Islam’s Christian Scapegoats
Raymond Ibrahim:
… This phenomenon — attacking one set of Christians in response to another — has roots in Islamic law. The Pact of Omar, a foundational text for Islam’s treatment of dhimmis (i.e., non-Muslims who refused to convert after their lands were seized by Islam) makes this clear. The consequences of breaking any of the debilitating and humiliating conditions Christians were made to accept in order to be granted a degree of surety by the Muslim state were stark: “If we in any way violate these undertakings … we forfeit our covenant, and we become liable to the penalties for contumacy and sedition” — penalties that include enslavement, rape, and death. Moreover, the actions of the individual affect the entire group: everyone is under threat to ensure that everyone behaves. …
Jews usually don’t write articles sympathetic to Christians, the rare occasions that they do so, without ulterior motives. Raymond Ibrahim is a Copt, however, so I receive what he says as sincere. There are only two countries which are almost universally hated in this world, and they are Israel and the United States. Whenever people criticize Israel, Zionist Jews are quick to raise the cry of “antiSemitism” (by which they mean “antiJewism”). When America has been criticized, however, I have never heard someone call this an example of “antiChristianism”. As Ibrahim has pointed out, though, our Islamic enemies do not separate “Christians” from “Americans”. In their eyes, we are one and the same; and an attack on one is considered an attack on the other.
Scapegoat protest against Copts, Cairo
EDIT: I have no pity on the Copts, who have forever towed both the Arab and Christian anti-Semitic lines.
Rape as a judicial punishment.
Perverse.