Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Attacking Coptics

From DW:
"Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear"

Islamist attacks on Christian churches and facilities in Egypt are on the rise following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. They are not protected by the police or the justice system.   Life has never been easy for Coptic Christians in Egypt. But what has been going on in the country since the ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi has reached a new low. According to Ishak Ibrahim of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), there have been at least 44 attacks on Christian churches since the massacre of hundreds of Islamist protesters on August 14 - and that is counting only attacks that totally or almost completely destroyed the churches, not attacks with minor damage or attacks on houses and businesses. The situation has worsened dramatically since Morsi's ouster on July 3. Ibrahim, a scientist at EIPR's research program for the freedom of religion, witnessed leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood agitate against Copts. "They give their supporters the impression that the Copts worked hand-in-hand with the military to overthrow Muslim Brother Morsi in order to end Islamic rule."

^ It is good that the Muslim Brotherhood was removed from power and that it was done by the Egyptians themselves. It looks like a civil war is going to start in Egypt and the main group that will be in danger are the Coptic Christians. The Coptics have been discriminated against in their own country for so long that many just accept it yet the same measures the Nazis used against the Jews in the 1930s is happening to the Coptics now. I guess the slogan "Never Again" is just that a slogan people and countries use to help them feel better for doing nothing during the Holocaust (and yet they still say it while a possible new Holocaust - against the Coptics - is forming in Egypt.) ^

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