Coptic Church Under Siege $60 million ransom

Patti came home from the pool with a newpaper in hand.  "Read this" she said.  I opened the newspaper, sat down and began to read the national post article on the Coptic church.  It grabbed my attention so fully that I read it from start to finish without stopping -- quite an accomplishment for someone with ADD.  It was a shocking to read.   

Read it yourself and leave a comment on your thoughts.  

It starts here: 

Last week I was supposed to interview Father Zakaria Boutros on my television show. It would have been the second time I had spoken to this gentle, thoughtful man, one of the leading figures of the Egyptian Coptic Christian community and now obliged to live in exile in the United States after twice being arrested in his homeland. But on this occasion the interview was suddenly cancelled. A $60-million bounty had just been put on his head by Muslim extremists in Iran and Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda were thought to be intent on fulfilling the fatwa and it was considered too dangerous to allow him to travel to Canada. The fact that the United States government bounty on Osama bin Laden is a mere $25-million rather puts the case of this disarmingly gentle and jovial priest into proportion.

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