The car bomb exploded as worshippers left a New Year's Eve service
A car bomb explosion outside a church in the north Egyptian city of Alexandria has killed at least 21 people and injured 43, officials say.

The blast hit worshippers as they left a new year's service at the al-Qidiseen church shortly after midnight.

Sectarian tensions have recently been on the rise in Egypt.

After the explosion, angry Coptic Christians clashed with police and local Muslims, reportedly throwing stones and targeting a nearby mosque.

Protesters went into the mosque, throwing books out onto the street, the Associated Press news agency reported. The mosque had also been damaged by the car bomb.

A large contingent of police rushed to the scene and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. The situation is reported to be under control now, but BBC reporter Assad Sawey says it is still very tense.

It is not known who carried out the attack.

The casualties included eight injured Muslims, the health ministry said.

Our correspondent says relatives are being denied access to the victims' bodies at the morgue and it is not clear when they will be buried.

Christians in the Coptic Orthodox Church make up about 10% of Egypt's population, most of whom are Muslims.

@kay17, since you know so much why don't you just tell us?

nopuqeater:

@slee29: « #5 on: Yesterday at 11:57:24 PM » unproven statement for ghostly thing can help anyone. if you believe he helped then proof it out for all to see, in the textural description of what jesus said of the "Comforter."

how if he did not speak? or the disciples heard a voice, and was there a witness of his, her or its oratory? jesus probably lied or its the bible writers who lied. my money is on Jesus as speaker of truth.

father you said, now. for sure son is not father, unless fakery is in play? but then, i often asked, if a child is the son of a father, then his mother must be a wife of the father. so is mary the wife of father, considering that one of the christians have the picture of a woman bosom feeding a baby with a wow caption; see mary bosom feeding the lord.

lies of the christians, since the children of israel are ever baptised, but barmitva at age 13, the age of coming of age, meaning you can be married just after.

then tell us how the ghostly spirit spoke to the writers of the books of revelation(s)? was it by voices, or head speeches or dreams, or some assortment of the three? whatever you choose, you will realise that it is not as jesus said of the "comforter"; he shall not speak of his own, but what he hears he shall speak, and he shall glorify me, teaching you new things (since jesus didnt complete all the teachings) and he shall remind you of the truth about me (what jesus truly said, and not what liars ascribed to jesus).


@davidylan (m)Muhammad(as) being forced into your gospel as the "comforter" is not as unimaginable as your effort, as a christian to deduce that any part of the torah of the Jews speak of trinity/three personalities or persons God, making Jesus as one of them. no authentic jew accepts this notion, though they hold your salvation, you a christian who depends on them still insist that their God is three and jesus is one of them. you see the insanity in your thought, rather your idea of God Almighty Who is beyond death? yet your god, jesus died (sorry in a coma for some period of time; less than three days, from friday just before sunset to the dawn of the following sunday, sometimes before the sun rose. if this is the nature of your God, you are no better than the hindus, mister man. at least the hindus are sincere, unlike your lying heart.

why do we have people like this on nairaland, does all of this crap makes any sense?

The Holy spirit is the helper, and he helped the apostles spread the Gospel by giving them boldness read from acts 1:4, when Jesus asked them to wait for the promise of the Father that they shall be baptized (immersed) with the Holy Spirit not many days from now, books like revelations would not have been revealed without the Holy Spirit.

i think its about time this country splits, these hausas are animals, we need to divide the south from the north, these same people will tell you that power rotation is what we need in this country,now they put a sick man there and because of their selfish, religious and tribalistic thinking they have refused to allow jonathan take over, we need to be cmpletely seperated from these animals.

abuzola, stop telling us these lies, we can clearly see who terrorists are, umar farouk, boko haram are certainly not christians, and did you know that the grand mufti (palestine's islamic head) was one of hitler's allies?

i rili think brainwashing is making someone carry out insane acts like suicide bombings.

oga olabs, just stop with this your religious arguments, condemn his actions as its totally insane, you should acknowledge the fact that islam needs reforms if not things like this will continue, at least we know that this kind of action has a backing in islam.

abuzola, now let me ask you, if truly Jesus performed salat there, 1 Why are you using a ''corrupt'' book to back up your claim? where is the original injil?

2 How many times did Jesus perform solat in a day, 5 times or 50 times that mo' claimed was the former practise?

3 Does that mean that anyman that falls on his face flat and pray to God is performing solat?

4 When did God become a father to muslims?

@poster, please before you say anything else, GO AND GET US THE UNCORRUPTED INJIL!!!![/size][size=8pt]

its a meteorite they worship.

muhsin:

Hi all,

Say that Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) is the god and the human at the same time, how can a God feels hungry? Or cry? Or be vulnerable to death? Or crucifixion? See, I am not looking for a long, long argument here, but I feel its hard to digest such a concept for me. So I came to where I might find answer but you guys are running away. Why? Thanks

His flesh houses God's Spirit, you can destroy the house but can never destroy what's inside, the flesh feels hungry, the flesh cried as its 100% human, but the Spirit within Him is 100% divine.
100% human 100% divine romans 1:3 seed of David according to the flesh, 4 Declared to be the Son of God according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead(Jesus's resurrection put away all doubts that God was residing in Him)

Of course the divine Jesus, The Spirit residing in Him.

It's a complete lie, the america i know won't vote a muslim into te white house, impossible.

I think muslims like using this to propagate islam just like the neil armstrong issue.

muhsin:

That was why I asked for forgiveness.

Yes. And if it has, prove it.
For e.g. on divorce: read these two verses--the first abrogates/contradicts(?) the second one:

1st

"If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, (Deutronomy 24:1-2).

2nd

"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery. (Matthew 5:31-32).

First, read the article, you'll find that some verses were totally removed from the quran.

Contradiction is a little offence while complete removal is totally unacceptable.

''except for unfaithfulness'', this was for those who misinterpreted the law, these people just divorced their wives for no just reason and then married another, Christ came to fulfill not annul, study the scriptures and not just read through.

any more cases?

muhsin:

No response?

Who?

The topic is abrogation in the quran, i thought you opened a thread saying the quran has never been changed, and please kindly show us the parts of the bible removed because they were said to be ''satanic'', or the ones that contradict other verses, Jesus said that he did not come to nullify or abrogate but to fulfill that which has been written before.

Just leave this abuzola guy alone, he's just seeking attention

Its simple, Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

God expects us to do something, He gave man dominion over everything that exist, the truth is evil is done by man, and its only man that can stop evil,God is there to guide man to do right while the devil is there for man to do evil. Man can't do it alone, Man needs help to do it, as man can't do good without God's help so also he can't do evil without the devil's help.

God steps in when man calls on Him, but if  man thinks he can do it all by himself(pride), God doesn't interfere.

@abuzola, shut up man,ask uthman why he gave the order for previous quranic versions to be destroyed and made his own the official one

''during the collating of the Uthmanic recension of the Qur'an in the mid-seventh century, and that the conflicting copies were all destroyed, so that we cannot know today whether the Qur'an in our possession was even similar to that which was first revealed'



, in Sura 29:46 Muslims are asked not to question the authority of the scriptures of the Christians, saying, "And dispute ye not with the people of the book but say: We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and that which came down to you

@abuzola, i love you for one thing, you keep exposing the traits of islam on nairaland e.g stupidity, plagiarism e.t.c

Acts1:8 But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Jesus telling his disciples to be his witnesses to all including Nigerians.

John17:18 As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.

Check the attached file.

i wasn't talking about umar, i meant uthman who issued another text, and which one out of the various dialects is allah's own, which dialect was the quran revealed in, you have no answer, uthman is the author of the quran muslims read now, he skillfully removed he satanic verses.

olabowale:

Fake for over 1400 years and waxing even better? Luvola, are you okay? In a thread you said no abusive words, but yet you abuse the beloved of at least 25% of world population, my reason for asking about your well being! May God steadied your shaky heart. Amin. Instead of doing the typical Christian's return to sender, I pray for you.

Is this a joke or are you for real, muslims now pray for their enemies, i no fit laugh , please show me where muslims are told to pray for their enemies, in the bible i guess

oshireku:

Those boys ar good bt yemi tela boys ar better. [color=#006600][/color]

you mean those men, none of them is below 24.

Olabowale, if you say that the definition of a muslim is one who submits to will of God then i have no problem with that, but the question is, can a ''muslim'' still be called a muslim even if he doesn't believe in mohammed?

Jesus was born a Jew, He was infact called rabbi, Christianity is not a religion as its a term used to refer to the disciples at antioch which means ''like Christ'', the church is a gathering of Christians(those who are like Christ or those who follow Christ)

of course no one in his right senses would massacre innocent people, unless he's a muslim.

Every jew knows this comandment ''Thou shall not kill'', but muslims would give a hero's welcome to a bomber (lockerbie bomber)

the prophet was a quraish and yet the quran was revealed to him in 7 dialects, or what are you saying?

how did it turn to 7 dialects from the one dialect of the prophet?

Who turned it to 7 different dialects? Umar?

And if these were just a problem of dialects, why order them to be destroyed if they don't affect the meaning?

why was uthman killed anyway?, maybe because he removed allah's daughters


And how come the ones he produced don't have the present marks which affects its pronunciation and meaning ?

man don't contradict yourself, if arabic is the so called language of paradise, do we have dialects in paradise ?

atheists are the most confused people on earth, no working formula of the famous theory

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

Abuzola:

Jesus never claim to be God, don't get it twisted negigisted

John 17:22 "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: "

evolution theory is what i call nonsense as it doesn't even have a working formula, maybe you my friend came from apes but i did not.

the missing verses include the ''satanic verses'', well done abuzola, at least you accepted that some parts are missing, can i say that the satanic verses are a pint of blood in an ocean? and why did uthman order for the previous versions to be destroyed?, does it contradict his own version?