{"id":29651,"date":"2011-12-02T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_egypts_copts_fear_success_of_islamist_groups_in_election\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:01:16","slug":"church_times_egypts_copts_fear_success_of_islamist_groups_in_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29651","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Egypt\u2019s Copts fear success of Islamist groups in election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copts and other Christian com\u00c2\u00admunities in Egypt fear that the unexpectedly large turnout in the first of the three rounds of voting in parliamentary elections will be translated into a resounding success for the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s Freedom and Justice Party. Other parties representing more conserva\u00c2\u00adtive Islamists \u201d\u201d Salafis and Jihadis \u201d\u201d are also likely to fare better than had been thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe signs are very worrying,\u201d\u009d a schoolteacher in Alexandria, Gabriel Ghali, said. \u201cWe are all worrying about what the huge queues will mean in terms of the votes cast, and we suspect it will mean a victory for the Islamic groups \u201d\u201d and that\u2019s bad news for us.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Christians have emigrated since the overthrow of the Hosni Mubarak regime, and the outbreak of attacks on mem-bers of the community and their property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=121474\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copts and other Christian com\u00c2\u00admunities in Egypt fear that the unexpectedly large turnout in the first of the three rounds of voting in parliamentary elections will be translated into a resounding success for the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s Freedom and Justice Party.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29651\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,411,560,144,161,426,203,659,154,155,151,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}