Egyptian Muslims Serve As Human Shields During Coptic Christmas Services

A HEARTENING REPORT FROM EGYPT: Egypts Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as human shi
A HEARTENING REPORT FROM Egypt: Egypt’s Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as “human shields.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.) ...

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...

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...

Al-Qaeda Websites May Have Spurred Suicide Bombing of Egyptian Coptic Church
Source: AP by Amar Toor on January 7, 2011 at 07:30 AM On New Year's Day, a Suicide bombing killed 21 people at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quick to accuse foreign groups of orchestrating the attack, while domestic investigators turned their attention to Extremist groups within the country. Now, new evidence has emerged to suggest that Al-Qaeda may have at least lain out the groundwork for the plot via the Web. In the weeks leading up to the attack...

Australia: Jihadist threats against four Coptic churches in Sydney
One priest told The Weekend Australian that "the nation's Islamic leaders need to speak out against the threats." Indeed. They're really slipping if they haven't even come out yet with the usual sound bytes against "Terrorism" and the assurances that Islam is "peaceful." Perhaps they have by now, or eventually they probably will. And that's about all they'll do, continuing with the pattern of half-measures for public consumption that characterize Muslim groups' responses to Crimes committed i...

Egyptian Muslims Throng in Thousands to Protect Christians
Thousands of Muslims honored a promise made by their leaders and showed up at Christmas Mass or at candlelight Vigils outside Egyptian churches on Friday, offering their bodies as human shields against any acts of Terrorists. The observances were tense, in view of the New Year’s Day bombing of a cathedral in Alexandria, which killed 21. The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7. Among those Muslims making this statement was beloved comedian Adil Imam. Since the ...

'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...

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

The Islamist War Against Christianity
Against the meaning of his entire history as a prince of the church and also against various dicta issued by him later as the Vicar of Christ, Pope Benedict has proclaimed that he will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the conclave convened by Pope John Paul II in the Umbrian town of Assisi. That gathering assembled eminences from the "world religions" to pray together for peace. Cardinal Ratzinger, as the present pope was then called, did not attend, and his absence was rightly seen ...

Protest in central Nigerian city after Muslims killed
By Shuaibu Mohammed JOS, Nigeria | Sat Jan 8, 2011 3:00pm EST JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian Soldiers fired into the air to disperse youths burning vehicles and tyres in the central city of Jos on Saturday in Protest at the killing of seven Muslims in a nearby village, residents said. The Muslims were on their way back from a Wedding when they were attacked late on Friday after their bus got lost near a predominantly Christian village which was at the center of ethnic and religious clashes...

'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...

Freedom Vote: Independence from Islamic Jihad, Referendum begins in Southern Sudan
And so it begins. This must be watched carefully. The Jihadi government in Khartoum will not play nice, as witnessed by the two million already slaughtered in Southern Sudan. Voters in the Southern Sudan Referendum will mark a ballot with their thumbprint under one of two symbols. (Government of Southern Sudan) Atlas has been covering the heartbreaking, relentless fight for freedom from Jihad in Darfur and Sudan since late 2004 (scroll this). Simon Deng and the lost boys have refused to accept...

Former Gitmo inmate drops Australian gov't lawsuit
SYDNEY - A former inmate at the U.S. Military Prison at Guantanamo Bay has dropped a Lawsuit against the Australian government claiming compensation for failing to protect his rights. Mamdouh Habib agreed on an out-of-court settlement with the government for an undisclosed sum, both parties said Saturday. Habib, an Australian citizen, was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001 and held at the Guantanamo Bay Prison for Terrorism suspects for three years before being returned to Australia without...

Egyptian Ambassador on Anti-Christian Violence: 'Muslims Are Standing Side by Side with the Copts'
Coptic Christians are celebrating Christmas in Germany under police protection this year amid fears of attacks by Muslim Extremists. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Egypt's ambassador in Berlin criticizes the German reaction to the New Year's Day terror attack in Alexandria and insists there is no Discrimination against Christians in his country. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr Ambassador, after the New Year's Day attack on a Coptic Christian Church in Egypt that killed 21 people, Copts in Germany fea...

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

Egypt to New York: Protect Ancient Obelisk or Else
By Andrea Leontiou, This story originally appeared on LiveScience.com Since 1880, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle has stood in New York's Central Park, but a letter from the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities indicates that this may change if the monument is not taken better care of. Recently, Zahi Hawass, the aforementioned Secretary General and archaeologist, wrote to the Central Park Conservancy and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to inform them that ...

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 ...

Marc Van Ameringen: With a Little Innovation -- Bread Is (a Better) Life
The sight of stacks of baladi bread piled high in market places is a common one in Egypt. This mainstay of Egyptian diets, while tasty, cheap and filling, provides Calories but not necessary micronutrients. Millions of Egyptians suffer the effects of poor nutrition, including preventable miscarriages, Birth Defects and delayed physical and cognitive development. Iron and folic acid deficiencies lead to many Health Problems, most significantly Anemia and neural tube defects in Children which ca...