Earlier, their fellow Libyan terrorists shaved all the heads of the approximately 100 Copts arrested for having Christian “paraphernalia,” that is, Bible, crosses, and icons. Shaving the hair, especially the beard, of one’s opponent, is an ancient custom meant to emasculate one’s opponent, or, in these cowardly attacks, one’s unarmed victims. A decade ago, one Arab commentator discussing the Iraq war, said, “By shaving his [Saddam’s] beard, a symbol of virility in Iraq and in the Arab world, the Americans committed an act that symbolizes humiliation in our region, where getting shaved by one’s enemy means robbing him of his will.”
So Libya’s jihadis, the fellows empowered by President Obama, want to make it a point to rob any Christians who fall in their clutches of their wills.
Meanwhile, because Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government has done little regarding the systematic abuse of Egyptian citizens in Libya—they are, after all, only Christians—including the murder of one under torture, Copts demonstrated in front of the Libyan embassy in Cairo, prompting yet another attack on the Benghazi church, which was set on fire two days ago