"Thousands of Muslims honored a promise made by their leaders and showed up at Christmas Mass or at candlelight vigils outside Egyptian churches on Friday, offering their bodies as human shields against any acts of terrorists. The observances were tense, in view of the New Year’s Day bombing of a cathedral in Alexandria, which killed 21. The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7. Among those Muslims making this statement was beloved comedian Adil Imam. Since the 1990s Imam has been active in combating radicalism, memorably in his film “Kebab and Terrorism” (Kebab wa Irhab).
Father Marqus, the Bishop of Alexandria, said that in his entire life he had never seen the degree of solidarity of Muslims with Coptic Christians that he has witnessed in recent days. He said that Muslims attending the funeral of the Christian victims of the New Year’s Day bombing had treated them like Muslim martyrs, pronouncing ‘God is Great!’ in mourning, and had erupted in applause at the condemnation of the terrorists. He said that the bombing was like an aqua regia solution that would assay the metal of the Egyptian people and reveal their golden nature. The act of terror, he said, will have the opposite effect of the one intended, and will instead increase the love of Christians and Muslims for one another."
The Arizona Legislature is expected to pass legislation Tuesday that will bar protesters at funerals from getting within 300 feet of services, a spokesman for the state House said.
The action, according to House spokesman Daniel Scarpinato, is in direct response to a controversial church’s announcement that it will picket the funeral of Christina Green, the 9-year-old who was among six people killed during Saturday’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona.
In addition to the expected legislation, some Tucson residents are planning an “angel action” — with 8- by 10-foot “angel wings” worn by participants to shield mourners from picketers. Angel actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its neon signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming.
“We want to surround them, in a nonviolent way, to say that our community is united,” Gilmer said, who is helping organize the action. “We’re a peaceful haven.”
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5 comments:
I can't believe those bat-sh*t crazy cretins. Another reason we should tax religion. Maybe they wouldn't have the cash to travel around causing misery.
I say that if the cemetary is bringing in the back-hoe to dig one grave, they might as well dig another wider and deeper one so we can toss all the assholes into it after we are done using our bags of frozen oranges on them. Personally I would also bring a combination lock in a sock but that is just me - old school.
I was really happy to hear about the Muslims in Egypt helping the Christians. I don't know what kind of crazy Baptist church would want people murdered. Horrible.
Why not just grab your rapier and do it right. I like the way you think.
That is why you are on my council of advisers, Dr G. I have the big idea and you refine it down to something elegant in it's simplicity. Personally satifying and most importantly OLD SCHOOL.
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