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Friday, April 29, 2011

Groundhog Day: Islamists protest outside Coptic Church in Cairo, for return of priest wives kidnapped by Muslim men

Egyptian protesters hold banners that read in Arabic "we call for the release of Muslim females who are detained in the churches before they kill them" and chant slogans calling for end the church violence on the christians who converted to Islam during a demonstration held by the Salafis in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 29, 2011.

Newspaper admitted to altering picture,
and claiming priest's wife had converted to Islam
while kidnapped by a Muslim man
See video below
This situation is uniquely Islamic ~ this is a case from about a year ago when the wives [or wife] of Copt priest were kidnapped by Muslims. The Egyptian law is such that if a Christian woman is kidnapped, it is the same as their conversion to Islam ~ even if Christian family members try to retrieve them ~ they can be arrested. [Not unique to Egypt in Pakistan it is the same, but with both Hindus and Christians]

Muslims are superior in a real sense under the law.

If these, even married Christian women were kidnapped ~ of course, they are now Muslim. That is she becomes the 'property' of the Muslim kidnapper.

One of the main reason the Copts were able to get their women back, from their known kidnappers, is that they used the high profile nature of the women, being priest wives, actually they had a sit in outside the governor's office to force them to act on their behalf.

Coptic Camelia on being freed from
Muslim kidnapper, professes
love for Christian faith.

In the meantime, one radical, Egyptian/other Arabic speaking paper photoshops one of the black hijabs/headscarves over a picture of the kidnapped women's head, saying that she had converted. Even though they admitted to the shoddy work [see above], many still hold onto the belief that the kidnapped woman had converted to Islam.

But once the woman was returned to her husband, she appeared in a video from a secret location, without a headcovering, saying that she would never leave her 'Christian' religion.


Also as a campaign against comments made questioning some of the logic of Islam [or its rule], by a Coptic leader, the same paper concocted a story that the Copts were stockpiling weapons in their churches. [You start doing something, and you can't believe other's aren't doing the same ~ like stashing weapons in a mosque!!]



Islamists protest in Cairo near the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo April 29, 2011


CAIRO (AFP)— About 2,000 hardline Islamists protested Friday outside the Coptic Church's headquarters in Cairo to demand the release of two women they allege are being held after converting to Islam.

The protesters, who belonged to the puritanical Salafi sect, marched on St Mark's Cathedral from a mosque after Friday prayers to demand the release of Wafa Constantine and Camellia Shehata, the wives of two priests.

The church denies the women converted to Islam.

OMG ~ Chattel

Egyptian women march holding banners that read in Arabic "They Slaughtered Salwa Adel, because she converted to Islam, killed her child and her husband. We call for the release of Muslim females who are detained in the churches before they kill them"

Just a minute ~ are these Islamic women being herded!!  

The Salafis have held regular protests over the case in the past year, but they have usually been smaller in number.

Their cause was eventually picked up by a Qaeda-linked group in Iraq that massacred dozens of Christians in a Baghdad church in November 2010 and vowed more attacks until the two women are freed.


Islamists protest in Cairo near the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo April 29, 2011. Islamists protesters in Egypt have accused the church of detaining two women

Islamists protest in Cairo near the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo April 29, 2011.

Two months later, a suicide bomber killed more than 20 Copts after a New Year's Eve mass in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria.

The Coptic Church has reportedly convened a synod in response to the growing assertiveness of Salafis, who have increased their political presence in Egypt since a popular revolt toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Egyptians on the bridge look at protesters displaying banners calling for the end the church violence on the Christians who converted to Islam during a demonstration held by the Salafis in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 29, 2011.

Copts, who account for about 10 percent of the country's 80 million people, complain of discrimination. They have been the targets of fairly regular sectarian attacks.

World News Briefs -- April 29, 2011 (Evening Edition)



Royal Wedding Passes Without A Hitch As Kate And William Seal It With A Kiss -- The Guardian

Considering the huge guest list, the crowds, and the massed ranks of cameras, the royal wedding proved an intimate affair

Considering the size of the audience, the two sets of trumpeters, two choirs and several of the most senior clerics in the land, the presence of the entire British royal family, 45 crowned heads from around the world and a guest list stretching to nearly 2,000, it was quite an intimate wedding. And, confounding all the understandable fears, nerves and precautions, it went off without a hitch.

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MIDDLE EAST

55 dead on Syria 'rage day': sources. Syrian rights group says 42 killed nationwide.
Syria Baath Party members quit; military defections reported. Assad's neighbors watch worriedly.

Bahrain: Four protesters sentenced to death by firing squad.

Ahmadinejad reportedly not showing up for work, sparking rumors of a possible power shift.

Yemeni protesters decry Saleh transition deal. Yemen's Saleh threatens to quit transition deal.

Israel rejects Palestinian unity government with Hamas. US to reassess Palestinian aid after Hamas-Fatah deal. Surprise Palestinian unity deal challenges Israel.

In northern Iraq, attacks kill at least 12.

Syria was constructing nuclear reactor, IAEA chief suggests.

ASIA

Kim prepared for North-South summit, Carter says.

New wave of tainted food in China and how inflation could make it worse.

Thai military: Deadly fighting resumes at Thai-Cambodian border. Thai, Cambodia clashes continue despite cease-fire.

U.S. military dismayed by delays in 3 key development projects in Afghanistan.

Jimmy Carter criticizes U.S., South Korea for refusing food aid to North.

Pakistan tests ballistic missile.

AFRICA

Latest military activity in Libya. Pro-Gaddafi forces clash with Tunisian military. Libyan government forces make another push for embattled Misrata. Libya: Col Gaddafi still has quarter of chemical weapons stockpile.

Ivorian warlord's death: suicide or assassination?

Over 800 inmates escape Tunisian prisons.

Uganda riots reach capital as anger against President Museveni grows. Rioting breaks out in Ugandan capital.

Sudan: Bashir threatens south over Abyei.

Zimbabwe elections scheduled for this year may be delayed, Herald reports.

Egypt shows signs of new assertiveness abroad.

EUROPE

Watch the British royal wedding live. (ABC News) Britain celebrates monarchy as Kate, William wed. Royal Wedding coverage from Reuters. William and Kate marry as world watches.

Prince William's choice of uniform is a tribute to those serving in Afghanistan.

Photo gallery of Royal wedding.

Spain's jobless rate tops 21% as all major sectors lose jobs.

Belgium moves closer to banning burqa in public.

Putin eclipses Medvedev in run-up to 2012 election.

Earth to Greece: It’s over (a commentary).

AMERICAS

Storm deaths hit 318; Obama sees damage up close. Survivors picking up pieces from deadly twisters.

Peru election race tightens to tie.

Late leftist surge spices up Canadian election.

Mexico extradites reputed drug lord Arellano Felix.

Obama announces cabinet, Afghanistan changes.

Drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia allegedly supplied with weapons from Honduran military.

Self-rule on the rise in Mexico's prisons.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

Germans arrest 3 al-Qaida suspects.

Terrorists discover uses for Twitter.

Morocco official: cafe bomb matches al-Qaida style. Morocco probes deadly Marrakesh cafe blast.

Al-Shabaab terrorists on the offensive in Somalia.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Apple juggernaut sends ripples through tech world.

Growth data cast doubt over U.S. recovery.

Wal-Mart: Our shoppers are 'running out of money'.

Silver hits record near $50, first time since 1980.

Syrian Protesters Now Are Armed....Oh, and Syrian Troops Are Under Iranian Command


Syria is spiraling downward quickly as the protesting movement in the country, ordinary citizens across the country, are now being armed and there are even reports that the protesters now have anti-tank weapons. At the same time, more information is coming out that it is Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders that are directing the efforts of Syrian troops and security forces.

From the report at DEBKA:

For the first time in the anti-Assad uprising, elements of Syria's popular protest movement are turning to armed revolt on lines similar to those marking the Libyan conflict. Wednesday, April 27, armed civilians were seen for the first time, some openly carrying anti-tank weapons, in the Daraa district of the South and Banias and Jableh on the coast, the primary targets of the regime's armored-backed offensive on the six-week old protest movement.

debkafile's military sources report that these dissidents resorted openly to arms after discovering that Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) officers were masterminding the brutal crackdown against them, lending the Assad regime the experience they had gained in crushing the 2009 anti-regime opposition in Tehran.

Okay, so let's set the stage....Iranian commanders order Syrian tanks into a Syrian city's fringe and as the tanks enter a dark street, two anti-tank weapons are fired by protesters hitting both tanks and killing four or five Syrian tank crew members. Let's just say that happens...can you imagine what is going to happen next?

This situation in Syria makes Libya look like a game of kickball. We also have to consider how much is going down in Syria that isn't not being reported or discovered. I'm sure the Iranians are taking some frustrations out that they have with their own unrest on the Syrian people.

At the same time, this must be encouraging for Israel...if Assad's military is so inept that they need Iranians to come in and take up leadership roles, imagine what the Syrian army command is like.



Syrian protesters gain anti-tank guns. Iranian officers direct Assad's troops


For the first time in the anti-Assad uprising, elements of Syria's popular protest movement are turning to armed revolt on lines similar to those marking the Libyan conflict. Wednesday, April 27, armed civilians were seen for the first time, some openly carrying anti-tank weapons, in the Daraa district of the South and Banias and Jableh on the coast, the primary targets of the regime's armored-backed offensive on the six-week old protest movement.

debkafile's military sources report that these dissidents resorted openly to arms after discovering that Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) officers were masterminding the brutal crackdown against them, lending the Assad regime the experience they had gained in crushing the 2009 anti-regime opposition in Tehran.
At the UN Security Council Tuesday night, US ambassador Susan Rice directly accused President Bashar Assad of mustering Iranian assistance to repress Syrian citizens "through the same brutal tactics that have been used by the Iranian regime."
Our Washington sources report that the US, Britain, France and other European countries are not waiting for the Security Council to condemn Syria. As an American official put it, "in the near future," the US plans to issue a series of sanctions against heads of the Assad regime and its security agencies. There is also talk of war crimes charges against the president's brother Maher Assad who is in command of the military assault on the protesters.
In Syria meanwhile, Western military sources predict that the next stage of the Syrian crisis will see protesters-turned-rebels shooting at the military tanks and armored vehicles spearheading the assaults by commando units on foot in the towns under siege, while snipers pick off demonstrators or ordinary passers-by from the rooftops.

In the first two days of the military operation, the tanks have been rolling through the streets sowing panic and fear in targeted cities and providing cover for the soldiers shooting civilians at random. Disabling the tanks, the protesters believe, will disarm that tactic, which has been directed first against the million inhabitants of Daraa and its outlying towns in the Horon province Tuesday, April 26.
There, under tank cover, small elements of the 132nd Brigade of the Fourth Division commanded by Mahar Asasad are holding Daraa under virtual lockdown, having cut off essential supplies of food and water, electricity and external communications.

Still, the town refuses to be broken or starved into submission.
Tuesday night, small units of foot soldiers protected by tanks were on standby night outside Banias and Jableh and Wednesday morning, elements of the 47th Brigade of the Fourth Division were poised to follow a tank charge into Hama.
If Assad loses his tanks, he will need to deploy many more soldiers to shoot the protesters off the streets and carry out mass arrests and so increase the hazards of defections, mutiny and the army's breakup.
For Damascus, the Syrian ruler is pursuing a different tactic. To conceal the massive military involvement in the crackdown from the capital's population, thousands of undercover soldiers were told to remove their uniforms and issued with black coveralls without insignia for raids on the Damascus suburb of Duma and protest centers elsewhere in the capital. They are intended to look like policemen.

Video: I'd Call This Transparency LOL

CBS Reporter Lara Logan Recounts A ‘Merciless’ Assault



Lara Logan Breaks Silence On Cairo Assault -- CBS News

Lara Logan feared she would die a "torturous death" during a sexual assault and beating she suffered at the hands of a violent mob in Egypt's Tahrir Square. In her first television interview since her ordeal two months ago, the CBS News chief foreign correspondent and "60 Minutes" reporter reveals what happened to her for the first time in an interview conducted by Scott Pelley.

Logan's story will be broadcast on "60 Minutes" this Sunday, May 1 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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More News On Lara Logan

'They raped me with their hands': Reporter Lara Logan reveals terrifying details of mob sex attack in Egypt -- Daily Mail
CBS' Lara Logan Thought She Would Die During Sexual Assault in Egypt -- ABC News
On ‘60 Minutes,’ Logan describes assault in Cairo -- Washington Post
CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault -- New York Times
CBS' Lara Logan describes being sexually assaulted in Egypt's Tahrir Square -- CNN
CBS reporter Lara Logan recounts assault in Egypt -- Reuters
Lara Logan Will Talk About Her Sexual Assault To ‘60 Minutes,’ And Then Never Again -- Forbes
CBS reporter Lara Logan describes sexual attacks -- USA Today
Lara Logan Speaks Out: The 60 Minutes Interview About Her Sexual Assault in Cairo (VIDEO) -- Slate

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