Cairo protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall, remove flag

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slotty said:
I’m not from the US so I am not emotionally involved. I’d simply say perhaps as Catholics first we need to look at why they are so angry and treat the young men with compassion after all Egypt was where the Holy family fled to as refugees. 🤷
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Then how about those angry men show some compassion for the USA? Why couldn’t they have stopped and said "What message are we sending by attacking America on this day of mourning?"Also the Egyptians today are nothing like the Egyptians of Christ’s time and these terrorist’s actions have nothing to do with the nation or people of Egypt.

Sorry but Catholics are called to be charitable, not to be submissive and tolerant to acts of hatred and violence.
 
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others
egypt.usembassy.gov/pr091112.html

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The White House is disavowing a statement from their own Cairo embassy that apologized for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.
“The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” a senior administration official told POLITICO…
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a Tuesday statement.
politico.com/politico44/2012/09/white-house-disavows-cairo-apology-135247.html

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SamH said:
With 70% unemployment in the 25 and under crowd in the US how long before we see similar activity in the US?
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maybe it will depend on what happens in November?

meanwhile, the WH is saying that Obama has a full schedule and Obama cannot meet with Netanyahu.
 
Obama administration isn’t handling their foreign policy well this week.
 
gilliam said:
Obama administration isn’t handling their foreign policy well this week.
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Yesterday I was reading an editorial about U.S. foreign policy from a September 1943 issue of Life Magazine, and it reminded me of discussions I was party to on that subject while I was in high school. What was true in 1943 was true in 1964 and is still true in 2012. The United States government does not have a foreign policy. The various U.S. administrations have only reactions to things that happen abroad that affect U.S. interests.
 
gilliam said:
The White House is disavowing a statement from their own Cairo embassy that apologized for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.
“The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” a senior administration official told POLITICO…
“Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a Tuesday statement.
politico.com/politico44/2012/09/white-house-disavows-cairo-apology-135247.html

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Isn’t Hillary supposed to be in charge of this?
 
JHow said:
Now there is a report that our ambassador to Linya was killed.
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There are reports he was lynched, not the story that the MSM media is telling but there are pictures on the internet of him being dragged and what appears to be lynched by the ‘protesters’.
 
Skeptic92 said:
There are reports he was lynched, not the story that the MSM media is telling but there are pictures on the internet of him being dragged and what appears to be lynched by the ‘protesters’.
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He was killed in a rocket attack, but then the “protesters” desecrated the body, and posted pictures on facebook.

Disgraceful.
 
jediliz said:
When the Holy Family fled to Egypt, it was to escape Herod’s slaughter of the little boys. It was a reverse Exodus…they left Israel (however briefly as it was only for a few years) to protect Jesus. This is not the same thing.

What they did in Egypt was disrepsectful, especially considering what DAY it is!
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the rest of the world doesn’t commemorate 9/11. I didn’t know it was the anniversary until an American colleague mentioned.

If it was planned for this day, it wasn’t by the Egyptians or the Libyans
 
CatholicSheila said:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the rest of the world doesn’t commemorate 9/11. I didn’t know it was the anniversary until an American colleague mentioned.

If it was planned for this day, it wasn’t by the Egyptians or the Libyans
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More than AMERICANS died on 9/11! There were citizens from other countries that were visiting new york that day that died in the attack on the towers.
 
CatholicSheila said:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the rest of the world doesn’t commemorate 9/11. I didn’t know it was the anniversary until an American colleague mentioned.

If it was planned for this day, it wasn’t by the Egyptians or the Libyans
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That is pretty surprising. That you didn’t know enough about the attacks on 9/11 to realize that yesterday was the an anniversary. :confused:

I guess only 10 people from your country died, so it isn’t that big of a deal. 🤷
 
maryjk said:
That is pretty surprising. That you didn’t know enough about the attacks on 9/11 to realize that yesterday was the an anniversary. :confused:

I guess only 10 people from your country died, so it isn’t that big of a deal. 🤷
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I think this is a bit of a ‘America is the centre of the World’ mentality here, does any other country commemorate 7/7? American TV removed the 7/7 commemoration from the Olympic Opening Ceremony in their broadcast.
 
jediliz said:
More than AMERICANS died on 9/11! There were citizens from other countries that were visiting new york that day that died in the attack on the towers.
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Do you commemorate attacks that happened in Israel? What about Russia? Can you tell me the date of the Bali bombings? Americans died in that one.

I doubt very much that those events are commemorated in your country to any great extent, so why is it surprising we don’t commemorate your events?

It was an attack on America. That people of other nationalities died doesn’t change that. You can try and make out it was an attack on all of us, and you’ll even get some people to agree. But not all of us.

I don’t watch telly, maybe it got mentioned there, but I do read at least two papers every day and I saw nothing mentioned in either.
 
Skeptic92 said:
I think this is a bit of a ‘America is the centre of the World’ mentality here, does any other country commemorate 7/7? American TV removed the 7/7 commemoration from the Olympic Opening Ceremony in their broadcast.
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It would seem certain groups like Al Qaeda do. The Egyptions probably don’t remember the specific date they were dancing in the streets though.
 
Skeptic92 said:
I think this is a bit of a ‘America is the centre of the World’ mentality here, does any other country commemorate 7/7? American TV removed the 7/7 commemoration from the Olympic Opening Ceremony in their broadcast.
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Wow… they removed it? We don’t commemorate 7/7 either, but I’d be horrified if we removed it from a British ceremony.

I didn’t watch the opening ceremony, but I hope we didn’t do that. That is rather disrespectful.
 
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