MasterP said:
And now the Christians are fleeing the country en-mass. Just yesterday Egyptian army APCs rammed through a crowd of Christian protestors, killing any that couldn’t get out of the way. A number of churches have been destroyed by “ultraconservative Islamists” and they routinely break into the homes of Christians and kill all who live there. If they were “fed up” with Mubarak I can’t imagine how they feel about the replacement regime…
As you already know the media has blown all of this way out of proportion. The muslim and christian relationship in Egypt was already in conflict way before these protests started. They put that off to the side to get rid of Mubarak and now are back at it again. I agree with you, now that Mubarak’s regime is gone the christians in that country are having a harder time. The way you describe it though, it’s as if there is a genocide and exodus going on (6 million people are christian in Cairo alone). My dad lives over there, he works with the coptic christians, lives in a neighborhood full of them, hell his driver is a christian. From what I’ve heard from him, it’s not as dramatic as it seems. Christians and muslims are both protesting in droves now because of the army’s abuse of power. The army knew what they were doing from the start, with Mubarak out the way they can control.
i dont know about libya, but the egyptian protests were initial started by a facebook post by a google marketing manager. Now unless he is somehow tied to the muslim brotherhood, what else you got?