Can't Christians Achieve Something Without Jews?

My new Green-Lined blog post at the Jerusalem Post.

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Arabs Killing Jews (Not Really - Arab Christians)

...10 people died and 186 were wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo.  More than 190 people detained after the fatal clashes will face military trials, Egypt's army says.

...For months conservative Muslim groups in Egypt have been protesting about the case of Camelia Shehata, the wife of the Coptic priest, who vanished last year. They say she converted to Islam and was being held against her will. But she has now appeared on a TV channel saying she is still a willing Christian.

Last night's attack by a Salafi crowd on the Saint Mena church in Imbaba was about a different woman, who they also allege is being forcibly prevented from converting to Islam.

...The overnight violence started after several hundred conservative Salafist Muslims gathered outside the Coptic Saint Mena Church in Cairo's Imbaba district.  They were reportedly protesting over allegations that a Christian woman was being held there against her will because she had married a Muslim man and wanted to convert to Islam.  Rival groups threw firebombs and stones, and gunfire was heard.   The church and one other, as well as some nearby homes, were set alight, and it took some hours for the emergency services and the military to bring the situation under control.

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And Arab Muslims.


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Who Will Save and Protect The Christians?

The news:

Egypt bomb kills new year churchgoers

At least 21 dead and more than 70 injured after bomb explodes outside Coptic church in Alexandria
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Suicide bomber targets church in Egypt, kills 21

At least 21 worshippers were killed and about 80 others wounded when a suicide bomber today blew himself up outside a church soon after the New Year's Mass in the Egypt .an city of Alexandria, sparking religious clashes between Christians and Muslims

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And if anyone out there who has been following the trend of anti-Christian violence these past few years in almost all the Muslim lands, from the Maronites in Lebanon to the Copts in Egypt to the Catholics in Iraq and on to the Christians in the Palestinian Authority, still thinks that the enemy of Christians is Israel has lost touch with reality.

We need a a campaign to highlight what the real danger to civilization is and to those who try to negate Christian Zionism, well, why don't you go to Egypt, Bethlehem or Baghdad and there go to church.

(read this)
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Christians In Iraq - Four Dead

Belatedly:

Four Iraqi Christians were murdered within two days by unknown assailants, according to a Christian persecution watchdog group.

Shabah Aziz Suliman was reportedly killed in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Apr. 1, and Nimrud Khuder Moshi, Glawiz Nissan and Hanaa Issaq were murdered thereafter in Dora, a historical Christian neighborhood of Baghdad.

"The killing of four innocent people within the last two days has put a renewed fear in our hearts," said Julian Taimoorazy, president of Iraqi Christian Relief Council, in an interview with International Christian Concern. "What is important is to keep these continuous atrocities in the media and on the policy makers' radars. What we need is a more safe and secure Iraq for all of Iraqi's especially for the Christians who have faced ethno-religious cleansing."

Since 2003, some 750 Christians have been killed in Iraq, according to Archbishop Louis Sako, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk. Dozens of churches have also been bombed.

..."The suffering of Iraqi Christians has been beyond description and is not yet over. More than ever, the Iraqi Christians need our prayer and support," said Jonathan Racho, ICC's regional manager for Africa and the Middle East.

"The latest martyrdom of our brothers should serve to awaken churches in the Western countries to come to the aid of their Iraqi brothers and sisters," he said. "We call upon Iraqi officials and the allied forces in Iraq to avert further attacks against Iraqi Christians. It is simply unacceptable to watch the extinction of the Christian community from Iraq."