Thursday, April 11, 2013
Paging Office of Religious Freedom, Canada ... Why is our government sending millions of dollars to Egypt? Is a major quota of those funds allocated to the persecution, kidnapping, raping and killing of Christians in Egypt ???
Breathlessly awaiting your first report on the progress made by the ORF in stopping the genocide of Christians rampaging through EACH AND EVERY MUSLIM COUNTRY OF THE WORLD. Why pray does our immigration department keep importing Muslims to Canada when Christians are the ones need rescuing????
Hamza Hendawi of AP via JapanTimes:
.....Abductors target Egypt’s Christians. T – Ezzat Kromer’s resistance to his kidnappers did not last long. One of the masked gunmen fired a round between his feet as he sat behind the wheel of his car and said with chilling calm, “The next one will go into your heart.”
The Christian gynecologist says he was bundled into his abductors’ vehicle, forced to lie under their feet in the back seat for a 45-minute ride, then dumped in a small cold room while the kidnappers contacted his family over a ransom. For the next 27 hours, he endured beatings, insults and threats to his life while blindfolded, a bandage sealing his mouth and cotton balls in his ears.
Kromer’s case is part of a dramatic rise of kidnappings targeting Christians, including children, in Egypt’s southern province of Minya, home to the country’s largest concentration of Christians but also a heartland for Islamist hardliners.
The kidnappings are mostly blamed on criminal gangs, which operate more freely amid Egypt’s collapse in security since the 2011 fall of autocratic President Hosni Mubarak. Crime has risen in general across Egypt, hitting Muslims as well. But the wave of kidnappings in Minya has specifically targeted Christians and victims, church leaders and rights activists ultimately blame the atmosphere created by the rising power of hardline Islamists.
They contend criminals are influenced by the rhetoric of radical clerics depicting Egypt’s Christian minority as second-class citizens and see them as fair game, with authorities less likely to investigate crimes against the community.
Over the past two years, there have been more than 150 reported kidnappings in the province — all of them targeting Christians, according to a top official at the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police. Of those, 37 have taken place in the past several months alone, the official said.
Kromer, a father of three, was snatched Jan. 29 as he drove home from his practice in the village of Nazlet el-Amoden. By the next day, his family paid 270,000 Egyptian pounds (nearly $40,000) to a middleman and he was released.............
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