Egypt Christians, Muslims Unite in Tahrir Square

[Geenie]

CAIRO – Joining hands against the regime of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Muslim and Christian protestors shared funeral prayers in Tahrir square on Sunday, February 6, for the victims of brutal security crackdowns on demonstrations.

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By one o’clock PM (CLT), Christians started their Sunday Mass in Cairo's Tahrir Square as Muslim protesters formed a ring around them to protect them during the service.

Chanting “one hand,” they appeared holding the Holy Quran and the Cross as Christians and Muslims crossed their hands.

Since the eruption of the protests, no single attack was reported on any church in Egypt, though all police forces withdrew from their locations in front of churches.

Last Friday, more than a million Muslims gathered for Friday Prayer in Tahrir Square in a day dubbed as the “Friday of Departure.”

Photos taken during the prayers showed Christians forming a ring around their fellow Muslims to protect them during prayers.

Full story is here: http://www.onislam.net/english/news/africa/450890-egypt-christians-muslims-unite-in-tahrir.html
For those of you that speak German, you can find another article from a different - and perhaps more credible - source here: http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/aegypten584.html

Have not seen it picked up in any major English language news outlet yet unfortunately. Nice story, I think. One can only hope it lasts for a while.

[Dusty]

Have not seen it picked up in any major English language news outlet yet unfortunately. Nice story, I think. One can only hope it lasts for a while.

3 guesses why not

[mark46th]

Egypt has a longer history as a country than it does with Islam. They are not dominated by any clan or tribal loyalties so they are able to function as one people with a single national identity...

[Richard]

Well, rival factions in Cairo are showing a renewed sense of brotherhood as they protest President Mubarak’s regime. Last night the news showed a Sunni, a Shiite and a Coptic Christian running down the streets of Cairo together carrying King Tut's coffin.

And so it goes...

Richard :munchin

[mark46th]

To quote Russell Crowe's character, Terry Thorn, in 'Proof of Life'-

"It's always about the money, mate."

[incarcerated]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/the-new-iron-curtain/430205.html

The New Iron Curtain

Opinion
02 February 2011
By Yulia Latynina
The current upheavals in Egypt might signal the start of a new chapter in world history. A new Iron Curtain is rapidly descending over the Middle East.
Any revolution in Egypt will be fundamentalist in nature. It will have a domino effect, leading to fundamentalist revolutions in the region and creating a new geopolitical reality that is only a little less scary and tense than was the confrontation between communism and capitalism in the 20th century.
The totalitarian Soviet Union was set on spreading socialist-communist revolution all over the world. The Communist Party called it “liberation movements.” The Kremlin also warned that the West was determined to conquer the Soviet Union. In exporting revolution, Moscow supported any terrorist group willing to fight against open society.
As a result, however, the Soviet Union itself collapsed. The ideological shackles it had imposed on its own economy and science turned out to be incompatible with its bid for world leadership.
….We are standing at the threshold of a new world. If the fundamentalists get their way, secular authoritarian Middle East regimes will be replaced by Islamist extremist, totalitarian ones…

Yulia Latynina hosts a political talk show on Ekho Moskvy radio.