All Discussions Tagged 'Fascists' - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T09:04:21Zhttp://4freedoms.com/group/egypt/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Fascists&feed=yes&xn_auth=noEgypt: Fascists step up ethnic cleansing of Coptstag:4freedoms.com,2013-04-15:3766518:Topic:1224742013-04-15T20:40:14.885ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1 class="title">In Pictures: Savage Islamic Attack on St. Mark Cathedral Allowed by Egyptian Forces</h1>
<div class="post-meta"><span class="small">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/author/raymond-ibrahim/" rel="author" title="Posts by Raymond Ibrahim">Raymond Ibrahim</a></span></span> <span class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published" title="2013-04-09T16:20:20-0700">April 9, 2013</abbr> …</div>
<h1 class="title">In Pictures: Savage Islamic Attack on St. Mark Cathedral Allowed by Egyptian Forces</h1>
<div class="post-meta"><span class="small">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/author/raymond-ibrahim/" title="Posts by Raymond Ibrahim" rel="author">Raymond Ibrahim</a></span></span> <span class="small">on</span> <abbr class="date time published" title="2013-04-09T16:20:20-0700">April 9, 2013</abbr> <span class="small">in</span> <span class="categories"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/category/from-the-arab-world/" title="View all posts in From The Arab World">From The Arab World</a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/category/islam/" title="View all posts in Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/category/muslim-persecution-of-christians/" title="View all posts in Muslim Persecution of Christians">Muslim Persecution of Christians</a></span></div>
<div class="entry"><p>Egypt’s Coptic Christians frequently accuse State Security and police of overlooking Muslim attacks on Christians and their places of worship, especially monasteries and churches. The Western mainstream media often ignores these accusations, or mentions them in passing as “unsubstantiated reports.” Last weekend’s assault on the St. Mark Cathedral — unprecedented in significance — was no different, except for the fact that there are many pictures demonstrating State complicity.</p>
<p>To recap: After last Sunday’s St. Mark Cathedral funeral service for Egypt’s most recent Christian victims of jihad — including one man set aflame — gangs of Muslims attacked the Christian mourners, resulting in the deaths of two more Copts, including one shot through the heart. Hundreds of Christians retreated back into the cathedral — both to get out of harm’s way, and to protect their holiest site. They were trapped there all night, enduring projectile and firebomb attacks. State Security also opened fire on the cathedral, including through tear-gas.</p>
<p>Several Egyptian media outlets and newspapers, especially the popular <em>Youm7,</em> have published a variety of pictures showing mobs, if not terrorists, attacking the cathedral in front of absolutely indifferent, possibly approving, security forces. Some of these pictures, with my captions, follow:</p>
<div id="attachment_3330" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-101.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3330" title="photo (10)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-101.png" alt="" width="730" height="494"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Muslim”youth” climb to the roof of a building adjacent to St. Mark Cathedral to attack it. To the left, a man winds to hurl a projectile at it. And in the white circle to the right, high-ranking Egyptian officials and security stand by watching (easily recognizable by their hats and helmets).</p>
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<div id="attachment_3321" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3321" title="photo (1)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-1.png" alt="" width="733" height="500"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A better close up. This image shows a masked sniper with rifle in hand preparing to open fire at the cathedral — confident that security forces will not intervene.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3322" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-21.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3322" title="photo (2)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-21.png" alt="" width="730" height="534"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Same man opens fire.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3328" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-8.png"><img class="wp-image-3328" title="photo (8)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-8.png" alt="" width="728" height="526"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Another man prepares to hurl stones at the cathedral, even as security forces stand by watching.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3358" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/546.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3358" title="546" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/546.jpg" alt="" width="909" height="512"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A masked man, with a rifle, sits inside an Egyptian armored vehicle — bought with U.S. taxpayer money — and fires at the cathedral.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3329" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-9.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3329" title="photo (9)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-9.png" alt="" width="731" height="493"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">More snipers attacking Copts and their cathedral.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3331" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-11.png"><img class="wp-image-3331" title="photo (11)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-11.png" alt="" width="726" height="511"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Yet another picture showing rioting Muslims throwing projectiles (upper left-hand corner) at the cathedral. A man with a pole (in yellow circle) dismantles or destroys something — a cross, or something else of Christian significance? — and Egyptian “security” (lower left-hand corner, in red circle), idly stand by.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3336" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/8r9k2qyb.jpg"><img class="wp-image-3336" title="8r9k2qyb" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/8r9k2qyb.jpg" alt="" width="1095" height="480"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">St. Mark Cathedral, holiest site for Egypt’s indigenous Christians — and home of the Coptic pope — now turned into a war zone, under Muslim Brotherhood leadership.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3335" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/524521_521451994568355_1629327773_n1.jpg"><img class="wp-image-3335" title="524521_521451994568355_1629327773_n" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/524521_521451994568355_1629327773_n1.jpg" alt="" width="856" height="535"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A Muslim burns a Bible in front of the cathedral, right under security’s nose. In Egypt, if a Christian is merely accused of “desecrating” a Koran, he/she gets several years in prison. Yet here is a Muslim burning a Bible, with photo evidence, but he has nothing to fear.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3324" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-4.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3324" title="photo (4)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-4.png" alt="" width="730" height="264"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A collage of some of those on rooftops firing at the cathedral. Most of them are known by name — including the second one in the Palestinian scarf — and Copts regularly report them to police and security, to no avail.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3323" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-3.png"><img class="wp-image-3323" title="photo (3)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-3.png" alt="" width="726" height="504"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">More rooftop terrorism against the cathedral.</p>
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<div id="attachment_3333" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-13.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-3333" title="photo (13)" src="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/_admin/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-13.png" alt="" width="734" height="520"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The aftermath: the entrance of Coptic Christianity’s holiest site, the St. Mark Cathedral, after Egypt’s Muslim mob and State Security were through with it.</p>
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<p>Finally, lest there be any doubts as to the Islamic nature of this attack, here is a video of Muslims chanting “Allahu Akbar!” in front of the cathedral as smoke rises from it:<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gxM7hV1yeW0?rel=0&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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