Saturday, January 1, 2011

A Deadly Beginning To The New Year

It's 2011 today but the beginning of a new year hasn't instilled a new attitude in radical Muslims. Their thirst for jihad remains as fierce as ever, with Egyptian Christians being the first "infidels" of the new year to feel their wrath.

Just minutes after midnight on January 1st, a bomb exploded as Coptic Christians exited the Qidiseen or Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt after attending a New Year's Mass. Twenty-one people were killed and nearly 100 were injured.

Coptic Christians, who make up 10% of Egypt's population and face increasing persecution, didn't take this attack lying down. Riots broke out almost immediately after the bombing, with Copts targeting Muslims passersby and a mosque across the street from the church. Police responded with rubber bullets and other methods to disperse the understandably angry crowds. Calm eventually returned to Alexandria's streets, but tensions between Muslims and Copts remained high.

The Egytian Interior Ministry claimed that "foreign elements", and not Egytian citizens, were responsible for the church bombing. Alexandria's governor, Adel Labib, blamed the bombing on Al Qaeda in Iraq, citing the threats the terror organization made against Egytian Christians in November. Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) promised attacks on the Egytian Church because it believes the Church is imprisoning two Christian women who converted to Islam in order to get divorces from their husbands (the Coptic Church forbids almost all divorces). Both AQI and hard-line Egytian Muslims accuse the Coptic Church of trying to force the two women to renounce Islam. The Church denies holding the women against their will.

This brutal attack on innocent Egyptian Christians could just as easily have happened in the West against American or European Christians. It serves as a bloody reminder that jihad is still on and that radical Muslims are commited to fighting "infidels" wherever we are. Their war on us is a religious duty commanded by their "prophet" in their "holy" book. And the aim of their war is to convert, subjugate, or kill us.

We must be courageous and resolute in fighting this evil and tenacious foe, and we must have no goal but victory. Without victory we in the West will find ourselves degraded to the same miserable, second-class status as the Copts in Egypt. Don't think that can happen? Remember, the Christians were once the majority in Egypt. No, sadly, the Muslims are. We must not let that happen in the West or that will be the end of Christian civilization. I, for one, believe that Christian civilization is worth defending whether in the West, in Egypt, or the Middle East. So I shout with the Coptic faithful who filled the streets of Alexandria after Saturday's attack, "With our blood and soul, we redeem the cross!" Amen.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great revealing post my friend. I couldn't have said it any better. Glad I didn't post about this cause you did it justice.

ParaPacem said...
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ParaPacem said...

< had to back up to change a typo or two >


Well said, well done.
And how amusing that the followers of the Pervert Prophet condemend the Pope because he dared to speak out against these murders!
But one minor correction - when you say,
"We must not let that happen in the West or that will be the end of Christian civilization." -

I submit that rather, it would be the end of ALL civilization - as the muzzies cannot co-exist with civilization at all. Only mindless, hate-dripping barbarism.
Well - as they say 0 allah fubar!