Christians the new targer of al Qaeda

"All Christians 'targets,' Iraqi militant group says", by CNN Wire Staff, clearly states that al Qaeda has said that all Christians in the Middle East are legitimate targets now and the Islamic State of Iraq seem to be agreeing with them. The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for an attack on a Baghdad church on Sunday that killed fifty-eight and injured seventy-five.  The announcement and the attack are both in response to the alleged Muslim female prisoners kept at an Egypt Coptic church. Security has been increased around churches in Egypt but they are worried that it will become a more serious problem consider that ninety percent are Muslim in Egypt while only nine percent are Coptic.

                This just seems to show that things in the Middle East aren’t going to end anytime soon, or peacefully. This hits a cord within me considering that I am a Christian and my entire family always has been. It’s not only the fact that Christians are being targeted, it’s happened many times in the past, but it’s the fact that they now might have provoked this targeting right; assuming what al Qaeda is saying is true of course. If the Coptic church of Egypt has really taken female Muslims prisoner then they have done more damage than they thought. Not only does it give justification to being targeted it also makes the rest of the Christian world look bad. It might be shallow of me to think about the appearance of the church but I am tired of the true face of the church being shown. I call it the true face because I know that some Christian churches would do things like that if it thought it would do them good in the long run. I am not going to claim to know about every form of Christianity, I probably don’t know anything about most of them! What I have seen of my church is pretty bad. The only thing about this situation than what Coptic Church did is the fact that now some people will feel more sympathetic toward al Qaeda. I have only two questions. Is all of this true or are al Qaeda just making up another reason to target a group of people? If it is true, what was the goal in capturing those female Muslims? All in all, I believe that this will look bad on Christians everywhere.