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Egypt's Christians, pro-Hizbullah?
Issandr El Amrani
According to an IslamOnline article:
CAIRO — Egypt's Copts have hailed the Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah and its chief Hassan Nasrallah as a source of pride to Muslims and the Arab world, and launched a fund-raising campaign to help the Lebanese people in their current trial.Even Youssef Chahine can't wait to meet Nasrallah!
"All Arabs must be proud of Hizbullah's gallantry," Bishop Rafiq Gris, the spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic Church, told IslamOnline.net Monday, July 31.
"No matter what the results will be, Hizbullah has proved that the 'invincible' Israeli army is too weak and shown that a Frankenstein created by the Arab rulers was brought to his knees by a few number of fighters," added Yuhana Qaltah, a writer and columnist.
Reader Comments (9)
I think if Copts had to live in South Lebanon next door to Hizbullah the way my Christian relatives do, they wouldn't be so effusive.
But it's true that after a couple of weeks of this war, my various relatives have gone from saying things I wouldn't print about Hizbullah, to saying "we are all Lebanese. We are united."
Nobody wants civil war, that's for damn certain.
And I do have a couple of relatives who admire Hizbullah for its political organization. Anyway. It's easy to cheer on warriors when you don't have to live with the consequences of their fight.
Is there any possibility that Hezbollah might morph into a secular Islamic party in the near future?
An interesting scene during the pro-resistance demo on Sunday, was of a leftist coptic female doctor I know waving Hizbollah flag in Talaat Harb Sq...
I know a conservative christian coptic male who is telling me always that he likes Hassan Nasser-Allah, so my guess this much is true
One more interesting aspect though, is what´s lacking in the article. No official comment from the coptic orthodox church, have anyone, Issandr, Hossam or someone else, heard any statement on Lebanon from Pope Shenouda, Amba Mousa et al ?
Symbolic heroism is strange. During the first Gulf War I'm told that Muslim workers in the Bombay suburbs had put up posters of Saddam Hussein in the factories where they worked in large numbers - even though there were many Indian migrant workers in Kuwait and the Gulf who had suffered from the repercussions of his invasion.
To clearify my question, any statement on Hizbullah or Hassan Nasralalh?
I haven't heard of anything, Ibn ad Dunya. There are stories where individual priests express sympathies, but I don't know about official statements from the Baba or the church hierarchy.
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