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Originally posted by FlyersFan
:shk: This is what the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi supporters are doing. Taking innocent Christian nuns who are minding their own business, and abusing them and parading them through the streets as prisoners of 'war'. The Franciscan school that the nuns taught at is looted and then burned down. And yet ... there are some who claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is 'moderate'. This is the group that the Obama administration supports. This is the group that John McCain supports. Disgusting.
Islamist Mob Parades Nuns in Cairo As Prisoners Of War
A mob marched nuns through the battle-torn streets of Cairo ‘like prisoners of war’ in the latest outrage against Egypt’s Christian minority. Sister Manal, principal of a Franciscan school in suburban Cairo, watched for six hours as a mob looted the building, knocked the cross off the gate and replaced it with a black banner resembling the flag of Al Qaeda.
The classrooms were then burned to the ground and the women taken away, attracting a crowd of abusive onlookers. Police told Sister Manal that the nuns had been targeted by hardline Islamists, convinced that they had given Muslim children an inappropriate education. ‘We are nuns. We rely on God and the angels to protect us,’ she said. ‘At the end, they paraded us like prisoners of war and hurled abuse at us as they led us from one alley to another without telling us where they were taking us.’
Siblings Wardah and Bedour, two Christian women employed by the school, also found themselves having to fight their way through the mob while being groped, hit and insulted by the extremists.
Originally posted by charles1952
OK, you guys know I get confused more easily than the average poster, so I don't feel so bad about asking.
What was the point? Why parade nuns around and burn down a school? They must have thought some good would come from it, but what? Does it make them look powerful? Rambo, Part 17, The Fist v. Sr. Mary Margaret.
Oh, and for the poster who said this is an example of religion, I most vehemently disagree. It may be an (increasingly common) example of the behavior of followers in one religion, but the brush used in making this claim about religion in general is too wide to even pick up.