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.Read it all here.
From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last night’s mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat of Islamic militants and towards an Egypt free from sectarian strife.
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first floating the “human shield” idea.
Monday, January 10, 2011
"We live together, or we die together"
I have been seeing this mentioned since Friday and just now got the chance to go read about the bravery of these Egyptian Muslims in recognizing the demands of common humanity and protecting their Christian neighbors with their own bodies. Would that we would all recognize this in each other in daily life.
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I love that these Muslim stepped up in this act. Though I doubt it would prevent any attack since terrorists are not concerned with Muslim vicitms of thier acts as constantly demonstrated.
ReplyDeleteBless them. It took real courage.
ReplyDeletesuch wonderful people
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