The brave Coptic blogger, human rights campaigner and conscientious objector Maikel Nabil, writing in the Times of Israel, sees a common thread linking the sorry plight of Copts - 75 percent of whom have emigrated in the last 60 years - with the ethnic cleansing of Egyptian Jews. But Copts themselves have not always been as sympathetic as Nabil - and even took advantage of the 1956 exodus to take over Jewish property at knock-down prices ( as one commenter points out) :
After the Egyptian military took power in the country 1952, it started its campaign against Egyptian Jews, launching its propaganda against Jews in all the state-owned media. It freed all the terrorists who had committed violence against Jews before the coup, and jailed liberals and seculars instead. It encouraged aggression toward the Egyptian Jewish minority, which led to new terrorist attacks against Jewish individuals and properties in Egypt.
Between 1954 and 1956, 80,000 Egyptian Jews
were expelled from Egypt, but not before they were robbed of their
property. After that, Egypt revoked their citizenship, forbidding them
from returning to their homeland. Of course, before they left, Egyptian
authorities forced them to sign papers saying that they had been treated fairly
and were leaving of their own will. There are currently around 300 Jews
living in Egypt, isolated in an environment that is hostile to them.*
The Christian minority in Egypt (known as
Copts) reacted in a very selfish way at the time, choosing not to
interfere in the crisis so as to avoid any harm. They thought that if
they took the side of the dictatorship, they would be safe. Obviously,
it didn’t work.
After the Egyptian military expelled Jews and
outlawed Bahais and Shias, they started their campaign against
Christians. The Egyptian regime has maintained since that time a very
fundamental understanding of Islam, and forced it through the media and
the education system. Violent attacks against Christians became
increasingly frequent, and most of the time no one was prosecuted.
The Egyptian regime created an uncomfortable
situation for Christians in order to force them to leave the country.
And the evidence shows that it worked. Some 4 million Egyptian Christians have
emigrated from Egypt over the last 60 years, representing one-third of
the entire Coptic population, and comprising nearly 75% of Egyptians
living abroad.
But Egyptian authorities are not satisfied
with that. After Mohammed Morsi acceded to power, he decided to speed up
this process. The Egyptian regime used the film “Innocence of Muslims”
to start a huge propaganda campaign against Egyptian Christians. And of
course, Christians in Egypt are becoming increasingly isolated under
this propaganda. Violence against Christians occurs every day, and the
state usually takes the side of the Muslim murderers.
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* These figures are not strictly accurate, and current estimates put Jews in Egypt at less than 50.
Read article in full
* These figures are not strictly accurate, and current estimates put Jews in Egypt at less than 50.
Yes they all deserve one another. Let the Copts and the Muslim fascists slaughter one another to the last one standing. Whomever's left will get on CNN to blame it on the Jews anyhow.
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ReplyDeleteThey are victims too. We tend to mention the physical abuse and material losses, but the mental cruelty that degrades a human being into abject servility was perhaps the hardest to bear.
Pleasing the abuser is the mark of the dhimmi. Even those Copts who felt sympathetic to the Jews at the time -if they were such people - couldn't express it for fear of reprisal.
They are expelling Coptic families from El Arish as-we-speak. Has anyone read about that anywhere?
ReplyDeleteGod runs the world. People get what they deserve.
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