With Egypt falling into the grasp of Islamists with the backing of the US Bi-Partisan Establishment, a pressing issues must be resolved. Egypt’s Coptic Christian community is facing a bleak future. Attacks are increasing on them and the future are dim for them. Clearly they need a place of refuge and America will have a decision to make, will we allow them in when the persecution begins.
As political and economic conditions in Egypt deteriorate, a new kind of refugee is beginning to appear, one that will test America’s character. Violence against Christians is growing; bad economic times, the inability or unwillingness of security forces and police to keep order, and the growing tide of Islamist political and religious mobilizations is making life increasingly insecure for Egypt’s eight million Christians.
An article in the Wall Street Journal offers a harrowing picture of a minority that is beginning to come under siege. Christians are being threatened with violence if they fail to convert; women who do not cover their hair are harassed, harangued and threatened on the street; churches are burned and the wall of isolation around this ancient community deepens every day.
Under US and international law, growing numbers of Egyptian Christians will qualify as refugees if these conditions continue to worsen.
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America is going to have to make up its mind: will we find room for what could very well be a significant stream of Egyptian Christian refugees with us here in the inn, or will they have to go find a manger somewhere? We can hope that we don’t have to face this choice and that cool heads and wise counsel will prevail in Egypt, but it is time to begin to think the possibilities through.
I don’t enough faith in this nations Establishment to make the right decision. Since our government is under the influence of the House of Saud, I doubt we will give the Copts refuge. A genocide is brewing and the US is enabling it.
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