Egypt: Muslim Mob Attacks Christians, Parade Naked Woman

[Anonymous]

I am Egyptian-American, and this seems like a new low. ("Religion of peace" poster, please go away). I think areas like the province in Egypt where this happened are ripe for ISIS takeover, especially considering how violent and hateful the people have become, and how incompetent the government is:

CAIRO — An armed Muslim mob stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked on the streets in an attack last week in which seven Christian homes were also looted and torched in a province south of the Egyptian capital.

According to the local Orthodox Coptic church and security officials, the assault in the Minya province village of Karma on Friday began after rumors spread that the elderly woman's son had an affair with a Muslim woman — a taboo in conservative Egypt.

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Makarios, in unusually candid comments, said he predicted the crisis in the Minya village will most likely be handled through a government-sponsored meeting of the two sides in which the Christians will be forced to accept "humiliating" conditions for reconciliation.

What a nightmare it would be to live in a place like this, when any rumor could turn into violence, where innocent women are attacked in the streets. There is some outcry over this in Egypt, which is slightly encouraging, but you know, talk is cheap. I also don't know why we support Egypt's government to the extent that we do.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, didn't post the link to the whole story: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/26/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt-christians-.html?_r=0

[Anonymous]

The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am Egyptian-American, and this seems like a new low. ("Religion of peace" poster, please go away). I think areas like the province in Egypt where this happened are ripe for ISIS takeover, especially considering how violent and hateful the people have become, and how incompetent the government is:

CAIRO — An armed Muslim mob stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked on the streets in an attack last week in which seven Christian homes were also looted and torched in a province south of the Egyptian capital.

According to the local Orthodox Coptic church and security officials, the assault in the Minya province village of Karma on Friday began after rumors spread that the elderly woman's son had an affair with a Muslim woman — a taboo in conservative Egypt.

...

Makarios, in unusually candid comments, said he predicted the crisis in the Minya village will most likely be handled through a government-sponsored meeting of the two sides in which the Christians will be forced to accept "humiliating" conditions for reconciliation.

What a nightmare it would be to live in a place like this, when any rumor could turn into violence, where innocent women are attacked in the streets. There is some outcry over this in Egypt, which is slightly encouraging, but you know, talk is cheap. I also don't know why we support Egypt's government to the extent that we do.

We need more friends in that region and US Govt is willing to look the other way as we have done in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Obama's legacy will carry that shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

Stopping aid would be nice, yeah. What do we get out of supporting countries where this kind of thing goes on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

You do realize that more Muslims have died in the Middle East in the past few years than any other religion. I'm not sure what the point is you are trying to make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

Stopping immigration or we'll have the same barbarism here.

Don't say you weren't warned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

Stopping aid would be nice, yeah. What do we get out of supporting countries where this kind of thing goes on?

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/04/225147.htm

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-usa-aid-idUSKCN0T22E520151113

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Obama's legacy will carry that shame.

OP. Genocide is not descriptive of what is happening in Egypt, but I definitely think that ethnic cleansing is occurring in the rural regions. And the police/government turn a blind eye to it. Should we be giving aid to countries where this happens? I would bet money that if the country's aid was on the line, this would be shut down in a quick minute by the government.

As it is, what happens in each incident:

Rumor/argument happens, Muslim mob burns down Christian churches/houses.
People are arrested, including people who were attacked
Government sponsors "negotiation" between Christian leaders and leaders in the town
Their conclusion (every single time): The Christians in the community need to abandon their property and leave, arrested people are set free without consequences.

This happens every time. The Egyptian government is essentially a participant in the ethnic cleansing of these areas.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

Stopping aid would be nice, yeah. What do we get out of supporting countries where this kind of thing goes on?

What we get in this case is a peace treaty with Israel. Given that the present government is a result of a coup against a democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood government, you can probably find common ground with the Islamacists for cutting aid.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Beyond wagging a finger, I don't think there is much we can or should do. Stopping aid or sanctions doesn't seem helpful. What do you suggest?

Stopping immigration or we'll have the same barbarism here.

Don't say you weren't warned.

Stop immigration, period, end of sentence? Seems extreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, didn't post the link to the whole story: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/26/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt-christians-.html?_r=0

This is atrocious and should get all the attention.

However, NY Times and the OP fail to recognize attaching religion with incorrect behavior is promoting haters to hate innocent people based on religion. There are millions of Muslims (I am not a Muslim) in the world (and in Egypt) who are peace loving normal people like you and me.

I am sure you do not want to target the police officers who paralyzed the Indian old man in Alabama as Christian mob, or the hate crimes that happened after 9/11 to be the work of Christian mob. Will you? Why would you then attach religion to an atrocious act that happened in another country. What purpose it serves other than giving KKK like mentality to flourish?

You wonder why Trump is popular, it is because of the depiction of stories like this in MSM and it is because people like you & me tolerating and promoting this bias.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The genocide of Christians and other non-islam religions in the middle east in tye past few years is horrific. Even sadder is our government turning a blind eye to what is happening over ther to religious minorities.

Obama's legacy will carry that shame.

That would be odd because Obama opposed the government currently in power and conservatives prayed for it.