Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Christians Crucified (Egypt)



http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/22/jonathan-kay-how-egypts-crucifixion-hoax-became-a-classic-internet-urban-legend/

National Post [Toronto, Canada]
22 August 2012


Jonathan Kay

Have you heard the one about how Christians are being nailed up on crucifixes and left to die in front of the Egyptian presidential place? [palace -- bc] It's a story worth dissecting - not because it's true (it isn't), but because it is a textbook example of how the Internet, once thought to be the perfect medium of truth-seeking, has been hijacked by culture warriors to fire up the naive masses with lies and urban legends. [...]


http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/24/jonathan-kay-more-on-the-debunked-egyptian-crucifixion-hoax-and-its-2009-precedent/

National Post [Toronto, Canada]
24 August 2012


By Jonathan Kay

Earlier this week, I debunked the story -- spreading like wildfire on WorldNetDaily and other Internet sites -- that Christians were being crucified by the Muslim Brotherhood in front of Egypt’s presidential palace. As I noted, the story was based on nothing more than a social-media rumor that had been posted for a few minutes on the Web site of Sky News Arabic, before an alert Sky editor deleted it. [...]

Over the last day or so, I have had an ongoing email correspondence with Michael Carl, the WND reporter who wrote the crucifixion article. He tells me he is sticking by his story. When I asked him if he has “any information from any of the tens of thousands of people who would have seen an actual ‘crucifixion’ if one really did take place in front of the presidential palace,” he told me that he had. Tantalized, I pressed him for details. Alas, he refused to divulge any of the evidence to me -- or anyone else. If he did, he explained, the Muslim Brotherhood “would kill my sources.” And so ended our correspondence. [...]