Martyrs for someone else's religion?

[Elok]

Okay, not exactly. But it's still pretty cool.

Summary for the lazy: Egypt's Coptic Christians were attacked by extremists during a New Years' Mass in Alexandria, leaving 21 dead. So, for their old-calendar Christmas mass last Thursday, thousands of Muslims--including the president's kids--attended services around the country as human shields. No services were attacked.

So, is there a mosque I need to run cover for?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

finally regular muslims are coming out in the public... they should come out of the shadows more like this

[Ming]

Religious extremists, no matter which religion, are a problem. It's the nut jobs that give all relgions a bad name.

[OzzyKP]

Okay, not exactly. But it's still pretty cool.

Summary for the lazy: Egypt's Coptic Christians were attacked by extremists during a New Years' Mass in Alexandria, leaving 21 dead. So, for their old-calendar Christmas mass last Thursday, thousands of Muslims--including the president's kids--attended services around the country as human shields. No services were attacked.

So, is there a mosque I need to run cover for?

Yea, I heard about this, it is a pretty fantastic show of support.

[Cort Haus]

Decent people from whatever-their-belief-system

[N35t0r]

Indeed

[MOBIUS]

Awesome show of support!

The majority of any people just want to live in peace and get on with life - it's always the odd few % that spoil it for the rest of us.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Indeed. And when they are shown how little support they have, it is a beautiful thing.

[Theben]

good.

Something similar i seen the other day- a blip on yahoo news- talked about sectarian violence in Iraq and against xians in particular, but had a small picture with the caption "christians and muslims protesting against the violence". I thought to myself about freaking time.

[BeBMan]

Decency

[MikeH]

Decent people from whatever-their-belief-system

[MikeH]

Indeed. And when they are shown how little support they have, it is a beautiful thing.

[Robert]

That's a great act from these muslims!

[DaShi]

Now we just need some christians to stand around the ground zero mosque.

[Heraclitus]

Okay, not exactly. But it's still pretty cool.

Summary for the lazy: Egypt's Coptic Christians were attacked by extremists during a New Years' Mass in Alexandria, leaving 21 dead. So, for their old-calendar Christmas mass last Thursday, thousands of Muslims--including the president's kids--attended services around the country as human shields. No services were attacked.

So, is there a mosque I need to run cover for?