As recently reported, on Dec. 24, 2022, Muslims attacked a church and its Christians in Egypt, after authorities gave the Christians permission to fix their church’s collapsed roof, which had fallen on and hurt several worshippers. (According to strict sharia, churches must never be repaired but left to crumble over time.)
After police arrived and quelled the riots, they temporarily halted roof repairs, though with the promise to the Copts—who had waited for two years to receive formal permission to fix their roof—that they could resume work shortly.
Copts were skeptical because experience taught them that such promises were not to be trusted. But sure enough, and to the Copts’ great relief and surprise, on Dec. 25, they were permitted to resume repairs to the church’s roof, with the added protection of state security forces.
But then, on that same day, the local district governor came to “inspect,” and quickly decided that roof repairs must halt, immediately and indefinitely, even though more than one-third of the work had been completed.
When the Christians present at the site complained, indeed pleaded, “How can we pray when the roof is in such a condition, especially when it’s raining?” the (Muslim) governor barked back—“Cover it with a tarp!” In fact, this is not an option, as the partial repairs already made make it difficult to erect a tarp.
If they did not comply, and continued to work on the roof, the governor angrily threatened that he would completely “demolish” the church.
When asked to explain his decision, or at least tell them what they needed to do to resume repairs, the governor gave no answer, and left the site.
All the cement mixers and trucks that the church had hired left on the governor’s orders, resulting in a monetary loss of some EGP 100,000 that the church had paid for them to repair the roof.
And so, as Orthodox Christmas just passed (January 7), the Christians of this community will have celebrated the birth of Jesus exposed to the elements, with the possibility of rain pouring down on them.
For those unaware, what just transpired is the notorious “good cop, bad cop” routine—Muslim style. The authorities themselves are the ones against repairing this church; but they rely on the Muslim mob to riot, at which point they step in pretending to be the “good guys” who, nonetheless, need to do whatever is necessary—in this case, leave a church in dilapidated and dangerous condition—to prevent violence and bloodshed from erupting again.
Discussing this incident, Adel Guindy, author of A Sword Over the Nile and former president of Coptic Solidarity, said:
It appears that the “hidden-hand” that orchestrates this kind of ugly incidents wanted to get out of the boring routine, and add some excitement, befitting the season’s festivities and celebrations. In all cases, the message remains unchanged: “Christian Copts need always to be humiliated as a reminder of their dhimmi status.”
This sounds to me like favoring a certain religion and they should just dump this wank out on their head
Truly this is a tragic, painful reality for the Copts, but we and they must remember an eternal perspective. God is sovereign over tribulations: James 5:10-11 “Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 See, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”
and they only have a few decades of “dhimmi” suffering before a heavenly eternity with Jesus while, God forbid,
unrepentant Muslims only have a few decades of “superiority” before eternal Christless suffering.
If you were to ask the terrorists at the terror org. CAIR, they’ll tell you that their religion prohibits any other religion from existing, and to deny them this is islamophobic.
The violent and vicious Muslims who in their murderous persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
I know a number of people in the West who are great defenders of Islam and bashers of Jews and Christians. But they seem to be ignorant of Islamic history and deeds. They may know nice people with an Islamic heritage who do not practice Islam and do not believe in its commandments. Perhaps they know some of the nice teachings of the Prophet’s early ministry, when he was unable to attract converts. So they are defenders of the faith, ignorant of the dark secrets which are known to many but unknown to average people in the West. The religion of Islam in its pure form, of sharia, should be blocked from establishing itself in the West, or at least from expanding its power.
And the USA gives Egypt over 3 billion dollars a year. Maybe someone with balls in DC will allocate some of that $$$ exclusively to repair Coptic churches.