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2009-02-10 Africa Horn

Coptic arrests inflame Egypt's sectarian tensions

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 seemingly endless tension that continues to grow between Christians and Muslims in Egypt.

You just gotta love the heavy-handed equivalency here. But, thinking about it, it's no worse than writing about "religious clashes", when muslim majorities go after Christian minorities in nigeria, indonesia or egpt.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-02-10 04:43|| 2009-02-10 04:43|| Front Page Top

#2 It's the famous Cycle of Tension, anonymous5089, which somehow leads to the Cycle of Violence. I don't quite understand how, as cycles are clearly self-contained and never ending, much like pocket universes. Perhaps one of Rantburg's physicists could explain the mechanism in a simplified way that I might grasp.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-02-10 04:52|| 2009-02-10 04:52|| Front Page Top

#3 as cycles are clearly self-contained and never ending, much like pocket universes

It's a feature, not a bug, innit?

No aggressors, no perpretators, no victims, no responsability nor blame nor judgement (except for the semi-mythical "Root Causes"), not even causality... just a never-ending process you cannot solve, UNLESS by adding more process to it.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-02-10 05:22|| 2009-02-10 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The reason it's an "endless cycle" is because everything defames Islam. The only question is what's the critical mass?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-02-10 08:22|| 2009-02-10 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Islam IS defamation, against God.

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