Islamic Declaration of War on Christianity --- not a secular American concern.
On Apr 17, 3:04 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > ** ** > > The recent jihad on historically significant cathedral is tantamount to a > declaration of war...**** > > Is this email not displaying correctly? > View it in your > browser<http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7fc209afcd3f3fdb729e813b2&id=d480...>. > **** > > ** ** > > ** > An Islamic Declaration of War on Christianity **** April 17, 2013 | > Raymond Ibrahim**** > > While it is easy to confuse the recent jihadi attack on Egypt’s St. Mark > Cathedral in Cairo as just more of the usual, this attack has great > symbolic significance, and in many ways bodes great evil for Egypt’s > millions of Christians.**** > > <http://raymondibrahim.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7fc209afcd3f3...> > **** > > *Unprecedented: one of Christendom’s most sacred sites turned into a war > zone under the Muslim Brotherhood’s President Morsi.* > > Consider some facts: St. Mark Cathedral—named after the author of the > Gospel of the same name who brought Christianity to Egypt some 600 years > before Amr bin al-As brought Islam by the sword—is not simply “just > another” Coptic church to be attacked and/or set aflame by a Muslim mob > (see my forthcoming book, *Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on > Christians*<http://raymondibrahim.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7fc209afcd3f...>, > for a comprehensive idea of past and present Muslim attacks on Coptic > churches). Instead, it is considered the most sacred building for millions > of Christians around the world—above and beyond the many millions of Copts > in and out of Egypt. As the only apostolic see in the entire continent of > Africa, its significance and evangelizing mission extends to the whole > continent, including nations such as Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya, Tunisia, > Morocco, and Algeria, to name just a few. As an apostolic see—the actual > seat of an apostle of Christ—the cathedral further possesses historical > significance for Christianity in general.**** > > In short, Muslim mobs—aided and abetted by the state of Egypt under Muslim > Brotherhood tutelage—did not merely attack yet one more Coptic church, but > rather committed an act of war against all Christianity. Such an open > attack on a Christian center which holds symbolic and historic significance > for all Christians—St. Mark, whose relics are in the cathedral and who > authored one of the four Gospels of the Bible, belongs to *all* Christians > not just Copts—was an open attack on a universally acknowledged Christian > shrine. It was precisely these sorts of attacks on Eastern and Orthodox > churches—including the destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in > Jerusalem in 1009—that presaged the way for the crusades (back when > Christianity was not utterly fragmented and disunited as it is > today<http://raymondibrahim.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7fc209afcd3f...> > ).**** > > Put differently, this jihadi attack on St. Mark Cathedral is no different > for Copts than a jihadi attack on the Vatican would be for Catholics. Or, > to maintain the analogy, but from the other side, it would be no different > than a “crusader” attack on the Grand Mosque of Mecca for Muslims.**** > > While one can only imagine how the world’s Muslims would react to a > “Christian/Western” assault on their most sacred of shrines, > “post-Christian” Western leaders, as usual, stand idly by (not unlike > Egyptian state security, which stood idly by as the Muslim mob opened fire > on the cathedral).**** > > As for Egypt’s Copts, they certainly did rally to the defense of Egypt’s, > if not the entire continent of Africa’s, most important cathedral—hence the > draconian response from Egypt’s interior ministry (one eyewitness > said<http://raymondibrahim.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7fc209afcd3f...> > security > intentionally fired 40-50 gas bombs into the compound, knocking out many > Christians, including several women and children). Just as Egyptian forces > were wroth with Copts when they demonstrated against the ongoing attacks on > their churches in Maspero in 2011—slaughtering over 20 Christians, > including by intentionally running them over with armored-vehicles—it > appears that Egyptian forces were quite irked with “dhimmi” Copts boldly > defending their holiest site.... *Continue > reading*<http://raymondibrahim.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7fc209afcd3f...> > **** > > ** ** > > *Copyright © 2013 Raymond Ibrahim, All rights reserved.* > You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website.**** > > **** > > **** -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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