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The attack on churches has now even reached\u00a0Coptic Egypt, after the Saints Cathedral in Alexandria was attacked by a Sunni extremist group called the \u2018Islamic State of Iraq\u2019. It is important to note that all shades of mainstream Muslim opinion<\/a> in Egypt has condemned this attack, from \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffthe rector of Al-Azhar\u00a0seminary, Ahmad al-Tayyib\u00a0(one of the leading authorities in Sunni Islam), to the Muslim Brotherhood. The radicals responsible for the attack see local Christians as collaborators with the United States, a charge that could not be more false.<\/p>\n

What I want to know is this: where are George Weigel and the Catholic neo-cons who gleefully cheerleaded this war, building all kinds of spurious justifications for it, and ignoring the stance of two popes on the issue? Should they not apologize for getting it so wrong? Do they feel no shame for what has been unleashed upon their Christian brothers and sisters? Sadly, Weigel is all-too predictable. He will surely blame these attacks on the nefarious Islamists, completely blind to the radical upheaval rendered by his war that made all this possible. I hope that some day, George and his friends will experience a change of heart.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"