The police freed them only after they abandoned their complaint against the Muslims who attacked them. As in Pakistan and elsewhere, Christians in Egypt can expect no sympathy or protection from authorities. If Muslims victimize them, those authorities will all too often side with the people who are doing the victimizing, as a Muslim will know that if he defends Christians against Muslims, he will face opprobrium (and possibly violence) from his fellow Muslims. Also, Muslim police officers know that the Qur’an tells Muslims to be “ruthless to unbelievers, merciful to one another.” (48:29)
“Police arrest Christian victims after attack on Coptic church,” by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post, July 12, 2026:
Egyptian police arrested four Christian men who had been assaulted by a mob during an attack on a Coptic place of worship in Egypt, and freed them two days later once they abandoned the complaint they lodged against those who beat them.
The attack took place in the Upper Egyptian village of Tal Al-Quiblya in Minya Province on Wednesday, according to the United Kingdom-based religious freedom advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), citing the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
A crowd of Muslim residents, most of them women, children and teenagers, reportedly pelted the building with stones while chanting sectarian abuse.
Several Christians suffered injuries. Witnesses on the ground say that the structure and the priest’s car had been damaged.
Officers arrived rapidly and restored order, though only after taking the four Christian men into custody. Their release came on Friday, conditioned on the withdrawal of their complaint against the attackers.
An unknown number of Muslim residents were also arrested….
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has urged that Egypt be added to the State Department’s Special Watch List, which marks states that have carried out or tolerated grave abuses of religious freedom.
Prosecutors have used the country’s blasphemy statutes against people for voicing or defending their beliefs, imposing anything from fines to jail….
Patton says
Israel should open up Gaza to all Christians throughout the Middle East. Ultimately, they could actually make them as Israel citizens and Israel and the Gulf states should supply financing to build a real businesses there, including beachside, resorts, restaurants, hotels, etc. Money talks, and bullshit Is Slime walks. The real estate in Gaza should be valuable, but you cannot leave building those things and running those businesses to Moose Slime scumbags. And, no more foreign to Egypt. No more foreign to any country that doesn’t treat its Christian population with the same legal protections as their dirtbag majorities. The Copts need to leave Egypt. They’ve now been abused for 1400 years. Nothing’s going to change.
Paul says
NO Copts will never leave Egypt it’s there homeland part of there religious role is to be resilient for the sake of Jesus. What they can do is breed more for support as we have seen in Southern Governments from the early 20th century. Impossible for the 15 to 20 something million with over half living in southern governments than mixture Cairo Copts from all over the country residing there and some leave mainly for economic opportunities to western countries.
gravenimage says
Yes, individual Copts have fled Egypt before. The claim that Christianity demands that no one can leave their homeland to save their lives when threatened with murder is mistaken.
somehistory says
Does the U.S. still send money (taxpayer’s money) to egypt? Do Americans still go as tourists to egypt?
Where muzzies rule, evil is taught and followed by even the youngest persons. It seems that el sisi is not much better than morsi was.
So much for the pope’s claim that Christians and muzzlims can live in peace together. The Christians must endure whatever the muzzlims want to do, and keep quiet about it.
Tony says
Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the 50+ Islamic Countries are Terrorist States of discrimination, deceit, segregation, violence, and terrorism against all Non-Muslims as taught under Islamic Law and under Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:28, 54; 7:99; 8:30; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah inspires religious hatred because Non-Muslims are Allah’s worst creatures since they do not believe in Allah. Allah in Qur’an 8:55 says, “Surely the worst creatures before Allah are those who became infidels, so they do not believe.” See also Qur’an 7:179; 98:6. Allah in Qur’an 98:6 says, “Surely those who became infidels, from the People of the Book[Jews and Christians] and polytheists, will abide in the fire of hell forever. Those are the worst of the creatures.” Allah in Qur’an 5:51 commands, “O you who have believed[Muslims], DO NOT TAKE the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” Also, Allah in Qur’an 5:82 says that Jews are the worst enemies of the Muslims.
Cynthia says
The colonizers in the Middle East are the Arabs. They ran out majority Christian populations and then all the Jews who had been there for centuries. The Egyptians are taught to hate the infidel from birth. Like all of Islam, they prey on a weak minority and abuse their women.
jerry glenn says
Their country their rules. But why oh why do we keep letting them into ours?
Sharon M says
The word Zion occurs over 150 times in the Bible. It essentially means “fortification” and has the idea of being “raised up” as a “monument.” Zion is described both as the city of David and the city of God. As the Bible progresses, the word Zion expands in scope and takes on an additional, spiritual meaning.The word Zion is also used in a theological or spiritual sense in Scripture. In the Old Testament Zion refers figuratively to Israel as the people of God (Isaiah 60:14). In the New Testament, Zion refers to God’s spiritual kingdom. We have not come to Mount Sinai, says the apostle, but “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” (Hebrews 12:22). Peter, quoting Isaiah 28:16, refers to Christ as the Cornerstone of Zion: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame” (1 Peter 2:6).
gravenimage says
Egypt: Muslim mob assaults Christians as it attacks church, police arrest the Christians
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Grimly, we have seen these miscarriages of justice in Dar-al-Islam *many times*.