How’s that Arab Spring working out for you now? Christianity is dying in the Middle East except in the Jewish State.
by Emad Khalil
Nearly 93,000 Coptic Christians have left Egypt since 19 March, a report by an Egypt-based Coptic NGO has said.
The number may increase to 250,000 by the end of 2011, according to Naguib Gabriel, the head of the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights, which released the report.
The current trend of Coptic immigration endangers the structure of Egypt’s population, Gabriel told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Sunday. He urged the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Egyptian cabinet to work on curbing the phenomenon.
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“Nearly 16,000 migrated to California, while 10,000 moved to New Jersey, 8000 to New York, and 8000 to other American states,” according to Gabriel. “Around 14,000 left to Australia, 17,000 to Canada, and 20,000 settled in the Netherlands, Italy, England, Austria, Germany and France.”
Gabriel attributed the Coptic emigration to hardline Salafi groups seeking to apply Islamic law, deny Copts senior government posts, and reduce incoming tourism. He also blamed attacks on Coptic churches and the government’s failure to bring attackers to justice.
Coptic author Kamal Zakher said the numbers in the report were exaggerated, but that concern over Coptic immigration is justifiable.
Migration procedures take up to a year to complete, so it is illogical to say the January revolution caused the Copts to leave the country, Zakher said.
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Christians form nearly 10 percent of Egypt’s population. Following the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak in February, concerns have been growing among Christians over the mounting political influence of Islamist groups, some of which view Copts as infidels and deny them the right to assume top government posts.
However, Egypt’s biggest Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, had stressed Christians’ right to the presidency and accepted them as members in its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party.
Read the rest – NGO report; 93, ooo Copts have left Egypt since March
Tags: Emad Khalil
Speranza, speaking of Egypt, you might take note of this excellent article in American Thinker:
Obama is dangerous for peace.
Lawrence Auster adds this great comment about it:
@ The Osprey:
Thanks I will read it later.
I’d get out while the getting was good, if I were them. There have to be places left in the world that still tolerate Christianity. And if we are going to be importing Thirld Worlders, it makes more sense to me to import Christians, who have values systems somewhat similar to those in America, rather than, say, Somoli Muslims, who do not. But that’s just me…
Iron Fist wrote:
Well obviously the Copt’s cant be all that bright, the majority of them came to California…
Not even close to the bottom yet…
New-home sales fall 2.3% to six-month low
doriangrey wrote:
I think there is an already existing Coptic community in the LA Area.
The Osprey wrote:
Iron Fist hates California with the furry of ten thousand angry fireflies…
Well, I’m certainly glad that 93,000 Copts have fled for safety.
Egypt has turned into another Islamic hellhole that is only going to get worse, unfortunately.
taken from the Sunni forum
There is nothing remotely new in this. Islam has always spread primarily through social interactions connected with work. The early Muslims who conquered half the world did not set up soapboxes in the town squares of Alexandria, Cordoba or Fez, in the hope that Christians would flock to them and hear their preaching. They did business with the Christians; and their nobility and integrity of conduct won the Christians over. That is the model followed by Muslims, particularly the Sufis, down the ages; and it is the one that we must retain today, by interacting honourably and respectfully with non-Muslims in our places of work, as much as we can
I guess you could call killing Jews and Christians a social interaction/////
mawskrat wrote:
Nope, no Imperialism here…
Herman Cain on Fox right now.
Cain is by far the most open, straight-forward and sincere of all of the GOP candidates. No pretension; just straight talk. He seems to have a solid grasp of the issues.
huckfunn wrote:
I agree but he will not be the nominee.
@ Speranza:
No, we are probably stuck with Romney now. Perry screwed the pooch on immigration. It looks like Romney will be able to demagog that even though he is just as bad on the issue (and far, far worse on most other issues). I dispair for the Republic…
Related: New Report on Turkish Atrocities on Cyprus since 1970′s.
@ Iron Fist:
Perry will make a comeback. We will vote for whomever the nominee is though.
Catholic schoolchildren’s busses attacked by brick throwing Muslims in Al-Britanistan.
Muslim-Catholic conflict hits St. Bede’s in Bradford
so, no outrage when the copts are forced out of their ancestral homeland. they have been there for 2000 years after all.
add a few thousand years to the residents, move up the coast, and we could just as easily be talking about jews in israel.
The Copts were there for 10,000 years- or more. St Mark didn’t bring over thousands of Maronite Lebanese to take over their public institutions and convert them to the Aramaic or Greek language. He went to Egypt to evangelise the Christian faith; whereupon the locals translated the scriptures into Coptic. (Along with a few goofy gnostic books, but we’ll forgive them that.)
The Arabs acted more like Alexander the Great (and this is not a compliment) – they tried to turn the Egyptians into another people. It looks like they’re about to succeed at it.
@ Zimriel:
good points.
if the copts had converted to mo they could stay tho…so this is about religion mainly.
and those gnostic books are same damn interesting reads…