After the senseless slaughter of dozens of peaceful Christian protestors in Cairo last weekend, President Barack Obama is causing outrage among the world’s Christian community by calling upon that country’s battered minority to show restraint.
“The President is deeply concerned about the violence in Egypt that has led to a tragic loss of life among demonstrators and security forces,” Obama said in a statement released this week. ”Now is a time for restraint on all sides so that Egyptians can move forward together to forge a strong and united Egypt.”
Veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler was shocked by the statement.
“Incredibly, Obama is not only equating the deaths of peaceful protestors and their killers, but he is suggesting that Egypt’s increasingly persecuted Christian minority should show as much ‘restraint’ as their tormentors and refrain from vigorously objecting to the growing abuse,” Koffler wrote at White House Dossier.
The deadly incident occurred on Sunday when more than two dozen people, most of them Coptic Christians, were either gunned down or run over by military vehicles when Egyptian security forces attacked their otherwise peaceful protest of the deliberate burning of a Christian church.
Even though the Egyptian military is denying the killings, eyewitness videos clearly show armed personnel carriers crashing through the crowd of protestors and soldiers firing upon the gathering of up to 100,000 people. According to forensic reports, most of the dead were either crushed beneath vehicles or shot.
Many are trying to say that the Christians turned violent and caused the deaths of three soldiers but this is widely believed to have occurred while the besieged protestors were fighting for their lives.
“Obama’s statement does say that ‘the United States continues to believe that the rights of minorities – including Copts – must be respected,'” Koffler writes. “But the moral equivalence given to the demonstrators and military signals that the White House is not yet serious about curtailing the anti-Christian violence and preempting additional brutal action by the military.”
Another sign of Obama’s “unseriousness” is how his statement attempts to reassure the public with the fact that Prime Minister Sharaf has called for an investigation. However, Sharaf has already publicly blamed the violence on a foreign conspiracy, which is hardly a good sign that the investigation will proceed as it should.
Erick Stakelbeck of CBNNews.com was equally appalled by the statement. “Well, according to the Obama administration, those besieged Christians must show ‘restraint’ as they are being massacred and maimed by Islamists and the Egyptian military: two factions, ironically enough, that the Obamis empowered when they threw Hosni Mubarak under the bus and pledged support for the so-called Arab Spring earlier this year. Really, you can’t make this stuff up.”
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