Either way, they’re in deep doodoo. And lest we forget: they are the indigenous people of Egypt.
Raymond Ibrahim: Shocker — Egypt’s Christians Not Voting for Sharia
Over at Gatestone (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I document how, days before Egypt’s presidential elections, Islamists expressed shock and dismay that the nation’s Christian Copts were not voting for the Brotherhood candidate, and went on to try to convince the Copts that the best thing for them is to live under Sharia. An excerpt follows:
[…] Abu Ismail, the Salafi presidential candidate who was disqualified, expressed “great disappointment” in “our Coptic brethren,” saying that “I do not understand why the Copts so adamantly voted for Ahmed Shafiq,” portraying it as some sort of conspiracy between the Copts, the old regime, and even Israel: “Exactly what relationship and benefit do the Copts have with the old regime?”
Tarek al-Zomor, a prominent figure of the Gama’a al-Islamiyya—the terrorist organization that slaughtered some 60 European tourists during the Luxor Massacre—”demanded an apology from the Copts” for voting for Shafiq, threatening that “this was a fatal error.”
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