tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4190492416303060925.post2644913535063640820..comments2023-09-28T02:06:36.047-07:00Comments on GreensPiece: Special Rapporteur silent on Copts' sufferingPapa Whiskeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198071543637829388noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4190492416303060925.post-47301415711786888722008-06-30T19:12:00.000-07:002008-06-30T19:12:00.000-07:00I posted on this several weeks ago, following the ...I posted on this several weeks ago, following the third attack on the Copt monastery this year, and the various other violent incidents committed against regular Copts and their businesses.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/06/another-ancient-tradition-of-oppression.html" REL="nofollow">Another Ancient Tradition of Oppression and Torture</A> <BR/><BR/>That place may well be the old Christian monastery still extant, predating Western monasticism by centuries.<BR/><BR/>What is amazing is how the Copts have managed to exist since the Muslim hordes overran Egypt more than a millenia ago. <BR/><BR/>In a poverty-stricken, corrupt country, the Copts have maintained their existence as the necessary educated clerks to largely ignorant higher-ups. They would have been wiped out a thousand years ago except that the conquerors found them useful; they still do. <BR/><BR/>Copts fill a very necessary niche in an otherwise violent place. If they did not, they would have been wiped out entirely, as so many other sects were across Persia, India, Egypt, etc.<BR/><BR/>So the continual harassment, destruction, and individual murders will continue, but they won't permit the Copts to be exterminated. Egypt <I>needs</I> them and the government knows this quite well. <BR/><BR/>That doesn't mean it won't permit the atrocities to continue at a low level, especially on Friday evenings after the rabble-rousing "sermons" get adrenalin going and the Muslims pour out of their mosques looking for Christian blood.Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11332644582520636279noreply@blogger.com