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Posted on 07/05/2013 2:20:03 PM PDT by kristinn
USA Today reports from Cairo at least 10 killed, hundreds wounded in Egypt today on the Muslim Brotherhood's (Ikwhan) "Day of Rejection" of the Egyptian military's removal of President Morsi from office this week after a popular uprising.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department admitted Secretary of State John Kerry was indeed on his yacht in Nantucket on Wednesday as the revolution in Egypt succeeded:
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(Live Thread) Egypt: American Killed During Violent Clashes (Egypt about to blow up)
Live Thread: Egypt Revolution 2.0
As participants in this well-organized system for safety and preservation, the secret members of the “elite” Black Bloc guard......Clad in black, faceless in black ski masks, the nameless Black Bloc soldiers lock arms to create a human shield in defense of pro-freedom protesters.... ....Expert in 'martial arts' and ostensibly 'military-trained'.... first appeared in the streets of Cairo this January, when revolutionaries commemorated their two-year anniversary with protests in Tahrir Square...... Now everywhere the Egyptian opposition stages protests, the rank-and-file Black Bloc, whose leaders remain unknown to them, dutifully move in to police the area on behalf of fellow protesters.
Deemed “terrorists” and “outlaws” by the Morsi regime, the shadowy Zorro-like heroes refer to their network as the “United Ghosts Revolution” and represent a just cause in the ongoing rebellion against Egypt’s Islamist government. The Black Bloc mission is to ensure that no more assaults, kidnappings, and torture occur from the Muslim Brotherhood militia's.
deserves a bump
I don't ever recall Obama make one statement about recent persecution of Christians or Jews in the ME--- not ONE that I can recall. In fact, in general, it has been the most under-reported news in the last several years. Today's reports may be an indication that that is about to change.
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Christians in Egypt under siege as Islamists blame them for coup
Islamists outraged by the popular coup that toppled the Mohamed Morsi government have found a target for their wrath. CBS News reports that Coptic Christians in the country have been harrassed, beaten, and killed since Morsi’s removal, and now live in fear of even greater violence which Islamists threaten on a daily basis:
It was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chanting “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.” A half-dozen kids were spray-painting “Boycott the Christians” on walls, supervised by an adult.
While Islamists are on the defensive in Cairo following the military coup that ousted President Mohammed Morsi, in Assiut and elsewhere in Egypt’s deep south they are waging a stepped-up hate campaign, claiming the country’s Christian minority somehow engineered Morsi’s downfall. …
For the 40 percent of Assiut people who are Christian, life has changed radically. They find their apartment blocks disfigured by painted crosses with a red X painted over them. They stay at home at night. Churches have cancelled afternoon activities. Some of the wealthy have left town.
“We had never experienced the kind of persecution we suffer now. We are insulted every day,” said Nevine Kamal, a 40-year-old Christian pharmacist and mother of two teenagers. “We are angry and frustrated but we are not leaving Assiut,” she said, seated at her desk at the St. George Pharmacy on Youssry Ragheb Street. Under her desk’s glass is a poster of the Virgin Mary and on the wall is an image of St. George slaying the mythical dragon.
Copts had long kept their heads down, politically speaking, during the dictator era in Egypt. They began to become more politically active after the fall of Mubarak, as did other groups in Egypt, and opposed the power grab by Morsi. Copts only account for 10% of Egypt’s population, though, so the accusation that they drove the widespread anger and discontent with Morsi’s governance is absurd. Even so, seven Christians have been murdered over the last few weeks since the coup, and many more injured as Islamists scapegoat them for their own failures.
Speaking of failure, John McCain and Lindsay Graham will come back empty-handed from their attempt to mediate the crisis in Egypt between the military-installed government and the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, Clarissa Ward reports that their efforts made the situation even worse:
The military probably won’t take down the camps until after Ramadan ends, as it would be political suicide to do otherwise. However, even after the religious holiday, any action will get a violent reaction, and the Copts had better be prepared for it. Kudos to CBS News for featuring this part of the crisis.
Freeper SeekandFind also provided a background post in this thread worth repeating here:
Brief background on the Coptic Christians:
The Copts are the native Christians of Egypt , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt and the largest Christian group there. Christianity was the religion of the vast majority from 400–800 A.D. and the majority after the Muslim conquest until the mid-10th century and remains the faith of a significant minority population.
Historically they spoke the Coptic language, a direct descendant of the Demotic Egyptian spoken in the Roman era, but it has been near-extinct and mostly limited to liturgical use since the 18th century. They now speak Arabic.
Copts in Egypt constitute the largest Christian community in the Middle East, as well as the largest religious minority in the region, accounting for an estimated 10% of the Egyptian population.
Most Copts adhere to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
The remainder of around 800,000 are divided between the Coptic Catholic and various Coptic Protestant churches.
The Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East. Although integrated in the larger Egyptian nation, the Copts have survived as a distinct religious community forming around 10–20% of the population though estimates vary. They pride themselves on the apostolicity of the Egyptian Church whose founder was the first in an unbroken chain of patriarchs. The main body for 16 centuries has been out of communion with both the Roman Catholic Church (in Rome) and the various Eastern orthodox churches.
According to ancient tradition, Christianity was introduced to the Egyptians by Saint Mark (writer of one of the gospels) in Alexandria, shortly after the ascension of Christ and during the reign of the Roman emperor Claudius around 42 AD.
The legacy that Saint Mark left in Egypt was a considerable Christian community in Alexandria. From Alexandria, Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century, and the New Testament writings found in Oxyrhynchus, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year 200 AD. In the 2nd century, Christianity began to spread to the rural areas, and scriptures were translated into the local language, today known as the Coptic language, but known as the Egyptian language at the time.
By the beginning of the 3rd century AD, Christians constituted the majority of Egypt’s population, and the Church of Alexandria was recognized as one of Christendom's four Apostolic Sees, second in honor only to the Church of Rome. The Church of Alexandria is therefore the oldest Christian church in Africa.
2/3rds of all killings the last decade were done by muslims....yet muslims are only 20 % of the worlds population....take away those who are non-violent and those numbers drop
There is much confusion over what is or not a moderate muslim....as I see it they are 'more' socialistic than Islamic and therefore ignore the violence the Koran clearly teaches. Never-the less...if push came to shove would they stand with America or would they stand with Islamists?... Huge risk!
The Third Jihad..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUub1no1qw
Well now that came out like someone sliding into first base!..lololol..oops!
Ping
During Us Ambassador Patterson’s June 17 meeting with Pope Tawadros, she asked him to ...”urge the Copts NOT TO participate”.... in the demonstrations against Morsi and the Brotherhood.
The Pope politely informed her that his spiritual authority over the Copts does not extend to political matters.
Regardless, many Egyptian activists condemned Patterson for flagrantly behaving like ‘the Muslim Brotherhood’s stooge’.
Thanks for any and all pings.
It appears - so far - that there is such a thing as a Moslem who does not side with radical jihaids. Look at Al-Sisi.
Patterson is behaving like the MB’s rhymes-with-witch!
Un-freaking-believable! A MB theme park!
You mentioned someone/something is engineering the changes in the MB “protests”. Looks as though the same someone/something is behind the Traydemarkvon/Palestinian junk. I vote “0buttatollah’s peeps”.
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