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Copts need our prayers

Our Coptic Orthodox brethren need our prayers and support. They have always had a rough go of it in Egypt, but there seems to be a growing trend towards and even rougher ride.

A play performed a couple of years ago by an Alexandrian church is now being widely distributed and it sparked a riot in which began with a Muslim student stabbing a Coptic nun as a crowd of at least 5,000 violent protestors attempted to storm the Church.

As this article states, the copts have "long complained of systematic marginalisation" and there can be little doubt about this: It's called being a dhimmi. And what you get when you dare to raise you head a bit too high is a nice hard BONK upon it.

So what was in this play that was so horrific? Well, all I could find is this quote from a CNN story: "The play, 'I Was Blind But Now I Can See,' tells the story of a young Christian who converts to Islam and becomes disillusioned." It don't take much folks...one wonders how many people would have died if Scorses had made a film alternatively called "The Last Temptation of Muhammed"?

Anyway, we need to remember those who are persecuted, like the Copts...we really don't know how easy we have it: not having to be afraid of taking your family to Church on Sunday mornings, which is a luxury we often fail to see as such.

UPDATE: Apparently, in Egpytian Newspapers, threats against the life of Pope Shenouda III are being made. I found this intriguing Coptic Blog, which is worth going to its first archived page and reading from there - though much appears to be in Arabic, there are portions in English.