On new years day 2011 in the Western calendar, a Coptic Church was bombed by terrorists in Alexandria, Egypt in which many Christians died. However in the wake of these attacks the Muslims had promised to go to the Coptic Eve mass (6 January 2011) to act as "human shields" according to http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/3216.aspx.
Protest against attack
The following image is of Christians and Muslims in Cairo protesting against the attack of the Church.
Christmas Eve Mass
The following image is of Christians and Muslims standing side by side forming a human shield around a Church:
Above image taken from: http://www.shoah.org.uk/2011/01/16/muslim-human-shield-to-protect-egyptian-christians
Above image taken from http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/3365.aspx
Above 2 images taken from http://www.hibeesbounce.com/forum/showthread.php?103245-Egyptian-muslims-form-human-shield-around-Coptic-Christmas-masses
The government has increased tightened security measures around all churches but nothing alleviated the sense of impending danger the Christians felt except the ingenious idea of an Egyptian Muslim artist – Mohamed El Sawy- who called for Egyptian Muslims to form human shields – by standing close to each other joined hand in hand in large circles -that would encircle and practically shield every church in a clear message to the world that solidarity between Egyptian Christians and Muslims is hard to be interrupted or sabotaged.
The above quote is taken from: http://www.shoah.org.uk/2011/01/16/muslim-human-shield-to-protect-egyptian-christians
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first floating the “human shield” idea.Among those shields were movie stars Adel Imam and Yousra, popular Muslim televangelist and preacher Amr Khaled, the two sons of President Hosni Mubarak, and thousands of citizens who have said they consider the attack one on Egypt as a whole.
The above quote is taken from http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/95/3365/Egypt/Attack-on-Egypt-Copts/Egypts-Muslims-attend-Coptic-Christmas-mass,-servi.aspx
To sum up: All Muslims are not terrorists (and neither are all terrorists Muslims) and many Muslims do stand up against injustice and unjust killing which is proved by these Muslims who were willing to sacrifice their own lives in order to save the lives their fellow Christian brothers in humanity, in a land where Muslims are the majority (90%). This reminds me of this verse of the Quran:
Quran 5:32:
On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.
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