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And Now It Gets Religious: Al Jazeera Reports That Clashes Break Out In Cairo Between Christians And Muslims
So far religion was luckily very much removed from the MENA revolutions. If this Al Jazeera update is to be believed, that is no longer the case. And as everyone knows, the biggest threat in the Muslim crescent is religious warfare, which would immediately bring up questions of how long before Israel is involved. More as we see it.
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Holy crap
The Christians in Egypt saw the writing on the wall some weeks ago, ironically like Christians in Iraq they faired much better under the dictators. There would appear to be a religious tolerance issue with the new leadership in both countries - of interest the Christian presence in Egypt predates Islam by hundreds of years (that can be said of Christianity period) but the church in Egypt is said to have been founded by on of the apostles back in the day and has maintained its unique identity over the millenia even through the Muslim conquests
This news oughtta be good for another sale of 5,000 short contracts of SLV by the Morgue.
F BLYTHE!
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http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7042/2e2jh1k.jpg
Hmmmm.....yours is better!
Umm... what update...?
Was there supposed to be a link in here somewhere???
Unless you can give me something a bit better than an unsubstantiated claim - I call "bullshit".
hOlY sHiT is hitting the fan
According to McClatchy via ICYMI...
You should read the whole thing but I wouldn't be surprised if these "reported" clashes had little to do with religious differences.
'alCIAda' gets around. It just goes by different names - Blackwater, Dyncorp, Xe. Put headscarves on a few Whiteboy terrorists, sew the seeds of dissension, and repeat.
The perfect recipe for dealing with a general strike amidst a REVOLUTION!
Jesu fuckin Christo (and I say that with the true spirit of ecumenicalism), get out of your shell and go see the world. There are fuckheads everywhere and nobody needs the CIA or anybody else to stir up trouble between people of different faiths, or colors, or tribes. You think Christians have it easy in Pakistan? Copts in Egypt? You think the Moslems and Hindus in India just continually embrace each other and never utter an unkind word? Christ, Americans are such fucking naive children, fed a diet of cheap pulp fiction and Hollywood thrillers, and thinking this pabulum gives them special insight into the world at large. Guess what? That stuff is fiction. Entertainment. Slap yourself back to silly, because you've gone too far.
A couple years ago a bunch of Buddhist monks went batshit crazy in Burma and burned alive a few Moslem families, including the children. Why? Because somebody imported some cloth material that had on it a loom wheel symbol, which represented the Wheel of Life as far as the Buddhists were concerned. Well, somebody made some women's longyis out of the material, and this drove the monks wild. Why? Because women are "dirty", so a woman wearing a Buddhist sacred symbol on her nether region was considered blasphemy. Then somebody said it was Moslems who imported the cloth and sewed the longyis. Mindless violence ensued. And these monks are the most respected members of the community, because they sit on their asses all day and chant, and pretend they don't give a shit about anything.
That's how humans sometimes behave.
Of course, in your mind the CIA or the Rothschilds probably were responsible. We're always seeing comments here along the lines of "wake the fuck up" and see the CIA/Mossad/MI6/Bilderberger/Rothschild/Trilaterialist/Mason hand in everything. Well, I say wake the fuck up and notice the ubiquitous hand of poorly evolved and irrational humanity in everything.
Yes, I'm being impolite here. Fuck it. I have no more patience with intellectual infants. ZH has become a magnet for goddamn loons, albeit loons who have delusions of knowledge and sophistication.
breaking out? muslims have been killing and persecuting Christians at a vigorous pace for some time. the MSM simply ignores it
And Christians do the same to Muslims. How is it out in far right field?
thats not true. more Christians are being killed by muslims now then ever before.
its a quiet one way crusade
its a quiet one way crusade
Hmmm...I know that Christian armies have illegally invaded, and are occupying, Iraq and Afghanistan, but I wasn't aware of Muslim armies invading Christian lands - do tell.
Oh, right! And there was a small occupation of Spain as well as I remember by some religous group
Allah hates non Muslims. Muslims are only doing what the Prophet Mohammed told them to do.
Read the Koran. Muslims have a right to treat non Muslims differently. They can even make non Muslims pay a tax.
Allah fucking hates non Muslims.
Allah is a pimp.
oh yeah, here we go. what about the 'Christians' killing and persecuting everybody that is not Christian? Starting with the native people of N.A.? never mind the rest that preceded that time? Why? because that is the christian thing to do, is it not? That's what I want to know.
Ever since there has been a Single God there has been killing in his name - The Da Vinci Code
I propose a 11th Commandment 'Ya shall not kill in God's name or go to hell'(wouldn't a wise and mercifull god make that comandment? makes ya think don't ya) actually the 2th says 'Ya shall not use God's name in vain' I guess it means the same it's in interpretation that the people have a problem with
But than again what would be the fun in religion if you could not kill an infidel from time to time
Sounds like Psy-Ops to me.
This may just be some frustration so I'll have to wait for the youtube video.
Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers in Tahrir Square - Egypt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqXfZTgOCOE
Christians Guarding Muslims During Prayer
http://www.dailypaul.com/156122/christians-guarding-muslims-during-prayer?page=1
Agree; divide and conquer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQFf0qj9Nk
Exactly. And just in time to distract paranoid GB conservatives from Republicans proposing real budget cuts.
Actually it already exist in Commandment # 6 and Commandment # 10. Don't blame God for man's failings.
Commandment # 6 Thou shall not Murder
Commandment #10 (paraphrase) Thou shall not covet anything your neighbor has.
If you want ot go further, Jesus said a new Commandment I give you "love one another as I have loved you."
I see no justification here for killing in God's name, although all religions have done so in the past.
Just to be clear: Moses' Commandments were to be applied to 'Jews' and not ther neighbors.
We could have a debate on that, but somehow I don't think I would convince you nor would you convince me..but if one truely believes that it was God that gave them to Moses, then one could believe that the Jews do not have exclusive rights to those truths, just as those who follow the Tao do not have exclusive rights to the truths taught by Lao Tzu.
If 'god' was fair and just there would be no such thing as a 'choosen nation' nor promissed land, but YHWH is not an equal oportunity god he likes some and kills others
Yeah I've had trouble with that concept myself. God is such a loving God I get all that- and so just and good....So he created all things.. After creating his dear precious "chosen people" so wtf did he bother creating everyone else, the untermensche, so he could have something to hate?
My point s that the application of Mosic Law to the 'goyem' by the new Chrstians was a revolutionary concept.
tired1,
Understood.... thanks!
So now it's a "Like New" Covenant...low mileage?
Biblically speaking, from the 1611 Authorized Version: Gen 4:8-9
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=kj...
the very first murder with Cain slaying his brother Abel was over differences in worshipping God and human jealousy over God's perceived favor of who did it better. Murderous rage is as old as mankind, in the blood like seawater per Report from Iron Mountain.
History shows things haven't changed.
you, sir, biblically speaking, quoting the good book, gen 4:8-9, forget gen 1:27 and gen 2:7, where it says that a sovereign human being was created in the image of God, and God (Mother Nature) is you - which commands you, sir, to respect other Gods, in this case, other human beings made in the image of God; therefore, no killing is warranted
not true:
Leviticus 24:22 - You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.
I believe that you are thinking of the Muslim religion
Tool puts it best:
Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.
Don't these talking monkeys know that
Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly old monkeys,
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two
Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason.
And this is what they choose.
(and this is what they choose)
Monkey, killing monkey, killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs,
They forge a blade,
And when there's one they're bound to divide it,
Right in two.
Right in two.
Monkey, killing monkey, killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs,
They make a club
And beat their brother... down.
How they survived so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here
Gotta divide it all right in two
They fight, till they die
Over earth, over sky
They fight, over life,
Over brawn, over air and light,
Over love, over sun. Over blood
They fight, or they die, all for what? For our rising!
Angels on the sideline again
Been too long with patience and reason
Angels on the sideline again
Wondering when this tug of war will end
Gotta divide it all right in two
Right in two
Right in two...
Was that the King James version of the Da Vinci Code?
how about: a) genesis 1:26 followed by; b) genesis 2:7
you are mixing and confusing issues. muslims kill christians because of jihad and religious edicts.
Us atheists have a lot of catching up to do.
Damn skippy.
I don't see the need to prosecute any religion, just lock them up in an Asylumn and be done with it
The Earth is their asylumn.
Rather Earth was made into the asylum.
but, made by (who/what/?)?
- Ned
Thats the kind of reasoning that fascistic, nazi, communitistic, Whateveristic reasoning Athiests usually use for their 'its-in-your-best-interest-honest!' genocidal schemes. Good to see your keeping the faith.
+1 Statistically, atheists know a lot more about religion then members of any particular religion..
I guess we'll just have to take your word for it? Wait, now its not a 'statistic'
Naw, Atheists took the lead a few years after 'Athesim' became doctrinaire. Hail Stalin-Hitler-Mao!
Do you mean Dawkins and Hitchens?
I took a look around at Dawkins forum, they seemed a very angry and humorless lot. Hitchens, he is a twat. He was a complete Iraq war apologist before he started on his atheism schtick.
all we have to watch out for are the Otters and their hatred of our use tables instead of our tummies.
Is the Pope still a Nazi?
I heard from a friend that he saw a news report from Egypt showing Christians protecting Muslims during their praying time, and vice versa, keeping an eye open for extremists wanting to blow up churches/mosques.
I hope Al-Jazeera is just doing what other MSM outlets are doing most of the time and that this isn't true.
On the other hand, what can you expect from those Arab countries. Islamofascim ? Socialism ? They haven't been strong on classical liberalism lately AFAIK.
Yeah, what can you expect from those A-rab countries? We oughtta just blow the bejeezuz out of them and turn the entire place into a parking lot. Because, what can you expect from us White countries?
I am Chumbawamba.
Wait. I thought not having any bejeezuz in them to begin with was the issue.
God is great, let's leave it at that.
God is a great fucked up piece of homophobic murderous piece of slime crawling the heaven - I can agree with this version
You described the fallen angel in hell; don't mix up the characters.
"maybe there is no devil...maybe god just drinks a little"
Tom Waits
On that note, maybe God is a methamphetamine addict.
Everything would then make sense.
I am Chumbawamba.
+1 FTW
http://vimeo.com/4554223
Joe <3
he described the Poope meister in Vatican;
excluding Azannoth's reference to heaven and, of course, god
GOD
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/god/
ori
Thoughtful link. I promise to kill no one today in the name of the poison tree frog, unless ordered to by my rice krispies.
Thank God! I thought I was the only one. One.
Oh wait. Can I say that - Thank God - on here?
Azannoth: Do not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination lol !!eleven
God hates you.. He, she, it, only rewards the top 1%. The elite group that build opulent structures for worship.. or.. wait.. perhaps the elite created a god so they could worship it.. can't remember.. don't care..
Crusade!! Bitchez!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IcF82J-eY
and there you have it, the justification for an invasion...how utterly convenient.
I love the smell of Psyops in the morning...smells like...another middle east war.
pys-ops are NOT used on Americans... HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH A THING!!!!
Saying things like that are un-american!!! You Dooms Day, Goobermint Boogieman Freak!!!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223
all you zero hedge people are crazy!!!
I believe the official name is Operation Kobayashi Maru....(if it's not...it should be)
Sir, Yes Sir!
Will you admit you were wrong when no such thing happens?
Only if you agree to walk around wearing a "Free Palestine" t-shirt if it does.
how about it?
Bet: USA does not invade Eqypt. I'll gladly wear the t-shirt if we do. "Free Palestine with Purchase of Any Nation of Equal or Greater Value".
WTF will the Chinese do with it?
Sounds like a CIA distraction. Gotta keep people riled up, not all rowing in one direction.
Contrary to popular belief about what the powers that be might be thinking (based upon what they say, which is always a lie) it may just not be in the USA's "best interest" for stability to be returned to the ME. After all, what is in the best interest of the USA (read that to mean the Ponzi powers that be) is a continuation of the Ponzi. With the USA running the Ponzi and the dollar at critical support, maybe what is in the best interest of the USA Ponzi is a flight to safety into USA Treasury bonds.
The market has had a two year run. So what if it gets taken down a few pegs. The dollar must survive or all is lost. It's interesting that both stocks and the dollar index are up today.
Yep, the Treasury has to get $66Billion off in new issue auctions this week, so Fed can POMO monetize $44B later this month.
Eventually, most conflicts (that start as economic) have a religious element. Easier for the people to understand and take sides.
may I inquire who might be the "powers that be"? Are we talking about a power structure w/o leadership? nobody in charge of the ship? just disorganized Ponzi scheme? out of nowhere? w/o nobody's blessing? That's what I want to know.
Why do you wish to inquire? That's what I want to know.
I wish to inquire, if I may, and if it is not offending you, since you make references to the 'powers' that be, and you appear to assume that all of us know who you are talking about; but being as ignorant as I am - I do not know who the "powers" you point to are; therefore, I wish to inquire who is in charge of the ponzi scheme you refer to. please understand, I have yet to come across a ponzi scheme (or pyramid scheme) that would come about sporadically, w/o "someone's" blessing; since we are discussing religion.
why wouldn't someone want to know who is stirrin the pot, if you say someone is stirring it? sounds like reasonable question to me.
This is a game, an agenda, that Pseudo Anonym plays with me on occasion under my posts and my articles. No matter what answer I give, he will basically ask the same question, always ending with "That's what I want to know".
Finally he will tell us his views on the subject. And he has very specific beliefs. He isn't asking because he wants to know, he is asking because he already has his own answers and he wishes to refute mine. This is his way of demeaning someone else by never accepting the answer given to him but by repeating the question over and over and then ending it the same way. "That's what I want to know."
I don't play the game any more. I simply ask him why he is asking.
I, for one, want to know if he shaves his balls.
PA, do you shave your balls? If so, why? If not, why not?
That's what I want to know.
I am Chumbawamba.
This is where AN wishes to bring us. From two months ago. Notice the "That's what I want to know" at the end.
HE? that's one helluva projection. What ever gave you the idea that I am not shaving my twat for my husband? That's what I want to know.
Never ever ever heard a woman call it a twat.
Agreed. Strictly a description a male would use. In this case he was describing his own special female body part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twat
I for one find it erotic that PA is shaving his twat for his husband.
Nice!
I am Chumbawamba.
thanks for the answer CD.
Fight the powers that be ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTR2XIAiWmA
CD:
c'mon. You know better than that. They have this stochastic random generator thingie (aka http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/answerball.html?hl=en ) that tells them whether to answer or nay.
3 ways to lie:
- Tell a lie
- Tell a half truth,
- or tell the truth, but so unconvincingly that everyone is sure u are lying. Of these, this is the greatest art form.
(my source is RAH, original is probably in a language that none of us could understand).
gotta' keep 'em guessing.
- Ned
Absolutely must be CIA! I mean, never in the history of humanity, until 1946 or whenever Wild Bill established the CIA, did any human being ever take offense towards another human over such matters as race, religion, or gender. Copts and Moslems in Egypt have a millennium and a half worth of complete mutual respect. Woodstock, so I'm told, was based on the warmth and understanding shared by the Shi'ites and Sunni's of the world, Moslems and Hindus, Catholics and Lutherans during the Renaissance, and Jews and everybody. Hugs all around. Peace and love. Hey, I hear the Bible Thumpers can even trace that little Cain and Abel misunderstanding to a CIA disinformation campaign. Of course the snake that hooked the parents was on the Rothschild's payroll (his pay stubbs were stored in Building 7), but everything else in history was CIA.
http://dotsub.com/media/b5ee5ada-5b37-4b0b-9916-e0896337ec4b/e/m
Coptic Christians and a church were attacked again just last week. Some Egyptians helped, but they are seriously outnumbered by the Islamic supremacists.
every day Copts get attacked, Nazi Egypt
What? How dare you be so intolerant! Dont let facts get in the way of an anemic ideology
"Some Egyptians helped".
Well said. They're called provocateurs.
Now is the time for all good jews to come to the aid of their agenda and orchestrate an overthrow.
http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2009-05-28/1243468098031.jpg
too bad god is such an asshole that he has decided who will take what religion primarily based on geography
oh to be living in the forests of new guinea where no one has heard of god and you are still free to worship rocks and trees and the sun,stars and moon
now lets all draw straws, pick which is truly the one god, and go cage match crazy 'til three fourths of the planet is dead
Most common error of man....blaming religion on God.
Don't blame God for religion....... think about that.
Most common error of man is God and religion.
Most common excuse of man is God and religion.
No need to capitalize "God" if you believe that. also no need to try and debate as philosophers over the years have tried to prove and disprove God, which neither can do with absolute certainty.
I admire your faith as I think it takes more faith to believe we some how got here by mere chance with no intelligent design.
I don't know how many times I tried to build a little house with lincoln logs by just throwing them against the wall....for some reason they never fall together and form a house.
give it a couple trillion tries, it'll happen
you have great faith!
i have zero faith in a god or humans.
but you have great faith in chaos forming complex beings! I admire your faith! I don't have such a great capacity for faith thus I am not an atheist.
How about taking Christianity on it's own terms?
Anything good in the world is there because of the grace of god. Anything bad is there because we have sinned, and fallen short of the grace of god.
Fine, but it works just as well for the poison tree frog.
"God" is an invention of religion.
Like George Carlin once said, "Long live the fucking sun. At least it's real."
"oh to be living in the forests of new guinea where no one has heard of god and you are still free to worship rocks and trees and the sun,stars and moon"
only decadent westerners can afford to hold such revisionist, naive outlooks. Sing us a few bars of 'Imagine' would ya?
Yes, but isn't it pretty to think so?
Ship me somewheres East of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain't no ten commandments, and a man can raise a thirst.
Kipling
In the Middle East Christians still meet and profess their faith under persecution?
Weird.
In Laodecia err America, Christians stop going to church if there's no free coffee! I guess that's what happen when you worship money, wealth, and prosperity under the guise of God.
"...how long before Israel is involved" - A very very long time. What does Israel have to do in the christians/muslims conflict?
What is interesting is if reports are proven correct, how long will it take for Pat Robertsons, Mike Huckabees and Sarah Palins to start calling on the "treasonous muslim President" to divert the fleet from the coast of Lybia and start bombing Egypt. After all, the US military bombed Serbia and protected muslims in the 1990s.
Nothing's better than a 21st century version of the crusades....
"What does Israel have to do in the christians/muslims conflict?"
now THAT is FUNNY!
++
Eeeehhhhh.
"US .. bombed Serbia.. Christians.. to protect moslems.. 1990s.. Now: new crusade.."
Yeah except as you noted, this time we are the Moslems.
fear is your only god
Oké, first : Those christians over there are VERY, VERY orthodox.
To make a comparison with my country:
Normal people speak dutch
Bourgeoisie speaks french in the big cities in Flanders (that's why we don't get along with the walloons without any true reason).
In Egypt:
The rich differentiate by being christian orthodox (nutcases)
AND
The poor are muslims.
Those "Christians" spit on the muslims and don't have anything to do with western christians.
WE SHOULDN'T STEP IN!! THIS ISN'T REALLY RELIGION RELATED!!!
knotcases, funny bare†
Do you eat waffles for breakfast?
not for breakfast.
My wife sticks one in my lunchbox almost every day with a note :)
if I'm nice, she does.
The Christians area in Egypt is the poorest area in Egypt it called Said Masser
You are totally off-base on who the Egyptian Christians are in the socio-economic spectrum. More importantly,
WE SHOULDN'T STEP IN EVEN IF THIS WAS RELIGION-RELATED. (I can shout too. :-)
WHY DOESN TEAM AMERICA GO FIX THIS STUFF!
http://www.teamamerica.com/
I THOUGHT YOU WHERE THE WORLD POLICE!!
ps: I'm a fan :)
i read on businessinsider.com, only got #25 in that pole that øhedge got #9 in, said a woman's rights protest was being held in cairo, were getting attacked. one man yelled out to the woman protestors, you should be at home, where you belong! idiot men, think we should be at home where we belong. thank god american men don't feel that way. thank god†
And another lever is yanked. Yanks. Ahhh....I get it.
Anyway, India is such a fractal reflection of this set-up. All the communities are mixed up (and the software boom moved people all over the map). And for all the rhetoric, there is no love lost, just co-existing. Someone kills a cow, hindu's go berserk. Throw a pig head into a mosque, muslims riot.
Burn a missionary (yep, it happened a few years ago) and Christians riot.
So flashpoints are everywhere. Easy for thuggo-olitical class to rile it anytime they need.
I've been in the midst and aftermath of a hindu-muslim riot and a political riot during my tme with a Governor.
All reason is lost.
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.
- Bene Gesserit proverb
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/astrological-and-other-deep-insights-from-ca/
Religion is just another thing to divide people. We are pretty good as a species at dividing ourselves up into groups along arbitrary lines and coming up with reasons why we're better than the other groups. From there, its just a short hop skip and a jump to the genocide.
We excel at violence. Wait until the US and the rest of the western world cracks up. There are so many tribes we'll divide up into, the violence will be exquisite.
those who zerohedge and those who do not
I could not work out whether the next world war was going to be China vs USA or the West (Christians) vs the Arabs (Muslims).
It looks as though there is going to be a call for the Christian Crusade Mk10 with the Jews in support........LOL
Nothing gets a Christian fundamentalist hard faster than a biblical apocalypse fantasy with the Jews starting a war with the Muslims.
Huckabee is rubbin one out to this.
Whether it be the money handlers, the dirt kissers or the clinic bombers, religion basically sucks.
Hopefully, we're all on the same side on this one... freedom of religion should be enjoyed by all, regardless of geography.
As for killing, don't hide behind God... he's not with you on that one.
It is disheartening to listen to those who attach acts of man to God.
"God" doesn't like killing? Really?
Have you read the "Good Book"? Seems like a lot of it going on up in there.
>my God can kick your God's ass.
<<my God needs help, so I'll kill you on his behalf.
>>> I'm an atheist. I'll referee your fight and take your women and food after you're both rotting on the battlefield.
What they're saying is "My god's dick is bigger."
Is it so large and heavy he cannot lift it?
Was it two people arguing on the streets of Cairo, was it a demonstration, were thousands of people involved? Perhaps we’re talking about freedom here – the kind of freedom that allows individuals to give their opinions, the kind of freedom not controlled by the State.
At any rate, words can be used by the enemies of freedom to sow divisions and to advance their special agendas. With the report above, we can now watch the unfolding of special agendas and charges of religious intolerance. What I worry most about, in this instance, are the charges that would criticize Egypt’s newfound freedoms and its route to representative government.
On February 3, the Daily Mail wrote:
“Striking photos of unity have emerged from the chaos in Egypt as Christian protesters stood together to protect Muslims as they prayed.
“A group of Christians joined hands and faced out surrounding hundreds of Muslims protesters left vulnerable as they knelt in prayer.
“The photos were taken in Cairo by Nevin Zaki. She shared the images over Twitter, writing, 'Bear in mind that this pic was taken a month after z Alexandria bombing where many Christians died in vain. Yet we all stood by each other.'
“The suicide bombing, shortly after the New Year's Day, killed 23 Coptic Christians, who make up 10 percent of Egypt's 80 million person population...”
“'Some Muslims have been guarding Coptic churches while Christians pray, and on Friday, Christians were guarding the mosques while Muslims prayed.'”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353330/Egypt-protests-Christians-join-hands-protect-Muslims-pray-Cairo-protests.html#ixzz1G2CHE7Mp
Those who say, “Oh, here we go...” are those who want to return Egypt to tyranny, to a dictatorship, by claiming the way Egypt is going is leading to religious persecution.
The object of these special interest statements is similar to those who have criticized the Egyptian Revolution as merely a military coup. The reason they make this false statement is to suggest that a strong Western intervention would put the country back in order again. They don’t want freedom; they are saying it would be better to control the people, to keep them bottled up, to shut them up...
The question is, better for whom?
Sounds like a good time to break out those Holy Hand Grenades.
Of course, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. It is one of the sacred relics that Brother Maynard carries......
Oh great - an arms race.
Ha ha, I already have two from the Black Knight! #winning
the women aren't having a much better time of it... http://www.businessinsider.com/womens-day-protest-tahrir-2011-3
the instability is just going to increase, which of course makes a good excuse for Uncle Sam to get more involved. awesome.
The "armed men" have been attacking strikers all over the country for weeks. They're a lot like Pinkertons. Or the little piggies in Wisconsin doing the wet-work of the Koch brothers.
The REVOLUTION has these fuckers on the run, and they're lashing out (against women, here). They know their days are numbered, and they're trying to delay the inevitable - REVOLUTIONARY JUSTICE.
As the Jacobin Saint-Just once wrote, "one does not make revolution by halves." It's time to strike these people down ... and those who fund them (got that, Mr. Panetta?).
Started on March 5, it looks like, over a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim woman in a village south of Cairo.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201103050295.html
O Achmed, Achmed, wherefore art thou Achmed?
I went to church a few times with an ex girlfriend, just to humor her. All I could think is that if I wanted someone to spend hours ranting at me about how everything I do is wrong, I can call my mother.