Monday, April 11, 2011

Eighteen Million Coptic Christians Throwing Off Oppression Is The Driving Force Behind Egypt's Revolution

From The Patriot Word:

Apr 11, 2011 (12 hours ago)18 Million Coptic Christians Throwing Off Oppression Is The Driving Force Behind Egypt's Revolutionfrom The Patriot Word by Walter L. Brown Jr.


Recently, I accepted a role as a board member for Voice of the Copts. Our goal is to report news of discrimination and oppression of religious minorities in every corner of our planet. Special attention is given to legalized and outlawed criminal activity that occurs in the Arab world along with in-depth explanations of Arab mentality, behaviour and way of life based on first hand reports of the oppressed.



Voice of the Copts publishes articles of interest to the Copts (Egyptian Christians). Our website is an open window to the Coptic Christian culture, as well as a comprehensive source of information on the Copts' suffering in their own land.





Coptic Christians Are The Driving Force Behind Egypt's Revolution:



The role of Coptic Christians in the Egyptian uprising is described here by the President and Founder of Voice of the Copts. Here is a short excerpt from his commentary discussing the actual beginnings of the revolution.



"Things really began with a street clash a few months earlier in a very significant backlash by the Copts who, for the first time in recent history, confronted with force the regime’s police who violently attacked workers at a church construction site in Omrania, just north of Cairo. The actions here were not caught on camera and were not sparked by Facebook organizers, but having reached the point of no return regarding abusive police brutality, Coptic protesters cried out for freedom of religion and demanded equal treatment under the law in order to build their place of worship. On this day, they demanded as well that Mubarak step down. Police retaliated by attacking protesters, killing three and injuring many.





The Copts paid dearly for this when, on January 1st, a car bomb was planted in front of the Coptic Saints Church of Alexandria and rigged for three explosions timed just ten minutes apart in order to maximize the killing of innocent worshippers departing from their New Year’s service. Mubarak’s police would never allow the raised voices of the "infidels" demanding fair and equal treatment under the law to go unpunished."





Here are my comments in response to Voice of the Copts President Ashraf Ramelah's article:

Here are my comments in response to Voice of the Copts President Ashraf Ramelah's article:




In 1857, Frederick Douglass a courageous black man and leader in the movement to abolish slavery gave this speech in Canandaigua, NY my hometown. Please share his words with our Christian brothers in Egypt along with our prayers for their courage. May God bless you and all other Christians with the courage to stand firm in the face of evil.



"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.





This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages and make no resistance, either moral or physical. Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others."



The struggle for freedom and liberty is a struggle, it doesn't come freely, it requires courage and sacrifice and the Coptic Christians are on the right track. Jesus provided us the example and the courage to sacrifice ourselves in the battle against evil.





Voice of the Copts Board Member

Walter L. Brown Jr.

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