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How Do You Say “Lynching” in Egypt?

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Not going to write much about it, and add the original text and link to this one. It looks like a mob of 20,000 (yes, twenty thousand) Muslims went out to try and lynch a Christian pastor for what looks like a nightmare religious insane story, one that only we atheists can shake our heads in disbelief to.

A man is born a Christian, somehow he prefers to become a Muslim (because the second is so much different to the first?), his 15 year old daughter joins him in his new faith, now he assimilates pretty fast and wants to get her to get married to someone he likes (but she probably does not), she runs away. The conclusion of this half rumor half fairy tale story is thousands of blood thirsty men trying to set a church on fire and kill any Christian they meet.

And still atheists need to explain why they prefer a world without religion.

Here is the story –

A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into and torch the Church of St. Mary and St. Abram in the village of Meet Bashar,in Zagazig, Sharqia province. They were demanding the death of Reverend Guirgis Gameel, pastor of the church, who has been unable to leave his home since yesterday. Nearly 100 terrorized Copts sought refuge inside the church, while Muslim rioters were pelting the church with stones in an effort to break into the church, assault the Copts and torch the building. A home of a Copt living near the church and the home of the church’s porter were torched, as well as three cars.

The mob demanded the return Rania of Khalil Ibrahim, 15, to her father. She has been held with the Security Directorate since yesterday. Christian-born Rania had converted to Islam three months ago after her father, who had converted to Islam two years ago and took custody of her. She had disappeared from the village on Saturday, after claiming to go shopping. According to Reverend Guirgis Gameel, she had a disagreement with her father, who had arranged a marriage for her with a Muslim man.

Her father, Khalil Ibrahim, went to the police on Saturday and accused the priest of being behind her disappearance, and said she had gone to live with her Coptic mother.

Yesterday a Salafi mob of 2000 went to the priest’s home and destroyed his furniture and his car, surrounded the church and pelted it with stones. They demolished a large section of the church fence. In the evening security forces announced that they had found Rania in Cairo and that she was not abducted by Christians; she was brought to the police station in Meet Bashar.

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Is This the New Egypt ?

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It looks like Egypt is slowly becoming an extreme state, with a mob that is calling the shots locally, as well as an elite that is indifferent to anything that physically threatens its survival. At the moment Egypt is doing a diplomacy dance with Israel over the terror attacks of last week in the south of Israel, in this attack (it seems) that terrorists dressed as Egyptian soldiers attacked Israeli cars and buses, killing at least 8 and wounding 40. Israeli response involved heavy fire across the boarder, and left 2 (real) Egyptian soldiers dead, Israel did not apologize on the spot and it seems that this alone is a reason for the mob in the cities to call out to end the peace agreement with Israel.

This lack of tolerance to any kind of action by a non Egyptian or non Muslim in this country is now becoming a trademark of post revolution Egypt, where Christian Copts are now daily targets for anger ventilation by mobs around the country, only last week a Christian was left dead and 4 injured because of a road accident in the province of Minya in Egypt.

And all this is no mistake, as the Muslim brotherhood is taking over the country it is steering its population towards religion, the people who make this brotherhood are the same ones who planning and executed the murder of Anwar Sadat, Egypt’s president before Mubarak, who set the peace agreement with Israel and reformed the country to a more secular approach.

But it looks like the Muslim Brotherhood will do everything in its power to move the time back, and march Egypt to the darkness of the past, where Christians and Jews are the sons of pigs and monkeys rather than citizens and allies.

Mob Venting in Egypt

No Rest for Egypt’s Coptic Christian

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Looks like Egypt’s march to a better future is not as smooth as some in the west would have liked to think, the strengthening of the Muslim brotherhood and of Islamic ideas leads to violence and the kind of trouble we have no heard about in the past 20 or so years.  Egypt coptic church, and its members (who are Christian) are starting to feel the heat from the mobs in the streets, spreading old time blood libel stories about women held against their wishes because they converted to Islam and so on.

It seems like there are a lot on Egypt’s streets today who will be happy to get into a bloody massacre of non Muslims and just get it over with, while the world is not really doing anything and the steady stream of people slowly starts to depart from this part of the world, heading into safer and more sane countries. Since the former president of the country was sent away it looks like the number of assaults and attacks on the Coptic church and its members is on the rise, and if the elections should bring the Muslim brothers into control things will not get any better.

And why is this on this blog? simply to show how people act when religion is involved, how religion and its leaders can target anyone and move a large crowd of fanatic believers to do the most horrific and immoral things, just because it says so in a book.

Egypt’s Copts & Future

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For those of you who do not follow the media last week has been a scene of violence in the middle east, this time it was Egypt, in the city of Alexandria, where a suicide bomber targeted a Coptic church, killing and inuring many innocent people. This must not be a big surprise for anyone in Egypt, a couple of months ago a christian was stabbed and murdered in the same city, on the same backgound – the religous intolerance of some in Egypt.

Many argue that the action did not come from within Egypt but from outside, maybe al-Quida. The regular conspiracy theory in the Arab world always points a finger at Israel as a cause of any kind of problem, for example the shark attacks in Sinai a month ago (some claimed it was Israel who “sent” the sharks) or eagles spying on Saudi Arabia ground (a research on the migration of eagles done around the world with the university of Tel-Aviv participating).

This kind of attack is not outside the ordinary for anyone who follows the modern day Muslim belief, which has perfect reason to believe that there should be no other religion than Islam and that there is no place for any other belief system next to Islam, especially in places that are ruled by Muslims or ever have been under Muslim law (which places much of Southern Europe under that principle).

If anyone asks how religions can be dangerous and physically threaten the lives of millions of people, that is exactly how and why. Islam is (to its believers) the final word of God, it is the last and final set of rules and “best practices” the all-mighty has dictated to the prophet via his angel. There is no question in the mind of a true Muslim that there is no other truth and that following the word of the prophet will lead to a very happy ending. In Islam, much more than in Christianity, trying your best to be like the prophet actually makes sense and has a direct reward system behind it. The prophet did not tolerate any other religion (under the house of war, not the early and diplomatic house of peace) so there is no reason for his followers to do any different.

Add to this the pre-programmed viral power of Islam (the way it is programmed to spread quickly and convert everyone to its law) and you have yourself a problem, well, at least if you plan to have any other religions or belief systems around. It is one of the main issues with most of the worlds conflicts, and will probably get worst in time. Even within the Arab/Muslim world there is no peace because of this ideology, since no one path of Islam can accept the other.

And so, the Coptic church, a true relic of history, finds itself attacked with the clear purpose of total destruction 2,000 years after it started, in the same city that saw Christians advocate their cause to pagans, later to convert to Islam by the power of the sword. One can not but wonder when the great city of Alexandria will, as Richard Dawkins puts it, “Go one God further” and see the light.