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That bombing of Christians in Egypt.
Did it make the front page of today's Age?
Send a flotilla
Muslims killing, maiming intimidating Christians in Islamic countries, it must be those pesky Zionists fault!
Faygale
I'm on the beach and checked up the Age on-line.
The main stories in order are -
"Fevola on new year's leave",
"Hikes to hurt households", and
"Queensland floods a 'disaster of biblical proportions'". The last on that list is "Police nab drink-driver with six children in back seat"
Then in the World Section -
"Lula refuses to extradite ex-terrorist",
"You've seen the movie, now try the gadget", and
"Obama must keep working on disarmament". The last story on the list is "Rush on toiletries as subsidies end".
I couldn't find a thing about the atrocity in Egypt.
Two observations -
* If you're an Italian terrorist then it's permitted in the Age for you to be called a "terrorist" rather than an "activist" which you are if you want to murder Israeli children or if you want to provoke an international incident by picking a fight with Israeli soldiers; and
* the lives of nine Turkish Jihadist "activists" who provoke such incidents are infinitesimally more important than the lives of 21 Christian worshippers who get murdered by Egyptian Jihadist "activists".
Thanks Gulliver.
As a matter of interest the story of the massacre in Egypt does headline the online World Section of the Age's sister newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald.
There's no truth in the rumour that the next Age Good Weekend lift out will be a story on the movers and shakers of the world wide franchise of Islamist Jihadists.
Six pages ain't anywhere near enough.
The story on the SMH site -
http://www.smh.com.au/world/21-killed-in-egypt-church-bombing-20110101-19cg5.html
The apparent Al Age embargo on stories that show Muslims in a bad light continues. Perhaps they might cover the story if they can get an angle on the story that justifies the bombing attack?
Clarification:
The Age wishes to advise its readers that the omission of any reference to the recent bombing of a Coptic Christian Church in Egypt which was due to an editing error. We don't have one.
Wrong about that anonymous, the Age has several editors. All of them must be busy keeping news of wronging by the practitioners of the religion of peace out of the public's eyes.
Read Robin Shepherd's article online today:
New Year slaughter of Christians in Egypt shows we’re all in it together against Islamism
It will be interesting to observe the international response following last night’s slaughter of at least 21 Christians by Islamists outside a Church in Alexandria, Egypt. If it had been the other way around (heaven forfend that it had been carried out by Jews) there would have been mass protests around the world, condemnations from leading politicians and, given that this comes on the heels of other such massacres, could well have ended up with a resolution at the United Nations.
But don’t hold your breath. The politically correct multi-culturalism that holds sway across Europe and increasing sections of the United States (I hardly need mention the UN) dictates that we must always beware of enflaming Muslim sensitivities. The great diversionary spectre of “Islamophobia” silences all that go before it.
But last night’s bomb attack in Egypt is no isolated event. During a Christmas Day mass in the Philippines 11 were injured in a bombing in a Christian chapel. Also in December 38 Christians were slaughtered by Muslim extremists in Nigeria, a country where church burnings are starting to become commonplace. In Iraq last Autumn 68 Christians were massacred in the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad by a group threatening that Christians will be “exterminated”. Across the Middle East, Christians increasingly live in fear of their Muslim neighbours, and the region’s Christian population is diminishing fast. So at what point does a series of “isolated events” start to form a pattern?
The best answer to that question is: at the point when you have opened your eyes sufficiently to see what is really going on. The pattern has been observable for many years now and it is something which proceeds directly from an Islamist ideology whose central precepts enjoy widespread support across the Islamic world.
It is precisely at this stage in the discussion that we should (but, due to multiculturalist pathologies, do not) bring in the question of Israel and the Jews. For what we are now seeing against Christians has been going on with regard to the Jews for decades. The genocidal anti-Semitism long rife across the Middle East (and long ignored by the media) forms part of a much bigger picture. In common with previous totalitarianisms, it may be Jews first, but there are plenty of others on the list of targets.
Jews, Christians and, indeed, liberal secularists are all on that list, and no amount of denial or appeasement will take them off it.
21 Christian families lost a loved one last night in Egypt. For them, no more tragic start to 2011 could be imagined. For the rest of us, we can either count our lucky stars, put it out of our minds, and move on, or we can mourn the dead, face the new reality, and pull together as one to fight it. So which is it to be?
http://www.robinshepherdonline...
Al Age now has a reason to report on the attack.
Islamic Jihad in Gaza condemned the attack, saying that "this attack aims to foment sedition and sectarian strife in Egypt, and is the interest of the Zionist enemy."
From elderofziyon.com
Read Robin Shepherd's article online today:
New Year slaughter of Christians in Egypt shows we’re all in it together against Islamism
It will be interesting to observe the international response following last night’s slaughter of at least 21 Christians by Islamists outside a Church in Alexandria, Egypt. If it had been the other way around (heaven forfend that it had been carried out by Jews) there would have been mass protests around the world, condemnations from leading politicians and, given that this comes on the heels of other such massacres, could well have ended up with a resolution at the United Nations.
But don’t hold your breath. The politically correct multi-culturalism that holds sway across Europe and increasing sections of the United States (I hardly need mention the UN) dictates that we must always beware of enflaming Muslim sensitivities. The great diversionary spectre of “Islamophobia” silences all that go before it.
But last night’s bomb attack in Egypt is no isolated event. During a Christmas Day mass in the Philippines 11 were injured in a bombing in a Christian chapel. Also in December 38 Christians were slaughtered by Muslim extremists in Nigeria, a country where church burnings are starting to become commonplace. In Iraq last Autumn 68 Christians were massacred in the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad by a group threatening that Christians will be “exterminated”. Across the Middle East, Christians increasingly live in fear of their Muslim neighbours, and the region’s Christian population is diminishing fast. So at what point does a series of “isolated events” start to form a pattern?
http://www.robinshepherdonline (to be continued)
Continuing …
The best answer to that question is: at the point when you have opened your eyes sufficiently to see what is really going on. The pattern has been observable for many years now and it is something which proceeds directly from an Islamist ideology whose central precepts enjoy widespread support across the Islamic world.
It is precisely at this stage in the discussion that we should (but, due to multiculturalist pathologies, do not) bring in the question of Israel and the Jews. For what we are now seeing against Christians has been going on with regard to the Jews for decades. The genocidal anti-Semitism long rife across the Middle East (and long ignored by the media) forms part of a much bigger picture. In common with previous totalitarianisms, it may be Jews first, but there are plenty of others on the list of targets.
Jews, Christians and, indeed, liberal secularists are all on that list, and no amount of denial or appeasement will take them off it.
21 Christian families lost a loved one last night in Egypt. For them, no more tragic start to 2011 could be imagined. For the rest of us, we can either count our lucky stars, put it out of our minds, and move on, or we can mourn the dead, face the new reality, and pull together as one to fight it. So which is it to be?
http://www.robinshepherdonline...
Read Robin Shepherd's article online today:
New Year slaughter of Christians in Egypt shows we’re all in it together against Islamism
It will be interesting to observe the international response following last night’s slaughter of at least 21 Christians by Islamists outside a Church in Alexandria, Egypt. If it had been the other way around (heaven forfend that it had been carried out by Jews) there would have been mass protests around the world, condemnations from leading politicians and, given that this comes on the heels of other such massacres, could well have ended up with a resolution at the United Nations.
But don’t hold your breath. The politically correct multi-culturalism that holds sway across Europe and increasing sections of the United States (I hardly need mention the UN) dictates that we must always beware of enflaming Muslim sensitivities. The great diversionary spectre of “Islamophobia” silences all that go before it.
But last night’s bomb attack in Egypt is no isolated event. During a Christmas Day mass in the Philippines 11 were injured in a bombing in a Christian chapel. Also in December 38 Christians were slaughtered by Muslim extremists in Nigeria, a country where church burnings are starting to become commonplace. In Iraq last Autumn 68 Christians were massacred in the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad by a group threatening that Christians will be “exterminated”. Across the Middle East, Christians increasingly live in fear of their Muslim neighbours, and the region’s Christian population is diminishing fast. So at what point does a series of “isolated events” start to form a pattern?
The best answer to that question is: at the point when you have opened your eyes sufficiently to see what is really going on. The pattern has been observable for many years now and it is something which proceeds directly from an Islamist ideology whose central precepts enjoy widespread support across the Islamic world.
It is precisely at this stage in the discussion that we should (but, due to multiculturalist pathologies, do not) bring in the question of Israel and the Jews. For what we are now seeing against Christians has been going on with regard to the Jews for decades. The genocidal anti-Semitism long rife across the Middle East (and long ignored by the media) forms part of a much bigger picture. In common with previous totalitarianisms, it may be Jews first, but there are plenty of others on the list of targets.
Jews, Christians and, indeed, liberal secularists are all on that list, and no amount of denial or appeasement will take them off it.
21 Christian families lost a loved one last night in Egypt. For them, no more tragic start to 2011 could be imagined. For the rest of us, we can either count our lucky stars, put it out of our minds, and move on, or we can mourn the dead, face the new reality, and pull together as one to fight it. So which is it to be?
http://www.robinshepherdonline...
No six page lift out this morning, only a mere three paragraphs.
Fiarfax have a very strict policy on not publishing stories that paint Muslims in a negative light.
'Fiarfax have a very strict policy on not publishing stories that paint Muslims in a negative light.'
aka censorship
Fortunately, the Sunday Herald Sun which is better known for stories about fashion, street violence and sport, covered it adequately and since the SHUN has double the Age's readership, the people know all about the murders that took place in Alexandria.
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