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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 2-Jan-2011
2-Jan-11 News -- Worldwide condemnation for terrorist attack on Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt

Web Log - January, 2011

2-Jan-11 News -- Worldwide condemnation for terrorist attack on Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt

Accusations of a pattern of attacks against Christians

Worldwide condemnation for terrorist attack on Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt

Raw sectarian tensions in Egypt have been exposed by the car bombing of a Coptic Christian church that killed 21 people in Alexandria, Egypt, according to Al-Jazeera.

The bombing sparked violent protests by furious Coptic Christians, and clashes with police in Alexandria. Coptic Christians make up about 10% of Egypt's 80 million population.

Politicians and Muslim leaders throughout the Middle East condemned the bombing, according to VOA. Hamas issued a press statement condemning the bombing, according to Al-Ahram.

However, many politicians in the West saw this as part of a continuing pattern of radical Muslim extremist attacks on Christians. An LA Times analysis points to recent terrorist attacks on Christians in Iraq, Nigeria and other countries, and point out that Christian communities in countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iran are shrinking, as Christians emigrate.

A terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda is suspected of being responsible for the Alexandria bombing, according to Ynet.

The accusation that al-Qaeda is attacking Christians is true, but it's only a small part of the picture. Al-Qaeda linked groups attack Shia Muslims, Sufis, Sikhs, Hindus and other religious groups in different countries.

As we've said many times, the al-Qaeda strategy is to replicate Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, in order to turn another country into an Islamic state, this time a Sunni state. They've tried this, and continuted to try it, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Somalia and other countries, and now Egypt.

The methodology is to trigger violence on the left and xenophobia on the right, and al-Qaeda appears to be succeeding.

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