A new data-based study published on Yahoo News, Huffington Post, and many other media, purports to have proven that the Bible—including the New Testament—is more violent than the Quran. From Tom McKay’s article about the study: “Fifty-eight percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Islam” thanks to a “laundry list of misinformation about the faith’s holy text, the […]
Egypt: Church waits years for construction permit, finally gets demolition permit
On February 1, the priest Awad Flemon of Al-Iman Church in Alexandria explained how officials closed his church five years ago, leaving it partially constructed. Although the congregation had been hopeful that the church would eventually reopen, local officials have now taken the decision to demolish the building, prompting Fr. Flemon to “issue an appeal […]
The Muslim Man’s Sexual “Rights” Over Non-Muslim Women
In word and deed, in Islamic and non-Islamic nations, Muslim men appear to think that non-Muslim women—impure “infidels”—exist solely to gratify their sexual urges. First, consider the beliefs and actions of those committed to waging jihad for the cause of Allah, such as the Islamic State: In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old [non-Muslim] […]
Egypt: “Extremists reject having a church in the village”
Several Coptic Christian leaders and priests recently discussed the closures of their churches. For example, Fr. Stephen Shehata, undersecretary of the diocese of Samalout, Minya, explained how three of the diocese’s churches were shut down because they did not have the required licenses. When the diocese recently attempted to build a church in Abu Hannas, […]
Relax — Islam Only Sometimes Allows Muslims to Enslave, Rape, and Rob Infidels
Straining at gnats while swallowing camels is increasingly how Islam’s apologists rationalize away the violence and hate Sharia engenders for the “infidel,” the non-Muslim. Consider the true significance of yet another learned Muslim justifying the enslavement and rape of non-Muslim women. Suad Saleh, a female professor of Islamic doctrine at Al Azhar University, correctly defined […]
Islam’s Sword Comes for Christians: Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2015
[From the Gatestone Institute:] Islamic hostility for Christmas was on full display as documented here: on Christmas Day, Muslims in Bethlehem set a Christmas tree on fire and greeted the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem with a hail of stones; Muslim “refugees” set fire to a public Christmas tree in Belgium; Muslim jihadis attacked churches during […]
ISIS — The Latest Phase of the Jihad
The best way to understand the Islamic State (ISIS) is to see it as the next phase of al-Qaeda. All Sunni Islamic jihadi groups—Boko Haram, ISIS, Taliban, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, even Hamas—share the same motivations based on a literal and orthodox reading of Islamic history and doctrine: resurrecting a caliphate (which existed in various forms from […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian tombs are being turned into “garbage dumps,” laments Christian leader
As often happens to Christian cemeteries in Muslim nations — whether at the hands of “ISIS” or the hands of “angry youth” — “the tombs of the Copts [Egypt’s indigenous Christians] are being turned into garbage dumps.” This was the urgent and recent message from Fr. Ayoub Yousef, who heads the Coptic Catholic church of […]
The Islamic Rape and Murder of Christian Boys
A group of Muslim men recently went into a Christian district in Pakistan, abducted a 7-year-old boy, and took turns gang raping him before finally strangling him to death with a rope. Locals found the child’s body dumped in a field the next day: [T]he body was sent for post-mortem examination which revealed that […]
In Egypt, officials incite — and then cite — Muslim violence as reason not to renovate or build churches
Security forces in Upper Egypt recently arrested 10 Coptic Christians for trying to build a wall around a piece of vacant land in order to expand their current church into the territory or possibly even build a church. A church already exists in the village of Abu Hannas in Samalout, Minya; but, according to Father […]