60 Minutes publishes a hatchet job on how Israel is supposedy driving out Christians, and utterly ignores stories like this one, where Egypt’s Muslims are persecuting Christians.
An Egyptian court sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims on Monday in a case set off by religious tensions in the country’s south.
The Christians were found guilty of sowing public strife, the possession of illegal weapons and shooting dead two Muslims in April of last year in Minya province, about 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo.
The religious tension in Minya spilled over into violence last year when a Muslim microbus driver, angered by a speed bump outside a wealthy Christian man’s villa, got into a scuffle with security guards who beat him.
After returning to his village of Abu Qurqas that evening, he rounded up the villagers who then gathered outside an ultraconservative Islamist group’s main office there to protest his beating. According to rights researcher Ishak Ibrahim, the Christians nearby thought they were going to be attacked and shot from their rooftops down at the crowd, killing two and wounding two others.
For several days after, angry villagers torched dozens of Christian homes and stores.
Isn’t it amazing that 60 Minutes couldn’t find any Christian persecution by other nations in the Middle East? Like, say, Saudi Arabia, which arrests its Filipino “guest workers” for holding secret Christian worship services and allows no Christian bibles or symbols in the nation? Or the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia declaring that all churches must be destroyed? There is a wealth of information that the media ignores. But sure, blame Israel for the lack of Christians in Gaza. It’s not the Islamist government of Hamas at all. Here’s the most telling fact about the Christians of Israel and the Palestinian territories today:
Christians comprise less than 4% of Palestinians living within the borders of former Mandate Palestine today. They are approximately 4% of the West Bank population, less than 1% in Gaza, and nearly 10% of Israel’s Palestinian population.
Canceling Christmas celebrations in Gaza? Check.
There hasn’t been a Christmas tree in Gaza City’s main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday.
Egyptian Islamists wouldn’t allow Christmas greetings to Christians because it’s against their beliefs.
Islamists in Gaza murdered a Christian bookstore owner. But yeah, blame Israel. And ignore the fact that Egyptian Christians were given life sentences for protecting themselves from a Muslim mob. And acquit the Muslims. Because that’s the Islamist way.