Blogs For Victory

An article over at NRO has both saddened and angered me:

Copts in Egypt are begging for Egyptian Armed Forces protection today after a Muslim mob of several thousand attacked their church in the village of Soul, about 30 kilometers from Cairo, last night. The Church of St. Mina and St. George was torched, and its clergy are unaccounted for. The fire department and security forces failed to respond to Coptic pleas for help during the arson attack.

According to a report from the Washington-based Coptic American Friendship Association, the mob, chanting “Allahu Akbar,” pulled down the church’s cross and detonated a handful of gas cylinders inside the structure. The ensuing fire destroyed the church and all its contents, including the sacred relics of centuries-old saints. It is reported that a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim woman, which sharia forbids, and the refusal of the woman’s father to kill her to restore the community’s “honor,” aroused the Muslim ire…

They are attacking my brothers and sisters and shouting “Allahu Akbar” while they do it. Someone tell me – how many more murdered Christians and desecrated churches am I supposed to put up with? How many more months and years am I to wait patiently for an alleged Moslem majority to stamp out a tiny minority of extremists who are causing the problem? Is there any limit to the amount of brutal attacks? Or are we Christians supposed to just sit there and take it until we are totally destroyed? Please, someone, tell me – what is the answer to the question?

Nearly a thousand years ago, in response to a long string of completely unprovoked attacks, the Christians of the West rose up and carried war in to the Moslem world. A lesson was administered and it was centuries before the Moslems made another try at brutalizing Christians – and when they did, we once again waited centuries before really responding…but, brothers, did we ever respond…Moslems still weep over what was done to them at Lepanto by Don Juan of Austria, and by Jan Sobieski at Vienna (and that last action took place in 1683…on 9/11); and for centuries thereafter, we had peace with Islam.

Now they are attacking us again – and just as in the past, with no justification whatsoever. Its one thing to dislike the United States, but to attack a Christian church and murder parishoners cannot be explained except as a manifestation of blood lust. I just want to know, how long will we put up with it? We, too, once upon a time had our battle cry – Deus vult. Eventually, Moslems might have to hear it again, before we have peace.