:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Gene Eric

Or killing two birds with one stone: They get to kill Christians and they get to smear the Jews.


15 posted on 01/03/2011 7:05:55 PM PST by firebrand
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Whoever wrote that headline owes me a new blackberry keyboard


16 posted on 01/03/2011 7:14:42 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Ooh-Ah
We are dealing with inbreds who think that the Holocaust was fake, was a Jewish plot, and wasn't effective enough.
Not that Sunnis are any better. They think that Shia Islam is a Jewish plot.
17 posted on 01/03/2011 7:24:49 PM PST by rmlew (You want change? Vote for the most conservative electable in your state or district.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

The standard R.O.P. response, blame the Joos.


18 posted on 01/03/2011 7:35:38 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Come on, you know you Egyptian muzzlems love to beat those Copts. You would never let the Jews take your fun away.

19 posted on 01/03/2011 7:42:23 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Come on, you know you Egyptian muzzlems love to beat those Copts. You would never let the Jews take your fun away.

20 posted on 01/03/2011 7:42:38 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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