I would like to comment on some abuses done against christians around the world. In this post, I will be pointing out the killing of a Christian in Egypt. His crime, wearing a crucifix. This is the result of the "Arab Spring". There's a movement now in the Middle East that has been attacking Christians for their faith. Liberation from dictators turned out to be the worst thing that could ever happened to Christians in the Middle East.
This news item is very revealing as to what the West has been supporting:
In mid-October Egyptian media published news of an altercation between Muslim and Christian students over a classroom seat at a school in Mallawi, Minya province.
The altercation lead to the murder of a Christian student. The media portrayed the incident as non-sectarian. However, Copts Without Borders, a Coptic news website, refuted this version and was first to report that the Christian student was murdered because he was wearing a crucifix."We wanted to believe the official version," said activist Mark Ebeid, "because the Coptic version was a catastrophe, as it would take persecution of Christians also to schools." He blamed the church in Mallawi for keeping quiet about the incident.
Today the parents of the 17-year-old Christian student Ayman Nabil Labib, broke their silence, confirming that their son was murdered on October 16, in "cold blood because he refused to take off his crucifix as ordered by his Muslim teacher." Nabil Labib, the father, said in a taped video interview with Copts United NGO, that his son had a cross tattooed on his wrist as per Coptic tradition, as well as another cross which he wore under his clothes.The altercation lead to the murder of a Christian student. The media portrayed the incident as non-sectarian. However, Copts Without Borders, a Coptic news website, refuted this version and was first to report that the Christian student was murdered because he was wearing a crucifix."We wanted to believe the official version," said activist Mark Ebeid, "because the Coptic version was a catastrophe, as it would take persecution of Christians also to schools." He blamed the church in Mallawi for keeping quiet about the incident.Today the parents of the 17-year-old Christian student Ayman Nabil Labib, broke their silence, confirming that their son was murdered on October 16, in "cold blood because he refused to take off his crucifix as ordered by his Muslim teacher." Nabil Labib, the father, said in a taped video interview with Copts United NGO, that his son had a cross tattooed on his wrist as per Coptic tradition, as well as another cross which he wore under his clothes.According to Ayman's father, eyewitnesses told him that his son was not beaten up in the school yard as per the official story, but in the classroom. "They beat my son so much in the classroom that he fled to the lavatory on the ground floor, but they followed him and continued their assault. When one of the supervisors took him to his room, Ayman was still breathing. The ambulance transported him from there dead, one hour later."
A teacher supported attack? Aren't teachers supposed to teach students to live in harmony? They wanted to cover up this incident as just a violent incident, but now we know better.
In the West, we are always told that schools are places of safety. Apparently in Egypt, if you are a Christian, this is not true.
What sort of ideology or religion drives a teacher to force a student to take off a crucifix, because he or she finds it offensive? And to top it all, invites other students to beat up the student to death for not following his or her directions?
If something like this would take place in a Western countries, Muslims countries would be up in arms, killing other Christians in their countries, and burning churches. An independent commentator wrote in an independent:
Prominent columnist Farida El-Shobashy wrote in independent newspaper Masry Youm "I was shaken to the bones when I read the news that a teacher forced a student to take off the crucifix he wore, and when the Christian student stood firm for his rights, the teacher quarreled with him, joined by some of the students; he was beastly assaulted until his last breath left him." She wondered if the situation was reversed and a Muslim was killed for not removing the Koran he wore, what would have been the reaction.
The reaction would have been what I just mentioned.
In my next article, we will see how Muslims come to Western countries, and demand that their rights be respected, but don't extend that courtesy to Christian foreigners in their land, and to their shame, not even to the Christian citizens that live in their country.
So the "Arab Spring", is becoming an "Arab Hell" for Christians. In my next entry, I will see this issue, now from an American point of view.
Luis A. Jovel
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