- When the mainstream media in the West report on these things, they
ignore the Islamic basis behind the treatment of Christians as “unclean” in
Muslim societies. Thus the highly-prestigious Washington Post offers
this explanation for why the garbage collectors in Cairo are mostly Coptic
Christians:
Because garbage collection is seen by Muslims as “unclean” (garbage
is fed to pigs), this work for untold generations has mostly been done by
Christians, who labor in their gritty stalls surrounded by icons and
crosses and posters of Jesus.
--“Cairo’s Christians worry about Egypt’s next chapter”, Washington
Post, 8 Nov 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cairos-
christians-worry-about-egypts-next-
chapter/2011/11/08/gIQAk3CI3M_story.html
Is there any culture on earth that does not see garbage as “unclean”?
The Hudson Institute is just as guilty, quoting a Scandinavian journalists,
saying that violence towards the Christians is a social or class issue,
because they do work that is “unclean” (“The Ongoing Attacks on
Egyptʼs Coptic Christians”, Hudson Institute, 10 Mar 2011,
http://www.hudson.org/research/7785-the-ongoing-attacks-on-egypt-
s-coptic-christians). The Hudson Insituteʼs Senior Research Fellow on
Religious Freedom seems to have no idea why it is that those who
profess a religion which pre-dates Islam in Egypt should have adherents
who do the dirtiest work, when Islam has laws going back centuries
saying that Muslim must not clean up after a non-Muslim. See Bat Yeʼor,
The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam, New Jersey, 1985,
p.187. ↵
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