On August 19, 2013, three articles were published in
National Review Online with regard to the subject of Christians in Egypt . This
happened despite the fact that the heads of the three largest Christian
communities in that country – The Coptic, the Catholic and the Anglican – told
the world, especially the Americans, to mind their own idiotic business, and to
keep their dripping noses out of Egyptian affairs.
To be certain, there is an ongoing revolution in Egypt ; it has
been ongoing for more than two and a half years during which time close to
3,000 people have died. Out of these, no more than 30 were Christian, a number
that represents only 1 percent of the fallen victims in a population that is 10
percent Christian. Thus, for some people and some organizations in America to come
out and express the wish to get involved, says only one thing. It says that
they crave for more Christian blood to be shed because this is how they will
benefit from the situation. And no matter what vehicle any of them will use to
gain something, their wishes and their actions must be interpreted as craving
the blood of Egypt 's
Christians.
This is the insight you gain when you read: “Coptic
Kristallnacht” by Andrew Doran, an article that also came under the subtitle:
“The Muslim Brotherhood is terrorizing Egypt , and Christians are a
particular target.” What prompted Doran to write this article is a
correspondence he had with a Christian in Egypt who said: “Copts had a big
role in this revolution … The Christians fasted with the Muslims during
Ramadan. It was very good. It brought unity.” If this were not enough to upset
a Dracula hoping for disunity and the shedding of Coptic blood, consider the
following: “The revolution had broader popular and institutional support,
including from the military, the police, the judiciary, the Muslim clerics of
Al Azhar Mosque, and the Coptic Orthodox Church. More to the point, the 2013
revolution was peaceful.” This says that if you are a Doran, and you read about
a peaceful revolution, you fantasize about a violent Kristallnacht, and share
your fantasy with the editor at National Review Online.
And you do not stop here. You run wild with your
imagination, and satisfy your thirst for blood by transposing on the current
situation – which you called peaceful – a historical situation that was said to
be violent. How violent? Well, here is how Doran imagines it to have been: “The
... attacks against the Christians in Egypt
are reminiscent of Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938, when Nazi
paramilitaries ... murdered scores of Jews in a disturbing foreshadowing of the
fate of European Jews over the next few years.” But that's not what your
Christian correspondent in Egypt
was saying, Andrew. What's wrong with your head? Need a psychiatrist or
something?
Doran goes on to talk about the Final Solution, but that's
not how his Egyptian correspondent sees the matter evolving. Rather, it is
this: “You have fought to get democracy as you have it, we are fighting for our
own democracy. That is what you are seeing now.” And this is the poignant
reminder that seems to have hit Doran like a bolt of lightning, prompting him
to acknowledge: “If freedom and stability are restored to Egypt , it will
be despite, not because of, the West.” To which I say amen, and further advise
this “Westerner” that he should mind his own idiotic business, and keep his
dripping nose out of Egyptian affairs.
And this brings us to the David French article that came
under the title: “Not one More Plane, Not One More tank. Not One More Dollar,
Until Egypt 's
Christians Are protected.” The first thing this author does is urge his readers
to read Andrew Doran's article about Kristallnacht. By this, he means to say he
too is having the same fantasies as Doran. This done, he does not need to
rehash the fantasies, but goes beyond them and offers a solution. To this end,
he lists the inventory that makes up the strength of the Egyptian military.
Now you ask: Why would David French do that? And the answer
is simple. He is responding to something that came up in the Doran article.
More specifically this part: “The revolution had broader popular and
institutional support, including from the military, the police, the judiciary,
the Muslim clerics of Al Azhar Mosque, and the Coptic Orthodox Church. More to
the point, the 2013 revolution was peaceful.”
Did you notice the part where the military is mentioned?
That's what is protecting all Egyptians, including the Christians. Thus, if you
weaken the military, the Christians along with the others, will be without
protection – and that's what should not happen, says David French. Is this an
illogical stance? Of course it is. But he is not smart enough to recognize it
as such. Worse, when told about it, it does not bother him that he blundered.
What's important to him is that Egypt
remains defenseless so that it can be attacked. And when this happens, blood
will flow like a river, and all the Draculas like him will assemble to drink
their most favored liquid: Christian blood.
He goes on to recommend: “Not one scintilla of aid until the
Egyptian military [stops] this persecution in its tracks, protecting the most
basic human rights of its Christian citizens.” But that's what is happening
now, and if the military is weakened, it will not be able to continue doing so.
Yes Sir, says David French, now drooling at the mouth thinking of all the
Christian blood he may soon be licking. And so, he goes beyond Doran's fantasy,
and formulates his own. It is this: “The crisis could escalate quickly to
Balkan- or Syrian-level brutality and religious cleansing.” Whoa! There is
enough here to make a Dracula come out of his crypt even in daylight.
And this brings us to the Nina Shea article: “Egypt