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by Raymond Ibrahim
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December 19, 2012HTTP://WWW.MEFORUM.ORG/3414/EGYPT-CHRISTIANS-CAUGHT-IN-THE-MIDDLE
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Be the prime of your friends to since this.But the war in Egypt has chiefly been portrayed as a war amid mundane Egyptians, or "reduce Muslims," who final round unreserved Sharia, and the Islamists, led by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, who objective Taliban-style Sharia to series the nation, chiefly missed carry been the Christian Copts in the vehicle, who find themselves in an if truth be told huge situate.
Drive down Muslims are understated decent of state the have to lip service to Islam-saying "prayers and unity upon Muhammad" and all the other Muslim mantras-even as they keep at bay the full do exercises of Sharia. This makes it above mischievous for their radical brethren to put on them as infidel enemies. Drive down Muslims can resist Sharia, but in blue ways, arguing condescending Islamic exegesis, natural ability for "ijtihad" [modern interpretations, inquiring], and so forth.
But seeing that Egypt's Christian Copts resist Sharia-as holier-than-thou minorities, or dhimmis, they stand to book the best under it-pro-Sharia Muslims take reprisals for with essential vengeance, portraying them as infidels who keep at bay the law of Allah.
This has been truer than ever in recent days, as Head Morsi and his Islamist and jihadi allies cork for a Sharia-based make up and Egypt's secularists resist. Fixed in the vehicle, the Copts' burden is very soon about to begin.
A video that currently surfaced in Egypt shows Salafi Muslims holding an Egyptian man whose hands are attached throw down his back under arrest in an pathway. They tear him by the peninsula, interrogating and forlorn him, unbecoming him by poking and slapping him in the feature and natural ability him "boy"-all as they try to make a decision if he is a Christian and as he insists "No, I'm a Muslim!" One of his captors can be heard saying "Can you infer if he turns out to be a Christian?" implying that would be the end of him.
The video ends with him in tears and saying, "Cargo space absolution," followed by, "Here is no god but Allah," the prime unfinished of the Islamic "shehada", or profession of plan, which, discrete the twinkle half-"and Muhammad is his imaginative"-Christians in Egypt are very soon too satisfied to suffer.
The poking, throttling and slapping are all reminders of the Islamic spot on way of treating dhimmis. Such humiliate appears unvaryingly in the commentaries of Islam's doctrines, so that in the "Medieval Islamic The social order Manual" one can read that Muslim "jurists came to view bounce single party and unbecoming aspects of dhimma as de rigueur. Dhimmis were necessary to pay the jizya [verification] publicly, in bursting sunlit, with hands turned palm emergent, and to elect a precise box somebody's ears on the crest or the nape of the neck from the drove politician." Islam's jurists mandated a stature of unbecoming rituals at the time of jizya charge, plus slapping, unpleasant, and pulling the fur of the paying dhimmi.
Such antagonism for Christian minorities is not perplexing considering that Safwat Hegazy, a longtime Muslim Brotherhood affect and working-class preacher, open place went on compilation formally forlorn every Coptic Christian who votes in opposition to the Sharia-laden make up. In a video dialogue via a massive amount of Muslims, he said:
A message to the church of Egypt, from an Egyptian Muslim: I direct the church-by Allah, and over, by Allah-if you conspiracy and unite with the remainder [hatred] to bring Morsi down, "that specter be unusual belongings" [screams of "Allah Akbar!" followed by chants of "Between our essence, with our blood, we time off to you, O Islam!"]... We say and I say to the Church: yes, you portion this utter with us; but in attendance are red lines-and our red line is the authenticity of Dr. Muhammad Morsi. Whoever splashes water on it, we specter place blood on him" [followed by above mad shouts of "Allah Akbar!"]
Then of course in attendance was the organize of Mina Philip, one of the protesters who was unclothed of his clothes and spell during a rare crush by the Egyptian president's Islamic group. OnTube, the Egyptian Internet trough complementing ONTV, currently showed the giant images of Philip's persecute, plus, in the host's words, how "Mina Philip was dragged preside over the streets by a Muslim Brotherhood mob who took off his clothes and spell him, disapproving him of heart a bully, while in fact he is an designer who works for an large-scale telecommunications incidence."
In the video, Mina arranged pleads with his tormentors, "demand, I didn't harm self." The mob can be heard cursing and forlorn him, and eventful his name-probably to make a decision whether he is Muslim or Christian-which he insists he "forgot." ("Mina Philip" is a very Coptic name.)
Philip provided above information in unusual listeners. He was coming back from work seeing that he out of action to see what was separation on with the protests:
As I watched, a group of Muslim Brotherhood men dragged me with others... they surrounded me and started drumbeat me while others took my clothes off so I was topless; they took my assortment and keys and dragged me. They spell me with rocks and rods; I cool on saying that I didn't stroke self and they would counter with curses, natural ability me a "mundane dog."
He consequently told the fantastically story recorded by a number of others-including Muslims who were whichever attacked by the Muslim Brotherhood: "They behind questioned me, asking who was paying me and threatened to say-so me for the rest of the Brotherhood's men to start to grow me if I didn't particular that I customary money from Hamdin and Baradei [hatred candidates]."
So it is, Egyptian's moderates and radicals contest it out, while Christian minorities are spellbound.
"Raymond Ibrahim" is a Shillman Man at the David Horowitz Autonomy Nucleus and an Share Man at the Median East Town square."
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