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'Arab Spring,' Christian Winter Posted 05/20/2011 06:46 PM ET Islamofascism: Obama wants to reward "democratic Egypt" with $1 billion in debt relief. Only, "democratic" Egypt is torching churches and slaughtering Christians left and right. There's a howling disconnect between the president's Pollyannaish narrative of an 'Arab Spring' and the reality on the ground in beneficiary countries such as Egypt, where religious intolerance and human-rights abuses are on the rise. In his speech calling for a Mideast Marshall Plan, he failed to mention increasingly violent attacks against Coptic Christians throughout post-Mubarak Egypt. For them, the "Arab Spring" has turned into a bitter and bloody winter. Among recent attacks: . An angry mob of Muslims last week threw rocks and firebombs at Christians gathered in Cairo for a sit-in to demand the new regime reopen nearly 50 churches it shuttered. The attacks left more than 65 injured. . Jihadists on May 8 stormed and set ablaze the Virgin Mary Church in Cairo, shouting: "With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam." They also burned down nearby homes occupied by Coptic families, killing a dozen people and wounding more than 200. . Muslim rioters in Qena demanded in April the ouster of a governor because he is Christian. . Muslim mobs in March torched another Cairo church and attacked Christian worshipers there. . Muslims in December bombed a church in Alexandria, killing 23. An estimated 3,000 Muslims have joined in these attacks. They've done this while Egyptian troops and police did little or nothing to stop the violence. In a Pew Research poll taken after the allegedly pro-democracy riots in Tahrir Square, only a third of Egyptian adults said they think it's important for Coptic Christians to practice their faith freely. Meanwhile, a whopping 89% of them say laws under a post-Mubarak government "should follow the values and principles of Islam." And nearly two-thirds want laws to enforce Shariah - the barbaric legal code practiced in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban. In a separate survey last spring, Pew found that a startling 84% of Egyptians favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim faith. Clearly, Muslim hatred for Christians (as well as Jews) has not thawed with the "Arab Spring." While there are some Facebook modernists mixed in with reformers, the vast majority of Egyptians are hardly Westernized Muslims yearning for our freedoms. These are Islamofascists yearning to be free of non-Muslims in their society. In fact, a pogrom against Copts may have begun in the absence of Mubarak's protections. The bloodshed is well-documented in U.S. Embassy cables from Cairo Human-rights groups say the persecution of this religious minority has become systemic. Yet Obama remains deafeningly silent about it. Why? It doesn't fit his lofty agenda of winning Muslim "hearts and minds." His goal is to give a financial boost to what he views as positive political change sweeping the Mideast and North Africa. Despite the facts on the ground - and post-Mubarak polls showing otherwise - he believes Muslims want a secularized and pluralistic society. So now he's planning to reward Egypt with an economic package of direct aid, debt relief and export credits - on top of the billions of dollars in aid we already give the nation. He says it will help stabilize a flowering democracy there. But what if it helps finance the ethnic cleansing of 10% of Egypt's population? The blood will be on Obama's hands. Until Egypt stops attacks on its Christian citizens, it deserves not one more dime in U.S. aid. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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