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Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt - SumOfAllFears - 02-06-2011 05:09 PM
Islam -- The religion of peace.
Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt
by Gil Ronen
News of an Islamist massacre of two Christian Coptic families has emerged from Upper Egypt with the return of Internet connections to the country, after a one-week Internet blackout imposed by the troubled regime. The massacre, not the first in Egypt in recent weeks, took place on Sunday afternoon (January 30) at the village of Sharona near Maghagha, in Minya province, and is being reported by AINA, the Assyrian International News Agency.
According to the report, the Islamist murderers, aided by Muslim neighbors of the Copts, stormed the homes of the families, gaining access to the houses' roofs from the roofs of the families' Muslim neighbors. They killed eleven, including children, and seriously injured four more people.
Anba Agathon, Bishop of Maghagha, told Coptic activist Dr. Mona Roman in a televised interview on Al-Karma TV that the killers are neighbors of the Copts, who "seized the opportunity of the mayhem prevailing in Egypt and the absence of police protection to slaughter the Copts."
The bishop said that he had visited the injured Copts at Maghagha General Hospital and that they informed him that they recognized the main attackers, who come from the same village, Sharona.
"The two families were staying in their homes with their doors locked when suddenly the Islamists descended on them," said Bishop Agathon, "killing eleven and leaving for dead four other family members. In addition, they looted everything that was in the two Coptic houses, including money, furniture and electrical equipment. They also looted livestock and grain."
One group of masked assailants infiltrated the home of Copt Joseph Waheeb Massoud and killed him, his wife Samah, their 15-year old daughter Christine and 8-year-old son Fady Youssef. Another group simultaneously accessed the house of Copt Saleeb Ayad Mayez and shot him dead, along with his wife Zakia, their 4-year-old son Joseph and 3-year-old daughter Justina, Saleeb's 23-year-old sister Amgad, his mother Zakia and a woman named Saniora Fahim.
"The massacre has nothing to do with the mayhem in Egypt," the bishop said, "but the murderers took advantage of the lack of police protection and thought they could commit their crime and no one would notice."
"Why have those Islamists chosen those two Coptic families and not Muslim ones to slaughter and rob? I believe it is because they know that with Copts they can literally get away with murder," accused Coptic activist Dr. Hanna Hanna.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
RE: Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt - smn1256 - 02-06-2011 07:31 PM
Why am I learning about this in a sub-forum of a college sports bulletin board and not the MSM? No doubt if the roles were reversed there would be international outrage and riots in the Muslim community. Who knows how burned down buildings and dead people there would be.
RE: Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt - I45owl - 02-07-2011 09:04 AM
This will probably get a lot worse. The Copts are probably the most vulnerable population in the middle east... at least the most vulnerable large population.
RE: Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt - SumOfAllFears - 02-09-2011 02:00 PM
I know you libs are more interested on the lack of media coverage of the JOHN BOEHNER sex scandal, but the lack of media coverage of this is stunning. Fox did mention it, in passing, discussing how the Coptic's will be practicing illegally in Egypt if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over.
RE: Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt - MileHighBronco - 02-09-2011 02:49 PM
(02-07-2011 09:04 AM)I45owl Wrote: This will probably get a lot worse. The Copts are probably the most vulnerable population in the middle east... at least the most vulnerable large population.
...and certainly the group that ought to be the most worried about the situation in Egypt. This is nothing new. These types of crimes have been going on for several years now and are rarely, if ever mentioned in our news media. Probably because our media gladly participates in bashing Christians and this news probably makes them giddy but they don't want to show their hand publicly. The exception would be WND, who report regularly on these types of crimes and persecution.
RE: Islamists Massacre Two Coptic Families in Egypt - Rebel - 02-09-2011 03:40 PM
So peaceful.