They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex, killed a dozen people, and wounded more than 200: just another day in this spontaneous democratic uprising by Muslim hearts yearning for freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Worse (in a sense); the media, always running interference for the Administration, is covering up the true nature of the violence:<\/p>\n
In the delusional vocabulary of the \u201cArab Spring,\u201d this particular episode is known as a sectarian \u201cclash.\u201d That was the Washington Post\u2019s take. Its headline reads \u201c12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash\u201d \u2014 in the same way, one supposes, that a mugger\u2019s fist can be said to \u201cclash\u201d with his victim\u2019s face. The story goes on, in nauseating \u201ccycle of violence\u201d style, to describe \u201cclashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians\u201d that \u201cleft\u201d 12 dead, dozens more wounded, \u201cand a church charred\u201d \u2014 as if it were not crystal clear who were the clashers and who were the clashees, as if the church were somehow combusted into a flaming heap without some readily identifiable actors having done the charring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The narrative was set over the winter; the “Arab Spring” was an unalloyed good thing; it was Obama’s foreign-policy baby; it unleashed a wave of arabic Madisons and Jeffersons. \u00a0If we just keep believing.<\/p>\n
Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trading in a “moderate” tyrant for extreme theocratic tyrants? It\u00a0may not just be for Carter anymore. \u00a0Andrew McCarthy in NRO: Screaming \u201cWith our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,\u201d jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. (Trivia question: Which traditional Lutheran, Episcopal, Catholic or Presbyterian hymn does “with our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}