Hitler's [in his view] "Arab monkey race" has a Nazi Party in Egypt... again

Hitler's "Arab monkey race" has a Nazi Party in Egypt... again

Oct. 2011

In the 1930s, as the Middle East got caught up in Nazism in a combination of ultra Arabism, 'Arab racism' and supremacy mixed with Islamic radicalism, Arab Nazi scouts/parties sprung in the Arab world. Like the Futuwwa in Iraq [who, under the pan-Arab, pan-Islamic leader Mufti's influence was responsible for the Farhud massacre in 1941]; the 'Young Egypt' was born in 1933, "producing" such "gems" as warmonger Nasser; the Husseinis in Arab-Palestine created a Hitler Youth type paramilitary and an Arab Nazi Party.

After more than 70 Years, whereas openly Nazism is -fortunately- shunned just about everywhere, yet, apparently the Nazi demon still lives on in Arabia... In the Arab Islamic Egypt there are 'Arab springers' who are "inspired" to be Nazis. Repeating the paradox, in spite of the ironic contradiction to the Aryans contempt for them. It is no secret how Hitler and the Nazis despised Arabs (as well as all Middle Easterners), regarded them as "monkeys," and would have wiped them out (as assertion come out in recent years), just as “soon” as they were “done“ with the Jews.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN: 'ARAB NAZI PARTY' - NOW IN EGYPT [IN 2011] - WITHOUT ANY SHAME

Founders of the Egyptian Nazi Party: All We Want is World Supremacy for the Egyptian Race
September 28, 2011 Special Dispatch No.4170
Following are excerpts from a TV talk show featuring members of the Egyptian Nazi Party, which aired on Dream1 TV on September 22, 2011.

"Our Political Goal is to Make the Arab Race, or Arabic Speakers, the Best Race"

TV host Wael El-Ebrashi: "A group of young Egyptians have founded a Nazi political party, even though Nazism is a tyrannical Fascist political ideology, which brought ruin and destruction upon the entire world." [...]

Egyptian Nazi Party member Dr. Mamdouh Mansour: "This is a new party with a new ideology. It operates out in the open. It is not a secret or Freemason society. The party's ideology offers solutions to the problems afflicting Egypt." [...]

Egyptian Nazi Party member Sayyed Gamal: "We have adopted the positive aspects of the Nazi Party, not the negative. We will not carry out holocausts against the Jews, and we will not fight them. This has to do with the policies of the state, in which we do not interfere.

"Nobody finances us – neither at home nor abroad."

Head of the Egyptian Nazi Party Muhi Al-Din Gamal: "My vision for the future is that within 10 years, we will have representatives in the parliament, and the president will be one of ours as well. Our political goal is to make the Arab race, or Arabic speakers, the best race. They will be at the top level, and we will help to spread the Arabic language throughout the world."

Egyptian Nazi Party member Rami Gan: "Several businessmen want to finance us, and we have to choose between them. We do not recognize the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

"We want to build an Egyptian nuclear reactor – a reactor that will be built by Egyptians and will have Egyptian components. All Egyptians will unite around this national project."

"The One and Only Thing We Have Adopted from Nazism is Racial Supremacy"

TV host Wael El-Ebrashi: "Heil Hitler! We have in the studio with us 'Amr Fouad, a member of the Nazi Party. Welcome, 'Amr.

"Muhammad Abd Al-Rahmad, a member of the Nazi Party. Hello, Muhammad.

"And Ahmad Sayyed, a member of the Nazi Party. Welcome, Ahmad. [...]

"Why should we, in Egypt, import these tyrannical, Fascist political movements, and evoke them from history, after they have been vomited by the entire world?"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5682.htm

Founders of Egyptian Nazi Party Claim 'Not Hostile to Jews
September 29, 2011 – The Founders of the Egyptian Nazi Party went on television last week to proclaim that their recently formed political group will seek to achieve ...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/founders-of-egyptian-nazi-party-claims-its-not-hostile-to-jews/

Egyptian activists 'to form Nazi party', n... JPost - Middle East
May 26, 2011 – 'Al-Masry Al-Youm' report says Facebook pages launched to attract followers; Nazi parties operated secretly in Egypt during Mubarak regime.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=222367

Arab Spring… Egypt Now Has a Nazi Party The Gateway Pundit
May 26, 2011 – A group of Egyptian political activists have announced plans to set up a local version “of the Nazi party,” an Egyptian newspaper reported on...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/05/arab-spring-egyptian-nazi-party-forming/

Egyptians Start NAZI Party FrontPage Magazine [Oct 4, 2011]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/03/egyptians-start-nazi-party/

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NAZI TYPE PARTIES: INCLUDING 'YOUNG EGYPT,' FUTUWWA IN IRAQ AND THE 'ARAB NAZI PARTY' IN PALESTINE (1930'S)

The Outpost
The most influential Arab party to follow the Nazi model was Young Egypt, known also as the Green Shirts, in tribute to the Nazi Jung Deutschland and the ...
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/96JAN/jan6.htm

Bosnian Moslems recruited the Nazi SS by Yasser Arafat's 'Uncle'
The most influential party that emulated the Nazis was "Young Egypt," which was founded in October 1933. They had storm troopers, torch processions, and ...
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/recruited.html

[PDF] Middle Eastern Myths "The Myth of Yasser Arafat"

During the war, Arab Nazi parties were founded throughout the Middle East. The most influential one was "Young Egypt" which was established in 1933...

http://www.rbooker.com/articles/TheMythofYasserArafat.PDF

Armies of the young: child soldiers in war and terrorism - Page 106

David M. Rosen - Rutgers University Press, 2005 - 199 pages - Preview

Others argued that the "Land is in need of a youth, healthy in body and soul like the Nazi ... paramilitary forces. Palestinian students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party of Palestine. The Husseinis used the Palestinian Arab Party to established the al-Futuwwa

http://books.google.com/books?id=zQYQ0tho6mAC&pg=PA106

Semites and anti-Semites: an inquiry into conflict and prejudice - Page 147

Bernard Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 - 295 pages - Preview

A first attempt to found an Arab Nazi movement seems to date from the summer of 1933, when the Jaffa correspondent of the Cairo newspaper al-Ahram applied to the German consul for help. It was not forthcoming... The mood of the 1930s was vividly described by Syrian Saml al- Jundi, an early leader of the Ba'th party, ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=GteStbiDEjAC&pg=PA147

The Jews of Iraq: 3000 years of history and culture


Nissim Rejwan - Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985 - 274 pages - Page 223

...and the Futuwwa and Youth Brigades (katayib al-shabab) whose members 'imbibed Nazism from the Palestinians and the Syrians' and who systematically harassed the Jews during the month of May, when they were made responsible for keeping ... One more point about the farhud of the first and second of June is worth mentioning here.

http://books.google.com/books?id=1twsAQAAIAAJ&q=futuwwa

The third Reich & the Palestine question - Page 90

Francis R. Nicosia - Transaction Publishers, 2000 - 319 pages - Preview

Wolff's strong opposition to any sort of German encouragement or support for an Arab Nazi party in Palestine was conveyed in a note to the Foreign Office in Berlin in June, 1933, in which he argued: Because the strengthening of the

http://books.google.com/books?id=8X2G1G_jD-4C&pg=PA90

First things: Issues 154-158

Institute on Religion and Public Life - 2005 - [Page 14]

Several of the Arab political parties founded during the 1930s were modeled after the Nazi party, including the Syrian Popular Party and the Young Egypt Society, which were explicitly anti-Semitic in their ideology and programs.

http://books.google.com/books?id=4-gnAAAAYAAJ&q=modeled

The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini - Page 28

Chuck Morse - iUniverse, 2003 - 186 pages - Preview

Al- Husseini's own Palestine Arab Party stood for the expulsion of all Jewish settlers and an independent Arab ... efforts to assist in the development of what would become distinctly Nazi-Arab style organizations and political parties...

http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA28

1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war - Page 89


Benny Morris - Yale University Press, 2008 - 524 pages - Preview
Al-Hawari tried to model the Najjada on the Ha- ganah. By mid-1946 it had, on paper, “8000” members. The Futuwwa was founded at the end of 1935 by Jamal Husseini as the Arab Party's youth corps; the Nazi Party or the Hitlerjugend ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=CC7381HrLqcC&pg=PA89

Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1999


Benny Morris - Random House Digital, Inc., 1999 - 751 pages - Google eBook - Preview

It set up its own youth corps, al-Futuwwa (the name of an association of Arab knights during the Middle Ages), which resembled Germany's Hitler Youth and was officially designated the “Nazi Scouts.” At the founding meeting on February ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZHXkyAIl7cC&pg=PT203

The master plan: Himmler's scholars and the Holocaust


Heather Anne Pringle - Hyperion, 2006 - 463 pages

Grobba arranged for the leaders of Al- Futuwwa to travel to Nuremberg to attend the annual Nazi party rally.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xLxumfeBgjQC&pg=PT76

Gold, Bankiers und Diplomaten: zur Geschichte der Deutschen Orientbank 1906-1946

Wolfgang Schwanitz - Trafo, 2002 - 429 pages - Page 247 - Snippet view

salem, is called by the Germans the chief of the Arab Nazi party and chosen by the enemy as the future representative of the Arabs in the political meaning of the word.

http://books.google.com/books?id=KF6vAAAAIAAJ&q=%22arab+nazi+party%22

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HITLER'S INFERIOR DESPISED ARAB 'MONKEY' RACE

War aims in the second world war: the war aims of the major belligerents, 1939-45 -
by Victor Rothwell - History - 2005 - 244 pages (Page 41)
However, the Nazis were clear in their minds that the Arabs were racially inferior, and there would, therefore, be no pleasure to be had from helping them in anything except for the extermination of Jews in their region.
http://books.google.com/books?id=XfgLbSc94MEC&pg=PA41

Islam, Nazism, and Totalitarianism

During an interview conducted in the late 1930s (published in 1939), Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychiatry, was asked “…had he any views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development?” Jung replied, in reference to the Nazi fervor that had gripped Germany

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

Albert Speer, who was Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, wrote a contrite memoir of his World War II experiences while serving a 20-year prison sentence imposed by the Nuremberg tribunal. Speer's narrative includes this discussion, which captures Hitler's racist views of Arabs on the one hand, and his effusive praise for Islam on the other:

Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs. When the Mohammedans attempted to penetrate beyond France into Central Europe during the eighth century, his visitors had told him, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours. Had the Arabs won this battle, the world would be Mohammedan today. For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire. Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by remarking, "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/61/55/

The roots of Arab Anti-Semitism - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine Oct 31, 2001 ... Then came the Holocaust, which not only marked the pinnacle of European anti-Semitism but encouraged it in the Arab world as well. Because Arab leaders shared the Germans’ hostility to Britain and France—the dominant colonial powers in the Middle East—they were eager to make common cause with Hitler, despite Nazi belief that they, like the Jews, were inferior to Aryans. The mufti of Jerusalem, among others, actively spread propaganda about “Anglo-Saxon Jewish greed” while praising the Nazi war effort. Even years later, sympathy for Nazism could be easily found in Arab culture. When Israel apprehended Adolf Eichmann in 1960, a Saudi newspaper headline read, “Capture of Eichmann, Who Had the Honor of Killing Five Million Jews.”

If the Holocaust nurtured Arab anti-Semitism, it also helped to discredit such bigotry in the West. Indeed, it helped mobilize support for a Jewish state internationally. In 1948, Israel was finally granted independence. As if to welcome their new neighbor into the region, the Arab countries promptly invaded. Israel repulsed the attacks, and in the three Arab-Israeli wars that followed (1956, 1967, 1973), the Jewish state managed to survive and..
http://web.archive.org/web/20050909034206/http://www.slate.com/id/2057949/

The third Reich & the Palestine question - Francis R. Nicosia - 2000 - History - 319 pages (Page 85)
Most Arabs never realized that the Nazis would consider them racially inferior as well and that Germany had no intention of undermining British authority in ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=xh4m-OMrhJUC&pg=PA85

The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj ... Chuck Morse - 2003 - History - 188 pages (page 53) ... as Hitler was known to have described the Arabs as "lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped," to a lower race ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA53

Despite Hitler's personal antipathy towards Arabs, who he once described as lacquered half apes who ought to be whipped, he nevertheless was prepared to ...
http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/An%20unholy%20alliance%201801%20original.doc

The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters ...Martin A. Lee - 1999 - Political Science - 560 pages (page 122) Even though he loathed Arabs (he once described them as "lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped"), Hitler was nonetheless the idol of the paramilitary ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=SX4B7pNG3W8C&pg=PA122

What did the Nazis really think about Muslims?
According to the Nazis' racist ideology, Arabs are racial Semites and thus subhumans, similar to Jews. In his book, Mein Kampf, Hitler described the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural and political battle between Aryans and non-Aryans. He envisaged a "ladder" of racial hierarchy, asserting that German "Aryans" were at the top of the ladder, while Jews and Gypsies were consigned to the bottom of the order. On Hitler's racial ladder, Arabs and Muslims occupied a servile place, held in much the same contempt as the Jews.
Hitler made a personal remark in 1939 in which he referred to the populace of the Middle East as "painted half-apes that ought to feel the whip".
As in other instances, however, the Nazis never allowed their ideological views to get in the way of more urgent political considerations. The Nazis recognized the importance of wooing the Arab and Muslim world to their side and, in their public proclamations, downplayed their real views of Muslims and Arabs. When Mein Kampf was being translated into Arabic in 1938, Hitler himself tactfully proposed to omit from it his "racial ladder" theory.
http://www.projetaladin.org/en/40-questions-40-answers/the-nazis-the-holocaust-and-muslims.html

World War II New Research Taints Image of Desert Fox Rommel
By Jan Friedmann
Der Spiegel, 05/23/2007
Arabs Shouted "Heil Rommel"

Hitler was celebrated in large parts of the Arab world, and some newspapers even likened him to the Prophet. The Desert Fox was almost as popular as Hitler. "Heil Rommel" was a common greeting in Arab countries.

Many Arabs thought the Germans would free them from the rule of the old colonial powers France and Britain. Hitler had shown how to burst the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles. After Germany defeated France in 1940, chants against the French and British echoed around the streets of Damascus: "No more Monsieur, no more Mister, Allah's in Heaven and Hitler's on earth."

Adolf Hitler assured the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, at a meeting in Berlin in November 1941 that his goal was the "destruction of Jewry living in Arabia." The Führer had racist objections to Arabs as well, though. He declined to shake the Mufti's hand and refused to drink coffee with him.

Hitler nevertheless provided the Mufti, who later sponsored Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, with a budget of 750,000 Reichsmark per month to foment Jihad in Palestine. In an example of ideological flexibility, the SS even recruited Muslim volunteers and declared that the Muslims living in the Balkans belonged to the "racially valuable" peoples of Europe.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,484510,00.html

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective
- Page 173
José B. Ashford, Craig Winston LeCroy, Kathy L. Lortie - Cengage Learning, 2009 - 726 pages - Preview
Turks, Arabs, and East Indians were subjected to serious discrimination in Germany because of this emphasis on biology.
http://books.google.com/books?id=R8-HitN5Jp0C&pg=PA173

The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement - Philip Mattar - Columbia University Press, 1992 - Biography & Autobiography - 191 pages
Moreover, the Nazis viewed the Arabs with contempt. Arabs in Germany received the discriminatory treatment consistent with Nazi racial theories..
http://books.google.com/books?id=XH8qTS5xNUIC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100

The beast reawakens - Page 123 - Martin A. Lee - 1999 - History - 560 pages
While Arabs in Germany suffered discriminatory treatment consistent with Nazi racial theories, the Mufti was chauffeured around by an SS guard in a black ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=SX4B7pNG3W8C&pg=PA123

Have no doubt Hitler would have wiped out Arabs after Jews
Saturday February 24 2007

MAURICE Papon, lowered into his grave along with his precious Legion d'honneur last week, proved what many Arabs have long suspected but generally refuse to acknowledge: that bureaucrats and racists and others who worked for Hitler regarded all Semitic people as their enemies and that - had Hitler's armies reached the Middle East - they would ultimately have found a "final solution" to the "Arab question," just as they did for the Jews of Europe.

Papon's responsibility for the 1942 arrest and deportation of 1,600 Jews in and around Bordeaux - 223 children among them, all shipped off to the Drancy camp and then to Auschwitz - was proved without the proverbial shadow of a doubt at his 1998 trial.

Less clear were the exact number of Algerians murdered by his police force in Paris and hurled into the Seine in 1961. He organised the police repression of the independence demonstration by 40,000 Algerians; in the cities of Algiers and Oran and Blida and other areas of modern-day Algeria where this atrocity festers on among elderly relatives, they say that up to 400 Algerians were massacred by Papon's flics. Some historians suggest 250. The same was always claimed of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. From Hitler, he obtained a promise that "when we (the Germans) have arrived at the southern Caucasus, then the time of the liberation of the Arabs will have arrived - and you can rely on my word." All this came back to me last week when I received a remarkable letter from Toulouse in my Beirut mailbag. It was a response to an article I wrote last year about Irene Nemirovsky, whose magnificent, Tolstoyan novel of the Nazi occupation of France was unfinished when Irene was herself sent to Drancy and on to the crematoria of Auschwitz. My article earned a stiff call of complaint from the press attache at the French embassy in London.

The letter, in slightly ungrammatical English, was written by Nemirovsky's only surviving daughter, Denise Epstein, and I hope she will not mind if I quote from it: "Allow me to present myself: I am the girl of Irene Nemirovsky . . . and I wanted to thank you for having spoken so well about my mother.

This book caused a certain awakening of the consciences undoubtedly but according to what you teach me from the attitude of the French embassy when one evokes the memory of the Jewish children assassinated with the complicity of the authorities of the time, I realise that the memory is really diluted very easily and which that opens the door with other massacres innocent whatever their origin.

IT is thus with emotion and gratitude that I want to send this small message to you.

I am now 77-years-old and I nevertheless live the every day with the weight of this past on the shoulders, softened by happiness to see reviving my parents, and at the same time as them, I hope to make revive all those of which nobody any more speaks. PS: Sorry for my very bad English!"

It would be hard to find more moving words than these, a conscious belief that the dead can be recalled in their own words along with that immensely generous remembrance of other innocents who have died in other massacres.

And that extraordinary image of the "dilution of memory" carries its own message. This, of course, is what Haj Amin suffered from. Papon, too, I imagine, before they buried the terrible old man last week.
http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/have-no-doubt-hitler-would-have-wiped-out-arabs-after-jews-56760.html

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'Arab Spring,' Christian Winter (Islamic apartheid)

'Arab Spring,' Christian Winter - Islamic apartheid

Investor's Business Daily - ‎May 20, 2011
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Islamofascism: Obama wants to reward "democratic Egypt" with $1 billion in debt relief. Only, "democratic" Egypt is torching churches and slaughtering Christians left and right. There's a howling disconnect between the president's Pollyannaish ...

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/572936/201105201846/Arab-Spring-Christian-Winter.htm

Tags: apartheid, Arab racism, Arab spring, Christian winter, churches, Copts, Egypt, foreign aid, foreign policy, infidels, Islam, Islamic Apartheid, Islamofascism, Middle East, Muslim brotherhood, non Arabs, non-Muslims, Obama, political Islam, Religion

Turmoil in oppressive totalitarian Apartheid 'Arab world'

Turmoil in oppressive totalitarian Apartheid 'Arab world'

If the uprising will lead to more democracy - less dictatorship, more equality - less Arab racism and apartheid (against non-Arabs or agaisnt non-pure-Arabs), more honesty - less "unifiying the Arab world only by pseudo blaming the west and Zionists for its own flaws," more freedom - less totalitarianism, more tolerance - less anti-semitism, then, that's a good thing.

However, if radical Islam will abuse this 'breach' of security to further its 'Islamic domination' goal, than, that world sees an even more bleak future. Moreso in face of Islamic Republic of Iran's global aspirations and actions, the Mullahcracy that loves to stir rouble all over the world especially in the M.E. and gained some succcess -recently- in Lebanon despite anti-Hezbollah pro-freedom protests there.

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OPPRESSION, DICTATORSHIP IN THE ARAB WORLD

Internet Shut Down as Egypt Braces for Huge Protests http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Internet-Shut-Down-as-Egypt-Braces-for-Huge-Protests-114786364.html

Waves of Unrest Spread to Yemen, Shaking a Region http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/middleeast/28unrest.html

Canada urges Yemen to allow 'freedom of expression' AFP - "Canada calls for all parties to remain calm, and continue to respect freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. We urge all parties to refrain ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8B2VkRbMx0MaHzim7XbT4ruGKjA?docId=CNG.59420fe4e8128ad5e1e65ae78e6d4293.10d1

ALGERIA: Revolution Is In The Air‎ Strategy Page

[...]The only problem here is avoiding the leaders of the revolution from establishing another. That is supposed to be avoided via democracy, but some of the democracies established in the wake of the 1989-91 collapse of communist governments turned into dictatorships pretending to be democracies. Most of the Arab states are already doing that, and the patronage and corruption system dictatorships thrive on is more resilient that the dictators themselves. Thus while the dictator of Tunisia (Zine al Abedine Ben Ali) may have been gone for two weeks, thousands of his cronies (government ministers and bureaucrats) are hanging on to power. This will always happen, and is difficult to deal with, as many government employees have needed skills for keeping basic government functions going. In Tunisia, it’s been a struggle in the last two weeks to force out Ben Ali's key henchmen, the guys who actually supervised the details of oppression and corruption. These guys are often less able to flee into comfortable exile, and the further down the food chain you go, the more desperation you will encounter.

Another unique factor in Tunisia was the small size (and budget) of the armed forces. Most Arab dictatorships lavish more money on more soldiers (especially the officers and NCOs). In Tunisia, Ben Ali had little oil wealth or foreign aid for the military, no hostile neighbors, and the officers felt less pampered and loyal, and willing to kill protestors . In Egypt, Libya and Algeria, there are more soldiers more willing to kill for the boss. But in all these nations, most of the soldiers have friends or kin who are unemployed and unhappy. Many children of the ruling class support change, even if it hurts their economic situation. If enough people get caught up in the idea of change, it's hard to stop. http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/algeria/articles/20110128.aspx

Another demonstration in an Arab-led country. This time: Yemen News-Worthy Information - News-worthy.info — Again, demonstration to topple a country's dictatorship in Arab world. Thousands of Yemenis demonstrated against their country's ... http://www.news-worthy.info/another-demonstration-in-an-arab-led-country-this-time-yemen/6835/

Arab world unrest has Jordan's king under pressure http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihO4xaxRn_2SU-croIKW21y4pHIg?docId=d0586c45c1f14f4c9865fa2affc8b998

Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Taps Arab Anger ‎ New York Times - Robert F. Worth - David D. Kirkpatrick [...] “The notion that there is a common struggle across the Arab world is .... role is to release the Arab people from oppression,” said Mr. Krichen, the anchor. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/middleeast/28jazeera.html?_r=1

Stirrings on the Arab street put people power on move‎ Herald Scotland [...]

For too long, efforts to persuade the Arab world to embrace such a system have ... and power than many Arabs, cowed by decades of oppression, dared dream. http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/stirrings-on-the-arab-street-put-people-power-on-move-1.1082313

Amnesty: Tunisian Security Forces Acted Brutally http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Amnesty-Brutality-by-Tunisian-Security-Forces-114730259.html

Detained Tunisian cleric previously deported from Canada and France San Diego Union Tribune - Elizabeth Aguilera, Nathan Max - A history of derisive religious and political views and an international criminal past mark the Tunisian Muslim Cleric who snuck into ... http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/27/illegal-immigrant-said-jaziri-was-deported-from-ca/

UN Human Rights Mission Begins in Tunisia http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/UN-Human-Rights-Mission-Begins-In-Tunisia-114718424.html

Tunisia: Al-Jazeera's Islamist Revolution http://www.hudson-ny.org/1835/tunisia-al-jazeera-islamist-revolution

Deadly Political Unrest Continues In Egypt NPR We're seeing protests breaking out in Algeria, in Jordan, in Yemen. There is real fear in the Arabian Peninsula nations. For example, in Kuwait, ... http://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133274001/Political-Unrest-Continues-In-Egpyt

Three (Middle Eastern) Perspectives on Recent Events in Arab World Middle East Media Research Institute http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4952.htm

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RACISM, BIGOTRY IN THE 'APARTHEID ARAB WORLD'

The Arab world must face its demons ‎ Aljazeera.net - 9 Jan 2011

Attacks on Christians are a wake-up call for fragmented Arab societies where disenfranchisement breeds bigotry.

[...] There is, undeniably, a misconception that Christians in the Arab world are an ... Arab governments are more likely to censor opposition media than bigoted ... The hate in our midst

But this is not to say that Arab societies do not also bear the blame for nurturing the bigotry and hate in our midst.

The attacks on Christian worshippers, first in Iraq and now in Egypt, should serve as a wake-up call for the governments and citizens of the Arab world.

The region's social cohesion has for some time been at risk of total implosion. Repression and economic disenfranchisement have bred extremism, particularly among the young - many of whom despair of a secure, let alone successful, future. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/20111984740173586.html

Rage Against the Regime‎ Newsweek - Anastasia Taylor-Lind A young Christian calling herself Sally says she came home from London to support ... I am very worried that these protests will turn into violent ones. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/30/rage-against-the-regime.html

Coptic journalist rips moderate Muslims for rising bigotry against Christians January 06, 2011 Catholic Culture - 6 Jan 2011 Writing in Al-Ahram-- a government-owned newspaper that is Egypt’s most popular-- Hani Shukrallah lamented the transformation of Egyptian society from a nation tolerant of Christians to an increasingly bigoted one in which a church bombing can take place. Shukrallah, a Coptic Christian and a former editor of the paper, writes:

It is not easy to empty Egypt of its Christians; they’ve been here for as long as there has been Christianity in the world. Close to a millennium and half of Muslim rule did not eradicate the nation’s Christian community, rather it maintained it sufficiently strong and sufficiently vigorous so as to play a crucial role in shaping the national, political and cultural identity of modern Egypt. Yet now, two centuries after the birth of the modern Egyptian nation state, and as we embark on the second decade of the 21stcentury, the previously unheard of seems no longer beyond imagining: a Christian-free Egypt, one where the cross will have slipped out of the crescent’s embrace, and off the flag symbolizing our modern national identity … [M]ost of all, I accuse the millions of supposedly moderate Muslims among us; those who’ve been growing more and more prejudiced, inclusive and narrow minded with every passing year. I accuse those among us who would rise up in fury over a decision to halt construction of a Muslim Center near ground zero in New York, but applaud the Egyptian police when they halt the construction of a staircase in a Coptic church in the Omranya district of Greater Cairo.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=8820

Sudan: A nation driven apart by Muslim bigotry‎ Telegraph.co.uk - Con Coughlin - 12 Jan 2011

And worryingly, the seemingly irreparable rift between Sudan's Christian and Muslim communities is being replicated in many parts of the Arab world, ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/8255854/Sudan-A-nation-driven-apart-by-Muslim-bigotry.html

Expose 'apartheid' charge's real agenda
11 Mar 2010 ... Apartheid was a totalitarian system, not unlike many Arab regimes today. ... of governance – not unlike many of the regimes in the Arab world today. .... away from its oppression and even killings of Christians and Jews. ...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=170733

Let's launch 'Arab Apartheid Week'

By MICHAEL FREUND

03/11/2010 10:17


Arab states remain the last great outpost of despotism and tyranny.


[...]

Naturally, behind the sloganeering stands a clear political platform, one which essentially seeks to dismantle the Jewish state by stripping it of territory and flooding the country with millions of Palestinian refugees through the so-called right of return.


The first step in this campaign, of course, is to equate Israel with the evils of apartheid-era South Africa, thereby laying the groundwork for increased diplomatic and economic pressure to make far-reaching concessions. And so, as usual, the only democracy in the Middle East
once again finds itself on the receiving end of yet another indefensible canard, accused of one of modernity's greatest political sins without any basis or justification.


SIMPLY PUT, this slur cannot be allowed to stand. It is an insult to Israel and its democracy and dangerously analogous to asserting that Zionism is a form of racism. If allowed to take hold in the public's consciousness, it could have far-reaching and extremely damaging
effects on support for Israel in the near- and long-term. In the past, the typical response by pro-Israel activists to such charges has been to go on the defensive, responding to the slanders and explaining in great detail the myriad differences between democratic Israel and the racist regime that once ruled South Africa.


Well, I say the time has come to stop playing defense and to bring the offense out onto the field. We need to turn the tables and fight back against our opponents by taking the struggle toward their end-zone.


A good place to be start would be to organize an annual "Arab Apartheid Week," which would highlight the decrepit state of human and political rights throughout the Arab world.


There is a solid case to be made that the Arab states remain the last great outpost of despotism and tyranny on earth, and people need to be reminded as much. Indeed, the Arab world today is a living encyclopedia of outmoded forms of government, from sultanates such as Oman and emirates such as Qatar, to thuggish dictatorships such as Syria and dynastic monarchies along the lines of Jordan. It may be a political scientist's dream, but it is a nightmare for the hundreds of millions of Arabs chafing under oppression and tyranny.


Basic and fundamental freedoms such as personal autonomy and individual rights are routinely trampled upon, and ethnic and religious minority groups suffer extreme discrimination and intolerance. Just ask Coptic Christians in Egypt, Baha'is in Iran or Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia for starters.


This was borne out most recently by a report issued by Freedom House, the independent Washington-based group that advocates for freedom worldwide. Its annual survey, "Freedom in the World 2010," would make for eye-opening reading for all those who cry "apartheid" whenever they see a flag with a Star of David.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=170729

How much anti-Semitism is too much?‎ Jerusalem Post - Anne Bayefsky - 15 Jan 2011

[...]Recent WikiLeaks cables reveal that diplomats at the UN are haunted by a thorny question: How much UN-driven anti-Semitism is too much? The original UN was built on the ashes of the Jewish people and owes its human rights foundations to the victims of the Holocaust. At today's UN, we have now learned, diplomats hunker down near the General Assembly hall "listening outside with headphones on" trying to figure out the extent of the hate-speech that those on the inside should endure before walking out.

The particular subject of the WikiLeaks cable from US officials in Stockholm was a September 2009 assembly speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Sweden held the EU's rotating presidency, and it fell upon Swedish diplomats to decide when Ahmadinejad had crossed pre-arranged "red lines." As it turned out, some EU members walked out of the speech, while Sweden stayed put. According to the cable, the Swedes were upset by the "embarrassing lack of EU coordination" – not by the bigotry broadcast over the UN global megaphone.

What had the Europeans confused would seem to be Jewish conspiracy theory 101. Ahmadinejad had used his UN platform to describe Jews as "a small minority [who] dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery... to attain its racist ambitions." Yet this roused a mere 11 of the UN's 192 members from their seats, including the US. Israel had chosen not to attend.

Five months earlier in April 2009, Ahmadinejad had mounted another UN-provided stage in Geneva and began by denying the Holocaust, claiming that the "Zionist regime" had been created "under the pretext of Jewish sufferings." At this "antiracism" gathering (dubbed "Durban 2") he continued: "The word Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religion and abuses religious sentiments to hide their hatred and ugly faces." This time UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remained glued to their chairs. Nine states, including the US and Israel, had decided to boycott beforehand, while the remaining EU states and a few others belatedly got up and left.

In September 2010 Ahmadinejad used his UN invitation to New York to suggest that 9/11 was an inside job – "segments within the US government orchestrated the attack" for the sake of "the Zionist regime." On this occasion seven countries, including the US, headed for the doors. Israel had previously figured out it was not worth going.

PLAYING MUSICAL chairs is not the only response to UN-based anti- Semitism. The vast majority listen attentively and many applaud. Sometimes no one moves at all. On June 8, 2010, the Syrian representative lectured the UN Human Rights Council: "Israel... is a state that is built on hatred... Let me quote a song that a group of children on a school bus in Israel sing merrily as they go to school and I quote ‘With my teeth I will rip your flesh. With my mouth I will suck your blood.'"

The Obama administration, which chose to join this council, had a representative present, and neither he nor any other council member budged. UN officials, who routinely interrupt anything they deem insulting to Muslim states, said nothing.

Years of UN-driven anti-Semitism have clearly deadened the nerve endings of democracies. On November 29 and 30, 2010 the UN General Assembly sponsored its annual UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People followed by the usual anti- Israel agenda items.

From center stage in New York via Libya and Syria came the following: "Zionism, in reality, is the worst form of racism"; "The cancerous settlement in all the Palestinian territories"; "Israel shows and rears its ugly face"; "The word Israel has become synonymous with words such as aggression, killing, racism, terrorism."

Numerous states voiced their opposition to "Judaization" – UN vocabulary for the crime of any Jew on any Arab territory. They bellowed about Israeli "butchering," "apartheid," "ethnic cleansing," "genocide," "racism," "brutality," "crimes against humanity," "torture," "killing in cold blood" and "barbarism." Guilt started "over 60 years ago" – that is, with Israel's creation.

It would not have been difficult for listeners to discern that the fabrication of a cancerous Jewish state with its bloodthirsty ugly Jewish occupants was anti-Semitism. But not a single country moved. No UN gavel interrupted the speakers. Just the diplomatic niceties of thanking and bowing before Mr. President and Mr. Ambassador, and excellencies and distinguished delegates.

By the end of a year of double-standards, discrimination and hate-mongering 80 percent of all 2010 General Assembly resolutions criticizing specific countries for human rights violations were directed at the Jewish state. Only six of the remaining 191 UN member states faced human rights criticism at all, one of which was the US. And now half of the country-specific condemnatory resolutions and decisions ever adopted by the UN Human Rights Council target Israel... http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=203738

Jew-hatred's other face

Op-ed: BDS campaigns promote intentionally ugly, one-dimensional representation of Israel

Moshe Dann Published: 01.14.11, 00:45

Anti-Semites around the world have found a new and more subtle form of attack: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaigns.

The Ramallah-based Palestinian BDS National Committee, an umbrella organization for dozens of Palestinian organizations supported by the Palestinian Authority, is a global movement. Behind anti-Israel actions by churches, unions and student groups, it is aided by the Muslim Brotherhood, with branches in 70 countries, and hundreds of campus and civic/social organizations and anti-Israel NGOs.

Wielding clichés like "apartheid," "war crimes," "stealing Palestinian land," "oppressing Palestinians," and "end the occupation," these groups seek to delegitimize and isolate Israel as part of their program to destroy Israel.

No need for swastikas and terrorism; Arab and Muslim countries and organizations have developed a sophisticated propaganda campaign, joined by..., socialists and anarchists dedicated to Israel's demise. Bedecked with ethics, law and justice, they insist that Israel withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines, or 1947 UN proposed boundaries, leaving it vulnerable to terrorists. Their weapons are non-violent resistance that appeals to a sense of idealism and fair play, civil and human rights. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4013059,00.html

American Thinker: Apartheid is Alive and Well in Araby 3 Mar 2010 ... But there most certainly is Arab apartheid imposed upon Jews, who are denied ... and that apartheid is alive and well within the Arab world. ... http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/apartheid_is_alive_and_well_in.html

Let's launch 'Arab Apartheid Week' 11 Mar 2010 ... Indeed, the Arab world today is a living encyclopedia of outmoded forms ... An annual Arab Apartheid Week, held on campuses and at community ... http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?ID=170729

What About The Arab Apartheid? :: Hudson New York 16 Mar 2010 ... Let us take a look now at what is happening to the Palestinians in the Arab world. Or is something the organizers of Israel Apartheid Week ... http://www.hudson-ny.org/1111/what-about-the-arab-apartheid

Dhimmi Victims Gallery - DHIMMI :: Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights...Dhimmi Victims Gallery
BANGLADESH These Bangladeshi women are just some of the countless Hindu rape victims terrorized by Muslim militants in Bangladesh.... SUDAN... To date, the Jihad in Sudan has claimed the lives of two millionAfrican Christians and animists. Thousands of other have been enslaved, raped, and maimed. Today there is a creeping genocide that threatens the people of Southern Sudan...

IRAN... The Bahai community constitutes Iran’s largest religious minority group. Today they are facing a creeping genocide, as the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Tehran seeks to systematically intimidate, suppress, convert, and murder members of the Bahai faith. A secret Iranian government document, discovered in 1993, reveals the government’s attempt to slowly and steadily decimate the Bahai community, by rendering them second-class citizens through a system of apartheid which the New York Times compared to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany. Today, the Bahai of Iran are an endangered people. Without the help of the international human rights community, this vital religious community will soon become extinct...
PAKISTAN... The Pakistani Christian community is subject to constant harassment and discrimination by the Muslim government and local tribal rulers. They are becoming an endangered people as their numbers dwindle in the face of persecution, intimidation, and intermittent violence.
Apartheid that distinguishes Muslims and non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia. Much like the Jim Crow laws of the old South, Saudi law creates a two-tier society in which non-Muslims are denied the right to practice their religion, travel freely, and even be buried on Saudi soil. Christians living in Saudi Arabia are subject to violence, intimidation, and imprisonment. The victims of this government-sponsored discrimination are often Christian migrant workers, who are unable to protect themselves from the government’s programmatic discrimination. Without the help of the international human rights community, the Christians of Saudi Arabia will continue to be the victims of religious apartheid... ISRAEL... Hebrew University, home to Jewish and Arab students, was targeted by Jihadist radicals. ... Jordan's Christian minority is subject to a system of religious discrimination imposed by Islamic courts that oppress this small and shrinking religious minority..

http://www.dhimmi.com/victimsgallery.htm

The case for Israel - Page 59
Alan M. Dershowitz - 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 264 pages

... governments had an apartheid-like system under which Dhimmis—a religious category that includes Jews and Christians...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Dunx_i1P6fMC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59

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R. Islam attacks Christians: 'Black Xmas,' 'Bloody Xmas'

Xmas season marred by bloody violence from Islamists, Chrisrtians under attack, mainly in: Nigeria, Egypt, Iraq and in the Philippines.
This comes after 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' has threatned Christians all across the Middle East.
[Some have called it: 'Bloody Christmas,' 'Black Christmas.']

92 arrested in northern Nigeria after recent religious violence By the CNN Wire Staff

January 1, 2011 -- Updated 0730 GMT (1530 HKT)

Jos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigerian authorities on Friday arrested 92 people allegedly affiliated with a militant Islamist group that the government says is responsible for a string of recent killings in the country's northeast.

Police blame the group, Boko Haram, for attacks Wednesday that left three police officers and one civilian dead in Maiduguru and for Christmas Eve attacks on two Christian churches in the city that left five dead.

Borno state Police Commissioner Mohammed Abubakar said those arrested were "members of a dangerous religious fundamentalist group... (that) is anti-government."

Maiduguru is the capital of Nigeria's Borno state.

According to IHS Jane's, a defense and security analysis company, Boko Haram is a Sunni militant group that emerged in 2003 and is fighting for the implementation of strict Islamic law in Nigeria.

Nigeria has been rocked by recent religious violence, with the government blaming it most of the recent attacks on Islamist extremists.

Christmas Eve attacks in the volatile city of Jos claimed at least 31 lives, but the Nigerian government has said it is unclear who is responsible. On Friday, there was a mass burial for 16 of the victims.

"The perpetrators of this act are criminals under the guise of religion," said Benjamin Kwashi, the Anglican archbishop of Jos, at a memorial service.

Three men were arrested with bombs in their possession in the vicinity of Jos on Christmas Day, authorities said

The Jos region lies on a faith-based fault line between Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria and the mainly Christian south.

At least four people were killed and another 13 wounded Friday in a bomb blast at an army barracks in Abuja, the deputy police commissioner said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/12/31/nigeria.arrests/

Attacks in Nigeria several of them in churches.

Christmas Eve Attacks in Nigeria Kill at Least 38
VOA News 25 December 2010

A series of Christmas Eve explosions and attacks in Nigeria, several of them at churches, have killed at least 38 people.

The worst attacks, possibly with dynamite, occurred in the central city of Jos. Police on Saturday said at least 32 people were killed and 74 wounded. There were seven explosions in two separate areas. Many of the victims were Christmas shoppers.

Jos is located in Nigeria's Middle Belt, a region in Africa's most populous nation where the mostly Muslim north meets the predominantly Christian south. Religious and ethnic clashes have occurred frequently in the region.

In the northern city of Maiduguri, authorities say suspected members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram threw gasoline bombs at three churches, killing six people and leaving one of the churches burned to the ground. Among the dead was a Baptist pastor, whose house also was destroyed.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attacks. He said those responsible would be arrested to stand trial.

Members of the Boko Haram sect have been blamed for a series of attacks in recent months on police and community leaders.

The governor of Borno state, Ali Sheriff, described the assaults as a "worrisome situation" and said officials must ensure adequate safety for worshippers.

Nigeria's 140 million people are divided roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims.

The tensions in the Middle Belt have been stoked by ethnic divisions as different groups vie for control of fertile farmlands and political power. Local rights groups say about 1,500 people have been killed in the region this year.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Christmas-Eve-Attacks-in-Nigeria-Kill-at-Least-38-112452239.html

Bloody Christmas Eve in Nigeria euronews, worldnews

http://www.euronews.net/2010/12/26/bloody-christmas-eve-in-nigeria/

Terror attacks kill dozens in Nigeria, Pakistan; Nigerian governor calls it a 'black Christmas'
BY Helen Kennedy
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/12/25/2010-12-25_terror_attacks_kill_dozens_in_nigeria_pakistan_nigerian_governor_calls_it_a_blac.html

Nigeria - 26/12/10 05:53 CET
Bloody Christmas Eve in Nigeria .Pictures are now in from near Jos in central Nigeria where bombs tore through two villages on Christmas Eve. Around 40 people died and over 70 were injured in seven separate blasts in two locations.

Extremist bombs and fireworks accidents mar New Year around the world‎
- Sacramento Bee

Published: Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 - 12:00 am
Last Modified: Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 - 2:59 pm

The world entered 2011 in high style from Friday into Saturday with parties across the globe, but terrorism and violence - and in some cases bad weather - marred some celebrations.

[...]

In nations where Muslim-Christian friction is common, Islamic extremists bombed crowds marking the New Year, which is determined by the Christian calendar. The Islamic new year began on December 7.

The worst violence was in Nigeria, where bomb blasts in the capital Abuja left about 30 dead, local media said.

Witnesses spoke of 20 dead, some women and children, when a bomb exploded at a crowded marketplace in a military cantonment where members of the armed forces and their families live.

It was not clear who was behind the blast. Christmas Eve attacks on churches in the central Nigerian town of Jos left at least 80 people dead. Members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram have been blamed in the earlier attacks.

The Punch newspaper cited an anti-terrorism expert on Saturday saying that a connection with the al-Qaida network could not be ruled out in the Abuja attack.

Another bomb exploded late Friday outside a church where worshippers were celebrating New Year's Eve, the newspaper Vanguard reported.

Over the past year, repeated clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria - who each make up about half the population - have claimed hundreds of lives.

Politicians have warned of attempts to destabilize the country ahead of presidential elections due in April.

At least 22 people were killed and 43 injured when a suicide bomber set off a blast outside a church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria. Coptic Christians were at the church for a New Year's Eve mass when the bomb exploded around 20 minutes after midnight.

Egypt's interior ministry said the bomber was one of the dead and blamed "foreign elements."

<font color=red>The Islamic State of Iraq, a group affiliated with al-Qaida, has recently threatened Christians throughout the Middle East.</font>

A bomb killed two policemen and wounded four other officers in Thailand's majority-Muslim Deep South where separatists had vowed to disrupt the New Year festivities.

In other parts of the world, the main danger was from carelessly ignited fireworks or guns fired in celebration.

In rowdy celebrations in the Philippines, three people were killed by stray bullets while watching fireworks. A teenager was stabbed to death in an argument with a drunken man about firecrackers. Some 287 others were injured in other incidents, police said.

In Crispano in southern Italy, a 39-year-old man died instantly when a stray gunshot hit him as he stood on a balcony during celebrations. Reports said at least 70 people were hurt by fireworks in the Naples area alone.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/01/3293171/extremist-bombs-and-fireworks.html

Coptic church bombing in Egypt is latest assault on Mideast Christians

By Borzou Daragahi and Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times

January 1, 2011, 3:39 p.m.

The New Year's blast kills 21 and sparks clashes between police and Copts. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accuses foreign elements of involvement in the terrorist attack, which drew condemnation across the Middle East.

Reporting from Beirut and Cairo — A devastating New Year's Day terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt that killed 21 people was the latest in a spate of violent assaults against the Middle East's vulnerable Christian communities.

The car bomb explosion also injured 79 people just after midnight Saturday as worshipers were leaving a New Year's Mass at the Saints Church in east Alexandria, Egyptian officials said. The bombing sparked street clashes between police and angry Copts, who hurled stones, stormed a nearby mosque and threw some of its books into the street.

Security forces cordoned off the area and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. A witness told the state-run newspaper Al Ahram that a priest calmed the Copts and urged them to stay inside the church.

The attack was among the deadliest on Egyptian Christians in recent memory and the worst terrorist incident in the country since 2006, and followed similar assaults this week in Iraq.

All but eight of the injured and all of the fatalities in Alexandria were Christians, according to Egypt's Ministry of Health. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which was being described as a suicide bombing. The explosion, which appeared designed to inflict maximum civilian casualties, bore the hallmark of Al Qaeda militants.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused unnamed foreign elements of being behind the attack.

"This act of terrorism shook the country's conscience, shocked our feelings and hurt the hearts of Muslim and Coptic Egyptians," he said in an emergency address to the nation. "The blood of their martyrs in the land of Alexandria mixed to tell us all that all Egypt is the target and that blind terrorism does not differentiate between a Copt and a Muslim."

The attack in the ancient Mediterranean coastal city was the latest in a wave of violence against once-resilient Christian communities in the Muslim world, some of which date back to antiquity.

Christmas Eve assaults by Muslim extremists killed dozens of Christians in the Nigerian cities of Jos and Maiduguri. And Iraq's Christians have endured a relentless campaign of attacks and intimidation by the local branch of Al Qaeda.

An Oct. 31 siege on a Baghdad church that killed at least 58 parishioners and staff members sparked a new Christian exodus from the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Mosul. About 1,000 families sought refuge in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave afterward, according to the United Nations. Further threats of violence by Islamic militants caused many Christians in Iraq to tone down Christmas celebrations, and attacks Thursday against 10 Christian targets left an elderly couple dead.

Officials across the Middle East, including the ultraconservative Muslim governments.., condemned Saturday's attack, which was widely covered in television news broadcasts. In an annual New Year's speech at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to stave off despair over such violence, but also demanded that governments do more to protect religious minorities.

"In front of the current threatening tensions, in front of especially the discrimination tyranny and religious intolerance, that today hit in particular the Christians, once again I deliver the pressing invite to not cave in to the depression and resignation," Benedict said, adding that officials' "words are not enough" in confronting religious intolerance.

"There must be a concrete and constant effort from leaders of nations," he said.

The Alexandria bombing transformed a joyous New Year celebration into a grim reminder of the country's religious strife. A witness told Al Ahram that the massive explosion rocked the church.

"It was about 15 minutes after midnight when we heard the sound of the explosion. We came out of the church to find two cars on fire," said Sami Saad, who was in the church when the bomb exploded. "Everyone was frightened and people were screaming after we saw scattered parts of the dead bodies mixing with blood on the ground."

Making up about 10% of the country's population, Copts are Egypt's largest religious minority group and the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Religious violence between Muslims and Copts has increased in recent years, often triggered by interfaith marriages or conversions, especially in southern Egypt, where Copts live in larger communities.

Copts have also grown angry about the obstacles to building churches, when the authorization process is easy for construction of mosques.

Riots have frequently broken out. Two people died in November clashes in Cairo between Coptic demonstrators and police after local authorities refused to allow a community center to be turned into a church.

The violence lately has taken an ominous turn. In November, the militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq announced that Coptic churches in Egypt would be targeted until two priests' wives who were allegedly locked up in Coptic monasteries after converting to Islam are freed. Al Qaeda militants in Iraq have also referred to the women in justifying attacks on once-vibrant Christian communities in Baghdad and around Mosul.

Most Middle Eastern countries outside the Arabian Peninsula have sizable Christian communities, including the Maronites in Lebanon, Armenians in Iran and the Orthodox in Syria. But their numbers have shrunk over the last century, experts say. Christians now account for less than 5% of the Middle East's population, down from 20%.

Authorities worry that Christian communities in relatively safe countries, such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iran, also are shrinking, though driven more by a search for economic opportunities that by fear of violence. They tend to be better educated and more Western-oriented than their Muslim compatriots and often utilize family or religious ties abroad to emigrate.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-church-attack-20110102,0,2931888.story

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PHILIPPINES Jolo: Muslim leaders slam Christmas attack

[12/27/2010 14:39]



In a statement released to the press, representatives of the Philippines' ulama urge all Muslims to fight Muslim extremists who use Islam in their own interests. The Christian Community in Jolo (Mindanao) was attacked during Mass at the Sacred Heart Chapel. Eleven people were wounded. Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah are the main suspects.



Zamboanga (AsiaNews) – A group of Filipino ulama have condemned the attack by Muslim extremists against the Chapel of the Sacred Heart in Jolo (Sulu) on Saturday. They urge the authorities to move "heaven and earth" to bring the culprits to justice.



A bomb exploded at 7.15 am during Christmas Mass. The blast blew out the chapel's roof and wounded 11 people.



No one has yet claim responsibility for the attack, and the authorities are still trying to identify who might be behind it.



Various Islamist groups operate in Sulu Province, including Abu Sayyaf, which is suspected to be connected to al Qaeda and Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah.



In his Sunday address, Benedict XVI mentioned the blood shed in the Philippines on Christmas.



In a press release also issued yesterday, members of the National Ulama Conference of the Philippines slammed the attack. The "many kidnapping incidents in different parts of Mindanao are barbaric acts of violence, cruelty, and disrespect and must be condemned," their statement said.



"If it is true, then let it be known to all that the "brand of Islam" being espoused by the so-called 'Jama'a Islamia' and its international and local accomplices has no place in the purity of Islamic teachings. Theirs is to advance their personal political agenda using Islam to get support from innocent and desperate people."



"We challenge peace-loving Muslims to stand up against those who use Islam for their self-serving interest. And we call on other faith communities to help us Muslims to face squarely these forces of evil not to triumph; as the saying goes, 'The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing'."



Predominantly Muslim Mindanao has been the scene for the past 40 years of open warfare between the Filipino armed forces and extremist Islamic groups like the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Abu Sayyaf.



Jolo's Christian community has been the object of many attacks. The worst occurred on 7 July 2009 when a bomb exploded inside the cathedral, killing six and wounding 40.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Jolo:-Muslim-leaders-slam-Christmas-attack-20357.html

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Christians consider their future after more attacks in Iraq Dec 28, 2010 ... Articles about Assyrians, christians in Iraq with sidenotes on the origin and history of Christian Minorities in Iraq from past to present.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/christiansconsider-theirfutureafter-moreattacks-iniraq.html

US, EU Urge Iraqi Government To Protect Christians
AHN All Headline News


The United States and the European Union on Friday, the New Year's eve condemned the latest violence against Christians and asked Baghdad to increase efforts to give better coverage to Christians.



Source: (AHN) Reporter: Tejinder Singh

Location: Washington, D.C., United States Published: January 1, 2011 05:16 am EST



The United States on Friday, the New Year's eve condemned the latest violence against Christians and asked Baghdad to increase efforts to give better coverage to Christians.



Iraq's interior ministry said in a statement 15 bombs were placed around homes in Christian areas of Baghdad. Eleven of the bombs exploded, according to reports.



"We call on the Government of Iraq to redouble its efforts to protect Christians and apprehend the terrorists who are behind these acts," said Mark C. Toner, Acting State Department Spokesman, adding, "We condemn the violence against Christians carried out overnight by terrorists in Iraq."



Iraqi reports noted that a couple that was killed had found a bag at their gate which blew up when they opened it.



"President Talabani, Prime Minister Maliki, and virtually every political bloc and major religious leader in Iraq have denounced attacks on Christians and stressed the centrality of Christians in the fabric of Iraqi society," Toner said in a statement.



"We commend the Government of Iraq for increasing its security measures to protect Christian communities since the October 31 suicide bombing attack at ... Church," urged Toner in his statement.



Earlier, the president of the European Parliament, the legislature of 27 member state European Union, Jerzy Buzek called upon the Iraqi government to make sure Christians in Iraq enjoy the same protection and status as Shiites and Sunnis.



"The European Parliament is very concerned about these developments and is a strong defender of human rights, including freedom of religion" President Buzek said in a statement.



"We monitor the situation closely and have adopted a number of resolutions to try to draw international attention to the plight of Christian minorities," Buzek added.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs/articles/90029314?U.S.%2C%20EU%20Urge%20Iraqi%20Government%20To%20Protect%20Christians

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Egypt Bombing Raises Fears of Growing Sectarian Bloodshed
By Abigail Hauslohner / Cairo Saturday, Jan. 01, 2011

It had all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack. Shortly after midnight, an explosion detonated by what authorities say was likely a suicide bomber ripped through a crowd of worshippers as they emerged from New Year's mass at a church in Egypt's northern port city of Alexandria. The blast left 21 people dead and 79 others wounded, while opening a fresh, seething wound in Egypt's already problematic sectarian rift.

For months, al-Qaeda militants in Iraq have called repeatedly for attacks on Christians — in retaliation, they say, for the alleged kidnapping and detention by Egypt's Coptic church of two Christian women who are believed to have converted to Islam. And on New Year's Day, Egyptian officials painted the bombing as a brutal, foreign assault (though they have not directly accused al Qaeda; Egypt has typically been wary of making such an explicit link to attacks for fear of scaring off tourists). President Hosni Mubarak stressed in a televised speech that the terrorists had targeted both Christians and Muslims. And one of Egypt's highest religious authorities, the office of the Grand Mufti, issued a statement declaring that "Islam and Muslims are innocent ... Such an act could not come from a Muslim who knows the truth of Islam." More likely, the Mufti concluded, was "the involvement of foreign parties that want to strike at national unity."
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So far, however, there's little evidence for that. And skeptical analysts say the claims are all typical rhetoric for a regime whose officials have used foreign intervention as a scapegoat for violent incidents ranging from terrorist bombings and rocket attacks to maulings by sharks.

While many analysts believe the attack was at least inspired by outsiders, the government's real fear, they say, is that it was homegrown in its design. For the authorities, who waged a crushing campaign against violent Islamist extremism in the 1990s, and who last week had Egyptian churches on high alert, it would be a huge admission of failure. But more troubling still, it would shine a spotlight on a troubling reality that the state has been at pains to sweep under the rug: Egypt's worsening sectarian tensions. "The official rhetoric is always that problems don't exist," says Hisham Kassem, an independent newspaper publisher and social critic. "There are issues of discrimination against Copts, and they're refusing to deal with them."
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Christians make up about 10% of Egypt's 80 million people. But observers from both communities say sectarianism has been on the rise for years as a result of both deepening religiosity and competition for resources amid worsening economic conditions. Copts have long complained of government discrimination and neglect, while Muslims have accused the Coptic community, which is subject to slightly different rules and regulations, of preferential treatment and living outside the law.

Christians are required to seek state approval to build churches, and intermarriage between Coptic men and Muslim women is illegal. In November, violent clashes broke out in Cairo over plans to build a church. And almost exactly one year ago, a gunman massacred seven people in a town in southern Egypt, following a Christmas mass.
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But conversion is one topic that has been particularly contentious, and increasingly public as well. Since last summer, Alexandria — known half a century ago for being Egypt's breezy, cosmopolitan gateway to the Mediterranean — has become the epicenter of extremist outrage over the alleged captive converts. While al-Qaeda militants in Iraq have called repeatedly for attacks on Christians until they are released, adherents to the hard-line Salafi sect of Islam have staged regular protests, in which they compare the Egyptian pope to the devil, and liken their conflict to the Crusades.

It's no wonder then that not everyone is buying the official line on the source of the attacks. "I remain more convinced that it is an Islamic Jihadist group rooted in Egypt and Alexandria, and it stands behind whatever has happened," says Yousef Sidham, the editor of Al-Watany, a Coptic Christian Christian newspaper. "We know that whenever al-Qaeda succeeds in an attack, they always declare responsibility for it," he adds. In this case, that hasn't happened yet.
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Meanwhile, the national unity that state authorities have called for today may instead wind up another casualty of the midnight bombing. Shortly after the explosion, clashes erupted between Christian and Muslim protesters who had gathered at the scene, and the Associated Press reported that a mob of Christians broke into a nearby mosque, throwing books out into the street. On Saturday clashes continued between Christian protesters and police wiedling tear gas.

It's a cycle that analysts say is likely to repeat in the days ahead. "It's a very hot situation, and it is liable to be continuous," says Milad Hanna, a Coptic politician and former member of parliament.
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Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 21 dead - Valley News ... Dec 31, 2010 ... Blood splattered the facade of the church, as well as a mosque directly across the street. ... It was the deadliest violence involving Christians in Egypt since ... three days of Muslim-Christian riots that left at least four dead. ... massacre of nearly 60 tourists at a Pharaonic temple in Luxor. ...
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Bombing opens vein of Christian anger in Egypt



By PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press Paul Schemm, Associated Press – Mon Jan 3, 4:54 pm ET

CAIRO – The New Year's Day suicide bombing of a church that killed 21 people has opened up a vein of fury among Egypt's Christians, built up over years of what they call government failure to address persistent discrimination and violence against their community.



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Christian anger, says rights activist Hossam Bahgat, stems in large part because they feel attacks against them can be carried out with impunity, something borne out by evidence of past incidents, especially in Egypt's impoverished hinterlands.



In a two-year study conducted by his organization, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, he documented 52 anti-Christian incidents between 2008 and 2010 and in none of them were the perpetrators punished. Instead security forces arbitrarily arrested a few people.



"Security then forces both sides to accept reconciliation at the expense of justice," he said, which gives the perpetrators a sense of impunity. "It's an invitation for these events to recur and the victims are left feeling victimized twice, first by those who did it and second by the government."



Egypt's government maintains Muslims and Christians are treated equally in the country and after these kinds of sectarian incidents loudly affirms its commitment to national unity.



But Christians have long complained that they are discriminated against in getting jobs in the government, universities — even the private sector. They also point to rising Muslim conservativism that they say affects government officials' dealings with Christians.



Youssef Sidhom, a prominent Coptic intellectual and editor of the weekly Watani newspaper, said that in Egyptian society there has been growing antipathy to coexisting with Christians, undermining such official pronouncements.



"The infiltration of political Islam into our education, our schools, into the hearts and minds of school teachers and into our school books and is extremely dangerous because it produces innocent children who are infected by the version of Islam that does not accept the other and preaches non-acceptance of Christians," he told The Associated Press.



In an editorial in the English-language online version of the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, editor Hani Shukrallah slammed the government for trying to appease Islamist sentiment and warned against rising anti-Christian sentiment among Muslims.



"I accuse the millions of supposedly moderate Muslims among us — those who've been growing more and more prejudiced, inclusive and narrow minded with every passing year," he wrote Saturday.


"I have heard you speak, in your offices, in your clubs, at your dinner parties: 'The Copts must be taught a lesson...

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Muslims Chant "AllahuAkbar" After Car Bomb Kills 21 Christians



A video of the bombing of the Christian church in Egypt, showing the Muslims chanting Allah Akbar and walking on the dead bodies.



An hour before the bombing, the Egyptian police guards all left. And didn't return until the Christians, infuriated at the Allah Akbar chants started throwing rocks at the Mosque on the other side of the street. The only ones arrested were the Christians who just saw their loved ones slaughtered.

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