{"id":6357,"date":"2013-08-19T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:45:46","slug":"in-egypt-media-sympathizes-with-muslim-brotherhood-persecution-of-christians-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/in-egypt-media-sympathizes-with-muslim-brotherhood-persecution-of-christians-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"In Egypt, Media Sympathizes with Muslim Brotherhood, Persecution of Christians Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0NRO’s The Corner<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

While Western media, following the lead of pro-Brotherhood Al Jazeera, continue demonizing the Egyptian military\u2019s attempts to neutralize the Muslim Brotherhood terror bases \u2013\u00a0where people have been tortured, raped, and killed, all according to Islamist fatwas (yes, including the rape, more on this later)\u00a0the media portray them\u00a0as \u201csit ins\u201d where Islamists are \u201cholding vigil<\/a>\u201d only to be slaughtered by the military. \u00a0Conversely, the media has been incredibly silent about the terrors being visited on Egypt\u2019s Coptic Christians, the nation\u2019s original inhabitants, by the very same people in the \u201csit ins.\u201d<\/p>\n

For starters, and as\u00a0CBN\u2019s Gary Lane<\/a>\u00a0just put it, \u201cWhat do Muslim Brotherhood members do when Egyptian Security Forces launch a forewarned operation to clear them from Cairo tent cities? Attack Christians. That\u2019s right.\u00a0Morsi supporters responded with a monumental attack \u2014 unprecedented in modern times \u2014 on churches throughout Egypt. The torching and destruction of churches occured within six hours of the start of the military crackdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the\u00a0abuse of Egypt\u2019s Christians<\/a>\u00a0has reached\u00a0unprecedented levels in the modern era<\/a>.\u00a0Al-Qaeda\u2019s flag has been raised above their churches; their pope is in hiding under threat of death; a priest was shot in front of his church, and another Copt beheaded; their children are being abducted; nary a day goes by without a church being attacked or set aflame;\u00a0hate filled graffiti<\/a>\u00a0covers their homes and churches.<\/p>\n

And why has the persecution reached unprecedented levels?\u00a0Because the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s Mohamed Morsi was ousted by a revolution that saw as many as 30 million Egyptians,\u00a0most of them Muslims,\u00a0take to the streets.\u00a0But of course, the Brotherhood does not want to admit that Muslim majorities do not favor their rule, so they scapegoat the already-hated Christians, portraying them as fundamental to the ousting of Morsi.\u00a0Any number of Brotherhood leaders \u2014 from the general guide, Mohammed Badie, to the group\u2019s spiritual father, Sheikh Yusif al-Qaradawi, all of whom publicly denounced the Coptic pope for being supportive of the revolution and supposedly even killing Muslims \u2013\u00a0are responsible for this rise in persecution of Copts.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, among some Islamists, anti-Christian fury has taken on genocidal proportions.\u00a0Recently a Libyan Muslim named Tamar Rashad\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0in to a talk show, saying \u201cI want to offer the good news to [Pope] Tawadros that, Allah willing, the day is coming when no Copt will ever again tread the ground of Egypt \u2013\u00a0and no churches.\u00a0We will no longer allow churches to exist.\u201d\u00a0When the TV host appeared to protest, Rashad interrupted him saying, \u201cIt\u2019s already decided, take your cameras and go to the churches and you\u2019ll see what\u2019s going to happen soon, Allah willing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, it has become difficult in the last few days to keep up with the attacks on Egypt\u2019s Christians,\u00a0so many and nonstop are the reports emanating from human-rights organizations in Egypt. Especially throughout Upper Egypt \u2013\u00a0in Minya, Asyut, Sohag \u2013\u00a0Christians and their churches are under attack; dozens of Coptic homes and businesses have been set on fire.\u00a0Due to the risk to Christian lives, many churches are no longer holding regular worship services.<\/p>\n

Also often left untold by the major media is that Copts suffered unprecedented abuses under Morsi\u2019s one year of rule \u2013\u00a0through legal measures as well as extralegal ones.<\/p>\n

For example, in April, after Christians mourned several Copts who were killed by Muslims in St. Mark\u2019s Cathedral,\u00a0Coptic Christianity\u2019s holiest site and home to the Coptic pope (before he went into hiding from recent death threats),\u00a0Muslim mobs\u00a0who had waited outside\u00a0launched yet another attack<\/a>. Eyewitnesses said as many as\u00a040\u201350 tear gas canisters<\/a>\u00a0targeted the mourners, many of whom were women and children hiding in the cathedral. Two more Copts were killed and many dozens wounded as other officers stood by while the Muslim mob tried to destroy the cathedral.\u00a0As one Egyptian political commentator pointed out at the time, under Mubarak, not even a pebble was thrown at St. Mark\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n

Similarly, under the one year of Morsi rule, over a dozen cases of Copts being attacked, arrested, and given sentences double the maximum for supposedly insulting Islam, took\u00a0place; under Mubarak\u2019s thirty year rule, less than a handful of cases was ever registered\u2014proof that, under the Brotherhood, Coptic persecution became\u00a0legally codified<\/a>\u00a0in the context of \u201cblasphemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

One can go on and on.\u00a0Yet you won\u2019t find out about the persecution of Egypt\u2019s Christians \u2013\u00a0certainly nowhere near its true extent nor the historical continuity and patterns evinced throughout the centuries \u2013\u00a0following the so-called mainstream media or academia, as can be seen even now in their skewed coverage of the military\u2019s attempts to disperse the Brotherhood bases.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time the full, ugly truth about Muslim persecution of Christians was known \u2013\u00a0and acted upon.<\/p>\n

Raymond Ibrahim is the author of\u00a0<\/em>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam\u2019s New War on Christians<\/a>\u00a0and publishes\u00a0monthly reports<\/a>\u00a0on Islamic persecution of Christians.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0NRO’s The Corner While Western media, following the lead of pro-Brotherhood Al Jazeera, continue demonizing the Egyptian military\u2019s attempts to neutralize the Muslim Brotherhood terror bases \u2013\u00a0where people have been tortured, raped, and killed, all according to Islamist fatwas (yes, including the rape, more on this later)\u00a0the media portray them\u00a0as \u201csit ins\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[140,227,145],"tags":[366,192,1035,1017,139,1060],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1Ex","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":675,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-evils-of-the-muslim-brotherhood\/","url_meta":{"origin":6357,"position":0},"title":"The Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Investigative Project on Terrorism Egypt's longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 the parent organization of nearly every subsequent Islamist movement, including al Qaeda \u2014 has just won the nation's presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. That apathy reigns in the international community, when once such\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1447,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/in-the-jaws-of-sharia-the-liberal-and-the-temptress\/","url_meta":{"origin":6357,"position":1},"title":"In the Jaws of Sharia: The Liberal and the Temptress","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Private Papers Editor\u2019s Note: These postings were taken from\u00a0Jihad Watch\u00a0and\u00a0Pajamas Media, internet journals in which the author posts frequently. Ibrahim\u2019s observations below remind us of the depths of Dante\u2019s\u00a0Inferno\u00a0where the three-headed devil masticates the worst criminals of Dante\u2019s imagination: Brutus and Cassius are second only to Judas.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6194,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/muslim-brotherhood-out-killing-christians-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":6357,"position":2},"title":"Muslim Brotherhood Out, Killing Christians In","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/ Gatestone Institute \"I tell the Christians one word: We will set you on fire!\" \u2014 Egyptian Muslim lady \"In scattered locations across Egypt, mobs of hard-line Muslims,\" according to\u00a0Morning Star News, \"enraged over the deposing of the country's Islamist president [Muhammad Morsi] this week attacked Christian\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The_Great_Umayyed_Mosque_of_Damascus_Syria_-_9.jpg?fit=947%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The_Great_Umayyed_Mosque_of_Damascus_Syria_-_9.jpg?fit=947%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The_Great_Umayyed_Mosque_of_Damascus_Syria_-_9.jpg?fit=947%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The_Great_Umayyed_Mosque_of_Damascus_Syria_-_9.jpg?fit=947%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3848,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-the-egyptian-revolution-can-be-the-best-or-worst-thing-to-happen\/","url_meta":{"origin":6357,"position":3},"title":"Why the Egyptian Revolution Can Be the Best or Worst Thing to Happen","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim NRO's\u00a0The Corner It is clear that the media and its host of analysts are split in two camps on the Egyptian revolution: one that sees it as a wonderful expression of \"people-power\" that, left alone, will naturally culminate into some sort of pluralistic democracy, and another that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6383,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-terror-leader-behind-bars-in-egypt\/","url_meta":{"origin":6357,"position":4},"title":"A Terror Leader Behind Bars in Egypt","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0FrontPage Magazine The supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the head of the Islamist snake, Muhammad Badie\u2014who had slipped security forces by traveling in and out of the\u00a0Brotherhood torture camps\u00a0(known as \u201cpeaceful sits ins\u201d by the mainstream media\u201d)\u2014has finally been arrested in Egypt and is awaiting trial.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6664,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad\/","url_meta":{"origin":6357,"position":5},"title":"Murdered Christian Children: The Price of Obama’s Pro-Brotherhood Jihad","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com\u00a0 Who is more deserving of punishment by the United States?\u00a0 Millions of Egyptians, for ousting the Muslim Brotherhood?\u00a0 Or the Muslim Brotherhood, for habitually terrorizing and murdering Christians, among many other crimes? According to the unmistakably clear actions of the Obama administration, it is the millions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Syria"","block_context":{"text":"Syria","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/syria\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}