Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches

[leftynyc]

76. Blaming the victims of religious

thuggery and trying to use the coup as an excuse. Can't imagine why the would have supported the coup against the religious freaks. Maybe it was this:

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/egypt-christians-greet-revolution-against-muslim-brotherhood/

Since the Muslim Brotherhood took power, the situation of Egypt’s Christians has deteriorated rapidly. Ramelah said that not only had attacks on Christian communities rapidly increased under Morsi, but churches have been attacked or bombed.
In an unprecedented move, Islamists besieged St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, the heart of Coptic Orthodoxy, in broad daylight. More than 500 Christian women have been kidnapped by Islamists to face forced conversion, rape or forced marriage.
Samir Assaad, an Egyptian Melkite, told the Register that he took his wife and three daughters with him from Egypt in August 2012 to the U.S. because he feared for their lives and safety. He did not want his children kidnapped on their way to school — a fate suffered by other Christian friends and neighbors.
Just going to church required an act of faith, he explained.
“You go, you pray, and you don’t know whether your church will be bombed or not,” Assaad said.
Assaad also said the Muslim Brotherhood’s religious police would muster around the churches before their liturgies and would harass Christian women for not being covered head to toe in burqas. “It’s like Saudi Arabia,” he said.
He explained these same religious police would attack women — Christians or Muslims — for driving cars, not wearing Islamic dress or the “crime” of wearing makeup and heels. Assaad said the religious police would either beat women with sticks or kill them.



The brotherhood is nothing but a bunch of theocratic thugs and I have zero sympathy for them.