Jewish Odysseus: THE TRUE, UGLY FACE OF NEW "DEMOCRATIC EGYPT"

Sunday, February 27, 2011

THE TRUE, UGLY FACE OF NEW "DEMOCRATIC EGYPT"

Five days after the vicious Khomeini of Egypt, Yusuf Qaradawi, returns to a roaring mob of hundreds of thousands in Cairo, the "respected, secular" Egyptian Army guns down Coptic Christians for the crime of trying to protect their ancient monastery from Muslim mobs. I've just completed a detailed translation of the comments from the Egyptian officer on the scene:

"Nice little monastery you have here, Father, it would be a shame if some of our radical and immature Brothers should blow it to smithereens. And you know, Father, nothing provokes our Brothers so much as non-Moslems actively defending their own holy places. No, the smart thing for you to do will be to stop with this "security wall" nonsense, and just pay your jiziyah, and recognize that you will only have an existence here in Egypt so long as kind and open-minded Muslims like me have a vested financial interest in protecting you."

A note to the Copts of Egypt: you are about to become the new Baha'is, study what has happened to them since 1979. It is your future.

And a note to the Jews of Israel: study both the Baha'is and the Copts, and the Christians of the Ottoman Empire, and modern Lebanon, and Kosovo, and...

3 comments:

GM Roper said...: Prophetic methinks.; February 27, 2011 at 6:36:00 PM PST
TXLady706 said...: Egypt is now looking to have a renewed relationship with Iran. The NEW ERA of relations is coming. The "change" is here. Is this what Obama meant by HOPE and Change? He is after all an Anti - Colonialist. Islam was sold to Africans as the answer to Colonialism. HOPE and Change. For who?; March 11, 2011 at 6:33:00 AM PST
Creative Dork said...: Great blog post, thanks for sharing.; January 15, 2024 at 12:29:00 PM PST

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.