A HEARTENING REPORT FROM EGYPT: Egypts Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as human shi

Muslims in Egypt serve as "human shields" to protect Christians
The Coptic calendar is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church, the largest Christian church in Egypt which, according to tradition, is the Church of Alexandria established in the middle of the first century by St. Mark, a disciple of Jesus.  Copts account for 10% of Egypt's 80-million population. The Coptic calendar's years and months coincide with those of the Ethiopian calendar but with different numbers and names.  It has 13 months, 12 with 30 days each, and one month which is...

1000s Of Egyptian Muslims Show Up As Human Shields To Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism
Source: Think Progress Thousands Of Egyptian Muslims Show Up As ‘Human Shields’ To Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism On New Year’s Day, a devastating Terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim Extremists, intent on targeting those they saw as heretics. Religious tensions immediately rose in the country, and angry Copts stormed streets, battled with police,

Thousands Of Egyptian Muslims Show Up As 'Human Shields' To Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism
On New Year's Day, a devastating Terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim Extremists, intent on targeting those they saw as heretics. Religious tensions immediately rose in the country, and angry Copts stormed streets, battled with police, and even vandalized a nearby Mosque. The riots and heightened tensions between the Muslim and Coptic communities was likely ...

Thousands Of Egyptian Muslims Show Up As Human Shields To Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism
On New Year’s Day, a devastating Terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim Extremists, intent on targeting those they saw as heretics. Religious tensions immediately rose in the country, and angry Copts stormed streets, battled with police, and even vandalized a nearby Mosque. The riots and heightened tensions between the Muslim and Coptic communities was ...

Egyptian Muslims Serve As Human Shields During Coptic Christmas Services
After a New Year's Eve attack against Coptic Christian Churches in Egypt, there was some concern that this week's celebration of Christmas by Egypt's oldest...

An I am Spartacus Christmas: Muslims Stand with Coptic Christians In Egypt
Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas Eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light Vigils held outside. From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last night’s mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat of Islamic militan...

Muslims In Egypt Use Themselves As 'Human Shields' To Protect Christian Community
Over the years while condemning Muslim Extremists this blog has tried to highlight moderate Muslims that stand up against Terrorists that kill innocents in the name of religion. Today a story is reported that undoubtedly qualifies as taking a stand. On New Years Eve 21 people were murdered in an attack against the Saints Church in Alexandria by Islamic Militants in a brutal act of Terrorism. This resulted in an unprecedented show of unity where millions of Egyptians replaced their Facebook pro...

Muslims offer their bodies as human shields...
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas Eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light Vigils held outside. From the well-...

Muslims offer their bodies as human shields...
... for Christians no less: Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as "shields" to Egypt's threatened Christian community. Egypt's majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas Eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light Vigils held outside. From the...

Egyptian Muslims and Egyptian Christians
Thousands of Muslims attended Christmas Mass at Coptic churches all over Egypt, to express their solidarity with the Christian community after a horrific bombing (whose origins are uncertain). Of course, both Muslims and Christians suffer under the terroristic Dictatorship installed and maintained by the US. Almost no American knows or cares about such CIA-Pentagon depredations, nor that the Muslim religion honors Jesus Christ and his Virgin Mother. (Thanks to Travis Holte.) ...

God Bless These Brave Muslims
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as "human shields" ...

'No doubt acts of intolerance against Muslims can be found, and they should be condemned .. but note that Muslims aren't fleeing
A common sense perspective on the nonsense of "Islamophobia" Propaganda from Muslims and their complicit apologists of the Left, by Steve Huntley in the Chicago Sun-Times, via Robert Spencer: "Anti-Christian crimes downplayed": We've heard outlandish allegations of Islamophobia sweeping America. Not getting nearly as much attention is the bloody persecution of Christians in parts of the Muslim world. Every report of an Islamist Terrorist Plot is accompanied by a chorus of warnings against Americ...

The siege of Gaza: Due to attacks on fishermen, now even fish must come thru tunnels from Egypt
A torrential rain sweeps through Nablus, the city of hills, and the street is briefly turned into a rushing river as we come to meet Dr. Allam Jarrar, our friend and partner at Palestinian Medical Relief Society. He looks fit and cheerful, but I notice rivulets of sweat beading on his face as he discusses “the situation” which has grown increasingly difficult, especially over the last 6 months with the failure of the Obama “peace process” and the Explosion in settlement growth. Al

Why accusations that the Mossad was behind the Alexandria church attack should be cause for worry
Although it should be clear to anyone with a brain in his head that the accusations are patently false, Khaled Abu Toameh warns that the accusations against the Mossad in the Alexandria Coptic church attack, particularly coming from media affiliated with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, should be cause for worry. By blaming the Mossad and the Jews for the church attack, the Egyptian leadership is trying to shift attention from the plight of the Coptic Christian minority, which ...

Facts about Sudan
THE LAND: Sudan is Africa's largest country, roughly the size of Texas. Many of its neighbors are highly volatile: Libya, Eritrea, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. Its long, porous borders are easily crossed by rebel groups. THE PEOPLE: Sudan has a population of about 44 million. Southerners are generally Christian and identify themselves as ethnic Africans. The northern Khartoum-based government is mostly Muslims and is perceived as dominated by Arabs. ...

Egypt Threatening To Repossess Cleopatra's Needle
galvarez51's flickr Cleopatra's Needle has been a cornerstone of Central Park since 1880, but now Egypt is threatening to take it back if the city doesn't keep it in better condition. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, wrote to the Central Park Conservancy and Mayor Bloomberg imploring them to preserve the obelisk for future generations, or else face Egyptian repo men: I am glad that this monument has become such an integral part of New York City, bu...

Egypt Called. They Want Their Obelisk Back.
via MSNBC, LiveScience/Dreamstime ​More than a century ago, Egypt "gave" New York City a giant obelisk, you know, to cultivate trade and good faith and such. We called it Cleopatra's Needle, and we parked it in Central Park, where it's stood since 1881. But all of a sudden, Egypt is not happy with the care we've been taking of their 71-foot-tall monument. Perhaps we don't deserve the obelisk, after all! MSNBC has the note that Zahi Hawas, the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council ...

'Religion of peace' launching 'ferocious' attacks
Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for Credit Card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. It was only six days after the 9/11 attacks that President Bush described Islam as a religion of peace, specifically saying, "Islam is peace," but the Religion of Peace website reports that for 2010, ther...

Egypt Demands Return of Cleopatras Needle.
Dr. Zahi Hawass is none too happy with New York Mayor Bloomberg. The Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council on Antiquities has sent the Mayor a letter demanding the City preserve a 3500 year old obelisk known as “Cleopatra’s Needle”  or send it back. Since 1881, the red granite monument has stood in Central Park near the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is nearly 68 feet high. According to Hawass, he has made several trips to New York to ...

Egypt Displeased With Treatment Of Obelisk In NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — An Egyptian official has chided New York City over the condition of “Cleopatra’s Needle,” an ancient column in Central Park. Zahi Hawass of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities wrote a letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg complaining that his city is not taking good care of the 3,500-year-old obelisk. Egypt gave the stone monument to the city as a gift more than a century ago. It now sits on a knoll near the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hawass...

Egypt Threatens to De-Gift Giant Central Park Obelisk
Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Over a hundred years after Egypt gave New York a 71-foot-tall ancient obelisk in "an attempt to cultivate trade relations between the two countries," the country has decided it might want it back, even though we're pretty sure it's ours now. The condition of Cleopatra's Needle, which has sat in Central Park since 1881, recently caught the attention of the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass. According to a letter he sent t...

Rwanda off to flying U17 start
Hosts Rwanda got off to a flying start at this year's African U17 Championship, defeating Burkina Faso 2-1 in the opening game on Saturday. The home side raced into the lead on three minutes thanks to a strike by Faustin Usengimana in Kigali. Rwanda doubled their lead just after the break with Tibingana Mwesigye scoring in the Group A game. The visitors rallied and got their consolation through Faisal Ouedraogo's 54th minute effort. The group's other game saw Egypt with an impressive 2-1 win ...

A Christian-Free Egypt is not Beyond Imagination
[ By bataween , crossposted from Point of No Return.] The massacre of 21 Copts at a New Year's Eve mass has been called 'a watershed moment'. The Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg blogs: "I've been struck over the past couple of days by the lackadaisical coverage of what seems to be the most important story coming out of the Middle East right now -- The Salafist war on Christians in the Middle East is intensifying fairly rapidly, with profound consequences not only for Christians in the land...

Egyptian Muslim Majority Rejects Al-Qaeda in Iraq's Murderous Call
Ahram Online:Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas Eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light Vigils held outside. From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last night’s mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat of Islamic Militant

Muslim Human Shields for Egyptian Christians
I posted the other night about the “moderate” Muslims in Pakistan who publicly supported the Assassination of the Governor of Pakistan and anyone who agreed with him about modifying the Blasphemy law. In response, a commenter named Al-Khwarizmi left a link to an article from Ahram Online about Egyptian Muslims who volunteered to act as “human shields” for the Copts’ Christmas mass in their cathedral in Cairo, saying that “these are moderates”. I’ll...