Christian Martyrdom

Muslims are annoyed that Trump was elected President of the USA----he is a
christian
 
Muslims are annoyed that Trump was elected President of the USA----he is a
christian
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They should all end up with her...
 
Not a word about the Fishes and Loaves church burnt down in Israel by jewish zealots.

Funny how David Horowitz turned conservative after the cold war, and before that was communist.


You really think this compares with being tortured, raped and crucified?
Jewish religious fanatics are suspected to have set fire to the C on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel on 18 June.
A traditional Christian pilgrimage site, the church, at Tabgha, is where Jesus is believed to have performed the Miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes.
Damage was done to the prayer room, the guest room and the church's warehouse. Hebrew graffiti on the fifth-century church's wall said: "Idol worshippers will be annihilated".
 
The Specifics of Sharia’s Savageries
Why St. Peter’s in Cairo was bombed.
January 2, 2017
Raymond Ibrahim

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Although Western media regularly find no “motive” for many of the Islamic attacks on non-Muslims, many are by now at least vaguely aware that the Muslim perpetrators rely on generic Islamic teachings that foster hostility for “infidels.”

Yet often overlooked are the very stringent and detailed Islamic rulings behind many terror attacks.

Take the recent attack on St. Peter’s Cathedral in Egypt, which left at least 25 Christian worshippers—the majority of whom were women and children—dead and which ISIS claimed. While many might write it off as just a generic attack targeting Coptic Christian “infidels,” the reality is that ISIS and other Islamic groups and individuals regularly find arcane and little known Islamic rulings to justify their violence.

For instance, why was St. Peter’s specifically targeted? The obvious answer is that it holds a prestigious place among the Coptic Orthodox community, as it stands within the St. Mark complex, the seat of the Coptic Pope in Cairo, Egypt’s capital. Yet there is another reason. In November 2014, ISIS called on its Muslim followers and sympathizers to attack all churches in Cairo.

Then, one Abu Mus‘ab al-Maqdisi, an ISIS leader, said in a statement titled “Advice to Egypt’s Mujahidin [jihadis]” and published on websites linked to the “caliphate,” that “It is necessary to take the battle to Cairo,” and for jihadis to target the Copts: “For targeting them, following them, and killing them is one of the main ways to serve the cause of our virtuous male and female hostages of the tyrants.”

A few months later, one Hussein bin Mahmoud, a jurist of Sharia law for the Islamic State, said in an article published on February 17, 2015, and appearing in various jihadi websites, that all Christian churches in Cairo must be demolished. Titled the “Ruling on Egypt’s Christians,” the article, written like a fatwa, asserts that:

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As it happens, modern Cairo was founded in the 10th century, nearly 400 hundred years after Islam first conquered Egypt. Thus, according to the Islamic worldview, under no circumstances should there be any churches in Cairo, since, according to this notion, it was Islamic from its inception.

Hence one of the reasons why St. Peter’s in Cairo was chosen for bombing.

Such are the minute details and rulings that regularly inform the hostile worldview of ISIS and its millions of Muslim sympathizers.

But of course Western analysts may be excused for not knowing this arcane ruling. After all, if Sunni militants such as ISIS are zealous over the welfare of Sunni cities, most of them are forgetful of the ironic fact that Cairo—even Al Azhar, the world’s most famous Sunni school—were founded by and served the interests of one of Sunni Islam’s greatest historic enemy, the Shias of the Fatimid dynasty.

The Specifics of Sharia’s Savageries
 
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOR CHRISTMAS
Another holiday season of carnage for Middle East Christians.
March 17, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
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As in previous years, the month of Christmas saw an uptick in Islamic attacks on Christians — much of it in the context of targeting Christmas festivities and worship.

The one that claimed the most lives took place in Egypt. On Sunday, December 11, 2016, an Islamic suicide bomber entered the St. Peter Cathedral in Cairo during mass, detonated himself, killed at least 27 worshippers, mostly women and children, and wounded nearly 70. A witness said:

"I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene. I saw a headless woman being carried away. Everyone was in a state of shock. We were scooping up people's flesh off the floor. There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes."

The death toll and severity of the attack (pictures and videos of the aftermath here) surpassed even the New Year's Day bombing of an Alexandrian church in which 23 people were killed in 2011. A few weeks before the St. Peter's bombing, a man hurled an improvised bomb at St. George Church, packed with thousands of worshippers, in Samalout. Had the bomb detonated, casualties would likely have been higher. In a separate December incident, Islamic slogans and messages of hate — including "you will die Christians" — were painted on the floor of the Virgin Mary church in Damietta.

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drove the truck into a Christmas market in Berlin

dressed as Santa Claus

No more Christmas celebration

grenade exploded

targeting Christians

Christian shops were attacked

wanted to destroy Christian symbols

beheaded, and crucifixes broken

published the names and addresses

series of bomb attacks

drank tainted alcohol

stormed a church compound

...

Death and Destruction for Christmas
 
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
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The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam
 
Not a word about the Fishes and Loaves church burnt down in Israel by jewish zealots.

Funny how David Horowitz turned conservative after the cold war, and before that was communist.


You really think this compares with being tortured, raped and crucified?
Jewish religious fanatics are suspected to have set fire to the C on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel on 18 June.
A traditional Christian pilgrimage site, the church, at Tabgha, is where Jesus is believed to have performed the Miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes.
Damage was done to the prayer room, the guest room and the church's warehouse. Hebrew graffiti on the fifth-century church's wall said: "Idol worshippers will be annihilated".
For the record----our dear penny engages in wishful
thinking-----to her dismay---the church was not burned down-----it was damaged to the extent that repair required only some soapy water and a bit of paint----graffiti and some scorch marks on stone
 
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
copts-murdered.jpg


The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam

No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
 
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
copts-murdered.jpg


The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam

No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
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PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
copts-murdered.jpg


The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam

No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
69463.jpg

Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.
 
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
copts-murdered.jpg


The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam

No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
69463.jpg

Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.

Trump never said "muslims are bad and non muslims are good"-----you lied.
If your idiot statement is "true" ----then you would be OBLIGATED to claim that
he also said "non Mexicans are good and Mexicans are bad" <<< which he did not.
 
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
copts-murdered.jpg


The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam

No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
69463.jpg

Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.

Trump never said "muslims are bad and non muslims are good"-----you lied.
If your idiot statement is "true" ----then you would be OBLIGATED to claim that
he also said "non Mexicans are good and Mexicans are bad" <<< which he did not.

No, Trump has explained that Mexico doesn't send their best. Mexico sends us their drug dealers and rapists, and, he presumes, some good people. But, we know that they are not all bad, or he would have blocked all immigration from Mexico, too. He saves that distinction to countries that are muslim (who are not rich like Saudi Arabia), although this is kind of hard to understand, since this is where the 9/11 hijackers come from. Anyway, it is all academic, because that EO is also unconstitutional and has been blocked by the courts.
 
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS SUFFER 'WORST YEAR YET,' MOSTLY UNDER ISLAM
In 18 Muslim nations, “100 percent of Christians experience persecution,” states report.
March 30, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
copts-murdered.jpg


The persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Muslim world, has reached an all-time high—with 2016 being the “worse year yet,” according to Open Doors, which recently released its annual ranking of the top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.

Among some of its more significant findings:

  • “Islamic extremism” remains the dominant force responsible for the persecution of Christians in 40 of the 50 nations;
  • “In the top 21 countries on the Open Doors World Watch List, 100 percent of Christians experience persecution”;
  • 1,329 churches were attacked, damaged, or destroyed, mostly in Muslim nations;
  • Islamic Somalia is now the second worst nation; there, “If their [Christians’] faith is discovered it means instant death, executed without trial and often on rumor alone”;
  • In Nigeria—where more Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims than possibly in any other nation—the killing of Christians went up by 62 percent;
  • The nation where the most violent and sexual attacks on Christians take place—Muslim majority Pakistan—rose to the number four spot.
...

Confronting this discomforting fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world; for seldom can anything be fixed without first acknowledging the root of the problem.

Persecuted Christians Suffer 'Worst Year Yet,' Mostly Under Islam

No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
69463.jpg

Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.

Trump never said "muslims are bad and non muslims are good"-----you lied.
If your idiot statement is "true" ----then you would be OBLIGATED to claim that
he also said "non Mexicans are good and Mexicans are bad" <<< which he did not.

No, Trump has explained that Mexico doesn't send their best. Mexico sends us their drug dealers and rapists, and, he presumes, some good people. But, we know that they are not all bad, or he would have blocked all immigration from Mexico, too. He saves that distinction to countries that are muslim (who are not rich like Saudi Arabia), although this is kind of hard to understand, since this is where the 9/11 hijackers come from. Anyway, it is all academic, because that EO is also unconstitutional and has been blocked by the courts.

yes------I agree----Trump is referring to the fact that the immigrations from
Mexico and from many muslim countries harbor JUST TOO MUCH BAD---
he never suggested that all the people from those countries are bad. Constitutional rights are not at issue. Potential immigrants are not protected by
the BILL OF RIGHTS
 
No doubt about it. We must kill all 2.2 billion of them...
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
69463.jpg

Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.

Trump never said "muslims are bad and non muslims are good"-----you lied.
If your idiot statement is "true" ----then you would be OBLIGATED to claim that
he also said "non Mexicans are good and Mexicans are bad" <<< which he did not.

No, Trump has explained that Mexico doesn't send their best. Mexico sends us their drug dealers and rapists, and, he presumes, some good people. But, we know that they are not all bad, or he would have blocked all immigration from Mexico, too. He saves that distinction to countries that are muslim (who are not rich like Saudi Arabia), although this is kind of hard to understand, since this is where the 9/11 hijackers come from. Anyway, it is all academic, because that EO is also unconstitutional and has been blocked by the courts.

yes------I agree----Trump is referring to the fact that the immigrations from
Mexico and from many muslim countries harbor JUST TOO MUCH BAD---
he never suggested that all the people from those countries are bad. Constitutional rights are not at issue. Potential immigrants are not protected by
the BILL OF RIGHTS

And, yet, the Federal courts seem to disagree with you. Perhaps you should send your legal resume to Trump and ask for a judgeship!
 
Maybe you're sucking to much fumes...
69463.jpg

Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.

Trump never said "muslims are bad and non muslims are good"-----you lied.
If your idiot statement is "true" ----then you would be OBLIGATED to claim that
he also said "non Mexicans are good and Mexicans are bad" <<< which he did not.

No, Trump has explained that Mexico doesn't send their best. Mexico sends us their drug dealers and rapists, and, he presumes, some good people. But, we know that they are not all bad, or he would have blocked all immigration from Mexico, too. He saves that distinction to countries that are muslim (who are not rich like Saudi Arabia), although this is kind of hard to understand, since this is where the 9/11 hijackers come from. Anyway, it is all academic, because that EO is also unconstitutional and has been blocked by the courts.

yes------I agree----Trump is referring to the fact that the immigrations from
Mexico and from many muslim countries harbor JUST TOO MUCH BAD---
he never suggested that all the people from those countries are bad. Constitutional rights are not at issue. Potential immigrants are not protected by
the BILL OF RIGHTS

And, yet, the Federal courts seem to disagree with you. Perhaps you should send your legal resume to Trump and ask for a judgeship!

you got a link to your contention that the entire world's population is
protected by the US constitution Bill of Rights?
 
Not at all. Trump has explained to us that all muslims are evil.Not only that, but people trying to escape from them fall into the same category. Trump understands that one can't go wrong, who divides folks into good people and bad people, the good people being us, and the bad people being them. It really is a bad idea to to ask anyone to think any deeper than that. "Thinking" is not part of Trump's agenda.

Trump never said "muslims are bad and non muslims are good"-----you lied.
If your idiot statement is "true" ----then you would be OBLIGATED to claim that
he also said "non Mexicans are good and Mexicans are bad" <<< which he did not.

No, Trump has explained that Mexico doesn't send their best. Mexico sends us their drug dealers and rapists, and, he presumes, some good people. But, we know that they are not all bad, or he would have blocked all immigration from Mexico, too. He saves that distinction to countries that are muslim (who are not rich like Saudi Arabia), although this is kind of hard to understand, since this is where the 9/11 hijackers come from. Anyway, it is all academic, because that EO is also unconstitutional and has been blocked by the courts.

yes------I agree----Trump is referring to the fact that the immigrations from
Mexico and from many muslim countries harbor JUST TOO MUCH BAD---
he never suggested that all the people from those countries are bad. Constitutional rights are not at issue. Potential immigrants are not protected by
the BILL OF RIGHTS

And, yet, the Federal courts seem to disagree with you. Perhaps you should send your legal resume to Trump and ask for a judgeship!

you got a link to your contention that the entire world's population is
protected by the US constitution Bill of Rights?

No, but if I were in search of a question on Constitutional law, I put slightly more weight on the opinion of a sitting federal judge than I do on the opinion of an anonymous message board poster, with presumably no legal education
 
FORTY-FOUR DEAD CHRISTIANS: ISLAM’S LATEST VICTIMS
The real driving force behind Sunday’s church bombings in Egypt.
April 10, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
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Egypt’s Christians started Holy Week celebrations by being blown up yesterday. Two Coptic Christian Orthodox churches packed with worshippers for Palm Sunday mass were attacked by Islamic suicide bombers; a total of 44 were killed and 126 wounded and mutilated.

Horrific scenes of carnage—limbs and blood splattered on altars and pews—are being reported from both churches. Twenty-seven people—initial reports indicate mostly children—were killed in St. George’s in Tanta, north Egypt. “Where is the government?” yelled an angry Christian there to AP reporters. “There is no government! There was a clear lapse in security, which must be tightened from now on to save lives.”

Less than two hours later, 17 people were killed in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, which—since the original church building founded by the Evangelist Mark in the first century was burned to the ground during the 7th century Muslim invasions of Egypt—has been the historic seat of Coptic Christendom. Pope Tawadros, who was present—and apparently targeted—evaded the carnage.

In death toll and severity, Sunday’s bombings surpass what was formerly considered the deadliest church attack in Egypt: less than four months ago, on Sunday, December 11, 2016, an Islamic suicide bomber entered the St. Peter Cathedral in Cairo during mass, detonated himself and killed at least 27 worshippers—mostly women and children—and wounded nearly 70. Descriptions of scenes from that bombing are virtually identical to those coming from Egypt now: “I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene. I saw a headless woman being carried away. Everyone was in a state of shock. We were scooping up people’s flesh off the floor. There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes.”

...

Forty-Four Dead Christians: Islam’s Latest Victims
 
A DEEP AND ABIDING HATE
Why Christians are being slaughtered in Egypt.
April 18, 2017

Raymond Ibrahim
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On April 9—Palm Sunday, which starts the holy week of Easter—two Christian churches were bombed during mass in Egypt, leaving at least 50 worshippers dead and nearly 130 injured and/or mutilated (graphic images/video of aftermath here).

Less than four months earlier, around Christmas, another Christian church was bombed in Egypt, leaving 27 worshippers—mostly women and children—dead and wounding nearly 70. On New Year’s Day, 2011, yet another Egyptian church was bombed, leaving 23 worshippers dead.

In 2013, almost 70 Christian churches in Egypt were attacked, many burned to the ground, by Muslim Brotherhood supports.

Then there are the many “lesser” attacks on Egyptian churchesbotched bombingattempts, hate-filled graffiti, and “angry mob” uprisings—that are so “everyday” as to receive virtually no media coverage in the West.

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In short, until such time comes that the Egyptian government removes the “radical” sheikhs and their teachings from the mosques, schools, television stations and all other positions of influence, Muslims will continue to be radicalized, churches will continue to be bombed, and Christians will continue to be killed.

A Deep and Abiding Hate
 

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