Edit: Contrasted with the fawning reports about the benigninity of this Revolution on approved media outlets like National Public Radio, this latest Arab uprising is serving to help erase the Orthodox and Catholic character of the East where it began.
Thanks to American social studies, most people in the States have no idea that up until the end of World War II that a vibrant Catholic world existed on the shores of the East Mediteranean long after the last Crusader citadel fell in Acre in the 14th Century.
Even the Army has gotten involved, "helping" as it were. After watching these scenes it is to be hoped that no one again questions the motives that drove the Crusades in the first place.
(AINA) -- A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflict ing reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons who were at church; some say they died in the fire and some say they are being held captive by the Muslims inside the church.
Witnesses report the mob prevented the fire brigade from entering the village. The army, which has been stationed for the last two days in the village of Bromil, 7 kilometers from Soul, initially refused to go into Soul, according to the officer in charge. When the army finally sent three tanks to the village, Muslim elders sent them away, saying that everything was "in order now."
A curfew has been imposed on the 12,000 Christians in the village.
http://www.aina.org/news/20110304222016.htm
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