Hat tip Jihad Watch
As our State Department and administration continue to remain silent, the plight of the Coptic Christians continues in Egypt. Calls go out to murder Copts, and Copts are murdered. Jihad Watch has the below report.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/murder-of-copts-begins-after-genocide-call.html
And where is the voice of American Christians? It seems to me that the Methodist and Presbyterian churches are more interested in the plight of the Palestinians. You think they are going to speak out against the slaughter of their co-religionists in the Middle East? You can't even get them to speak about it in their pulpits. It would be "Islamophobic" you know. It would get in the way of those precious interfaith conferences they have. How many American Christians even know what is happening if nobody will tell them?
Do you think organizations like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA and ICNA will speak out? When you bring it up to them, they simply respond, "This is not Islam" and return to the topic of Islamophobia.
Meanwhile, the killing goes on in Egypt and Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Nigeria, and so many other places. If it's not Christians being killed (the Jews are long gone from those countries), its Baha'i, or Sufists or Ahmadi Muslims because they are considered heretics, or Sunnis killing Shi'ites. The madness goes on and on while our leaders delude themselves into thinking that democracy is coming to that part of the world.
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is one involving overt government policy, which one might attempt to influence.
ReplyDeleteViolence against Copts and other sects (Ba'hai in Iran, Amaddiya Muslims in Pakistan) is more of an internal lawlessness, which the government responsible may or may not act on, may or may not be capable of acting on, but it is less susceptible to foreign influence.
Do you want to stand in America sputtering denunciations that nobody responsible will give the time of day to notice?
Do you want to send the marines?
Or do you have a third (never stated) alternative that would be effective at actually saving some lives?
I don't want to send any more Marines to the Middle East. I think the issue should be publicized and dipomatic pressure brought to bear. I also would offer the Copts and Bah'i asylum in the US-as opposed to the disasterous policy of bring tens of thousands of Somali "refugees" here where they are not assimilating. As for the Baha'i in Iran, it is precisely government persecution since they are subject to arrest, imprisonment and execution simply because they are considered heretics from Islam, their religion is not officially recognized and thus, they are subversives.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever met any Copts and discussed the Egyptian situation with them? I have. They have a church with leaders, but so do Catholics. To compare Baha'i and Copts to Somalis is stretching things. Are you suggesting that Copts here in America would long for the day when the whole country is under Coptic Christian rule? C'mon.
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ReplyDeleteSorry to disappoint you, but there are Coptic and Baha'i communities here in the US. In fact they are like other religious groups, joining their unique flavor to the pot roast that is the United States.
In fact the Baha'i have a Temple in Wilmette, IL.
And here is a short list of Coptic Churches in the US.
So much for not assimilating.
Findalis, there are also plenty of fifth-generation assimilated Muslims. Somehow the most recent arrivals, and those who manage to arrive en masse, are the ones who cause problems. Yes, I used to rent a room from a legal immigrant Amharic man, I know where the Ethopian restaurant that Ethiopians eat at is, and I'm familiar with a Coptic church in my local area. I've also spent hours talking to my former landlord trying to explain why we don't have blasphemy laws in the U.S., that the FBI won't break down the door and haul us away because I crack jokes about the president, etc.
ReplyDeleteI also worked with a very nice Somali individual once.
The kind of mass airlift Gary talks about would end up like the Somali airlift.