Egyptian Christians Reject Meeting With Pence in Protest of Trump's Jerusalem Decision

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Source: Haaretz

Egypt’s Coptic Church has rejected a meeting requested by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during his visit in the region later this month in protest against Washington’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, MENA state news agency reported on Saturday.

The Church “excused itself from hosting Mike Pence” when he visits Egypt, citing Trump’s decision. The Church further said that the move came at “at an unsuitable time" and said it was made "without consideration for the feelings of millions of people,” MENA said.

"We pray for everyone to have wisdom and rationality in addressing issues that affect the peace of the Middle East peoples," the church added in a statement.

On Friday, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the head of al-Azhar, Egypt's highest Islamic body, announced that he was cancelling a meeting with Pence in a similar protest.

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Read more: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/egypt/1.827867

[NastyRiffraff]

1. Pence is being rejected all over the Middle East

First the Palestinians and now...et tu, Christians? The Israeli government will welcome him, of course. It's unclear how the people of Israel feel about Trump's Jerusalem stunt.

[lark]

2. Israelis, like little murderer, who just want Palestinian slaves rejoiced.

Israelis who care anything about humanity weep.

[Igel]

8. Sure.

1. Lots of Xians--Copts and Orthodox and others--are anti-Semites. Jews killed Christ. Encouraging Jewish badness = bad.

2. Copts are ultimately still of a kind with Egyptian Arabs. See (1). It's not like we don't understand ethnic nationalism; we just only like it when we agree with it, whether Catalonian or Irish or Palestinian or Rohingyan.

3. Uncle Tomism. Copts know that if they piss off the majority and their militants that it will go badly for them. They have more important fish to fry than defending Israel in some oblique sense, knowing that they'd take years to rebuild their churches and the churches' rebuilding that's been stalled for decades would be stalled for yet more decades. For the same sort of reason, Iranian Jews are very anti-Israel.

"Christian" is like saying "American" or "liberal." There are free-market, classical liberals; liberals who are progressive and in favor of a strong visible hand--theirs, preferably--in charge of the markets. The word says little outside of context, and typically when a politicized point is to be made all the context that undercuts that point is suspiciously omitted.

[dembotoz]

3. on the bright side it means that the vp will not embarrass us by asking folks of other faiths to

throw off their wicked ways and follow jesus

[mpcamb]

7. Pence is keeping a low profile in the US, fearful he'll be asked a question about his Russian buds.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Those Egyptian Christians don't read the KJB so they're not real Christians anyway

[safeinOhio]

5. KJB, you mean the Bible

the gay king was responsible for.


https://etb-history-theology.blogspot.com/2012/03/king-james-was-gay.html


Don't tell the Southern Baptist.

[Achilleaze]

6. "We're just not that into Armageddon." - Sane Christians

The KGOP republican Pence of Darkness don't give a shit about sane...