Atheism & the Middle East.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Ok, so they're not coptics - But Christians and other minorities were and are being killed is Syria and Iraq, right now.

As to your last point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Copts#2010

Perhaps take your blinkers off (and yes I'm aware of many Egyptians looking to defend and speak out against Coptic persecution. But denial of that persecution is utterly insane, especially following the MB's rise and subsequent fall during the 'Arab Spring' - A laughable event with a laughable title).

False and sterotypical information indeed.

So the Arab spring was a laughable event ? interesting.
Tell that to all the rebels who sacrificed their lives to overthrow dictators like Husny Mubarak, who made Egypt drench in poverty beyond 50%.
But I don't think you saw or even heard, how Muslims & Christian copts stood together against the dictator regime.

I acknowledged that - right there in the post quoted.

The Arab spring was a failure by anyone's standards. Have things improved socially or economically since the uprising began in places like Egypt, Tunisia or Libya? Indeed, the latter is looking more and more like a failed state as the months go on with inter tribal conflicts rife.

The main problem is that the secular voices in these countries were downed out before the revolutions really got going. One dictator was replaced with another dictator, or worse, nothing at all.

MB weren't even capable of prosecuting a kitten. MB had no power ; no wonder they were overthrown in a matter of days.
I really want to ask you : how could an organization causing all this horror & prosecution, gets overthrown in a matter of days ?

Military intervention helped. The only thing one thing that remains constant in Egypt is their strong military.

They were overthrown, yes, but what of the millions that ascribed to their policies of persecution and gradual ostracism of everything classed as an other?

I fully supported the removal of Morsi and his MB cronies. Still don't see what that has to do with endemic persecution of coptics in recent years both before and after the removal of Mubarak.

And you also know that the only documented case of prosecution, involved the massacre or Rab'a square ; where -only islamists- men and women and children, were killed in thousands, right ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2013_Rabaa_Massacre

quoting :

The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history.[9] According to Human Rights Watch, at least 817 and likely well over 1,000 people were killed in Rabaa Square on August 14.[10]

But of course fidel, muslim deaths are never counted ; of course.
Muslims are sub-human and deserve to die ; after all.

Double standards are not a good thing

Again, I don't see the relevance. Good on those Egyptians that wanted the removal of an Islamist government in Egypt.

RE: Bold - Please don't put words into my mouth. There are no double standards here because we weren't even discussing that subject.