Hat tip to Laban Tall for the latest entry in my blogroll: The Free Copts.
Reading what is going on in Alexandria my thoughts are with the delightful bunch of Copts who run my favourite restaurant and catered at our wedding. Mrs Cyrus still gets greeted as 'our bride' two years later.
Although Laban has posted about this on the Biased BBC blog, the Beeb site is actually exemplary in its coverage of the Copts' plight compared with those champions of the oppressed, the Guardian and the Independent. Searching these for 'Copts' is an eye-opener: the Guardian, which devoted a third of a sentence to the Copts in a leader in 2001, will ask if you really meant to search for 'copouts'. Well, yes, maybe I did...
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A Christian challenges Christian Aid over biased campaigning on Israel and Palestine, and speaks out against the demonization of Israel in the wider Church
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." (Ephesians 2:14)
Also featuring MR GRUMPY
"I can tolerate rot, but it must not be utter rot" (Bertie Wooster)
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1 comment:
Cyrus,
This is important information which needs to be wide disseminated.
And note, from the same Free Coptic website at http://freecopts.blogspot.com/2005/10/muslim-radicals-threaten-to-kill-pope.html, that now the Coptic Pope has been threatened:
EL FAGR Egyptian newspaper published threats made by Muslims radicals against the Pope of Alexandria. According to the newspaper, Muslim radicals publicly announced their threats through small mosques in the outskirts of the city of Alexandria and regarded the bloodshed of H.H. Pope Shenouda III as Halal (permissible) in revenge for what they considered an insult to Islam's prophet.
What we are witnessing is the third great world Jihad.
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