Monday, August 19, 2013

Christians Attacked in Egypt

Egypt is in turmoil. There is violence and chaos and death.

There is a strong religious element involved.

Islamists are engaging in a propaganda campaign, blaming Christians for the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.

Christian churches, monasteries, homes, and shops are being targeted by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.

From the Christian Science Monitor:

On June 30, when millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest against now ousted President Mohamed Morsi, residents of Al Nazla marked Christian homes and shops with red graffiti, vowing to protect Morsi's electoral legitimacy with “blood.”

...[O]n the morning of Aug. 14, the tension erupted. In Cairo, the police attacked two protest camps full of Morsi supporters, using live ammunition and killing hundreds. When the news reached Al Nazla, a local mosque broadcast through its loudspeakers that Christians were attacking the protesters, say residents. Hundreds of villagers marched on the Saint Virgin Mary Church. They broke down the gate and flooded the compound, shouting “Allahu akbar” and “Islam is the solution,” according to Christian neighbors.

“First they stole the valuable things, and then they torched the place,” says Sami Awad, a church member who lives across the narrow dirt alley from the church. “Whatever they couldn't carry, they burned.”

...“The religion of God is Islam,” reads graffiti sprayed in yellow on a wall of the church. Three burned out cars, one of them upside down, rest in the courtyard. Next to the gate, sprayed in black, is another phrase: “Victory or martyrdom.”
Where is the outrage over the persecution of Christians by Islamists?

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