Christians: Egypt’s New Scapegoats

COPTIC CHILDREN ARE FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES 

AND CONVERT TO ISLAM - BECAUSE THE LAW SAYS MUSLIMS ARE BETTER THAN CHRISTIANS.

Posted by Joseph Puder on Oct 25th, 2010

Source:  FRONT PAGE

On Wednesday morning, October 20, 2010, Dr. Monir Dawoud, president of the American Coptic Association, led a rally in front of the United Nations’ New York headquarters to “demonstrate [against] the impending massacre and ethnic cleansing of our people — the Coptic-Christians of Egypt — by the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood groups helped by the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak.”

Dr. Dawoud stated in his press release that the aim of the rally was to “protest the recent attacks against His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, and the threats by Muslims to kill him, as well as denounce the bloodshed, murder, abducting and Islamizing of young Christian girls. “Additionally, this rally is aimed at publicizing “the murder of six young men while getting out of church after their Christmas mass on January 6, 2010, and the Egyptian court’s continued delay in the killers’ trial.”

Dr. Dawoud explained that “Copts are afraid to venture out of their homes in fear of being attacked,” and added, “Ten attacks of this type have taken place in the last five weeks, an average of two such attacks a week. “

The latest campaign against the Copts (the original inhabitants of Egypt preceding the arrival of Arab Muslims and one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East) began on September 15, when Muhammad Salim al-Awa, the ex-secretary general of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and a prominent Egyptian voice, appeared on Al Jazeera and accused the Copts of “stocking arms and ammunition in their churches and monasteries.” In this same interview, the interviewer mentioned that a month earlier, according to the Egyptian newspaper Al Shurouk, the Egyptian security agenciesapprehended a cargo ship laden with explosives from Israel. The authorities arrested the ship owner, Joseph Boutros Jabalawi, son of the deputy head of the Coptic Church in Port Said.

In an angry tirade, al-Awa made obscure and unfounded charges including the claim that the Pope had said that Egypt was “our [Christian] country” to the exclusion of Muslims. Al-Awa accused the Pope and the Coptic church of “political activities” and warned that “fire would spread throughout the country.” He then surmised that the alleged weapons the Copts are hoarding “can only have one purpose – to be used against Muslims,” and he asserted moreover that the Coptic-Christians want to “split Egypt into two states,” namely Muslim and Christian.

My notes:

Al-Awa accuses the Coptic church of wanting to "split Egypt into two states"!  Oh my!  Who would ever want to split a country into "two states"?!  Anyone want to take a guess?  Could it be this same country and all ARAB countries, the UN, the West, the EU all expecting to split Israel into "two states"?

The persecuted Coptic-Christians are living in an Islamic country and expecting democracy and freedoms that are not afforded non-Muslims?  Why?  The answer is easy:  The Arab countries are not democracies!  

For more on the Coptic Christians in Egypt, a good article is found on Islamization Watch, at their website:  http://islamizationwatch.blogspot.com/2010/01/egypts-anxious-copts-await-next.html

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