Egypt on alert as Copts celebrate Christmas

Every now and again, you find a news story that's hidden away and ask yourself why it is not being trumpeted more loudly by the news media. This is one such story.

Even allowing for a little justifiable enthusiasm from the website, I would have thought that the general western news media would have picked it up in some form:

Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community

Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.

The term "human shield"  maybe rather emotive and the overall tone of the piece a little histrionic for British taste, but nonetheless, the bare fact that following the recent bombing of a Coptic church, there was a wider move for solidarity among the Muslim population should merit some sort of attention. It doesn't take much effort to find the reports of radical Muslims calling for jihad against the Copts, but you have to dig rather deeper to find references to this show of solidarity.  

The event is mentioned in passing by the BBC here.

Egypt on alert as Copts celebrate Christmas

Every now and again, you find a news story that's hidden away and ask yourself why it is not being trumpeted more loudly by the news media. This is one such story.

Even allowing for a little justifiable enthusiasm from the website, I would have thought that the general western news media would have picked it up in some form:

Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community

Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.

The term "human shield"  maybe rather emotive and the overall tone of the piece a little histrionic for British taste, but nonetheless, the bare fact that following the recent bombing of a Coptic church, there was a wider move for solidarity among the Muslim population should merit some sort of attention. It doesn't take much effort to find the reports of radical Muslims calling for jihad against the Copts, but you have to dig rather deeper to find references to this show of solidarity.  

The event is mentioned in passing by the BBC here.