{"id":6039,"date":"2011-06-11T20:27:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:27:23","slug":"annals-of-the-arab-spring-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/annals-of-the-arab-spring-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Annals of the Arab Spring (ctd.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/egypt.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/egypt-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"egypt\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6040\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/269403\/annals-arab-spring-ctd-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted over at the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304432304576371484109592252.html\">Via the Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> QENA, Egypt\u2014Five weeks after the fall of the Egyptian regime, Ayman Anwar Mitri\u2019s apartment was torched. When he showed up to investigate, he was bundled inside by bearded Islamists. Mr. Mitri is a member of the Christian Coptic minority that accounts for one-tenth of the country\u2019s 83 million people. The Islamists accused him of having rented the apartment\u2014by then unoccupied\u2014to loose Muslim women. Inside the burnt apartment, they beat him with the charred remains of his furniture. Then, one of them produced a box cutter and performed what he considered an appropriate punishment under Islam: He amputated Mr. Mitri\u2019s right ear. When they were beating me, they kept saying: \u2018We won\u2019t leave any Christians in this country,\u2019\u201d Mr. Mitri recalled in a recent interview, two months after the March attack. Blood dripped through a plastic tube from his unhealed wound to a plastic container. \u201cHere, there is a war against the Copts,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>His attackers, who were never arrested or prosecuted, follow the ultrafundamentalist Salafi strain of Islam that promotes an austere, Saudi-inspired worldview. Before President Hosni Mubarak was toppled on Feb. 11, the Salafis mostly confined themselves to preaching. Since then, they\u2019ve entered the political arena, drawing crowds and swaying government decisions. Salafi militants also have blocked roads, burned churches and killed Copts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted over at the Corner: Via the Wall Street Journal: QENA, Egypt\u2014Five weeks after the fall of the Egyptian regime, Ayman Anwar Mitri\u2019s apartment was torched. When he showed up to investigate, he was bundled inside by bearded Islamists. Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/annals-of-the-arab-spring-ctd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15,711],"tags":[803,704,363,737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}