The Egyptian Military - Oppressive Leaders or Preservers of Freedom for Minorities?

The Egyptian military get a bad wrap in the media.  It is said, that only a tyrant is strong enough to stand up to Islamic extremism in the Middle East.  The Muslim Brotherhood elected leader is now gone, and the military is in; Morsi's followers should get use to this idea.  You see, the Egyptian military may be violent and oppressive, but no less violent and oppressive than the Muslim brotherhood, and especially not for the 10% Christian minority.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/9461820/Anti-government-demonstrations-broken-up-in-Egypt

The Christians I expect will be very happy about the reversal of Article 2, which the Muslim Brotherhood strengthened to institute a more strict form of Shariah law.  The Christians are now an oppressed minority in Egypt, and have never been so badly oppressed than since Mohammed Morsi came to power.  Forced conversions, the looting and burning of shops, kidnapping children and offences of rape of women are only some of the treatment endured by the Christians, under a regime where as Dhimmi, these people have little or no rights under the law.

"Meanwhile, Muslim residents of a village in southern Minya province attacked Christian homes, burning 10 houses and wounding 15 Christians, including a 15 year-old girl thrown from the third floor of a building, according to Ezzat Ibrahim, an activist who monitors minority rights.   Ibrahim said the attack was instigated by rumors of a love affair between a local Christian man and a Muslim woman - a factor that can often spark sectarian clashes."

This is but one example.  Persecution occurs on a daily basis in Islamist countries.  It is only a measure of months since the Coptic Pope's own church was under attack.  The Coptic church, one of the oldest groups of Christians with traditions stemming back to nearly the birth of Jesus, is now in danger of total elimination.

Persecution in the Central African Republic

Astounded that in a country which is 75% Christian can be overtaken by Islamists, who then proceed to pillage from and kill in Christian areas.

http://www.aina.org/news/20131127122830.htm

Of course Western media continues portray such stories not for what they are, as a genocide with a Christian backlash movement, but as a "sectarian conflict".

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/9460163/Central-African-Republic-needs-peacekeepers

It is relatively rare for Christians to fight back towards Islamist genocides and pogroms.  And when they do, guaranteed there is media coverage.  But when Moslems do their standard driving out and terrorising of Christians and other religious minorities in majority Islam countries, there is no mainstream media coverage.  For example, Buddhists in Myanmar were recently reported as laying out an offensive toward Muslims, but the wide scale persecution of Christians typically goes unreported.

The example of Central African Republic also shows just how precarious the peace in a mixed Muslim - Christian country can be.  What may be a peaceful union of two peoples can quickly degenerate to a situation of mistrust, which is likely responsible for the reactionary and indiscriminate killing of Muslims in response to the Islamist take-over in this country.