For Indiscriminate terrorism, it seems pretty discriminate.
2011 has has started off the same as 2010 ended, with increasing violence against Christians in Muslim dominated countries.
The latest, of course, is the New Years attack on a Coptic Church in Egypt. This attack followed a mass for Mary, Mother of God.
At latest count, 25 five Christians perished in the attack with scores more injured.
This is tough enough to endure without the addition of insult to injury by pusillanimous equivocators.
First off, President Obama. For once, the President issued a statement on anti-Christian terror. He needn’t have bothered. From the statement:
The attack on a church in Alexandria, Egypt caused 21 reported deaths and dozens of injured from both the Christian and Muslim communities.
Nope. No Muslims were killed in this bombing. Repeat after me, these are not indiscriminate attacks. To continue to suggest that Muslims are the victims too, is an insult to the memory of all those who died and to the intelligence of those of us left living.
And President Obama was not alone, President Mubarek of Egypt did the same thing.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused unnamed foreign elements of being behind the attack.
“This act of terrorism shook the country’s conscience, shocked our feelings and hurt the hearts of Muslim and Coptic Egyptians,” he said in an emergency address to the nation. “The blood of their martyrs in the land of Alexandria mixed to tell us all that all Egypt is the target and that blind terrorism does not differentiate between a Copt and a Muslim.”
For blind terrorism, they sure do seem very specific.
This is anti-Christian violence committed by Muslims. It is not an insult to Muslims to point out the obvious. Trust me, they know it. But it is an insult to all Christians to continue to deny it.
Time to name it and claim it.
January 3, 2011 at 2:22 am
They could always claim that the suicide bomber was Muslim, so therefore the Muslim community suffered a loss.
deborah
January 3, 2011 at 8:17 am
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January 3, 2011 at 11:25 am
The world stands with Egypt's persecuted Christians and other groups. Any government which allows this bloodshed is illegitimate. Indeed, Egypt has been illegally occupied for 1400 years by Islamists and should be returned to the rightful owners, along with Syria, Lebanon, and Constantinople. End the occupation.this is really tough,killing people is injustice.hope government must do something on this.peace and not war!
January 3, 2011 at 2:02 pm
It gets worse, the Egyptian government was in on the attack! Egyptian security forces which were supposed to protect the Copts were WITHDRAWN an hour before the bombing, only to return afterwards just in time to arrest the CHRISTIANS who were upset that muslims showed up to mock their suffering by stomping on body parts in the street, cheering the slaughter and shouting "allah akbar"!
Read about it at Atlas & Jihad Watch, from the second link: this isn't the first time that Egypt has conveniently withdrawn security just before an islamist attack on Christians either.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/01/obamas-cover-up-of-jihad-in-egypt.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/egyptian-security-guards-withdrew-an-hour-before-jihad-bombing-at-church.html
January 3, 2011 at 2:04 pm
well, the statement by your President did immediately state "The perpetrators of this attack were clearly targeting Christian worshipers". Perhaps it was those pesky 8th century iconoclasts, or some stray Lutherans….
January 3, 2011 at 2:10 pm
To be fair, the next line in the statement says "The perpetrators of this attack were clearly targeting Christian worshipers," so it's made clear that the victims were targeted specifically for their faith.
That said, the previous line is still pretty bad.
January 4, 2011 at 5:00 am
"Egypt has been illegally occupied for 1400 years by Islamists and should be returned to the rightful owners, along with Syria, Lebanon, and Constantinople"
Um, dude, do you really need to go there? I understand your outrage about the attack — it is entirely justified — but when you talk about returning a country that's been "occupied" since the Dark Ages back to its "rightful owners," well, I can't help but wonder what a Lakota, Cherokee, Navajo, etc. would think of that idea. After all, we (white Christians of European descent) have "only" been here 500 years, right?
That being said… I'm not trying to be PC here, just pointing out that trying to right centuries-old historical wrongs often ends up simply doing MORE wrong to people who had nothing to do with the original wrong.
Isn't that, in fact, what some of these Islamists are trying to do… get back at Christians for the Crusades and the Reconquista and turn back the clock to the days when THEY ruled most of the civilized world? Two can play at that game, can't they?
Instead of trying to put everything back exactly the way it was in some supposed golden age, we should instead concentrate on making sure that the Christians who are alive here and now in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East are treated with the respect they deserve.
Elaine
January 6, 2011 at 5:14 am
Wow! That's one hell of a conspiracy theory u have going up there
January 6, 2011 at 5:17 am
i guess then ameriaca and australia should be returened to the few remaining natives as well 🙂
January 10, 2011 at 6:40 am
OBAMA FULFILLING THE BIBLE
Pres. Lincoln stated: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man." But several Bible verses are embarrassing to Pres. Obama:
Proverbs 19:10 (NIV): "It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury – how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!"
Also Proverbs 30:22 (NIV) which says that the earth cannot bear up under "a servant who becomes king."
And Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 (KJV) advises: "let thy words be few…a fool's voice is known by multitude of words."
Although Obama is not descended from slaves, he may feel that he's destined to become a black-slavery avenger.
Or maybe an enslaver of all free citizens!
For some stunning info on Pres. Obama and his fellow subversives, Google "Michelle Obama's Allah-day," "Obama Supports Public Depravity," "David Letterman's Hate Etc.," "Un-Americans Fight Franklin Graham" and also "Sandra Bernhard, Larry David, Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman."
PS – Since Christians are commanded to ask God to send severe judgment on persons who commit and support the worst forms of evil (see I Cor. 5 and note "taken away"), Christians everywhere should constantly pray that the Lord will soon "take away" or at least overthrow all US leaders, including Obama, who continue to sear their conscience and arrogantly trample the God-given rights of the majority including the rights of the unborn. Do we need a second American Revolution?
PPS – For a rare look at a 180-year-old, imported-from-British-crazies endtime escapist belief which has long neutralized millions by promising them an "imminent rapture" off earth – which has diverted them away from being prepared to stand against all enemies, domestic as well as foreign – Google "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" and "Pretrib Rapture – Hidden Facts."
[saw above snippet on the web – Isaac]