Muslim mob attacked Christian homes in Egyptian province

[FrodosPet]

My God's junk is bigger than your God's junk... even if they are the same God.



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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0df5295f1c6849db98eb1e7ffe7c0338/muslim-mob-attacks-christian-homes-egyptian-province

By HAMZA HENDAWI - May. 26, 2016 11:29 AM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — A Muslim mob stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded her naked on the streets in an attack last week in which seven Christian homes were also ransacked and torched in a province south of the Egyptian capital.

According to the local Orthodox Coptic church and security officials, the assault in the Minya province village of Karama on Friday began after rumors spread that the elderly woman's son had an affair with a Muslim woman — a taboo in conservative Egypt.

Police have arrested six men suspected of taking part in the violence and are looking for 12 more, the security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Anba Makarios, Minya's top Christian cleric, told a talk show host on the private Dream TV network that the 70-year-old woman was dragged out of her home by the mob who beat her and insulted her before they stripped her off her clothes and forced her to walk through the streets as they chanted Allahu Akbar, or "God is great."

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[uppityperson]

1. Extremist fundamentalists. :(

[Matrosov]

2. If it had been a Christian mob attacking Muslim homes..

Then this thread would have a record number of replies.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Of course, it's DU.

Muslims can do no wrong, ever.

[Democat]

12. If it was a Christian holding an offensive sign

This thread would have 100 replies.

[leftynyc]

15. You've got that right

Although I've noticed in the last 6 months or so fewer and fewer people are trying to defend and deflect from these stories. I noticed it starting with the mess NYE in Germany.

[romanic]

18. Hell it would still be on the first page days after the news broke.

Speaking of I'm kicking this up because of how horrendous the assault/violence is and how people care so little about it.

[Jesus Malverde]

3. Parading a naked grandma around while chanting allah Akbar....

What a lovely bunch of Believers.

[bdwker]

5. I'm against these attacks...

but we need to understand why they did this.

[FrodosPet]

6. My guess is because they are following the most violent exclusionary interpretations...

...of an exclusionary apocalyptic religion.

I'm sure there is a lot more reasons, but religion is the most profoundly inciteful of them.

[bighart]

8. Really?

Why do we "need to understand why they did this"?
Cant we just call it wrong because it's wrong and there are no defensible reasons why it would be ok?

[Igel]

9. Because it increases knowledge and understanding.

That allows predictions, it allows ways of arguing against it or minimizing it.

In other words, it does what knowledge and understanding, instead of knee-jerk outrage and judgmentalism, usually achieve.

Now, in the end the argumentation and ways of mitigating such reprehensible behavior may fail. But the alternative is to rush to judgment and, ultimately, violence.

I needed to use the word "reprehensible," of course, just to avoid being accused (wrongly) of siding with Those We Dare Not Call Muslims (but who call themselves Muslims with pride). Fine line to walk, there, between a hanging-judge Charybdis and Judge Lynch Scylla.

[bighart]

17. I can appreciate your view.

Yes I have judged the ACTIONS of the individuals that did this:
Parading someone naked through the streets is always wrong in my view and there are no mitigating facts that would change that.

I am sadden by events like this and I am not advocating violence in any way.

Striving to understand why they did what they did is a noble goal and could lead to better understanding but regardless I believe their actions deserve to be condemned and the reasons why don't change that.

[Quantess]

10. One could also argue that they themselves need to seek some understanding

into their own murderous behavior.

[leftynyc]

14. We already know WHY

Because her son had the audacity to date a Muslim girl. Not complicated. In fact, repulsive in its simplicity.

[Oneironaut]

16. Because of religion. Islam in particular.

Did Allah Snackbar come down and congratulate them yet?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

19. They did it because they are fucked up religious zealots...

and their culture does not condemn these kind of crimes vigorously enough. It like those right-wing terrorist of he Bundy family, which media keeps portraying as something other than violent animals, willing to take the law into their own hands.

[Quantess]

7. I'm sure they are peaceful and sweet on good days.

Give 'em a break. Other religions are offensive to them, so those Christians had it coming.

[Democat]

11. It must be America's fault

American foreign policy causes all of the bad things that happen in the world.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. That And Oppressive Regimes

Which seem to have been around forever in the middle east. Of course, that's probably america's fault, too.