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MILITANTS KILL 24 policemen in Egypt’s Sinai as country gripped by violence
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Islamic militants ambushed two minibuses carrying off-duty policemen in the northern region of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Monday, killing 25 of them execution-style in a brazen daylight attack.
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I’ve started using the phrase “the humanity of humanity”, and with that in mind, here’s reference to a progressive piece by Ali Al Sharnoby published online with the Canada Free Press:
There were hundreds of Egyptians of all ages. All of them made it clear they were willing to kill Brotherhood members if they turned up again. About half of them were Muslims. A few Salafists, too came to be with us as they live in the same neighborhood and refuse to attack the church. I heard a lot of dialogues between Christians and Muslims. I felt the warmth of real cohesion and unity against the new danger, and knew that there is no difference between our needs and destiny because everyone was there to protect the House of God.
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On June 30, when millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest against now ousted President Mohamed Morsi, residents of Al Nazla marked Christian homes and shops with red graffiti, vowing to protect Morsi’s electoral legitimacy with “blood.”
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Even the $12 billion or so in aid from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait is unlikely to get Egypt through the current turmoil.
“This can’t support Egypt’s transitional period for more than five or six months – maybe a year. It can’t be counted on as the Brotherhood counted on money from Qatar during Morsi’s time,” said Adly.
Given the level of violence projected by Muslim Brotherhood enthusiasts against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community and the non-aligned state’s police, my estimation of Al Jazeera‘s balance and integrity in journalism has dropped a few notches. The Qatar-backed enterprise should be at the forefront reporting the arson and bloodshed facilitated by the ragtag shock troops of conservative Islamic enterprise.
Watchers of the Islamic Small Wars as expressed in Egypt went through this about two months ago.
The Qatari-owned media company Al-Jazeera saw 22 members of its staff in Egypt resign on Monday over what they allege was “biased coverage” of the events that unfolded in Cairo last week.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Haggag Salama was among those who resigned, accusing the station of “airing lies and misleading viewers,” Gulf News reported Monday.
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RIYADH—Saudi King Abdullah is turning out to be the most prominent foreign supporter of Egypt’s military generals in their armed push against Egypt’s Islamic movement, sending field hospitals and words of support over the weekend for what he called Egypt’s fight against “terrorism and extremism.”
The western anti-Jihad and the post-communist communist 🙂 hardliners make the Kavkaz case for a “crusader west” out to destroy Islam in its totality by referencing atrocious directives in the Qurran like Sura 9:29 that can neither be dismissed (under the rules, so to speak), reconciled with contemporary multiculturalism — much less nature’s inclination as regards invention and variety everywhere, including human cultures — or, really, contextualized into a neutral (or neutered) state, but, no worry, Islam has reached this point riven with fractures and separating seams that are not healing and that language keeps from convergence.
Implied by the above cited piece, Qatar’s backing of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has not been equally engaged, so I will understate the state of affairs, by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where the “Brothers” are viewed as rivals to Saudi Wahhabism (see, for example, Walter Russel Mead’s “Useful Reminder: Saudis and Muslim Brotherhood Do Not Get Along,” The American Interest, May 17, 2013).
Additional Reference
Garfinkle, Adam. “Al-Sisi’s Hammer, Obama’s Nine-Iron?” The American Interest, August 15, 2013.
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