Even MORE unbeleeeeeeeeevable:Obama Calls for Restraint by Egypt’s Christians
My brain is short circuiting.
President Obama has responded to the Egyptian military’s massacre of Coptic Christian protestors in Cairo Sunday with a pointedly even-handed statement that calls equally on Christians and the military to show restraint.
“The President is deeply concerned about the violence in Egypt that has led to a tragic loss of life among demonstrators and security forces,” Obama said in a statement released this week. ”Now is a time for restraint on all sides so that Egyptians can move forward together to forge a strong and united Egypt.”
Incredibly, Obama is not only equating the deaths of peaceful protestors and their killers, but he is suggesting that Egypt’s increasingly persecuted Christian minority should show as much “restraint” as their tormentors and refrain from vigorously objecting to the growing abuse.
More than two dozen people, most of them Copts, were killed as security forces attacked demonstrators protesting the burning of a church.
The Egyptian military has denied the killings, but news reports, eyewitness accounts, and videos posted to the Internet contradict the claims, with footage showing armed personnel carriers ramming through crowds of protestors and a soldier firing at them. The dead, according to forensic reports, were either crushed by being run over or were shot.
While every story has 2 sides, this is not every story.
The copts were victims of religious oppression BY THE ARMY for daring to raise their heads in a muslim majority nation moving from a hideous dictatorship underpinned by the army to an islamist theocracy-mobocracy in some kind of partnership with that army,
That’s how it is.
Obama should be warning the Egyptians that democracy is not just a vote. That is they are to be a democracy they will have to protect the rights of the Copts with their lives.
Of course, protecting the religious rights of Christians might be a tad awkward over at Al Azhar.
This administration is without precedent. Even J Carter put human rights before all else
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