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The Detroit Maccabi Club
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invite all Jewish Athletes
ages 13-16 (as of 8/1/90)
interested in participating
in the
Jewish Community Centers
North American Maccabi
Youth Games in Detroit
August 19-26, 1990
to an informational meeting
Thursday, January 18, 1990
at 7:30 at the
Maple/Drake Building.
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BERTRAM KORN, JR.
Special to The Jewish News
I
t's a sadly familiar story.
Members of a minority
living in an Arab country
are being persecuted; they are
dicriminated against by
employers; there have been
mob attacks on their
neighborhoods; their houses
of worship have been
desecrated.
This may sound like the
treatment of Jews in Syria or
Yemen, but in this case the
victims are Coptic Christians
living in Egypt. Unfortunate-
ly for the victims, leading
American newspapers have
no double standard when it
comes to Jews being
persecuted by Arabs and
Christians being persecuted
by Arabs: they ignore them
equally.
The persecution of the five
million Egyptian Christians
may not be a new story, but it
does deserve fresh attention,
because their leader, Pope
Shenouda, is currently on an
11-week tour of North
America. Shortly after
Shenouda's arrival, he was
the subject of a 19-paragraph
feature in the New York
Times. Yet the article contain-
ed just one vague reference to
the persecution of the Copts
in Egypt, noting that many
Copts have emigrated to the
West, and "many say that it
is difficult to live as Chris-
tians in Egypt's Muslim
society."
Unfortunately, the Times
report neglected to explain
what makes it so "difficult."
It did not mention, for exam-
ple, that Moslem mobs laun-
ched anti-Copt riots in
December 1972, October
1977, and June 1981. It did
not mention how, on Egyptian
college campuses, Coptic
students are harrassed by
their Moselm counterparts,
and Moselm professors
discriminate against Coptic
Christian students in
grading. It did not mention
how Pope Shenouda himself
was, in September 1981,
banished to a secluded desert
monastery by the Egyptian
government.
If the New York Times'
coverage of Pope Shenouda's
visit to North America was
shoddy, the coverage by other
major U.S. newspapers has
Bertram Korn, Jr., is
executive director of
CAMERA, the Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America.
been worse. The Washington
Post and the Philadelphia In-
quirer, for example, have ig-
nored Shenouda.
The Inquirer, in fact, went a
step further, by publishing
two long "puff" pieces — in a
Thanksgiving Day edition —
about life in Egypt. One
described a recent ar-
cheological discovery outside
Alexandria. The other
reported on the decline of
belly-dancing in the Land of
the Pharoahs, in part because
of the rise of Moslem
fundamentalism.
The truth is that in Egypt,
which is the second largest
The newspapers
ignore the plight of
Middle East
Christians.
recipient of American foreign
aid, the real victims of social
discrimination are not belly-
dancers, but five million inno-
cent Christians. Their cause
has been all but ignored by
the otherwise human rights-
conscious American religious
groups, news media, and
human rights lobby.
In fact, the abandonment of
the Middle East's Christians
has been abetted by the on-
going and disgraceful lack of
serious political reporting
about the Arab world in the
American media. ❑
!NEWS 1
'Get' Is Focus
Of Divorce Law
Toronto (JTA) — Canada
has amended its Divorce Act
to prevent the requirements
of a religious divorce from
being used as a bargaining
chip in civil divorce pro-
ceedings.
The new regulations are
aimed at abuses of the get,
which Jewish religious law
requires must be delivered
by the husband and accepted
by the wife.
Without a get, neither par-
ty can remarry. Under the
new laws, neither one may
get a civil divorce in Canada
until the religious barriers
to remarriage are removed.
"It was felt that the
withholding of the religious
divorce has been used as a
device to obtain concessions
from a spouse for custody
and access to hhildren or
monetary support," Justice
Minister Douglas Lewis ex-
plained.