{"id":6664,"date":"2013-10-24T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2013-10-24T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:44:49","slug":"murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdered Christian Children: The Price of Obama’s Pro-Brotherhood Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

According to the unmistakably clear actions of the Obama administration, it is the millions of anti-Brotherhood Egyptians who deserve punishment.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, the Church of the Virgin Mary in Waraq near Cairo was attacked during a wedding ceremony, leaving four dead and many wounded.\u00a0 According to\u00a0Dr. Hisham Abdul Hamid of forensics<\/a>, two of those who were murdered were Christian children\u2014two girls; two Marys:\u00a0 12-year-old Mary Nabil Fahmy, who took five shots in the chest, and 8-year-old Mary Ashraf Masih (meaning \u201cChrist\u201d), who took a bullet in the back which burst from the front.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that this scene\u2014attacked Coptic churches and murdered Christians, especially on holy days and celebrations\u2014has become a normalized aspect of Egypt\u2019s landscape (see\u00a0Crucified Again: Exposing Islam\u2019s New War on Christians<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>especially pgs. 42-43 and 56-62).<\/p>\n

So too are the murders of Christian children increasingly common in Egypt.\u00a0 Indeed, along with Sunday\u2019s two murdered Marys, back in July, another Christian girl,\u00a010-year-old Jessi Boulos<\/a>, was shot dead while walking home from Bible class.<\/p>\n

All of these church attacks and murders are a direct byproduct of the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s incitements against Egypt\u2019s Christians in retaliation for the June 30 Revolution, which saw the ousting of the Brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Needing someone to scapegoat in order to set Egypt ablaze, Brotherhood leadership\u2014including supreme leader Muhammad Badie, Safwat Hegazi, and Al Jazeera\u2019s Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi\u2014repeatedly demonized the nation\u2019s Christian minority, leading to any number of\u00a0atrocities committed against the Copts.<\/p>\n

As today\u2019s headline from one of Egypt\u2019s most read newspapers,\u00a0Tahrir News<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>put it: \u201cThe Brotherhood\u2019s crime in Waraq [location of Sunday\u2019s church attack].\u00a0 Seventeen murdered Copts and 85 torched churches since ousting of Morsi\u2026 Copts pay price of June 30 Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now consider the response of the United States concerning the conflict between Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood in the context of U.S. aid.<\/p>\n

For years, human rights activists have been imploring the Obama administration to make aid to Egypt contingent on respect for the human rights of all Egyptians, including Christian minorities.\u00a0 Such a move would dramatically ameliorate the plight of the Copts, since all potential Egyptian governments, including the ousted Muslim Brotherhood, are more interested in securing money than in killing Christians.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Obama administration\u2019s approach has been 1) to ignore the plight of Egypt\u2019s Christians and 2) when attacks are especially egregious (and exposed by the MSM) offer perfunctory condemnation.\u00a0 (After all, if the administration was able to get away with the lip-service approach among Americans\u2014vocally condemning and promising to get the\u00a0Muslim Brotherhood-linked murderers of Americans in Benghazi<\/a>\u00a0but then ignoring it\u2014surely it will not hesitate doing so with a foreign nation.)<\/p>\n

As for making U.S. aid to Egypt contingent on respect for human rights, that has been out of the question for the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

And yet, when those who are responsible for the destruction of nearly 100 Christian churches (including an\u00a0unprecedented attack on the holiest Coptic church<\/a>\u00a0back when Morsi wasstill<\/em>\u00a0president) and the murders of Copts and their children finally get ousted by the Egyptian people and their military, it is\u00a0then<\/em>\u00a0that the Obama administration\u00a0cuts hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Egypt<\/a>\u2014thereby punishing all of Egypt for ejecting the Muslim Brotherhood from power. (In other nations, like Syria, the administration supports the Christian-slaughtering, al-Qaeda linked terrorists).<\/p>\n

What more proof can any sensible American need to know that the Muslim-named president of the United States of America is in league with Muslim terrorists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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?<\/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":[127,225,227],"tags":[12,1035,1043,1041,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1Ju","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6122,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-to-egyptian-christians-dont-protest-the-brotherhood\/","url_meta":{"origin":6664,"position":0},"title":"Obama to Egyptian Christians: Don’t Protest the Brotherhood","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate\u00a0\u00a0in mass against the Muslim Brotherhood and President\u00a0Morsi\u2019s\u00a0rule on June 30, the latter has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the\u00a0Tahrir\u00a0protests that earlier ousted Mubarak.\u00a0\u00a0Accordingly, among other influential\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Muslim Brotherhood"","block_context":{"text":"Muslim Brotherhood","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/muslim-brotherhood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6730,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-accused-of-crimes-against-humanity\/","url_meta":{"origin":6664,"position":1},"title":"Obama Accused of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0CBN News\u00a0 According to Egyptian newspaper\u00a0El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. 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