{"id":39467,"date":"2013-08-09T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_egypts_coup_puts_fearful_christians_in_a_corner\/"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:15:45","slug":"ap_egypts_coup_puts_fearful_christians_in_a_corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39467","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Egypt&#39;s coup puts fearful Christians in a corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chanting &#8220;Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.&#8221; A half-dozen kids were spray-painting &#8220;Boycott the Christians&#8221; on walls, supervised by an adult.<\/p>\n<p>While Islamists are on the defensive in Cairo following the military coup that ousted President Mohammed Morsi, in Assiut and elsewhere in Egypt&#8217;s deep south they are waging a stepped-up hate campaign, claiming the country&#8217;s Christian minority somehow engineered Morsi&#8217;s downfall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tawadros is a dog,&#8221; says a spray-painted insult, referring to Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of the Copts, as Egypt&#8217;s Christians are called. Christian homes, stores and places of worship have been marked with large painted crosses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/egypts-coup-puts-fearful-christians-corner-062553010.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nighttime and 10,000 Islamists were marching down the most heavily Christian street in this ancient Egyptian city, chanting &#8220;Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.&#8221; A half-dozen kids were spray-painting &#8220;Boycott the Christians&#8221; on walls, supervised by an adult. While<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39467\">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-39467","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\/39467","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=39467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}