8/18/13, "Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches," AP, Hamza Hendaw
Waheeb, other activists and victims of the latest wave of attacks blame the police as much as hard-line Islamists for what happened. The attacks, they said, coincided with assaults on police stations in provinces like Bani Suef and Minya, leaving most police pinned down to defend their stations or reinforcing others rather than rushing to the rescue of Christians under attack.
Another Christian activist, Ezzat Ibrahim of Minya, a province also south of Cairo where Christians make up around 35 percent of the population, said police have melted away from seven of the region's nine districts, leaving the extremists to act with near impunity....
The attacks served as a reminder that Islamists, while on the defensive in Cairo, maintain influence and the ability to stage violence in provincial strongholds with a large minority of Christians....
The incident at the Franciscan school was repeated at Minya where a Catholic school was razed to the ground by an arson attack and a Christian orphanage was also torched....
Bishoy Alfons Naguib, a 33-year-old businessman from Minya, has a similarly harrowing story. His home supplies store on a main commercial street in the provincial capital, also called Minya, was torched this week and the flames consumed everything inside.
"A neighbor called me and said the store was on fire. When I arrived, three extremists with knifes approached me menacingly when they realized I was the owner," recounted Naguib. His father and brother pleaded with the men to spare him. Luckily, he said, someone shouted that a Christian boy was filming the proceedings using his cell phone, so the crowd rushed toward the boy shouting "Nusrani, Nusrani," the Quranic word for Christians which has become a derogatory way of referring to them in today's Egypt....
"The Islamists had earlier painted a red X on Muslim stores and a black X on Christian stores," he said. "You can be sure that the ones with a red X are intact."..."The looters were so diligent that they came back to one of the five churches they had ransacked to see if they can get more," he told the AP. "They were loading our chairs and benches on trucks and when they had no space for more, they destroyed them."
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8/18/13, "Egyptian Christians attacked, dozens of churches torched," Russia Today, rt.com
Islamists also paraded three Christian nuns through the streets and sexually abused two other women in Cairo after torching a Franciscan school over the weekend.
The assault follows multiple attacks and acts of arson targeting Coptic churches, as well as the homes and businesses of Christian minorities in Egypt."...
photo #1 above, "A picture taken on August 18, 2013 shows the Amir Tadros coptic Church in Minya, some 250 kms south of Cairo, which was set ablaze on August 14, 2013." AFP
photo #2 above, "A picture taken on August 18, 2013 shows burnt books in the Amir Tadros coptic Church in Minya, some 250 kms south of Cairo, which was set ablaze on August 14, 2013."AFP
photo #3 above, "A picture taken on August 18, 2013 shows a burnt icon in the Amir Tadros coptic Church in Minya, some 250 kms south of Cairo, which was set ablaze on August 14, 2013." AFP
via Atlas Shrugs, and Michael Savage show
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8/18/13, "Sunday Show Round Up: Suspending Egyptian Aid," Washington Free Beacon, E. Barber
"Kelly Ayotte joins calls to suspend aid to Egypt on Meet the Press"
"Rep Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.)...said he did not think cutting off aid was the right decision. “We essentially have two choices in Egypt, and that’s a military government which hopefully will transition as quickly as possible to civilian government or the Muslim Brotherhood. I don’t think the Muslim Brotherhood is a choice,” Engel said."...
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8/19/13, "Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt," Daily Beast, Josh Rogin
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Comment: The GOP are Vichy.
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