Half Hour into New Year, Muslim Suicide Bomber Kills Five 21 Leaving New Year's Church Service

UPDATE: Death toll mounts. Suicide  bomber, not car bomb:

A bomb that killed 21 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria may have been carried by a suicide bomber and not caused by a car bomb, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

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Happy new year and the Islamic killing begins .......It didn't take but a half hour; this just in: Explosion kills five outside Egyptian church

An explosion outside a church in the north Egyptian city of Alexandria has left at least five dead, security officials and witnesses say.

The blast, apparently caused by a car bomb, hit people as they left a new year's service at the al-Qidiseen church shortly after midnight.

Obama say, "Respect it!" Daisy the Khan say, "the era of extremsism is over!" Geller says, "Defeat this evil."

An Australian Atlas reader, Assad, opines:

Only half an hour, into the new year, the adherents of the religion of peace have exploded a car bomb as church goers were leaving after midnight mass concluded.
 
Differing reports says 5-10 people have been killed in an explosion that went off at a Coptic Christian church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria early Saturday.
The blast went off about a half-hour after midnight early Saturday as worshippers were emerging from a New Year's Mass at the Saints Church in Alexandria.
Police say the blast came from a car parked outside the church, but police said they were still investigating whether the car had been rigged with explosives or if a bomb had been placed under it.
Police said there were wounded, but did not have an immediate number. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.  Witnesses reported seeing the bodies of several dead, but the numbers were not immediately confirmed.
After the explosion, some Christians from the church clashed with police in anger over the blast, a police official said. The Christians hurled stones at police and a nearby mosque, chanting, "With our blood and soul, we redeem the cross," the witnesses said.
 
The attack comes at a time of heightened sectarian tensions in the region, when al-Qaida-linked militants have carried out a campaign of attacks against Christians in Iraq, killing 68 in a church siege in October and two more Christians in attacks in Baghdad on Thursday.
The attacks in Iraq have an unusual connection to Egypt. Al-Qaida in Iraq says it is carrying out the campaign of anti-Christian attacks.
 
With 1 week before Copts celebrate Christmas Mass on 7 January, the year has been commenced by the shedding of christian blood and resulting in coptic Martyrs at the hands of radical islamists.

Bombings in Iraq Target Homes of Christians

Christians Are Casualties of 10 Baghdad Attacks‎ -- New York Times

Two Christians killed in Baghdad attacks‎ -- AFP

Al-Qaeda Targeting Christians in Canada, Austria

Comments

[Mac-101]

I've actually had people use "Islamic Tolerance" to the Copts in Egypt to show how tolerant Islam is!

[Richard 2]

Our President and his aids will fall all over themselves trying to spin this so no one will think this is normal for Moslems. The more terror attacks they make the more people join our side.

[Zilla]

Lord, have mercy!

I am telling you, we are looking at an impending holocaust if the world does not stop looking the other way at the islamists' genocide against Christians!

There will be no peace in the world unless there is religious freedom and there is no religious freedom permitted in the islamic cult of death.

I wrote about this at my blog today if any of you would like to read it, you can find it here:

http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2010/12/peace-through-religious-freedom.html

[Zilla]

The shariah compliant media probably will spin the story to paint the Copts throwing rocks after the murders as the aggressors just like they do every time the Palestinians attack Israel.

[pamela]

Those who did these murders, or condone them, in the name of God, forfeit their souls.
There is no redemption, only damnation.
The Guardian at the Gates will not allow them entrance.

[Zilla]

I agree with you 100%, Pamela. The murderers will not be enjoying a pleasant afterlife.

[Zilla]

The Gateway Pundit has video & a photo from this latest atrocity:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/car-bomb-kills-7-at-egyptian-church-as-worshippers-gathered-to-greet-new-year/

[Dark Horse]

We really need to put an end to the religion of death, decay and destruction by clamping down internationally on the silent jihad bullshit and killing as many as possible involved in the violent jihad.

Non-muslim countries need to resettle all their muslim citizens in muslim countries where they can carry on their medieval nonsense together and live happily ever after in Allah's wonderful, oppressive, female unfriendly society.

YOU need to join as many anti-Islam groups as possible, become active and spread the word to politicians and other do-gooders that you won't accept this nonsense in our lands.

[Lumberjohn]

There is no such thing as a 'soul' as you state it. The term soul is derived from the Egyptian concept of each person having a special thing to take care of. They called it a 'Ka'. If one is sitting around all day long in a Palace trying to see the future, one might mistakenly understand how important it is to take care of your car. To wax, wash, get oil changes etc. etc. It is all over the television and radio and internet. The same is true of people in India, who called it a 'Kar Mah', so here we have two different cultures on different parts of the planet experiencing the same thing. No doubt, these founders of such ideas were very intelligent people, but unfortunately they passed on, and then others took over and gave new meanings to the Ka, Thus we have instead, the concept of a 'soul', a wonderful way to control others through implications of punishment etc. Not too much different from Sharia law eh?

[Mohamed]

I'm NOT surprised at all. This happens in my own country and even Muslims arround here keep saying THEY aren't our brothers and sisters. I believe this is the religion of peace at action. God help us.

[Lumberjohn]

Also, in Sikh culture, men wear a Karpone or Car phone.

[Telly]

The "your tax dollars at work" campaign could be reached for comment.

[R.K.MacUalraig]

Why do I have to love Pamela Geller like I do. The shared love of Ayn? The Smiths? Or is it because of our shared love of Western Civilization? Whatever it is @ 0130 on 01JAN11, I love her vigilence and motivation by the midnight oil.

[Cortillaen]

Oh, absolutely. The idea that you are uniquely and personally responsible for your bad deeds and that you will have to accept punishment for them meted out by an omniscient God in the afterlife is so much like a bunch of people declaring something "the law of Allah" and using brutally violent punishments to keep other people in line with a political ideology. It's just like how the golden rule and bashing somebody's face in because they don't give you what you demand are almost the same.

[Maya]

Last Christmas 6 copts were killed after midnight mass in Naga Hamadi in Upper Egypt and it looks like the trial is going towards relatively little time in prison for the criminals, so why not more killings?

An Egyptian newspaper reported an eye witness saying that one of the cars in today's bombing had a message written on it that "there is more to come". Copst celebrate Christmas on January 7 so let's see.

This is not going to change anything. We are determined to fill our Coptic chruches on Christmas Eve more than ever this year. We will face the evil.

[Infidel despiser]

The Greeks have always been known to be men of valour. Well, now is the time for them to prove it. The only good snake is a dead snake and the same principle is applicable to ALL muslims, including your ever delightful, money wasting, muslim loving leader. When nothing is done to punish the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, it actually gives these murderous assholes more confidence to take advantage of the gutless, incompetent system that governs the country.

[Et Norsk Troll]

I told everyone--I told my Jewish friends, I told my Christian friends...I told everyone who would listen: "When they are done with the Jews, they are coming for us!"

Now it's here.

Time to pray, people. You Christians: time to do what Jesus *said*: pray for our enemies.

Seems like dark days indeed are ahead.

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[Skipping Girl]

And the world goes about its business ho hum nary a mention about this.

Islam is the scourge of the earth we need to fight harder to stop this happening.

[Redneck woman]

Shariah is very much different than the concept or belief in a soul! My God Made my soul! He didn't care that I am female! Shariah Law is against anything equal for the female! The mudslimes believe that females are dirtier than dirt! If a male mudslime has touched a woman he must wash, if no water is around he can clean himself with dirt! Utter stupidity on your part to even fathom the idea that the soul and Shariah Law have a commonality in any aspect!It's obvious that even having the concept of a soul and being punished for misdeeds doesn't stop people from doing wrong!

[Johannes]

Although I do not doubt that it was a "Muslim Car Bomb", is there evidence of this?

[Veronica]

Johannes...past and recent record!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Copts

such as the 2008 attacks on the monks of the Monastery of Saint Fana).

Some observers have connected the robberies, extortion and "collection" of "taxes" from Copts to the belief by Islamists that the traditional Jizya poll tax on non-Muslims should be reinstituted. Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mustafa Mashhur expressed this belief in a 1997 interview. He also stated that while `we do not mind having Christians members in the People's Assembly [national legislature] ... the top officials, especially in the army, should be Muslims since we are a Muslim country," and Christians can not be trusted to fight for Egypt against Christian foreigners.[22]

With his freeing members of the Muslim brotherhood, persecution of the Copts only increased. ,[23] statements by Muslim Brotherhood and Sadat further exacerbated the situation of non-Muslims (namely the Copts).[24]

In 1981, President Anwar Sadat, internally exiled the Coptic Pope Shenouda III accusing him of fomenting interconfessional strife. Sadat then chose five Coptic bishops and asked them to choose a new pope. They refused, and in 1985 President Hosni Mubarak restored Pope Shenouda III.

In May 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported increasing "waves of mob assaults" by Muslims against Copts, forcing many Christians to flee their homes.[15] Despite frantic calls for help, the police typically arrived after the violence was over.[15] The police also coerced the Copts to accept "reconciliation" with their attackers to avoid prosecuting them, with no Muslims convicted for any of the attacks.[15]

6 November 1972
Muslim mob attack and burn a prayer meeting by Egyptian Christian Copts at the Holy Scripture College, an attack which preceded the infamous Khanka attacks on the Copts.[25]

June 1981
81 Copts were killed by a mob of Muslims. Interior Minister Abu Pasha blamed the deaths on a lack of adequate security measures for which his predecessor Ennabawy Ismael was responsible (according to Abu Pasha).[25]

17 November 1981
Coptic priest the Reverend Maximose Guirguis is kidnapped and threatened with death he does not denounce his Christianity and publicly convert to Islam. He refuses and his throat is cut leaving him bleeding to death.[25]

20 September 1991
Muslim mob attacks Copts in Embaba, an outer suburb of Cairo.[25]

9 March 1992
Manshiet Nasser, Dyroot, Upper Egypt. Copt son of a farmer Badr Abdullah Massoud is gunned down after refusing to pay a tax of about $166 to the local leader of Islamic Group. Massoud's body is then hacked "with knives."[26]

4 May 1992

etc etc etc to New Years 2011!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO AMERICANS FROM THE UK!!

[Stephanie]

http://newstime.co.nz/video-happy-new-year-infidel-church-bombing-in-egypt-kills-21.html
Video (Reuters): Happy New Year, Infidel: Church bombing in Egypt kills 21

[Mike]

Doe anyone have a tally of the Christmas season jihad attacks?

It seems like we have quite an uptick this season...

[DanS.]

And Christians worldwide shut their eyes - meaning Israel will have to defend herself and not rely upon the US and the world, because the world does not care about Jews if it cares not for Christians.

[Michel angel]

Thanks for all info which are so much effective. I will share with my friends.

[Robin Shadowes]

The new year starts off with a blast. No pun intended. Well, not much at least.

[Eagle17765]

Gee ... I was going to ask Pam Geller if she was going to spend the new year (2011) spreading her hate propaganda about an entire religion as oppose to casting blame on the zealot freaks who high-jacked a certain religion.

Looks like Pam is going to continue her own religious war against an entire religion. Pitiful.

[Eagle17765]

Dan,

Um ... let me ask the obvious ... why shouldn't Israel have to defend herself? Why would you say the "world doesnt' care about Jews?"

It is absurd to think the USA is beholden to be the caretaker of Israel ... Israel does a fantastic job of defending herself - so why should US Tax Dollars be spent to give to Israel when Israel does a fine job on their own?

[Eagle17765]

No, Johannes, there is no evidence at all - but hey, why should facts get in the way of Geller's hatemongering?

[Eagle17765]

Your comment is absurd.

Islam is not the scourge of the earth - freaks who highjacked the religion, Islam, are the scourge of the earth.

Come on! Grow up!

[Eagle17765]

Dude - who paid you to post your vile, insane, juvenile, hatemongering comment?

Hey, why don't you send ALL your money & might to "punish the perpetrators" ... Answer: Because YOU are all talk that's why.

Look, what happened in Egypt is AWFUL, HORRIBLE, DESPICABLE - but last I checked Egypt is a sovereign country capable of handling their own CRIMES and their investigation etc is NOT the problem of the USA.

But, like I said, you seem to talk so tough, I dare you to fly to Egypt and help them out.

[Eagle17765]

RK

Do you love all the lies she (Geller) says? Do you love all the hate she (Geller) spreads? Do you love the fact that Geller has NO solutions only hate?

[Eagle17765]

I hope you don't read the Old Testament. Because if you read the Old Testament you will find that those words in the Old Testament equate females as dirtier than dirt.

In fact, from the first book, Genesis, women are evil -- the stories continue to say that women are whures who should be stoned to death. The punishment for women, according the Laws Of Moses are identical to the so-called Shariah Law you condemn.

[Eagle17765]

Your comment is absurd.

[Patti]

you need to get a few things straight, statistics show that this is NOT a religion, it is a sadistic, maniacal, all-encompassing belief system and way of life,,,, ( think MAFIA on steroids), mixed with the insane idea that it's even acceptable to murder one's own family members and leave them in unmarked graves,, also acceptable to mutilate the genitals of one's own female children, strap bombs to your children and tell them to go kill themselves, immerse your male children , from birth in utter hatred for every other human being on the planet that is not just like them, no my friend, Islam is NOT a religion, it most closely resembles satanic
ritualistic abuse, so keep believing the lies,,, they serve no one, not even you.

[goldberg]

FREE PALESTINE

[Patti]

you guys are unbelievably naive, in the country we have a saying,,"just because a cat has kittens in the oven, it doesn't make them biscuits",,just because someone SAYS it's a religion, does not make it so,,get it? or are you honestly that dense?

[Walt]

When are we going to quit calling it Suicide bombers and start calling it what it really is

HOMICIDE bombings....

[Green Infidel]

Strange then that in a Christian wedding, the priest asks the groom "do you take this woman to be your lawfully-wedded wife?", and the bride "do you take this man to be your lawfully-wedded husband?"

This would imply something like equality of choice in the Christian culture, no? But where was this choice for 6-year-old Aisha, when she married the Islamic prophet Mohammed - the role model for Muslims to follow to this day?

[Green Infidel]

The Islamic Prophet Mohammed slaughtered whole tribes (Banu Qurayza, and Khaybar), and is the role model for Muslims around the world - including most likely those behind the attacks in Alexandria. So was he a "zealot freak hijacking a religion"?

[Cortillaen]

How about you grow up and stop ignoring what is right in front of you? Read the texts and history of Islam and you will find a small, hodgepodge, cult religion cobbled together from pieces of Judaism, Christianity, and Arab paganism. You will also find that the religious portion takes a back seat to the portion dedicated to attracting men for Mohammad's armies and the maintenance of an empire, the Caliphate, through oppressive, arbitrary, and horrendously discriminatory laws (that are declared the literal word of Allah and, thus, perfect and immutable).

Failing to see evil is ignorance. You, on the other hand, have seen enough to know it, yet you persist in claiming it does not exist, that it's not as bad as it seems, that we're all just as bad. That is not ignorance. That is refusal to admit the truth about evil. Enabling evil by protecting it is evil itself.

[SPaquet]

Your pitiful, and why are you here if you detest Pam Geller? Were you not invited to any New Years celebration---no wonder your a bummer. You should have been in Nigeria for the celebration of killing innocent christians there to worship their Lord and Savior but instead were blown to bits, would you have said Happy New Year to the pieces of flesh laying outside that church,FOOL? God Hates your kind less than I do.

[Redneck woman]

I have read the Old Testament a few times but I follow the New Testament. The Old Testament was before Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus Washed away our sins with His Blood at His Crucifixion! Jesus did not condemn women because they were women!Remember he told the ones who wanted to stone Mary Magdalen for supposed adultery.." You who have not sinned, cast the first stone".

Now that you have shown that you are an Islamic satan lover and love satan's shariah Law, go climb back down into your dwelling. I suggest you need to do some reading ( the New Testament ) so you can actually co-exist in the 21st century!

Until then....Peace be with you!

[Redneck woman]

Pamela is telling it like it is. She is not spreading hate or telling lies about Islam.

Islam spreads lies and hate! You hate the Jews and all Christian infidels...your Satanic book of lies ( AKA...qu'ran )says it many times to kill them!

BTW....where in that filthy book of Satan's does it say that Allah created anything but lies and hate?

Pamela has solutions to the Islamic take over....fight you with all our hearts, minds and souls! Don't give in to any of your 6th century bullying and slaying!

I'm with Pamela...don't give you an inch of appeasement, as you will figure we are weak. We're not and you will be pushed back into your caves.

Peace be with you.

[Zilla]

Barry had to go and add insult to injury by fabricating imaginary muslim "victims" in order to be able to denounce the islamic terrorist attack:

http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/01/barry-genocide-bomber-is-not-victim.html

He can't let his "muslim brothers" take responsibility for any of the atrocities they commit for allah!

[Redneck woman]

I would rather have tax dollars being spent on my friends (Israel) than monies spent for the President, his family and entourage of many to be taking these holidays here and there, bowing down and apologizing for America!

America is NOT the caretaker of Israel! America is not even an ally in any sense of the word anymore!

Hope Israel does a real fine job and kicks some Islamic butt big time like she has done before! Remember the Yom Kippur war?

[Demsci]

You Eagle are the one having no solutions but only attempts at censorship and stopping the debate. You seem to hate free speech. Yet I pose that were criticism on Islam only were polite and respectful, Muslims would refuse to listen, as they always refuse to budge, or even to react to respectful complaints about Islam. All criticism is considered lies and hate by Muslims. Muslims leave critics of Islam no choice than to be either violent or nasty in reaction. But violence is out of the question, so to be heard, Muslims force critics to be harsh in words.

So positive about Pamela Geller: Her so-called lies and hate are really about Criticizing Exposing and Protesting against very real Islamic anti-Democratic teaching; like deathpenalty for apostasy, inequal treatment before the law of men and women and believers and unbelievers, forbidding of criticism of Islam/ Muhammad which is anti-freedom of speech etc. Calling criticisms on this only hate is a very weak reaction, coming from a desire of censorship.

she also holds Muslims accountable for the choice of their anti-democratic totalitarian faith, with plenty of hateful speech in that faith itself. Which is OK by us, but why for you not for both sides? Because Mohammed is "holy" and Pamela only a mere human?

Muslims should be held accountable for their choice of religion/ ideology because of all it's implications and connections. The profound ignorance about their own religion by the many peaceful, so-called moderate Muslims is no excuse. I hold most of them to be sane adult humans and they chose for a proven anti-democratic or very unclear ideology. Muslims by and large yet refuse to alter their guiding texts and they seem too afraid or too lazy to even try to find compromise in the form of modest, but necessary reform.

You only defend totalitarian theocracy and because of the multitudes of Muslims with responsibility you thereby defend or ignore, you are using huge double standards and a hypocrite of the first order. Maybe in an ignorant way but still responsible for your attitude.

[Demsci]

Those freaks that allegedly highjacked Islam, often know the Islamic guiding texts a lot better than the so-called moderate Muslims do and they usually have studied them much longer and zealous.

Anyway, Muslims should be held accountable for what these freaks do, on account that they support very unclear, multi-interpretable texts like Islam's. And when these texts are clear, at first sight many of them appear anti-democratic.

Muslims are members of an organisation that allows everybody that says the shahada as a member, even if members oppress and kill. Muslims should have the decency to accept accountability for clinging to such an organisation, with such texts. With such proven detrimental influence on the minds of "freaks".

Yet Muslims refuse to change these texts, which they still put above all else. They do not even attempt to reinterpret them appropriately and limit membership to those adhering to appropriate reform.

So yes, Islam is the scourge of the earth, by virtue of not-taken-responsibility of its ignorant or lazy followers.

[Roc Olson]

Those who use 'Islamic Tolerance' have bought into Dhimmitudinal think so deeply that they cannot be resuscitated from it. 'Freedom lovers' will never get anywhere with reasoning the Dhimmi-squad. Let's leave them alone with their thinking. Ignoring them really pisses them off. Seki-Progs (secular progressives) will not be ignored: they complete the circle. The circle of circular reasoning cannot be breached. Infidels Unite! R

[Demsci]

Why don't Muslims try to help her do what you want her to do? Blaming at least some who call themselves Muslim who did terrorist and oppressive acts by trying to clarify what the Muslims who want to be considered compatible with and harmless to Democratic laws and interests, really believe in and aim for? In a New Islam-interpretation-declaration? Which is updatable in accordance with reasonable complaints from victims of Islamic violence and oppression and their supporters. Which puts conditions of this reformed Islam with a clear new name?

Failing that, "the entire religion" is guilty of clinging to highly vulnerable incomplete texts while not severing clear proven connections to violent terroristic oppressing adherents using those very texts in a logical and understandable way. And so victims of that religion and their supporters are right in opposing and exposing it.

Why do Muslims never take responsibility for their choice of religion and always blame outsiders for being messengers and mirrors?

[R.K. MacUalraig]

Geller is a rationally minded American and Western woman who simply doesn't want a mosque at GZ.

Eagle, my desires are far more savage. I don't want the cult of Islam existing anywhere in the same universe as my children. Imagine what I would do. You're pissing and moaning to the wrong man.

[Gerald]

I agree with you. I often wondered why a powerful God does not punish the sinners then and there rather than wait for them to die before consigning them to hell. Just think of it, if Muhammad during one of his epileptic fits had bitten his tongue and bled to death the world would have been spared this blight on humanity called Islam. An omnipotent God could have done this easily.

[MichaelM]

Yes, FREE PALENSTINE... FREE IT FROM THE PALESTINIANS. Ship them all to Jordan, where they belong.