Egypt’s Coptic Christians are being slandered, humiliated and murdered
by Archbishop Cranmer:
“They burnt the house and went in and dragged me out, threw me in front of the house and ripped my clothes,” recounted 70-year-old Souad Thabet. “I was just as my mother gave birth to me and was screaming and crying.” She was paraded naked through the streets by a mob in Menia, Egypt, where a number of Christian homes were looted and destroyed. The allegation was that Souad Thabet’s son had been romantically involved with a Muslim woman, and so the Muslim mob had to mete out a just humiliation on the family. Old Coptic Christian ladies are easy targets. Who cares if the romantic rumours were false? All this happened in May. There have been no charges to date.
“We don’t want a church, we will knock down the church building, Egypt is an Islamic country,” bayed a mob of 5,000, incensed by rumours that Coptic Christians in Baidaa were intent on converting houses into churches and worshipping as infidels do. “One way or another, we’ll bring the church down to the ground. No church will stand here in the village. It’s either us or you, infidels!” And so their homes were ransacked while the police watched on. This was in June: six Copts were arrested, but no Salafists.
Coptic Priest Father Rafael Moussa was killed instantly when a man shot him in the head in North Sinai capital El-Arish in June. This month, Coptic pharmacist Maged Attia was stabbed and beheaded in Tanta. Five Coptic Christian homes have been torched in Abu Yacoub, Minya, after rumours spread that a church was being constructed in the area. The Archangel Mikhail Coptic Church was burned to the ground in village of Naj al-Nassara in Madamoud. And a 27-year-old Coptic Christian man stabbed to death in the village of Tahna al-Gabal, Minya, where the local priest’s family was also attacked.
We’re not hearing much about this.
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