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. [...]