Egyptian Coptics Launch the ‘Christian Brotherhood’ to Combat Discrimination & Islamist Political Domination
- Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:25pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi
The Muslim Brotherhood has been the focus of international angst since gaining power in Egypt, among other nations. Fears over theocratic plans that could further destabilize international relations and spawn greater internal strife have led to guarded reactions from Western nations and Egyptian minority groups, alike. Now, Coptic Christians, who have suffered already at the hands of extremists, are launching their own counter movement — the Christian Brotherhood.
Now that Mohammed Morsi has won the presidential election and secured the throne of power, Coptic Christians are fearing for their future. To counter the influence that Islamists will have in parliament and through the presidency, they have launched the Christian Brotherhood as a counterbalance of sorts. Al Arabiya has more about the group’s formation and goals:
The idea was first initiated in 2005 by lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla, head of al-Kalema Center for Human Rights, and political analyst Michel Fahmi. It was then adopted by Amir Ayad, member of the Maspero Youths Union for Free Copts, the group established after clashes with military forces in front of the TV building in the Cairo district of Maspero left more than 20 Copts dead.
The Christian Brotherhood has branches in 16 governorates in Egypt as well as four branches outside Egypt, three in Europe and one in Australia.
While the group’s roots were set back in 2005, it wasn’t until recently that more action was taken to actually get the movement off the ground. In an interview with Al Arabiya, Fahmi talked about upcoming plans and stated the importance of Coptic Christians being able to “establish a body that can resist the Islamist tide.”
“We created our group to create a balance in the Egyptian political scene,” he said.
Islamist Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi
So, rather than seeking political power, the Christian Brotherhood’s focus is ensuring a balance so that everyone can live peacefully in Egypt. Fahmi was sure to state that his group isn’t competing with Muslims, per se, but that it has formed to combat the rise of political Islam. His members, in contrast to the Muslim Brotherhood’s adherents and leaders like Morsi, aren’t seeking power.
The fear that a religious state was taking form also fueled the decision to complete Christian Brotherhood plans. The overall aim, adds Ayad, is for an alliance that can foster a peaceful response to the Muslim Brotherhood and other similar groups seeking Islamist domination. The coalition will essentially chronicle and keep track of the anti-Coptic actions that unfold in Egypt.
“We will then use all available legal channels to make sure the perpetrators of these actions do not get away with them,” Ayad said.
Considering what Coptic Christians in the region have already faced, there looks to be a great deal of work and documentation ahead for the Christian Brotherhood.
(H/T: Al Arabiya)
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Comments (57)
Rosewood11
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 12:47pmI think we need to form a “Christian Brotherhood/Sisterhood” in this country!!! This doesn‘t mean adopting one another’s doctrine, but rather defending our faith and the right to it from the likes of Mr. Morsi and others of his ilk. We have only to look to the comments of the Muslim Congressman this past week who said our public schools should be patterned on madrassas to see what muslims have in mind for the Christians in the U.S. Once they’ve accomplished that, we can look forward to their homicide bombings during church services, murdering little children at non-muslim schools, and forcing non-muslim women to convert and be raped, and forced to raise the resulting children in the islamic perversion of faith. If you doubt this is their way, look at Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, etc. It’s time Christians defended themselves, and the first step is forming a cohesive group.
Report Post »Tree_Butcher
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:54pmWe have several here in the US, the most significant founded this country, and is International, but not militant.
Report Post »GodsownDrunk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 12:40pmI’m afraid all this will do is make it easier for muslim butchers to find and kill Christians.
Report Post »Tree_Butcher
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:55pmNot if they arm themselves just as well as the others.
Report Post »garybkatz
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 12:15pmThe women of Egypt need to form a sisterhood.
Report Post »GodsownDrunk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 12:41pmThey’d just be killed if they tried.
Report Post »grandpa
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 11:41amWhy not start a division in the United States, the Christian Brotherhood would protect the right of all Christians throughout the world, especially in the Middle East. It is time for us to stand up against this muslim threat and no better way then to unite all Christians under the Christian Brotherhood.
Report Post »CharlesMartel
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 2:11pmWe could propose a treaty with Egypt and Saudi Arabia giving Muslims and Mosques the same rights in the United States that Christians and Churches and Jews and Synagogues have in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Oh wait! That would mean that Muslims and Mosques would have no rights!
Report Post »Tree_Butcher
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:58pmalready there
Report Post »http://www.yorkrite.org/
tothepoint
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:50amGod bless the Christians in these misogynist Islamic countries.
Report Post »They face persecution, murder, their homes burned and their women raped.
And our President defends these Islamists.
TJeff2112
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 8:26amFed up with Islam and Muslims. Their Qur’an tells them to wage jihad on all infidels. Don’t need them in my country or any western country. Expel them all, even the moderates (they have failed to reform Islam). I don’t think it can be reformed. A true Muslim is not moderate. That is according to their own holy book the Qur’an and its supporting texts.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:49amAnd there‘s some wonderwhy the Alawites don’t want to return to Muslim rule in Syria?
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:56amMURDER IS STILL MURDER.. muslums murder anyone even thier own kind… makes no difference whom MUSLUMS JUST KILL its not a peacefull religion but a MAN MADE CULT OF HATE N DEATH thier god allah a false stone idol not real.. mohammudd dead buried n false. islam is a MAN MADE CULT
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 2:18amBy it’s own Definition… ISLAM must Expand or Die!
Report Post »deadend
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:15pmAll in the name of the religion of peace. A piece of this a piece of that till they have all the pieces.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:58pmKnow Jesus know peace, No Jesus no peace.
Report Post »Tree_Butcher
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:00am‘Islam’ does not translate to ‘Peace’. ‘Submission’ is more like it. The inference is that if you submit your will, you will have peace.
Tell that to those that went to Auschwitz.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:06pmTime for Christians in the Middle East to join forces w/Israel, our elder brother in faith.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:11pmEgypt once the center of Western Civilization, has been suffering under jihad assault for centuries. The descent into dhimmitude and certain extinction of the Copts has been a long, slow, and painful process witnessed by generations of Christendom WHO DID NOTHING as their brothers fell.
We are witnessing the last desperate gasps from a people who now find themselves a minority in a country that was once theirs. And seeing that American foreign policy is being directed by the House of Saud in celebration of the allah deity, I do not foresee any assistance being directed their way.
If anything, they will be told to practice restraint and to respect the democratic elections. Then they will
be killed, their culture will be erased, and everything will be replaced with Islam and Sharia…and more muslims.
Muslims are engaged in the same Jihad process right this very moment here in America but we are too deeply deceived to do what must be done.
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:30pmIs Obama going to give the Christian Brotherhood $1.5 BILLION?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:07pmOh, hell to the NO!!
Report Post »littleQueenie
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:28pmGood for the Copts.
Report Post »They have been living under dhimitude status in Egypt since the Muslims took over and as bad as they had it under Mubarak they know the Muslim Brotherhood will be even worse.
I hope this Christian Brotherhood goes international because they need a loud voice and good representation.
Christians are being slaughtered all over the Islamic world while (thanks to MSM) the world remains oblivious to their plight.
Cavallo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:26pmI’m sure the US Government will light a candle for them whent he Islamonazis start marching the copts into gas chambers.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:27pmThe Islamists are not that sophisticated. That would take some ability to design a gas chamber, build it and implement a system to feed it. When in the last 500 years have they shown the ability to design and build anything without Europe or the west showng them how? They’ll just cut their heads off. I wonder if Obama would give Egyptian Christians asylum in this country? I already know the answer.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:42pmAgreed. A society that still thinks stoning women in an abandoned soccer field IS entertainement. Stoning women for daring to go outdoors without a male family escort AND if they turn to quick and an ankle shows??? Off to the soccer fields they go….
Do you THINK most of America got a glimps of this Arab Spring while a female newsreporter was being raped while the tape rolled? I watched the “Arab Spring” from the start….kept musing to myself, WHY are there no women there?
Ahhhh, the Liberal PC Police will defend this to the end…to the end of a rope after they bomb our azzes into THEIR STONE AGE.
Report Post »lessoneleg
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:25pmAll the best to the Coptic Christians, and every support should be given to the Coptic Christians for standing up to the most awful dreadful treatment of a religious group. The majority Muslim people of Egypt, and especially the Muslim Brotherhood look to humiliate the Coptics. It’s appalling how Christians in Middle Eastern Muslim domination get treated. Talk about ghettos! The Muslims make them like in absolute squawler, and treat the Christians like pigs.
Report Post »But our liberal MSM Press and society turn a blind eye to those kinds of things.
KangarooJack
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:18pmGood luck with that…now do an ‘Amittyville’ and GET OUT! Get out while you still can.
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:13pmI’m Positive none of them are taking Flight Lessons or Preaching the Killing of anyone who does not Believe. So I’m Praying for them.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:05pmThe Coptic Christians are hopelessly outnumbered by the hard line followers of Islam. They will be relentlessy persecuted.
Their prayers and ours are needed to God through Jesus Christ to protect these people. Pray for all good people who are now being persecuted by the evil forces of Islam.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:17pmTrue, but I submit:
David = 1
Report Post »Goliath = 0
phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:21pmi‘ll guess we’ll see whose God is stronger. good luck to your Guy, i hope He’s training.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:35pmHe’s certainly stronger than your god, Obama.
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:02pmRick Santorum just found his new party!
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:35pmI hope not. The religion of peace will likely murder most of them before the decade is out.
Report Post »thibx
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:59pmi am glad they are standing up to fight against this tyrant. may God help you
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:55pmThe two worlds most radical religions responsible for most of the murder and war in the world, clashing.
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:29pm“in the blue corner, weighing in at nothing, with a record of 1.6 billion batsh!t crazy and counting, known for his signature 72 virgin afterlife for martyrs, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAlllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
and in the red corner, also weighing in at exactly nothing, he destroyed every living thing on earth, has inspired over 33,000 denominations exalting his supremacy, with the ability to understand people speaking in jibberish, the defending champion, Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehooooooooovaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
now touch gloves and keep it clean.”
Report Post »The_Doors_Of_Perception
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:48pmHaha…one day the human race will be rid of this nonsense. I just hope its before the sun dies, the moon releases from our orbit, or the andromeda galaxy collides with ours. But then again peace is pretty boring I guess.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:07pmhttp://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
“But communists could not be wrong. After all, their knowledge was scientific, based on historical materialism, an understanding of the dialectical process in nature and human society, and a materialist (and thus realistic) view of nature. Marx has shown empirically where society has been and why, and he and his interpreters proved that it was destined for a communist end. No one could prevent this, but only stand in the way and delay it at the cost of more human misery. Those who disagreed with this world view and even with some of the proper interpretations of Marx and Lenin were, without a scintilla of doubt, wrong. After all, did not Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao say that. . . . In other words, communism was like a fanatical religion. It had its revealed text and chief interpreters. It had its priests and their ritualistic prose with all the answers. It had a heaven, and the proper behavior to reach it. It had its appeal to faith. And it had its crusade against nonbelievers.
What made this secular religion so utterly lethal was its seizure of all the state’s instrument of force and coercion and their immediate use to destroy or control all independent sources of power, such as the church, the professions, private businesses, schools, and, of course, the family.”
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:12pm“Of course, in periods when the political state as such is born violently out of civil society, when political liberation is the form in which men strive to achieve their liberation, the state can and must go as far as the abolition of religion, the destruction of religion. But it can do so only in the same way that it proceeds to the abolition of private property, to the maximum, to confiscation, to progressive taxation, just as it goes as far as the abolition of life, the guillotine.”-Karl Marx; On The Jewish Question, 1844
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:22pmhttp://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/ae2bkhun.html
“Therefore, I come to the indisputable conclusion that we must precisely now smash the Black Hundreds clergy most decisively and ruthlessly and put down all resistance with such brutality that they will not forget it for several decades.”-Lenin
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:23pmSACRED – have anything to add yourself? or do you just really like copy and pasting?
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:31pmhttp://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/128810?uid=3739256&sid=56276183603
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:33pmSure I can add, humans are cruel and biased towards everyone else with different beliefs, and it doesn’t matter what philosophy people follow, they will use their philosophy to kill those they disagree with… They will use their beliefs to justify the elimination of anyone who resists their views.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:10pmKarl Marx believed for their to be true peace you would have to force Christians and Jews (and other religions) to stop practicing their beliefs, if that didn’t work it would require going as far as using the guilliotine to stop them. For he believed religion was an opium of the masses, that lead people from a world based more on science and reason. As long as they existed, the final dream of a secularist world based purely on reason could not be achieved. Thus genocide was required.
Report Post »jamesctheman
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:53pmIt’s a powder keg ready to blow. Banding together in faith is the only way I can see them being able to survive. The thing I fear is that because of their faith it will only anger the hard line islamists even more. They will lash out & how long before the Copts start lashing back? God protect them.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:43pmWe add our prayers to yours, Coptic Christians. GOD BLESS AND PROTECT in the name above all names, JESUS THE CHRIST, amen.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:55pmThanks for your post.
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:39pmAmen
Report Post »Seabass82
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:42pmMy prayers will be with this group. Somehow it will be spun that they (Christian Brotherhood) are the real threat.
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:56pmWell of course, they are “Crusaders”, to the ******* they will be ‘terrorists’
Report Post »I’ve known a couple of Egyptian coptics, had a great conversation with them. BOTH of them were refugees living here because they had to escape Muslim persecution. Great people, both of them.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:29pmGood fortune and Gods blessings be with them; for Egypt all too easily can descend into a civil war on the lines of faith and ideology.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:44pmI was just thinking “this isn’t going to end well”.
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