Sword-Wielding Muslims Who Attacked Christian-Owned Egyptian School Escape Prosecution
- Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:51am by
Billy Hallowell
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Last month, a Christian-owned school in the Aswan Province in Egypt was attacked by hundreds of knife-wielding assailants. The Islamic perpetrators held two nuns hostage for hours and created quite a stir at a facility owned by the Notre Dame Language Schools. Following the rampage, a “reconciliation meeting” was held during which the manager of the school claims an extortion attempt was made.
Compass Direct News initially reported on the March 4 attack, providing the dramatic details surrounding the extremists’ actions:
Two nuns in Upper Egypt faced “unimaginable fear” – with one later hospitalized over the emotional trauma – when 1,500 Muslim villagers brandishing swords and knives trapped them inside a guesthouse last week and threatened to burn them out.
The next day, the assailants frightened children at the school; attendance has since dropped by more than a third.
Accusing the nuns of building a church at the site, the throng on March 4 chanted Islamic slogans as they surrounded the guesthouse of a privately run, public school in the village of Abu Al-Reesh, in Aswan Province. Two nuns, volunteer teachers at Notre Dame Language Schools, barricaded themselves into the school’s guesthouse for about eight hours. [...]
Conservative Muslims began milling around the school and accosting school employees at 2 p.m. on March 4. A group of men with swords stopped one employee and accused him of “building a church, and we are coming to attack the place,” the employee told Melad, who was at the scene of the attack.
According to The Christian Post, the extremists demanded in the follow-up reconciliation meeting to the attack that peace would be possible if portions of land were signed over to the extremists. The Notre Dame Language Schools, despite risking more attacks, refused the offer, according to school manager Magdy Melad. Melad explained that striking such a deal would set a dangerous precedent in which Muslims could attack Christian properties and then seize them through unfair reconciliation council meetings.
While the school refused to give its land away, its associated officials did pledge not to prosecute any of the hundreds of individuals who waged the attack.
“The only thing we had to give away was our rights,” Melad said, as he claimed that the threat of future violence compeled him to make the decision. “This was all against the law.”
These so-called “reconciliation meetings” have come under fire for the unfairness many claim they breed. While Islamic leaders and government officials believe they are a viable method of diffusing tensions, others disagree. The Post explains:
“Reconciliation meetings” are held throughout Egypt after incidents of “sectarian” violence in order to restore calm. Increasingly used during the administration of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the meetings are loosely based on traditional Arabic tribal councils. Supporters of the reconciliation process, mainly government and Islamic leaders, say the meetings offer a way to defuse tensions. Those who oppose the process, including numerous human rights groups and Coptic rights activists, say the meetings are just a way to pressure powerless groups and people into giving away what little rights they have.
The reconciliation meeting in question took place on March 25 and included the local governor, members of the national intelligence service and police officials. In the end, Melad was assured that the school would “never have any problems again” — a pledge that, considering the sociopolitical schema in the country, is hard to believe.
As for the guesthouse that was attacked, it has been stripped bare and the government has ordered Melad not to use it, despite proof that it has not been used as a house of worship. If he or other school staffers reject this demand, their lives could be at stake, as Islamic members of the village could take retributive action.
(H/T: The Christian Post)
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Larry E
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:14pmIslamists will never be punished or reprimanded in an Islamic country, and more and more they’re not likely to be punished or reprimanded in this country either. But anyone who offends them is likely to end up dead, even here. Time to stand up and be counted boys and girls.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:30pmThe WH & the WWing will go silent again, those children should have eaten more vegetables, as if that would have saved them.
Report Post »VigilantGuardShark
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:24pmIs it just me or is there a marked resemblence to the Nazi Germany flag of the Egyptian flag? The Red, White and Black…the Eagle all reminescent of the Nazi.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:56pmThese MUSLIM “moderates” are of their father SATAN. The Crescent MOON is the MOON God from which their God, Allah originated. They will be destroyed, by the REAL God. Jesus will destroy them with the brightness of HIS coming.
Report Post »deano24
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:25pm@VigilantGuardShark you’re right. Except the Egyptian eagle has its wings by its side & the Nazi eagle has its wings spread out.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:03pmObama: Supports Muslim Brotherhood and rents them our military free of charge!
Report Post »Obama: Welcomes and turns a blind eye to Christian genocide!
TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:42amAnd Valerie Jarrett was “born” in Iran..oh, but “don’t worry mon, nuthin to see here”…
Report Post »broper
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:42amIslam is a disease on the planet. They are at war with all Christians and Jews first, and then with all infidels, and will only co-exist until they grow strong enough to control and destroy us. These are the same “peace loving” faithful who locked the doors from the outside at a Saudi Arabian girl’s school that was on fire. Why? Because the little girls inside didn’t have their heads properly covered, so of course they had to remian inside. They had to die, rather than insult Islam. This is the insane religion, that Obama reveres. Go ahead and Google “Obama bows to the Saudi King”. Think about what you’re watching. No patriotic American, much less the President of the United States of America, should bow and scrap to a foreign king. Obama‘s has spoken about Islam’s contribution to American history. Okay, name one thing Islam has done to contribute to American history. He didn’t, can you? Wake up people, Islam commands their followers to jahad. Muslims will never be loyal to any country ahead of their faith. So when the time comes, Muslims in this country will rise up against the rest of us, starting with Christians and Jews.
Report Post »burnbabylon
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:18pmOkay, name one thing Islam has done to contribute to American history.
In the early years of our Republic they did inspire us to beef up our Naval and Marine forces. Does the phrase “shores of Tripoli” ring a bell?
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:28ammurdering MUSLUMS they care NOT whom they kill save that they KILL>. not to worry MUSLUMS have a place in HELL not heaven for there IS no ALLAH thier god is a false stone idol in a man made cult of hate n death,….threy wont escape that…..
Report Post »Maxxwell Maddingly
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:22amShariah Law requires “Christians” to pay a “tax” in order to live. The “extortion” this article eludes to IS that “Tax”… These TERRORISTS want us to recognize Shariah in America. This is not the case with the Jizyah, which is a tax that the Dhimmi uniquely had to pay. It has its origins in Surah Tauba 9:29, where it is explicitly revealed as a sign of the subjugation of conquered non-Muslims. [17] Hence, the tax is clearly a tribute, and a sign of subjection, in no way equivalent to the alms tax Zakat. Yusuf Ali’s comment on the Jizyah clarifies this:
1281 Jizya: the root meaning is compensation. The derived meaning, which became the technical meaning, was a poll-tax levied from those who did not accept Islam, but were willing to live under the protection of Islam, and were thus tacitly willing to submit to its ideals being enforced in the Muslim State. There was no amount permanently fixed for it. It was in acknowledgment that those whose religion was tolerated would in their turn not interfere with the preaching and progress of Islam. Imam Shafi’i suggests one dinar per year, which would be the Arabian gold dinar of the Muslim States. The tax varied in amount, and there were exemptions for the poor, for females and children (according to Abu Hanifa), for slaves, and for monks and hermits. Being a tax on able-bodied males of military age, it was in a sense a commutation for military service. But see the next note. (9.29)
Report Post »1282 ‘An Yadin (literally, from the
HorseCrazy
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:10amswords really? 2012 and swords? islam needs to find their own planet or the cavemen need to go the way of the dinasaur.
Report Post »Maxxwell Maddingly
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:24amMakes it easier to cut the heads off of the infedel…
Report Post »They dont want you dead when they cut your head off… The LOVE thet terror of it… Remember Daniel Pearl?
Maxxwell Maddingly
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:28amSwords make it easier to cut off the heads of the infedel… They LOVE the Terror of it all.
Report Post »They want you alive while the saw off your head. Remember Daniel Pearl?
Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:05amHolder wouldn’t have prosecuted them if this happened in downtown Detroit……… Cuz they’re his people……….
Report Post »cayenne523
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:16amIslam must be wiped from the face of the earth. I want my grandchildren to ask “what were muslims, what was islam?”
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:07amoh that would be nice wouldn’t it. nothing but a bad memory.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:16amholder and obama will be sending a message of job well done to them
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:15amReminds me of the attacks on Israel……….attack, demand more land and concessions, get them, attack and demand more, get more, attack, demand more………on and on and on.
You cannot reason with or give in to these people.. Islam is not reasonable.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:11am“the extremists demanded in the follow-up reconciliation meeting to the attack that peace would be possible if portions of land were signed over to the extremists”
Sounds like obama’s Palestine-Israel policy.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:01amGood thing that awful tyrant Mubarak is gone. Otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing the fruits of this wonderful democratic revolution! Just like 1776, ain’t it Bill Kristol?
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:10amHillary should soon tell us how this is all by barry’s design.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:14amBarack not only eats dog meat, but he’s a genius. He found a way to rid the world of Mubarak AND continue the slaughter of innocent Christians.
Report Post »fort9erdon
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:28pmWhy would Hillary tell us anything? Her and Bill have joined the “Obama lapdog society”!
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:01amReligion of peace.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:36amBecause ‘all religions are alike’… !
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:01amWHY did I not hear of this before?
Terrorism WORKS!
NEVER tell your Enemy your Plans!
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:21amBecause Liberals would rather tell the world our military plans through the media, saying, “The public has the right to know!”……
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