Letter from an American Coptic Christian to President Obama

This letter was sent to the US Prez just before Christmas day, 2010. What the writer feared would happen, most certainly did. More horrors as envisioned by the writer as are envisioned by those of us who don't have our heads buried deep into the sand.

I am writing to you as Coptic Christian who immigrated to the United States in the late 1970s.

I am an American citizen.

I have grave concerns about what is going in Egypt regarding the Copts.

To put it bluntly, I fear that something very bad is going to happen to this community in the very near future.

Coptic Christians have been the victims of systematic abuse and oppression in Egypt for a long time. On November 17, 2010, the U.S. Department of State recently issued a report on religious freedom in Egypt that details the abuses they suffer on a daily basis. January of this year, six Coptic Christians were murdered outside their church after celebrating Christmas.

Sadly, I fear another attack will happen again sometime in the near future.

The tendency of blaming the State of Israel for every problem in Egypt, and linking it to the Copts, is on the rise, especially in the past a few months. By associating the Copts with the Jewish state, extremists and government officials are inciting hostility toward a beleaguered, defenseless minority.

The anti-Israel polemic is fairly well known. One official accused recent shark and jellyfish for attacks on swimmers at Sharm el-Sheikh on the Mossad. The aalleged goal was to kill the tourism season.

What is less well known is that Muslim Imams throughout the Middle East are demonizing Coptic Christians in Egypt. One oft-repeated claim is that Israel is using Coptic churches to store all kinds of weapons to attack Muslims. Such accusations lead to threats of violence.

For example, Sheik Wagdi Ghoneim recently said in a video message from the State of Qatar “I swear by God, you will not have time stay alive until America and the West arrive, this is for your own good, if you understand. Do you think the Muslims inside Egypt will say thank you and may Allah give you health? “No, by God.”

And on September 16, 2010 Mr., Muhammad Salim Al-Awa, Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars announced on Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar): Copts Amass Weapons in Egyptian Churches and Are “Preparing for War against the Muslims”.

Copts are even being blamed for the violence perpetrated against them by Muslim extremists in Egypt. For example, after a mob of 5,000 Egyptians recently attacked a Christian service building, President’s Mubarak former assistant, Dr. Mustafa El- Feki from Ain Shams University stated that Israel and the Copts were at fault for the attack and the two deaths that resulted from it. Dr. El Feki stated that Israel was behind the subsequent protests: “”It is almost certain that the Mossad is involved in these events. The State is dealing with dangerous events that could not have succeeded without external intervention with Israel at its head.”.................

Go to the link above and read the entire letter. There are links therein that need to be seen to understand more fully the extent to which the moslem country of Egypt, which was once a non-muslim country, will go to, to cleanse itself of Christians and Christianity.

Did anybody see the lukewarm response from the WH to the slaughter of Copts in Alexandria on New Year's day ?

Did anybody see any, any kind of anything from our great singing sensation, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper? I haven't... have you? I wonder if he knows that we have quite a large contingent of Canadian Coptic Christians whose origins are Egyptian. Is the Canadian government aware of how afraid the Copts in Canada are for themselves in "moslem heavy Canada".
 
Is the minority Conservative Government of Canada afraid to show their support for Coptic Christians because they might lose some measly votes from the moslem Canadians? Coptic Christians in Canada are living in fear   while our politicians are scared stiff to say anything against the cult of islam.