WWHD??? Hitler would have loved for FDR & American Ambassador, William E Dodd, to the tell Jews to just 'shut up and cooperate'!
As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate in mass against
the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi’s rule on June 30, the latter
has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in
the millions and eclipse the Tahrir protests that earlier ousted
Mubarak. Among other influential Egyptians, Morsi recently called on
Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II to urge his flock, Egypt’s millions of
Christians, not to join the June 30 protests.
While that may be expected, more troubling is that the U.S.
ambassador to Egypt is also trying to prevent Egyptians from
protesting—including the Copts. The June 18th edition of Sadi al-Balad reports
that lawyer Ramses Naggar, the Coptic Church’s legal counsel, said that
during Patterson’s June 17 meeting with Pope Tawadros, she “asked him
to urge the Copts not to participate” in the demonstrations
against Morsi and the Brotherhood.
The Pope politely informed her that his spiritual authority over the Copts does not extend to political matters.
Regardless, many Egyptian activists are condemning Patterson for
flagrantly behaving like the Muslim Brotherhood’s stooge. Leading
opposition activist Shady el-Ghazali Harb said Patterson showed “blatant
bias” in favor of Morsi and the Brotherhood, adding that her remarks
had earned the U.S. administration “the enmity of the Egyptian people.”
Coptic activists like George Ishaq openly told Patterson to “shut up and
mind your own business.” And Christian business tycoon Naguib
Sawiris—no stranger to Islamist hostility—posted a message on his
Twitter account addressed to the ambassador saying “Bless us with your
silence.”
Indeed, the U.S. ambassador’s position as the Brotherhood’s lackey is
disturbing—and revealing—on several levels. First, all throughout the
Middle East, the U.S. has been supporting anyone and everyone opposing
their leaders—in Libya against Gaddafi, in Egypt itself against 30-year
U.S. ally Mubarak, and now in Syria against Assad. In all these cases,
the U.S. has presented its support in the name of the human rights and
freedoms of the people against dictatorial leaders.
So why is the Obama administration now asking Christians not to
oppose their rulers—in this case, Islamists—who have daily proven
themselves corrupt and worse, to the point that millions of Egyptians,
most of them Muslims, are trying to oust them?
What’s worse is that the human rights abuses Egypt’s Coptic
Christians have been suffering under Muslim Brotherhood rule are
significantly worse than the human rights abuses that the average
Egyptian suffered under Mubarak—making the Copts’ right to protest even
more legitimate, and, if anything, more worthy of U.S support.
Among other things, under Morsi’s rule, the persecution of Copts has
practically been legalized, as unprecedented numbers of Christians—men,
women, and children—have been arrested, often receiving more than
double the maximum prison sentence, under the accusation that they “blasphemed” Islam and/or its prophet. It
was also under Morsi’s reign that another unprecedented scandal
occurred: the St. Mark Cathedral—holiest site of Coptic Christianity and
headquarters to the Pope Tawadros himself—was besieged in broad daylight by Islamic rioters. When security came, they too joined in the attack on the cathedral. And the targeting of Christian children—for
abduction, ransom, rape, and/or forced conversion—has also reached
unprecedented levels under Morsi. (For more on the plight of the Copts
under Morsi’s rule, see my new book Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.)
Yet despite the fact that if anyone in Egypt has a legitimate human
rights concern against the current Egyptian government, it most
certainly is the Christian Copts, here is the U.S., in the person of Ms.
Patterson, asking them not to join the planned protests.
In other words, and consistent with Obama administration’s doctrine,
when Islamists—including rapists and cannibals—wage jihad on secular
leaders, the U.S. supports them; when Christians protest Islamist rulers
who are making their lives a living hell, the administration asks them
to “know their place” and behave like dhimmis, Islam’s
appellation for non-Muslim “infidels” who must live as third class
“citizens” and never complain about their inferior status.
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